These movies are not exactly subtle about which side is the “good guys” and which side is the “bad guys”.
Who do you side with in a much more ambiguous movie like Apocalyspe Now or Sicario?
Or, if you’re like most movie watchers, you watched Zero Dark Thirty and sided with the American commandos. You watched The Hurt Locker and sided with the American bomb disposal experts. You watched Argo and sided with the CIA.
I’d guess there are a lot more pro-American movies where the typical audience sides with the Americans than there are anti-fascist movies where the audience sides with antifa. In fact, a lot of people who watched Starship Troopers didn’t get that it was an anti-fascist movie at all and took it all at face value siding with the humans against the aliens.
Exactly, people are constantly bombarded with pro-imperialist propaganda from the entire MSM spectrum, and no one is immune to propaganda. The media still don’t call the genocide in Palestine a genocide, they wrote fuck all about East Timor compared to the similar violence in Cambodia that was committed by the “bad guys”, we’re inundated with “BuT aT wHaT coST”-style headlines about the designated enemy state du jour. How is anyone supposed to make heads or tails of any of this without spending a significant amount of time actually educating themselves on what is going on and unlearning the years and years of western propaganda they’ve had to endure?
Try forming a decent opinion while watching star wars with every scene interspersed with talking heads explaining to you exactly why the rebels are terrorists and that the empire is just defending itself. Also you don’t get to see any scene from the perspective of the rebels. Did you know the jedi put babies in ovens?
TBF, I was like 14 when Starship Troopers came out and it wasn’t until the hormones wore off that I realized there was a message in that film that wasn’t boobs and bug guts. #teamdizzy
These movies are not exactly subtle about which side is the “good guys” and which side is the “bad guys”.
Who do you side with in a much more ambiguous movie like Apocalyspe Now or Sicario?
Or, if you’re like most movie watchers, you watched Zero Dark Thirty and sided with the American commandos. You watched The Hurt Locker and sided with the American bomb disposal experts. You watched Argo and sided with the CIA.
I’d guess there are a lot more pro-American movies where the typical audience sides with the Americans than there are anti-fascist movies where the audience sides with antifa. In fact, a lot of people who watched Starship Troopers didn’t get that it was an anti-fascist movie at all and took it all at face value siding with the humans against the aliens.
Exactly, people are constantly bombarded with pro-imperialist propaganda from the entire MSM spectrum, and no one is immune to propaganda. The media still don’t call the genocide in Palestine a genocide, they wrote fuck all about East Timor compared to the similar violence in Cambodia that was committed by the “bad guys”, we’re inundated with “BuT aT wHaT coST”-style headlines about the designated enemy state du jour. How is anyone supposed to make heads or tails of any of this without spending a significant amount of time actually educating themselves on what is going on and unlearning the years and years of western propaganda they’ve had to endure?
Try forming a decent opinion while watching star wars with every scene interspersed with talking heads explaining to you exactly why the rebels are terrorists and that the empire is just defending itself. Also you don’t get to see any scene from the perspective of the rebels. Did you know the jedi put babies in ovens?
I have not watched any of the movie you listed man, but I will watch them. But sadly I am now aware of whatever subtle messaging they may hold.
TBF, I was like 14 when Starship Troopers came out and it wasn’t until the hormones wore off that I realized there was a message in that film that wasn’t boobs and bug guts. #teamdizzy