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Cali-Texas and big florida fighting the feds over who gets to be the true Heir of Hitler while the northwest has a Maoist Insurgency lol red-sun

  • Optimus_Subprime [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, thankfully Alex Garland said he is retiring from directing movies to focus on screenwriting. https://screenrant.com/civil-war-last-movie-alex-garland-director-retire-confirm/

    I watched Dredd and, damn, did he not get that it’s supposed to be a satire of the American justice system and Dirty Harry-style cops in particular. He made Dredd look good when he’s supposed to be the most nightmarish thing you can think of. He basically remade Robocop.

    • AlicePraxis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I tried to rewatch Dredd a couple years ago and I turned it off because it was so explicitly fascist. It just felt like a conservative nightmare fantasy where crime is so bad that of course we should let cops kill whoever they want. You’re supposed to 100% buy this logic and root for Judge Dredd and the other white woman cop who spends most of the movie holding a black man captive. Like you said there was no satire, they pulled a reverse-Starship Troopers.