I've been trying to find the video all morning but it is deleted and everyone who posts it is getting banned because of the 'optics' surrounding a bunch of migrants robbing him on stream.
I want to see the damn video though, anyone dig it up?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120789/
I haven't seen this film in over 20 years. Upon watching it today I realized that the writer / director / producer Gary Ross unintentionally created one of the most fucked up horror films of the 90s.
The real irony is that this film pushes the 'racism' message so, so hard. It is the least subtle film I've ever seen in my life so I never went back to it for 20 years.
This was two years before 'Traffic' and Hollywood was just beginning its obsession with racism as a central theme to drama pieces. Gary Ross decided he wanted to make the least subtle allegory possible to make sure even the dumbest people can understand his point, and proceeds to hammer it home nonstop for 2 hours.
To be clear Gary Ross had no intention of creating a horror film. He left a ton unexplained in his world (probably because he's a hack) which upon deeper analysis reveals a horrifying chain of events by two woke dumbass teenagers incapable of realizing what their own actions are doing to the carefully curated environment.
Now I'm going to spoil the shit out of this film so take that into consideration.
A super fast breakdown of the plot: a pair of obnoxious siblings in modern day America (nerdy stereotype who loves a terrible leave it to beaver ripoff called Pleasantville) and his slutty popular sister (it is a running joke throughout the film that she bangs everyone and also a major plot device) get teleported into the show by a magic remote by the creator of this 'world' who was so impressed by the boys knowledge of it.
Anyways the first fucked up thing that gets COMPLETELY ignored is that they take the place of the 'son and daughter' on the show. They don't just show up in addition, the REPLACE them. From this point on both of the original characters cease to exist in both worlds, they don't swap places. The originals are ripped apart, lost forever.
Even later on when the show characters learn that the two of them have to 'go back' they don't even ASK if the original ones will come back. Not a single tear shed, not a single question from either parent. Those cold fuckers just said "well guess these total strangers took the place of our kids and now we don't have them anymore...but hey we're in color now!"
The only assumption we can make is that they have zero emotional connection to their children, however both the parents form an incredibly close bond with the 'new' children that are fakes and murdered the children they loved.
This raises a much larger question: what are these things? They don't age, they only see black and white, they are so completely programmed into their daily actions that even slight adjustments cause nearly full breakdowns.
No emotions for their offspring, no questions about why they live in a tiny environment that they literally can't escape from, are they robots? NPCs? Brainwashed?
And none of that even touches the question of why questioning their world creates colored pigments that enrich their skin or random objects around them...if they 'confront their inner demons'.
For now we'll go back to the plot, because near the end something extremely odd happens. After the sister bangs her way through half the school (by her own admittance mind you) she decides sleeping around isn't fun anymore and since she won't get back into college she REFUSES TO RETURN TO THE REAL WORLD.
What the fuck? At this point Pleasantville has now 'expanded' and isn't just a tiny town anymore but who would ever do this? If her brother takes the remote she is STUCK THERE.
This isn't modern day, she sent herself back like 30 years. When her Brother returns it turns out only an hour passed in real time so that means his sister will be in there fucking CENTURIES. TRAPPED. VOLUNTARILY. He has no way to track her or contact her even if he goes back since she left the town.
This entire film is basically a story about entitled children abandoning responsibilities because things are too hard and escaping into fantasy worlds that you don't understand which only damage them. How anti-woke is that? I fucking love it.
On top of that they both just bang everything that moves despite these people not even understanding sex and being totally committed and virtuous, they introduce sin in every form. Within days they have degraded a perfectly curated society with modern sin and have people beating each other up and committing crimes just to get them to stop.
It is such a perfect example of how modern day progressive only ruin things they touch instead of learning to adapt and thrive in them. Everything must be poisoned with racial division until in the end they get what they want.
Fucking A I now love this movie. Gary Ross is the new face of far right films.
I recently tried Subnautica, a game that sat in my library for years after I picked it up in a humble bundle.
Despite my dislike of survival games I enjoyed the first game from Unknown Worlds, Natural Selection 2. I thought it had a great concept and with a few tweaks would have been a success. They also released a lot of updates and seemed pretty active. So I thought what the hell, I heard good things I'll try it.
Subnautica exceeded my expectations and I genuinely enjoyed it. Upon completion I looked up a few videos for the sequel, Below Zero, and...didn't like what I saw.
I decided to pick up Below Zero for free to try it out and confirm my suspicions before paying for it...and holy shit am I glad I did.
It is such an incredible departure from the original, and disturbingly woke. For no reason. It's a survival game on an alien world, seemingly impossible to fuck up.
And somehow they managed. They made the same mistake Dead Space did and gave your character a voice and personality...except surprise surprise you are now a sassy black female scientist / adventurer who don't take no shit from nobody!
On the surface that may seem small, but the beauty of the original was how minimal the voice acting was. You'd find hints and clues scattered around the world, there was no hand-holding or even a map. It was sparse, you felt isolated and alone considering no other humans are around and you only have dead data logs to figure out what to do.
Now this dumb black bitch straight up tells you what to do. "Oh I need to do ____" "Oh looks like I'll need to go ____" "Sounds like I should ____" and to make things worse it pops up exactly where they are on the map.
So exploration is now a giant fetch quest for a person you can't stand. But wait! It gets worse.
The entire plot now revolves around a dozen characters, 10 of which are women who get 90% of all the voice lines. The two men are both constantly fucking up, being berated, or acting like idiots in every voice log. The 10 women are all scientists in a myriad of various lesbian relationships (I wish I was kidding) but all young and oddly unattractive. Weird how all these young female scientists are all the leads and head of departments while the older men are underlings...
Eventually you even find another human on the planet with you who just so happens to be the classic badass survivalist character who kills everything and drips masculinity...who is also a middle aged woman. Christ I wish I was kidding.
The worst part is despite the addition of all the crap woke elements and disgustingly poor voice acting they managed to somehow make the game worse too. A smaller map...for a sequel? What the fuck, who makes the open world SMALLER in a follow-up? And a huge chunk is on land, which is awkward and defeats basically the entire point of the series.
I looked up the devs and it looks pretty bad:
https://unknownworlds.com/about/
Only a few women but the classic types you'd expect to be working at a game company.
I noticed on a job posting they had this:
We make games that are accessible and engaging for players all over the world. We believe in hiring and supporting the most talented and creative people of diverse backgrounds. That support includes annual professional development and home office stipends, as well as paid time off for volunteer/non-profit work. Join us and be a part of our growing and innovative studio.
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
I have never seen a bigger split between an original game and its sequel before from the same devs. It is insane how badly they fucked up the 2nd one.
Don't give these morons money.
Original: 8/10 great immersive game.
Beyond Zero: 2/10 stay away.
Natural Selection 2: 10/10 give it a shot.
Just...don't pay them for it.
