• Soleos@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Lol that’s some serious cherry picking my dude. One is one of the best action movies of the last 20 years and launched a franchise. The other is a middling coming of age story made for streaming. There are plenty of bland action movies just as bad as Damsel and without an ounce of activism that come out every year. Try comparing it to Get Out, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Mad Max Fury Road, hell even Inglorious Basterds might be considered activism now that fascism is back in fashion.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      John Wick was an awesome series of movies.

      They’d burned through the premise badly inside the first two films. And that’s before you read it as Equilibrium with the serial numbers filled off.

      Which is a shame. All that money on effects and direction and talent. Nobody thought to hire a screenwriter worth a shit to make any of the theatrics meaningful.

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      Must be a cowardly existence to be made to feel ideologically fragile by just watching a movie lol

      That might mean your belief system doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny whatsoever but hey, maybe it’s the one time in history that someone was offended by questions about their beliefs for a reason other than they’re a trash fire.