(Sorry this is late, I’m catching up, and) Thanks for letting me know. I’m only on here sporadically so I didn’t recognize their name or anything.

I’m sure you’re an expert on whatever is inside my head at all times. They’re high profile movies. I like Larson a lot as an actor and my stance is not necessarily that I think she should be treated like someone who did the Watergate break-in for taking an acting role. It’s just that if I take the stance that it’s…

Sorry this was a while ago, catching up. No, I don’t think they sat down and decided to do that per se, but I also don’t think it really matters. As I’ve said in other comments, I don’t think they care that much about propagandizing but I also think they see it as a legitimate thing to do if it makes money (in that…

“I think Aziz really got unfairly maligned in this whole thing, and he even apologized for what essentially to me sounded like a bad date with REALLY poor communication between both people in said date. This was not a Kevin Spacey type situation”

A lot of problems with this narrative, but among them is that worse…

I hated that episode, but the idea that a cartoon episode on Comedy Central is mainly responsible for recent bills in legislatures is ridiculous. Shows like South Park reflect the culture they’re part of, they don’t direct it, and in any case stodgy people in the Congress don’t watch fucking South Park.

Maybe they haven’t, I don’t know. (They certainly carry such products in their stores, though.) Do they ritually abuse their workers on the lower end of the chain, often to exhaustion and occasionally literally to death, while the upper management decides this is fine as long as the line on the chart keeps going up?…

In actual terms, they Avengers ARE the military in their universe. Sure they’re their own agency or whatever but the point is the same. They are meant to be the stand-ins for the army in our own world. They’re part of the goddamn government, I mean that is the entire point, man. Even to the extent that individual…

I mean hey I love big dumb blockbusters too lol. I’ve been pretty critical of them in a lot of my comments (and the Marvel ones are all straight up trash IMO, and not just for their politics) but I came back from Godzilla vs. Kong today and honestly I had a pretty good time. I’m not against those movies as a general…

I mean, I don’t know if I really care about that. I’m not explicitly taking a side on it, but if we all decide that Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to work in Hollywood movies or whatever, then fine I guess. I’m a socialist, if I was directing a film I probably wouldn’t want to work with anyone anywhere to the right…

Well man all I can tell you is that I don’t really don’t give a shit about “nerd culture” which is why of the two films I mentioned only one is a “nerd culture” film and I picked it in part because those “nerd culture” films are basically all of fucking popular film at this point. I don’t watch the Marvel films in…

I mean, to begin with I would question the assumption that something like Captain Marvel - or more to the point, something like Zero Dark Thirty as well - was not created as a cinematic manifesto. The Marvel films and many other films have explicitly right-wing politics to them. They’re right-wing viewpoints that are…

“The number of people who die from lack of basic reproductive care is more annually than the entire US military Civilian casualties EVER.”

Lol, that is almost certainly not true at all. Have you looked up the death toll for the Iraq war alone? I also don’t really care about the civilian vs. combatant distinction…

Brie Larson talks to military members not to understand but because it was part of a marketing and recruitment campaign for the Air Force and the Pentagon. And this is not a matter of my simply “disagreeing” with what those institutions do. What those institutions do is murder and war crimes. That is their purpose,…

Imagine thinking a left-wing criticism of military propaganda in popular films is somehow an “alt right” stance.

I know that there’s lots of critiques of this stuff dude. I’ve read a lot of it, it’s something I read about and think about a lot, hence it being on my mind here. The fact is, most of these things are academic criticisms and leftist anti-war sites and stuff that are even willing to talk about it. To the extent it…

A lot of Michael Bay’s films are propaganda too, yes. Two tossed-off examples do not imply that there are no other films that fall into this, it’s like most action blockbusters that do at this point.

Yeah that’s part of what makes this so funny and weird to me. This a film that virtually no one is going to see (or at least weren’t before the handwringing articles about it), yet Jamie Kennedy is being grilled about it like he’s the villain CEO in Roger and Me. These superhero and action blockbuster films top the…

Seriously. My comment wasn’t even about Marvel really, Captain Marvel is just a representative example for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with even the slightest awareness of how it was produced and marketed. Almost no one is going after me for mentioning Zero Dark Thirty but they’re all up in arms because I…

Mentioning Captain Marvel wasn’t a “shit-stir,” it was a tossed-off but representative example because a) it’s one of the better recent examples of a popular entertainment film that was explicitly created at least in part as propaganda given the deal made with the Air Force to advertise recruitment in exchange for…

And that’s great! But my original comment was directed at this article and website, which are not consistent.