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tree_ wrote:I wonder what dumb neo-sociopolitical commentary this one will adopt
Going by Barbie it'll play superficial lip service to the most digestible version of a popular political stance (in this case probably some zoomery anticapitalist thing) while justifying and romanticizing the structures that uphold the very thing it's purportedly skewering, serving as an extremely effective piece of corporate marketing PR for the people of Hasbro
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
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It's fine for a movie to take a political stance or have any kind of agenda as long as its not at the expense of good storytelling. The proverbial baby doesn't have to be thrown out with the bath water. They're not mutually exclusive, so to speak.
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Farmer John wrote:"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
haha yeah, i kinda see that happening too.
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A Monopoly movie kinda has to be an anti-capitalism movie, right?

Like, what else is it going to be about?
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VinylGuy wrote:
Farmer John wrote:"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
haha yeah, i kinda see that happening too.
what are your positions in the realms of political philosophy, political ideology, and political economy, Veggie? please cite your sources.
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BurtReynolds wrote:A Monopoly movie kinda has to be an anti-capitalism movie, right?

Like, what else is it going to be about?
it could just be a fun slapstick comedy of characters vying for superiority
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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VinylGuy wrote:
Farmer John wrote:"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
haha yeah, i kinda see that happening too.
what are your positions in the realms of political philosophy, political ideology, and political economy, Veggie? please cite your sources.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
tree_ wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:A Monopoly movie kinda has to be an anti-capitalism movie, right?

Like, what else is it going to be about?
it could just be a fun slapstick comedy of characters vying for superiority
Yeah maybe like a Clue sort of thing
That's the honest, unhypocritical way to go. Just say you're a pro-capitalism movie, or at the very least be apolitical about it. Give us a hero, like Charlie Bucket. His character is why he gets all the money in the end, he earned it.
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Margot Robbie will play some kinfd of character who realizes she a part of the board game, and she will try to escape to reality to talk to the guys who run things
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VinylGuy wrote:Margot Robbie will play some kinfd of character who realizes she a part of the board game, and she will try to escape to reality to talk to the guys who run things
I hope she parachutes off of Park Place and into the real world. Is Wilford Brimley still alive? He's the only one that could play the Monopoly guy.
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BurtReynolds wrote:A Monopoly movie kinda has to be an anti-capitalism movie, right?

Like, what else is it going to be about?
Truffaut said there can be no such thing as an anti-war war movie.

Maybe there can be no such thing as an anti-capitalist brand licensed movie.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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VinylGuy wrote:
Alex wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Farmer John wrote:"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
haha yeah, i kinda see that happening too.
what are your positions in the realms of political philosophy, political ideology, and political economy, Veggie? please cite your sources.
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Alex wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Alex wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Farmer John wrote:"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
haha yeah, i kinda see that happening too.
what are your positions in the realms of political philosophy, political ideology, and political economy, Veggie? please cite your sources.
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VinylGuy wrote:
Alex wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Alex wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Farmer John wrote:"The Monopoly movie is pro-communism" will probably be the new "The Barbie movie is anti-men"
haha yeah, i kinda see that happening too.
what are your positions in the realms of political philosophy, political ideology, and political economy, Veggie? please cite your sources.
pay me
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