I don’t even mean a bad thing, necessarily. I mean a thing that is made to normalize the status quo, pave over inherent contradictions in late stage neoliberal capitalism, make even the idea of changing society somewhat seem evil or impossible, and have lots of performative gestures that hide the stench of affluent arrogance. :zizek-preference:

I know it came out well before 2020, but I finally got around to seeing Iron Man 2 and I stopped at the instant Tony Stark said “I’ve successfully privatized world peace.” It was bad. Very bad. The original movie was entertaining even if it had some painful deliberate adjustments to the comic book character to make him more like :my-hero: but the sequel played out like Ayn Rand fanfiction, especially the big smart awesome genius giving a speech about how the evil government and the ungrateful moochers were taking the sweat from his brow and so on and so on. :zizek:

The flood of MCU movies wore me out to the point that I stopped watching them and because of that I have only seen maybe half of them by now. Maybe it was a mistake returning to try watching Iron Man 2 because I now have even less interest in seeing anything MCU ever again. :zizek-fuck:

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Evangelion Reboots:

      “akshualafsfdkasldfajsdflasdflly eva isnt about a life affirming struggle through relationships and meaning in a society that has gone down shit creek beset by the eldritch elite, its about shinji becoming pure and good through muh reincarnation to b th best most ubermenschen christian capitalist salaryman with a hot wife accessory teehee”

        • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 years ago

          yeah watching something beautiful get warped 180 degrees out of shape along all axes to fit the pithy platitudes of neoliberal patriarchy was utterly cringe inducing