Wildfires in Hollywood

[couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Don't forget wall-e

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

If anything they beat the drum too much, I didn't see "Don't Look Up", because of Trump Fatigue. Like so much media from 2015-2020 that got made had one note, and that note was "Orange Man Bad", and I'm like "I know, I couldn't be more aware that orange man bad. I did everything I could to stop it, but Americans are idiots."

It's like.. I get it everything is fucked. You can stop blasting the despair in my face any second now.

Like I'm actually glad Hazbin Hotel got delayed for so long, because I just know Adam was basically just "Donald Trump with a harp and a halo" in an earlier draft, there's no way in literal Hell he wasn't.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Pretty much, the problem is Hollywood can only choose between "Make a good movie" or "Have a good message", when "Make an entertaining movie that deliver the message without being overly preachy" was always an option, gaming does it all the time. (Which is probably why Video Game Movies are such big money makers now)

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Pretty much, see the endless amount of idiots who unironically see themselves as the antagonist and think it's a good thing.

(Trump's kids unfavorably comparing the Left to the Resistance in the newer Star Wars films which very blatantly had the First Order be a stand-in for America's Alt Right and Kylo Ren a warning about toxic masculinity, now that's something I'll never forget)

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

The only movie that seems to have really moved the dial on public policy is Idiocracy, the inspiration behind Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s quest to get more IT people to fuck.

And even then I have to remind people that saying "Idiocracy is a documentary!" that they're being too optimistic.

We are NOT in a fully-automated sex-positive polygamous future with leadership that acknowledges society's problems and places its best and brightest towards a solution, one where free speech is so alive you can even name your restaurant "Buttfuckers" and no one's even slightly offended, one where even the least educated people in our society can get good quality high-paying jobs.

And I don't understand why people think we have it anywhere near that good.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Ellen DeGeneres saw Trump watching Finding Dory and tried to explain that the movie was about how it was wrong to separate families.

Trump loved it and had a viewing party at the White House.

ICE illegally separated families at the border, kicked parents back to Mexico, and adopted the kids into white families.... And those were the lucky ones, the unlucky ones died in a concentration camp composed solely of children where the teenagers were expected to take care of the kids who were in turn expected to take care of the toddlers.

Trump and his wife Melania showed up with the latter literally wearing a shirt that read "I don't really care, do you?"

You cannot appeal to the conscience of someone who doesn't have one, no matter how good your movie is or what it's about.

[belit_deg@lemmy.world]

Learned a new term the other day, The Doomscroll Industrial Complex

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Kinda wish mine was a cartoon, but not a political cartoon. I mean the kind where everyone has an unlimited food budget, no one dies or gets seriously hurt they're just brusied for a scene then fine the next, and I can make my tits bigger by plugging air hoses to my nipples.

Sadly I live in a political cartoon, I hope my nightmarish existence is serving a good purpose, but I have feeling it's a Chick Tract from 1962 about how the future year of 2025 will be full of ignorance and vice because America was mad enough to elect a gasp Catholic for President the previous year. Why? Because I'm a transchick accustomed to tragedy, full of imposter syndrome, full of paranoia, and constantly disgusted with my own existence. So a Chick Tract about how evil, crazy, and sinful I am scans.

If you're listening pen that draws my existence. JFK was actually quite based, and he was assassinated by the CIA for trying to shut down the Federal Reserve and establish single player, it's not too late to become a furry and do a wacky story about how I turned into a fat-assed foxlady because I ate at a chinese buffet ran by a mischevious Kitsune.

Yes I know Kitsune are Japanese and Chinese Buffets are Chinese, I just really like Chinese food and... don't know Chinese animals well enough to... oh wait, pleasantly plump lazy panda, I could work with that.

Ya listening to me you demonically devoted demiurge?

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

This guy gets it.

Demonizing the south as inbred yokels who can't read doesn't get them to listen to you, it just reinforces their xenophobic ideas about how the Liberal Elite are mocking them.

Source: Am Southern Leftist.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Ya know I was watching a Why Files episode on Reptilians who farm negative emotions from humans by keeping us in a cycle of reincarnation.

That makes, too much sense when shit like the DIC you're talking about exists.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

Not even a mention of Happy Feet. C'mon. Lol

This is a great though, and if anything, yeah, "pollution apocalypse" has become such a common trope at this point it's almost lazy writing now.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

Also the inciting incident to the 'verse of Firefly:

Mal: "Here's how it is: (The) Earth got used up, so we (moved out, and) terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. (The) Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity.

[cannedtuna@lemmy.world]

Solid read. Thanks

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

I actually really liked the premise behind that one, the idea that collectively since we flooded our entertainment with cynical grimdark media, we all just accepted that ill use of technology leading to an apocalypse was an inevitability, and apathy let it happen.

It was an interesting message that I would've liked to see in a different vehicle.

[ayyy@sh.itjust.works]

I guess I should just be nice to people who want me dead.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Yesn't

You gotta take a "Do no harm, but take no shit." attitude and walk a fine line: Speak softly, carry a big stick.

[saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org]

Naa, they can get fucked. I'm not gonna try to smooth talk them. Have some self-respect.

[frostycaveman@lemm.ee]

Maybe some climate change disaster movies are a good idea to make actually

Plus, disaster movies are fun

[robotzap10000@feddit.nl]

Joan is a great writer! I'm glad to see a fellow lemming linking her work here.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

What was that one where the world was destroyed by climate change, but instead of burning everything froze? IIRC, the main character was played by John Cusack.