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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 102 points 4 days ago

The Matrix made me realise my whole reality was a lie and now I’m pro-Patriarchy, pro-Authoritarian and pro-conformity just like the characters.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 84 points 4 days ago

I think people don't realize you're making fun of manosphere and alt right creators co opting the terms from the movies like red pill and others.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

I think Flight Club is a better idea of the right people walking away with the wrong message.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Robocop’s message was pretty simple, I thought. If you do crime, you’ll get your genitals shot off by a cyborg.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And if you're a cop, you're gonna work after death

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Alt Right tried to claim They Live as an anti-Jewish alligory.

Carpenter ended up tweeting:

“THEY LIVE is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism. It has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world, which is slander and a lie.”

It's the example I cite whenever someone tried validating a smooth brain media interpretation by claiming "Death of the Author!".

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Starship troopers's point was missed by the same people making the sequels to it, I was so disappointed by the sequels, and don't understand how they could have been so oblivious.

[-] dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Fight Club is such a good movie. It seems like an awful lot of people don't understand it at all. The same with American Psycho. You definitely nailed it with the right people walking away with the wrong message.

[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

Not a movie, but RATM is my favorite example of this. Or the Punisher.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

Punisher badges on police equipment.....

[-] AnalogousFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

“Some of those that burn torches are the same that burn crosses!” Yeah!! Woohoo!! What fun music. Go GOP!!

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Correction: "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."

Zack's saying that the police aren't your friends, and if you're a certain ethnicity some of them are actively trying to eradicate you.

In that context, that MAGAts are championing that song is even more sinister than them just missing the point.

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago

Exactly! Cypher is the only sensible person in that whole world. /s

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 14 points 3 days ago

All he wanted was a nice steak. What's wrong with that?

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Trump gives the vibes of a piece of shit steak-loving betrayer who wanted to be put back into the battery pod and be king who's ass is kissed globally

[-] axus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Trump famously eats only well-done steak

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Eventually getting flushed into the gutter when the human battery's best before date passes?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

He does make sense. What does it matter to you if you don't realize it is all fake

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