Recently my daughters have been big on wanting to watch the Pirates films. For the most part rewatching them I haven't seen anything to egregious. Then we watched On Stranger Tides. Now I haven't seen this movie since I half watched it with my old college gf when it came out. Even then I remember feeling the movie was biased against Christianity. Specifically the feckless missionary who doesn't have any balls.
I digress. Even back then and now seeing it again I think the twist with the Spanish Catholics is great. Maybe I am biased since I'm Catholic. But the way they just destroy all the pagan shit while all the British and pirates are confused is great. "Only God can grant eternal life, not this pagan water. Men destroy this profane temple". I remember reading reviews back then considering the Spanish villains. Now I see them as heroes.
It's a shit movie, but unintentionally based.
For those interested
If you ever watch Pleasantville, try watching it in the frame of mind that the supposedly "protagonist" kids are actually antagonists terrorizing a small town full of innocents.
Two kids from a broken home enter into a well-functioning, ordered society, think it's "weird" and "oppressive", and decide that the entire society needs to change instead of themselves. Then it does, and as soon as it does they leave to let the town deal with the fallout of having been fundamentally altered and probably irreparably damaged.
It's like watching a horror movie where the monster is made out to be the good guy, except the movie is so well-made they do a really good job of hiding that alternate interpretation from the viewer.
Yeah it's a great video.
I thought I was the only one who thought this. His sister was a whore and he allowed himself to become a soyboy.
The movie version of Starship Troopers is a pretty good example. I don't know what Heinlen's (author) opinion on the government and military system of the Federation is, but Verhoven (director) was openly disdainful of the book, admitted he didn't even finish reading it, and said he made the movie as an anti-fascist parody. He did such a bad job that he made a pretty decent movie that made the Federation look awesome.
In the book, the Federation is even more based from what Ive heard.
It absolutely is. I won't say the philosophy of the Federation is without flaws, but it presents strong arguments for the effectiveness of its system of government,. In one of my favorites, one of the characters succinctly disproves the labor theory of value (the underpinning of all Marxist economic theory) with a simple analogy. I won't post it here because I feel like you should read the book and it's enhanced by the context, but I'm sure you can look it up online if you really want to.
It's a safe bet that Heinlein approved of the Federation as the war with the Pseudo Arachnids seems mostly an excuse to write about the Federation's political philosophy,
The book is extremely based. Really good philosophy.
Heinlen's Bugs were the Space Chicoms.
They're 9 and 7. Do college is a ways away. Don't have an idea about college yet, BUT they are both in a private baptist school (their mother is baptist).
Don't assume that's enough. At best that buys you more time to instill good moral teaching, and at worst it makes you complacent and teaches your kids how to be good at hiding stuff from you.
Plenty of sluts at my Evangelical Christian high school, despite it having one of the better reputations in the area.
An example of a subversion tactic that backfired?
Transgenderism, surely. They ended up taking over women's spaces.
Meh, female athletes always talk about how they're better than men. It's hilarious watching them get absolutely wrecked, no matter what sport it is.
?They'll look high and they'll look low. They'll look everywhere we go-?