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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just checked it out last night, i had a feeling it was a fun project for the actors, regardless of the overall quality, i wanted to see how they enjoyed performing.

To be honest i didn't hate it. It was longer than it should be, sucked itself off while also having awkward theater kid feeling moments. But i didn't find it as disjointed as everyone talked about, if you watch some media that's figurative you'll be fine, it's mostly more or less just a linear narrative following the main characters.

Honestly it wasn't the worse use of my time, for me. My partners watched with me and one left feeling frustrated at the conclusion (no spoilers) and felt their time was wasted, while the other just could not have their attention held, there were a lot of 'i am deep' shots that if you dont enjoy that you just wont.

All that is to say I didn't pay anything for it, so i had less reason to come in with any expectations. Oh, and I never found I liked the Godfather or his other "classics" so i came in expecting an old man's passion project and that's what i got. The actors felt like they had a blast so i couldn't help watching the whole thing for them.

All and all, if you can see it for free and appreciate it for what it was (a fun bad movie) i think it's fine. If anything i found the ending to be a bit saccharin for a movie that tried to be dark? Some of the parts wrapped up ridiculously im still kind of stunned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

More like Megaflopolis

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

When I heard about this movie I thought is was a live action movie adaptation of the anime classic Doomed Megalopolis.

Turns out is was a doomed Megalopolis of a different sort.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

perfect place to fuck in a theatre

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favorite part is when the main character shouts "its megalopolin time" and then he megalopped all over the place

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Mine too, but after that it was pretty slow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ya but i heard there’s an Amy Plaza face sitting scene. Seems like this years movie of the year to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I've seen it and that's the high point of the film.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is that South Bank Cineplex?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s wild this mf made an Atlas Shrugged-ass movie while everyone out here is living like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

Read the room, guy

Nice theater tho!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't understand what you are saying but I want to.

Care to tell me what is the message of atlas shruggs and the jungle are?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Since others have explained what those stories are about, the juxtaposition is about the idea of the Ubermensch being the savior of humanity, namely one where the Ubermensch are capitalists, is a dead concept in a world where we've let the capitalists run everything and result is an unmitigated disaster.

Turns out, they just want money and power. That's it, they can't save us. Why is this movie venerating them?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

The Jungle was a book exposing the nightmares of the industrial revolution, especially in the meat packing industry.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Atlas Shrugged is the conservative wet dream of "what if the rich people that totally do all the work and hold everything together got tired of the poors being so whiny and ungrateful and stopped." It's an-cap fan fiction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

you missed out the part where they go to live inside a holographic volcano and pay each other with gold - which of course is useless inside a volcano but the book glosses over that

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ayn Rand wrote robber baron fan fiction

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then died living off social security and Medicare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like a true hypocrite

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

"Robber baron" needs a resurgence for modern times

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