Thats it. Looks like shit.
Fish face mcblondey has long outstayed her welcome for me. Is 80 pounds, and looks like a china doll.
Cgi looks like shit.
Effects look like shit
Arm looks like shit
Theres shitty "somehow palpatine returned" lettering to hand hold you through the movie you already watched.
Theres even a fucking "i am the jedi" moment
Looks like shit.
Fury Road was a bad subversion, the same way Starship Troopers was. You can see what they were trying to say, and then they forgot men are simple creatures and accidentally made all the "bad guys" awesome looking while the "good guys" were too bland to even register.
Only a bunch of try hard lesbians liked Furiosa walking out of Fury Road, and that didn't last.
Almost any guy who watched it walked out screaming WITNESS and thinking about how fucking awesome all of that shit was. Many of which you can still yell the word at and get them hyped for.
Personally, I use the product and its "unironic" fanbase as a cudgel to both mock and laugh at them for in these cases. Because they didn't just make a single accidental piece, like your American History X example, but the entire movie fails their intention so hard that it barely comes through in the manner they want. Barbie is another recent example of that, where barely anyone got a feminist message from it but everyone got a pro-Ken one.
Obviously don't give them money or sincere support because of this, but still worth a laugh at its existence and the complete failure of its intention so hard it ended up empowering the people they were attacking.
Yep. There was a "Witness Me" pro-Trump meme that had Trump's face edited onto the villain. I can't find it anymore though.