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[–] 80 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I swear people don’t realize that Robocop and Starship Troopers is satire. Like how do you not see the obvious social commentary

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I don't know how people don't realize being robocop would be terrifying and these movies are more akin to horror. Your consciousness trapped in a machine, your body parts stripped away leaving you with nothing but a circulatory system. Castration to the highest degree where your only sense of touch is limited to a few scraps of skin stretched across a metal frame. You're primal urges to eat drink and breath all suppressed since you're barely even human. In the new robocop most of your brain has been replaced with a cybernetic brain, you wouldnt even know if you were ever human at all. I'm sorry guys nothing about robocop is appealing.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This was my first thought. Maybe if you've only seen either movie as a child, I guess...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's not what that comment said or implied

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If self awareness was a disease you'd be the healthiest person alive.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Starship troopers ain't satire. There is no better strategic option than send millions of soldiers under equiped into their certain death. I mean they could bomb the planets from orbit, but that wouldn't be fair to the bugs, would it?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, in our reality corporate America less directly aids crime and moreso lowers the populations quality of life until crime becomes a viable career path.

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    Edward Neumeier be like "okay now that we've shown them how horrible that is, have everyone shower together"

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Remember when RoboCop shot that dude in the dick?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    third world countries where multinational corporations have been buying up land and propping up and collaborating with authoritarian governments for decades: first time?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wasn't this more or less the premise of Chinatown (1974)?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    My favorite adaptation of Chinatown is an 80s noir murder mystery about race relations, municipal development, displacement of minorities and the privatization and subsequent destruction of public infrastructure.

    And it had Bugs Bunny and Mickey mouse!

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