Resurrections was fucking awesome! I LOATHED 2 and 3 and rewatched them before 4 (MISTAKE) and it's nothing like them, really. It feels really informed by Sense8, which I also loved.
Yeah, satire is like Juvenal and Swift and so on. Is it constructive social criticism? Fuck no. And, yeah, it doesn't mean "just being a dick to people especially PoC and women," either. It's like how being funny got mixed up with being mean, so if you're mean, you can say "It was just a joke" and get off, even though it clearly wasn't any kind of joke.
I am baffled by all the film critics saying this film isn't like Dr Strangelove, "but that's unfair since it's a classic! But still, it's not Dr Strangelove!" The focus in Dr Strangelove is on the inffectual politicans and rabid generals and the actual NAZI titular character and the ending of the film strongly suggests he's going to head a post-apocalyptic eugenics breeding program?! Not on "solutions" or "the global community coming together" or whatever the fuck that NPR circle table wanted out of DLU. -- Strangelove is also part of a tradition that's been around since at least Lysistrata, the specific anti-war satire. It's not there to Inspire People To Stop War. Even the centrist liberal NPR types seem to have this weird misunderstanding of politically inspired art right now, like it should list action points at the end and if people don't want to go out and do them, the film is a failure. What about art as inspiration, motivation?
tl;dr I think a lot of critics are pissed it wasn't The Big Short for some reason (I'm sure that has nothing to do with that movie starring mostly white male actors as Wolves You Love To Hate types)
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Yeah, satire is like Juvenal and Swift and so on. Is it constructive social criticism? Fuck no. And, yeah, it doesn't mean "just being a dick to people especially PoC and women," either. It's like how being funny got mixed up with being mean, so if you're mean, you can say "It was just a joke" and get off, even though it clearly wasn't any kind of joke.
I am baffled by all the film critics saying this film isn't like Dr Strangelove, "but that's unfair since it's a classic! But still, it's not Dr Strangelove!" The focus in Dr Strangelove is on the inffectual politicans and rabid generals and the actual NAZI titular character and the ending of the film strongly suggests he's going to head a post-apocalyptic eugenics breeding program?! Not on "solutions" or "the global community coming together" or whatever the fuck that NPR circle table wanted out of DLU. -- Strangelove is also part of a tradition that's been around since at least Lysistrata, the specific anti-war satire. It's not there to Inspire People To Stop War. Even the centrist liberal NPR types seem to have this weird misunderstanding of politically inspired art right now, like it should list action points at the end and if people don't want to go out and do them, the film is a failure. What about art as inspiration, motivation?
tl;dr I think a lot of critics are pissed it wasn't The Big Short for some reason (I'm sure that has nothing to do with that movie starring mostly white male actors as Wolves You Love To Hate types)