This thread is an amazing peek into the minds of people who literally know nothing about anything at all
Showing the US as the bad guy redeems any other issues with the movie. 👍 👍
Honestly on a pure vibes based level they fucking nailed it. We all know how the US became after 9/11 where 3k people died. Could you imagine the level of horrifying fascism that would be reached if a million people died in a nuke? The giant US space station menacing the entire world is a tremendous vibes achievement, the first iconic spacecraft to come out of the film industry in years upon years.
Oh yeah, totally. The US’s behavior was totally on point.
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A lib friend watched it and was ticked off that the truth behind the nuke wasn’t more of the storyline. “Why didn’t they just tell everyone?” Took a lot not to laugh in his face.
the first iconic spacecraft to come out of the film industry in years upon years
Not gonna lie, I think if Avenue 5 had gotten another season it would be mad iconic too.
Is avenue 5 good? I remember watching the first episode and being incredibly bored
honestly my unironic Avatar take. Having American stand-ins get killed en masse makes it a good film
Makes me think of how in Arrival the Chinese are the most at risk of being militarily aggressive against the enigmatic aliens when it would 100% be America and it’s allies IRL.
Still a pretty interesting idea for a movie though.
hmm maybe I should pirate this movie
it’s really fucking long but somehow hugely compressed at the same time, they do lots of hop-skip-jump over sequences that could be entire movies in themselves (characters getting from A to B etc.) and as a result the movie starts to just become a series of disjoint events happening instead of something that follows smoothly. However, it has unbelievable art design. It keeps throwing machine/weapon/setting designs at you that would be standalone iconic in any other film.
That was the most reasonable part of the whole movie though.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I’m afraid I didn’t have much luck on my usual sites. I asked a friend of mine over in Japan to let me know if they happen to run across it. We’ll see.🤞
I just watched Battleship Island the other night and it was quite good. It’d probably be up your alley if you haven’t seen it.
