• Hellsfire29@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Just going to be a lot of shitty careless union workers that Amazon can’t terminate.

    Before you say “living wage”, they’d still be shitty careless workers.

  • johny@feddit.org
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    21 hours ago

    Yeah it would be terrible if James Bond was used as some kind of cheap propaganda tool. Could you imagine James Bond - a sexyfied whitewashed secret agent of a globe-spanning colonial empire - being used as propaganda. What a world that would be…

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I ate the onion. This is on point.

    Uh, brb, I’m off to write & submit a movie script…

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      2 days ago

      I ate it too. In China, they do this with their cinema, and I partook heavily of that product for many years, so it felt familiar.

  • Kompressor @lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They’re going to modernize plots of old unionization climaxes where they were like “if you won’t acknowledge our union we’re going to fucking blow up the factory and you will have nothing” and they’ll twist it in to a sob story about how the unions are terrorists and how the factory owner has a family and children and :'(. Surprised more of it hasn’t already happened lol.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    I legitimately expect there to be something negative about unions in it. Whether it’s a “corrupt union boss” or a union strike blamed for something bad happening.

  • robbinhood@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    lmao I would absolutely watch a satire like this.

    Does anyone know if any series ever satired itself? Especially with the same actors?

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Ian Fleming crated the characters in “The Man From UNCLE” Napoleon Solo and April Dancer. The UNCLE shows were pretty tongue-in-cheek.

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      2 days ago

      There are a lot of things close to that in scifi. The Starship Troopers movie is a satire of the book it’s based on, and the Orville is a satire of Star Trek with a lot of Trek actors taking part.

      The pinnacle of self-parody though is, of course, Star Trek: Lower Decks

    • melomelo@ttrpg.network
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      2 days ago

      Heck, there was a toy Xenomorph for 1979’s Alien too! And that was even weirder because Alien was R rated and theoretically no children should have been allowed to watch it.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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          23 hours ago

          This is a good story.

          Back when it first came out, “Steve” was at a party and heard some people talking about the movie. He hadn’t seen it, and politely listened. He heard the entire plot, including all the twists and a dozen spoilers. Later that week he was with another group and they decided they wanted to see the movie. Steve didn’t want to spoil everyone’s fun, so he went, even though he thought he’d be bored.

          Later, he wrote about how, even knowing the plot and the surprises, he was still on the edge of his seat for the whole movie.

          There’s a reason people are still talking about this decades old movie.

          • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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            22 hours ago

            Funny enough I haven’t actually heard a single spoiler for it. I only vaguely know about it, and it’s been on my “maybe watch if I have nothing else one day” list for at least a few years. I haven’t actively avoided it, but I haven’t actively tried to seek it out either. I’ll get to it one day, spoiled or not.

            Good story in any case.

            • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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              22 hours ago

              If and when, you’ll probably realize that you’ve been watching spoilers for years and didn’t get the connection.