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I hate it when they come up with something to help with someone's disability, but it's thrown out because the disability "is what makes them special"
when the "villain" is objectively correct, pointing out the failure of the establishment and that change is necessary, and then also skins puppies alive for no reason, and then the points they bring up are never addressed again
Literally this:
"I can't believe you convinced me that we shouldn't be letting corporations pollute the planet! I'm never falling for that again!"
I hate when media tells us that men should always agree with their wives even when the wife is clearly wrong and irrational. And I'm a woman. If I ever get married, I want a husband who will tell me when I'm wrong. Nobody should have to just put up with their partner behaving like an irrational lunatic without saying something.
Anytime the moral is to not get angry about something that’s perfectly reasonable to be angry about
So tired of seeing revenge killing movies in Hollywood. As long as someone is truly evil and does something unforgivable in the 1st act, the "hero" is then justified in slaughtering like 100+ random people in a dark hallway in the 2nd act. I think it's the only sort of violence we're okay with anymore. Any other type of violence people might have a problem, but because it's done in the name of revenge for a dead wife/dog/kidnapped daughter, that's now been whitewashed as "good wholesome revenge killing." Or something.
Kind of related, the stories where the protagonist slaughters dozens of people just to get to the antagonist and then let them live because they had a change of heart.
Like bro, you just killed 50 people to get to this guy and now you're just gonna change your mind at the last minute?!? The proles can't even catch a break in hero stories.
Is it better when the hero decides at the last minute to spare the life of the villain so they “don't become like them” or is it worse?
If the hero also spares the life of the 100+ randoms, it's better.
But killing them and sparing the life of the super evil villain, is much much worse.
At least in my opinion.
I wouldn't mind seeing a take on it, where the 100+ are at least arguably spared and the villain is actually killed at the end, completing the revenge. At least once.
Thank you! Henching is an undeservedly maligned profession.
They've got money for war, but can't feed the poor. Best they can do is spend ten times what they would spend to feed them to torture the poor more.
I mean the worst thing you could do with poor people is feed them. Why would you want to perpetuate their suffering?
Now unless you're ALSO talking about housing them, giving them healthcare and education? Okay, let's do it.
Let's not be like a guy named Dennis or Fadi on the YouTube who go out and exploit homeless for clicks and merch sales by giving them 10 star buffets y'all.. maybe once a week.
Character who hates being X suddenly realizes being X is helpful actually when something very contrived and unlikely happens.
I don't know if this is still a thing, but I feel there was a surge of media in the 90s and 00s telling us:
If you're not popular at school, all you have to do is cut your hair, get contacts, and buy the same expensive clothes as everyone else, THEN you'll finally be happy.
She's soooo ugly, she has glasses and a pony tail!
Love/friendship/family/moral high ground/any virtue/you name it always wins and is the solution for all your problems.
Reality is never that simple. So there's nothing to take away from such a lesson except for false hopes.
The moral of every Hollywood Racism Movie^TM ends up boiling down to "We could eliminate racism if only every racist met a person of [RACE] that they actually liked."
They're correct that this creates cognitive dissonance. The racist, upon meeting a minority member that doesn't uphold the stereotype, has two contradictory facts in their head:
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All members of a minority group are bad.
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This member of that minority group isn't bad.
This is cognitive dissonance. Both of these cannot be true at the same time. One of these premises must be wrong.
Hollywood imagines the bigot will treat this like a physicist disproving a theory by finding a counterexample. But bigotry is anyhing but scientific. You can't reason your way out of a place reason did not lead you to. Instead, they adjust their premises to:
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Most members of a minority group are bad.
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This member of that minority group is one of the few good ones.
Exactly.
I don't mind specific morals I think I mind the way they're told or if they're pushed down our throats in ways that don't feel genuine.
But any time media portrays war as good or cool or badass or necessary. Basically every movie from the 2000s carries a secret pro War message.
From the 2000s
Wait till you get to movies from the 50a
I feel as though most war movies, especially the famous ones, the moral is always "war is horrible." The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is about how hard it is to come back from war and resume life.
With the exceptions of Top Gun, Act of Valor (2012), Lone Survivor (2013), etc. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) sticks out as propaganda-ish.
The ones I would actually call "war movies" and not propaganda. Like The Longest Day (1962), Tora Tora Tora (1970) are obsessed with their historical accuracy. Hard to call those pro-war.
There are a lot of movies in the 50s and 60s that werent so much war propaganda as they were soldier's experience. Since their audience was people who'd been through war already. You see a certain style of humor of soldiers not heroically leaping into battle, but desperatwly trying to avoid fighting entirely, and when their is fighting trying as hard as they can to survive more than amything else. Certainly there were propaganda films then that did treat soldiers as heroes, also fuck john wayne, but its in the 70s and 80s that those types of movies disappeared and all war movies became heroic, and even non-war action movies became pro-war.
There's an argument that there's no such thing as an anti war movie. Basically, movies are a recreative art medium. As such, any movie that intends to hold the attention of the audience all the way through, will make aesthetic or narrative concessions that will accidentally glorify war in turn. Some even go as far as claiming that any portrayal of war, even if negative, is promoting war.
It reminds me of Come and See (1985), which is a great horrible movie. But often some of the things being portrayed are so well framed and filmed that it is truly beautiful at times. Even if the subject material is extremely horrifying. And the hook to keep the audience watching wanders into morbidity.
In contrast with 20 days in Mariupol (2023), which I almost didn't finish. Because it was true documented horror without any sort of grand narrative. A documentary doesn't have to tell you war is hell. Movies, however, tend to wax poetic about it and end up romanticizing even the worst parts.
Or watch American Football.
I don't know if this counts but I hate when they do male makeovers and cut the guy's hair.
Diane Keaton was once in a movie where she gets cancer. Meryl Streep is her hairstylist sister. She makes her this wig. Marvin's Room (1996)
Before makeover: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116999/mediaviewer/rm1756714240/
After makeover: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116999/mediaviewer/rm991533057/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116999/mediaviewer/rm303667201/
I laughed so fucking hard when they put on that wig and all acted like it was great.
Jon Stewart. He's full of jokes and fallacies.
They encourage you to "want to" laugh at something you probably should "want to" kill somebody over. These aren't Martin Luther King's. These are Charlie Kirks with a democratic base.
Maybe they're peace bringers. Maybe they're just fire starters. Maybe they're complicit. The way I look at it is classes. All warfare is class warfare. And I'm perfectly okay with putting all their millionaire/billionaire asses on a rocket to Mars.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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