I’ll start with “PCU.”

The one upside is that the main villain is played by the lady who also played how-much-could-it-cost and she’s amazing as she always was even while playing a terrible role in an enlightened centrist pop-nihilist propaganda film.

The rest of it is steaming smug-seasoned “caring about things makes you stupid” ideology. And I mean pretty much anything that might matter to disadvantaged people or the planet they live on.

Wildlife conservation? Stupid. (tear down those flyers, yeah fuck non-human life forms!)

Veganism? Stupid. (better bully them until they cry!)

Black activism? Stupid. (lol look they’re chasing the clueless white boy with vaguely lynch-themed cinematics WHAT IF WE REVERSED THE VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR?!)

Feminism? Stupid. (they just need to get laid lololololololol)

how-much-could-it-cost is politically correct and has two hyphenated last names? Some rich white assholes firing her is seen as the happy ending!

All of those silly people that care too much about things just have a le epic drunk party at the end and that washes away all their concerns about the world like so many lotuses eaten by so many lotus eaters. They touched grass! smuglord

Fuck that movie so much. All the chuds in my immediate biological family loved it, of course.

  • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I only have seen a small slice of it but since Succession didn’t include any Little Saint James corporate-art scenes to my knowledge I can only imagine that its fascist apologia has been wholly, gleefully swallowed.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      I haven’t seen it either but I can only assume it’s even more adults in the room that are making the hard decisions and getting shit done in a way that excites chuds and libs alike.

      • Adlach@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Succession? No, I think you’d like it. The Roys are all bumbling, incompetent manchildren throughout the entire series. You’re just watching them get dunked on the entire time—they never once make a decision shown to have positive consequences.

        I’m sort of confused at it being called fascist apologia. It’s not revolutionary, sure, but the worst I can accuse it of is nihilism. The Roys are stand-ins for Bloomberg, Murdoch, Zuckerberg, etc and they’re mercilessly mocked by the story. They fail to maintain any sort of meaningful relationships because everything is transactional to a capitalist.

        Maybe it’s too sympathetic to Logan, but I dunno. His kids hate him, he exploits young female staffers, and he dies alone.