The only reason they exist is an opportunity to make money. It’s not any deeper than that. I’ve seen some people online insist that it’s an opportunity for the story to reach a wider audience, but from the perspective of the people making it, a wider audience just means more $$$.

The other bane is that live action adaptations of animated properties are always worse.

Finally, someone made the Tank Girl movie I’ve been waiting three decades for!!!

Looks okay to me. I didn’t realize they had roped Jamie Lee Curtis in to this.

Why live action? Seems like animated would be the way to go. Not like there isn’t already an art style perfect for it. 

The cartoon is not ruined. It will always be great.

I think the issue is that media literacy in American had be watered down by capitalisic marketeers hoping to sell you something awful as the next great thing. Which is ironic because that was kinda the point of Robocop. I think Pual Verhooven get’s America so well that his satire falls firmly into to realm of Poe’s…

Mystery Men, too. That movie set out to lampoon superheroes in general but ended up specifically lampooning a film superhero zeitgeist that mostly didn’t exist yet.

It’s extraordinary to see someone dismiss suffrage as just some frippery. What were women and people of colour making such a fuss about?!

See also Highlander ,( and Clancy Brown was fantastic in that , hell he even gets to monologue on a Queen song! )

Right, right, there is absolutely nothing fascist about restricting the right to vote or hold office to the people that have gone through the government brainwashing program, and the novel definitely doesn’t glorify fighting and the infantry as the heart of the moral philosophy. It isn’t like the protagonist’s…

The best part is getting to tell new viewers: "hey, see that guy? That's Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob!"

I still think the best line is when the guy at the recruitment center says “Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today!” with sincere pride, then the camera shifts back to show that he's lost both of his legs

Yeah, but people don’t always get Robocop either. They just like watching a robot blow people away.

Yeah, Last Action Hero was a little before its time, meta wasn’t a THING yet. Now I think people know what it’s about and love it for it.

I definitely didnt appreciate it as a kid cause I took it as a face value. Verhoeven taking a shit on the book’s politics and jingoism in general makes it seven shades of brilliant, I love it.

Last Action Hero is ridiculously ahead of its time. I love that movie through and through. 

I am disappointed that the “Read More” button wasn’t brought in on the gag and relabeled “Would you like know more?”

This film always reminds me of the situation around Last Action Hero. They’re both satires that went over the heads of a lot of critics because they were action/sci-fi films. They ironically missed giving them proper critical analysis and wrote them off as simple “popcorn flicks.”

So she’s playing Alicia Witt, then