• cogman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Robocop is a scathing critique on capitalism. What’s nuts is I don’t think everyone gets that. It’s literally the underlying theme of the movie.

    Same thing happens with starship troopers. People miss the fact it’s a critique of fascism and colonialism even though the movie ends with Nazi uniforms.

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      3 months ago

      In all fairness, the Starship Troopers sequels forget the point of the first film too. And the fact that movies are supposed to be watchable.

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        3 months ago

        This is off topic and super nerdy.

        The phrase was originally “I’d buy that for a quarter” and it came from a story called “The Marching Morons” by CM Kornbluth.

        That story was the basis of the movie “Idiocracy.”