• cogman@lemmy.world
    391·
    2 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.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 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.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 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.”

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    9·
    2 months ago

    It’s in the trailer, so not really a spoiler.

    New movie Mickey 17 is exactly that idea. Guy gets a job where he is expected to die and ‘respawn’ over and over.

    I wasn’t a fan of the book, but the movie looks good.

  • CptInsane0@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    They selected him and others and purposely moved them to dangerous areas so they could get a RoboCop. So it’s worse than the meme suggests.

  • ShortFuse@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    You remember Steve from IT? The only one who knew how to manage our backend infrastructure? Well, after that unfortunate plane crash, we uploaded the entire contents of his laptop, cellphone, and personal cloud to an artificial AI. We were able to revive him to bring him back. Even better now, because we have him resurrected in simulated form, he now exists in a perpetual state of working at the office and no longer needs to go home to rest or be with his family. That means with the new 24x7 productivity, we are expecting increased profits for this next quarter.