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IDK. All the movies/shows I watch seem to be playing with exactly that theme, be it The Orville, Hacks, Slow Horses, Poker Face...
Damn, I still need to finish season 3 of The Orville
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The Orville has a warm place in my heart. At first I found them too close to parody, but increasingly they have become a hommage to Star Trek.
Captain America: Civil War kinda ruined the whole franchise for me. It's clear the random heroes are good and conscientious people and far more trustworthy with the power than having them controlled by a government system that is run by the most greedy and power hungry people.
Also Black Panther. A deathmatch between royal bloodlines is just no proper form of electing government. It beats modern democracy, but still...
The MCU is such fascist propaganda. It has people believing that the billionaire arms dealer is the good guy and democratically elected world governments should be ignored.
Atomic blonde
The Aristocats
Imagine being Edgar and dedicating your life to being this rich lady's loyal servant. Then you find out she's leaving her fortune to her cats? Honestly, I would be kinda salty.
I really sympathized with Mr Wink and Mr Fibb in the Kids Next Door pilot. Filthy children actually do not belong in swimming pools, Mr. Fibb.
It was Ollie from Game of Thrones for me.
Here's a boy whose entire family was butchered, desecrated and eaten by people he's now supposed to believe are his allies on the word of his Lord Commander? He hadnt seen the dead at the point of the mutiny.
There were entire subs dedicated to Fuck Olly, like really guys you cannot see he doesn't have your perspective to know the bigger picture (and even then it's still hard for people to work with such heinous characters because maybe if people are that cruel to each other we deserve whatever is about to come?)
It's not a movie but if you are into games I Highly recommend Final Fantasy 14. Expansion's Shadowbringers and Endwalker are some of the best story telling I have ever partaken in. In my opinion it gives GoT a run for it's money. It is a time investment though so I get it. Also don't pay for a story skip.
Wish (2023)
There were characters worth empathizing with in that movie? I thought it was just an hour and a half of references to other disney movies.
The bad guy builds essentially a utopia where he grants people's wishes is they are beneficial to society at large. Literally magic grants their wish. Then the protagonist decides that this isn't fair and everyone deserves their wish granted and upends society to grant everyone's wish and make it more utopia I guess? Idk it's not in my kids rotation only seen it once.
The bad guy steals peoples wishes to maintain his power. They basically live in a "utopia" with at most their basic needs met... but don't really want anything else because all their dreams have been stolen away by the antagonist.
It starts making it seem as though he might be a relatable villain, or even a secondary protagonist... but then proceeds to just make him a self-serving asshole.
'The Battle of Lake Changjin' is based on the eponymous events where the US - under MacArthur - occupies the role of the aggressor nation. The movie itself wasn't noteworthy as it's equivalent to standard Hollywood mediocrity, however my confused mind railed against accepting that the US can be anything other than the protagonist and so served to expand my limited worldview as my media consumption was admittedly US-centric.
The Sixth Day, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's please-take-me-seriously projects, is possibly the wrongest it is possible to be about whether clones are people. Still a fun movie. Just ass-backwards in its motivation. I'm not sure how much of its moral grey area was intended by the script or the direction. The anti-clone "good guys" are pretty terrorist-coded. Arnie's just caught up in the middle of their guerrilla fight against a generic corporate bad guy. Who solved death. How terrible.
Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen. My husband and I watched it and towards the end, it tries to make Hagen this honorable man despite being a child murderer and a traitor. I was on Kriemhilds side the entire time, and the Attila and his Huns were way cooler than the Nibelungen.
Read the book Hagen von Tronje or watch the movie.
If the "bad guys" are not relatable; then they generally come off as cartoonishly evil, and unrealistic.
Think the bad guys in Avatar, going after the unobtainum or whale brain juice. They are evil for the sake of the suffering, getting the macuffin is seemingly secondary to that; and thus are a joke.
If they are totally two dimensional, they don't make good villains.
Great villains; have merit to their plans, it is the methods they use and the suffering they cause in pursuit of those goals that marks them as bad.
Look at Killmonger, in Black Panther. He is 100% correct, his view that Wakanda's isolation has caused great suffering is true, his plan to open it up to the rest of the world is what happens in the end; just not by him....it is his methods that mark him as a bad guy.
I couldn't think of any movie in particular, but I did end up because of this post find out one of my favorite animated donghua films Legend of Hei got a sequel that released this month and now I absolutely need to see it! Legend of Hei II is real!