Why 99% Of Movies Today Are Garbage - Chris Gore

Why 99% Of Movies Today Are Garbage - Chris Gore May 27, 2021 18:42:06 GMT vegalyra, drystyx, and 1 more like this

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Post by judgejosephdredd on May 27, 2021 18:42:06 GMT

May 27, 2021 5:36:54 GMT CrepedCrusader said:

Fragile white dudes: "Movies didn't used to be political!"

Literally the entire history of cinema: Politics was a big part of movies both implicitly and explicitly. In Star Wars, the Empire were human-supremacist Nazis who fought against a ragtag group of partisans and insurgents comprised of various species cooperating with each other. (In Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks were the Viet Cong, and were the good guys.) The 50s and 60s were filled with red scare propaganda. The "body snatchers"? They were the commies. (In the 80s the red scare films mostly turned into "can't we all just get along?" storylines. Well, maybe not in Red Dawn.) If To Kill a Mockingbird were released today, you'd have a million doughy white dudes complaining about "that SJW movie!!!".

Nobody is saying movies were never political, the argument is that the majority of political rhetoric these days on the screen is too one sided and not universal and accessible to understand and get behind by. Your statement about To Kill a Mockingbird being received differently today is a misfire because most people consider racism to be bad and immoral and the novel is a classic literary work. That, and the story is already very political to begin with - it is largely a court room drama.

Speaking of which, your suggestion that only white people would be upset by politics in their entertainment comes across as pretty racially insensitive because there are lots of non-white people who agree most mainstream releases are too politically one sided and pandering.