Parasite - thought it was solid but what am I missing?

I also didn't get the big change everyone was talking about. It was weird in the beginning and weird in the end.

everyone’s jerking it off for the political commentary of the divide between the have and have nots

The irony is how much Hollywood loves it considering they’re the Uber rich

You're talking about a group of people who named the fish fricking movie best picture a couple of years ago.

Every best picture winner has to have some kind of political propaganda angle to it. And this one is a foreign film, so they get to sit around sucking their own dicks about how worldly and diversity-y they are.

My wife and I watched, thought it was entertaining glad we saw it.
Probably would have enjoyed it more, had I not going it thinking I'm watching the movie that won the Oscar for best film

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You're talking about a group of people who named the fish fricking movie best picture a couple of years ago.

Every best picture winner has to have some kind of political propaganda angle to it.

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What was the political angle of the fish movie again?

I know I'm in the minority but I absolutely hated it.

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Did you think it won best picture for fish fricking?

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No, I think it won because it recalled a very specific vintage style of American filmmaking from the 1950s, including in it an old theater showing old movies. It combines a nostalgic bit of romance with a nostalgic bit of monster and spins a very clichéd and predictable conflict from that set up.

Oscar voters saw something old and comforting, even if that thing was dressed as a fish monster. There's nothing progressive in including black coworkers, especially when they don't do anything. Fast forward to a year later, when a movie that showed a racist white knew better how to be black than the black guy did won best picture.

If you look for idiot politics in movies, you'll find them, because you want to.

Parasite, by the way, for the dude who's too busy accusing people of sniffing farts to watch the movie, is a popcorn blockbuster. It made tons of money in Korea, the US, and over the world. People seem to like it because it has the entertainment value of an audience-pleaser with an air-tight script that wastes no lines or minutes, and is filled with great performances. There's nothing hoity-toity or "artsy" about it.

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If you look for idiot politics in movies, you'll find them, because you want to.

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Or maybe it's because the people who made the movie put it in there.

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Guillermo del Toro has a not-so-closely guarded secret: His new fantasy film The Shape of Water is rife with coded commentary on the current political climate. “The movie is about today. It’s about everything that we’re dealing with today — the toxic division of the ideology of us and them,” Del Toro said during a panel with actor Doug Jones at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles.

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There's nothing progressive in including black coworkers,

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There were specific scenes in which tehy experienced "racism."

But if you don't believe Guillermo, you're never going to believe anyone.

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bitching about "SJWs"

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a.k.a. pointing out the obvious politics that were put into the movie by the director who then discussed it with several interviewers.

Yeah, we must be imagining things.

Think the was on Amazon Prime this week. I'll make sure to watch it.