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It wasn't funny looking at the early life section of this actor.
No surprise. Falling Down has some cool moments, but it's a stupid anti-white strawman of a movie if you really analyze it.
Same as Law Abiding Citizen.
Brilliant film, Gerard Butler is totally justified in everything he does, and everyone involved absolutely deserve what they get. Then they ruin the ending with “revenge bad” and kill him off.
They ruin it by making the point where they say no to his demands at the end as the winning move, despite that being literally the first thing they did when the whole game started.
edit: I forgot about the scene where he kills the neo-Nazi, which is a giant disclaimer that "we're edgy but we're not so edgy that we're saying the WHITE RACE should dominate everything!" Yeah, that scene sucks.
Other than that, the problems Foster had with the restraining order, the unemployment, and not being able to solve his problems, are not anti-white.
I mean, you can read into the movie that the guy is completely at fault for all those things, but I think that's wrong. His foil the detective breaks away from the social conformity of his battleaxe wife at the end of the movie, suggesting he learned something from Foster bucking the system.
Not just a Nazi... a gay Nazi rapist. Because it turns out, every Neo-Nazi is actually secretly gay.
That entire sequence is so far out of left field in an already surrealistic film.
It also curbed the pace of the overarching (and escalating) theme of Murphy's Law applied to the zeitgeist; in many ways the movie embodied the end-result of Kaczynski's Industrial Society and Its Future (well before the manifesto became public), but then they had to go and toss in the "Nazis bad" narrative to subvert an otherwise awesome film.
The reason leftist propaganda movies get embraced by the right is they accidentally tell the truth. They just expect the audience to be equally propagandized to not recognize it as such.
(Cough) Starship troopers (cough)
The entire purpose of the movie is meant to be a take down of the very thing that makes it so popular in the first place, and it makes that quite clear a few times what it is trying to do. Its just Starship Troopers with less camp.
And like both of those movies, taking the "wrong message" from it like that makes the creators seethe, so I will keep doing so for that reason alone and taking my inspirations/memes from it as a side benefit.
Ah so we enjoyed it incorrectly then? Nowadays they would make a sequel where the MC gets sodomized.
a modernized version should replace the surplus store nazi with an antifa tranny
In the case of Starship Troopers, you'd be taking the right message-- the one the book's author intended.
I think the jingoistic/militaristic, "I say kill em all!" message most of us enjoy from the movie is not exactly consistent with the novel's philosophical views on society. Certainly in the same ballpark, but not likely the intent.
it's an accidentally based film, the director wanted to make fun of the huwite conservatives/Republicans