• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    You (foolish): oh nooooooooooo, this sucks. I hate Monopoly and this is gonna suck nerd

    Monopoly movie opening scene: Since the beginning of society, since the first little laborers ever existed, there have been class struggles. But the class struggles were always and forever primitive communism. The laborers who engaged in struggle could only ever demand concessions from capitalists. Which can be progress, at least for a while anyway… (ask the 8 hour work day). Monopolies continued until… xigma-male

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Damn these executives really think Margot Robbie and famous IP were the sole reason the film did so well. I’m jealous that they make as much as they do to sit on their ass and say stupid shit all day.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      They’re counting on the fact that it doesn’t matter if the film is bad because her recognisability will sell anything remotely similar after Barbie.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    203 months ago

    I hope it’s just a 9.5 hr movie of a group of friends playing Monopoly in real-time. And the entire story is the groups’ past trauma told through everyone raging at each other as they’re forced to play this awful game.

    • Greenleaf [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      This inspired me to create a TV series that follows along with some friends playing “Campaign for North Africa”. It will be known as the only show with more episodes than One Piece.

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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    203 months ago

    It was originally called the Landlord Game and was created by a woman who wanted to demonstrate the evils of hoarding land. It was later bought and sold without that message. I wish I could wonder how much of the original messaging will show up.

    It’s just annoying given the way reactionary nerds moan about historical accuracy except in cases like this where they’ll put out video essays about wokeness in this movie because the cast isn’t all straight white people.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      93 months ago

      Additionally, there were two ways to play, and the point was to notice how slow infrastructure development was when you played the ‘capitalist’ way, which is the way that the game was marketed. The frustration and 9.5 hour runtime is literally intentional.

    • Vncredleader [he/him]
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      53 months ago

      The game spread through Quaker neighborhoods which developed it. Who wants to bet that the most they will get mentioned is an “easter egg” of a sterotypical quaker like the quaker oats mascot?

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    153 months ago

    I can’t wait to read the novelization for the movie adaptation to Go Fish! starring Jim “from The Office” Kasinski, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Emily “I let Jim from The Office bust in me” Blunt.

    I heard the 4 page treatment was greenlit for a $250 million budget with James Cameron attached to direct.

    • NewLeaf [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      “I just want a love like Jim and Pam 😍”

      Inappropriately creeps on her at work while she’s in another relationship only to win her over and then take her for granted while she raises both of their kids.

  • NewLeaf [he/him]
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    83 months ago

    At least Barbie made sense and had some good feminist messaging. This is what it looks like when people who make stuff don’t pay attention to what people like about what was made.

    “Hey! People like movies about toys! Let’s make more!”

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      23 months ago

      My age cohort has never not been about revisiting our childhoods. Hipster restaurants serving tv dinners on tv trays, 80s nights and covers, reboots of all the shows except Alf, we eat that shit up. I think you massively inflate the influence of the plot of Barbie on its success – so many people were guaranteed fans from the title alone, even more from title + casting. The toy thing is a gold mine. They will use it to print money for at least a decade. Sorry! will come out in July 2027.

      • @delirious_owl
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        43 months ago

        Monopoly the game was a harsh criticism of capitalism. This movie could be great.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    73 months ago

    The devil (Hollywood) cannot create, only immitate

    I would rather see Fortnite The Movie

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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    53 months ago

    Angry wokeist commies learn to appreciate that hard work and risk that goes into being a landlord; landlords learn the true meaning of friendship (without changing any behaviors). lathe-of-heaven