Date: May 20th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: Burgundy filthpig
fore the USSR collapsed. They also made Rocky IV. Right at the exact same moment the USSR was fixin to die, shitcons thought it posed a legit threat to Rocky. They created a super-boxer using Soviet science, in a script written by shitcons.
Date: May 20th, 2025 11:09 PM Author: sepia yarmulke
Soviets were notorious for steroid abuse. Your country can both be falling apart and cheating in sports as rocky proved. I mean one of the members of the politburo was choked in front of the crowd and the crowd took Rocky’s side
Date: May 21st, 2025 7:45 PM Author: Swashbuckling infuriating stead
The fuck we did. Rocky’s “if I can change and you can change” speech is at least 75% responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everyone jocks Wind of Change but it was the final straw and blatantly ripped off Rocky IV.
Date: May 20th, 2025 11:50 PM Author: Burgundy filthpig
There was a rabid nucleus of hollywood shitcons who made the Rambo movies get made. They probably financed some of Chuck Norris' work too. This was around the same time Ross Perot financed a paramilitary operation to rescue POWs, which is the same thing Rambo is doing in the First Blood, Part 2.
Date: May 20th, 2025 11:55 PM Author: Burgundy filthpig
They wanted the US military to be respected again. Until Gulf War I, movies like Stripes were emblematic of how mainstream society viewed the military. The story they came up with for Rambo was that the US could have won in Vietnam, but that it was stabbed in the back by men in Washington. They pushed this in all the right wing literature from that era too
Date: May 21st, 2025 7:53 PM Author: Swashbuckling infuriating stead
This is wrong. Hollywood’s big directors, especially action movies for adult men, were uniformly Reagan Republicans, and their influence was broadly felt across the industry because they were obviously doing the best and most timeless and important work. Movies like Die Hard are smuggling in clear messages about eg the media being evil, the FBI being corrupt and incompetent, divorce being evil, libs selling out illegals and viewing them as subhuman if they pose an impediment to their thrist for power, anti-western terrorists being amoral shitheads who are just in it for the money, etc. etc.
Broadly felt: eg the villian of Ghostbusters is literally the EPA. The villian of Back to the Future, other than Donald Trump, is literally middle eastern terrorists trying to buy black market nukes.