Pretty much anything Pixar puts out anymore. The movies are so tailored to appease and provoke the critical studies grads that pen the inevitable think pieces about the politics or moral questions raised by this or that property. But the morals and the politics can never be really good, because disney can’t make that kind of movie. One that tells the kids how it really is and how this story is brought to you by a market actor that is using this movie as an ad for their endless product lines, seeking to instill brand recognition at critical years of development to shape the nostalgia-trapped consumers of tomorrow. Endlessly rehashing the same shit like a closed circuit human centipede of ideological filth doomed to the myopia of eating and shitting the same old eaten shit waste. Knowing that Disney or Pixar are making angles on the minds and imaginations of your kids on the one hand, but then getting conned into validating the shit they spew out as having nuance and being deserving of a critical reading on the level at which it is pandering to be read is the height of annoying liberal shit. It’s like billion dollar shit posting when they craft these scripts with small moments intended to stir up controversy and discussion and the reply guy film critics duly oblige in a feedback loop increasingly amplifying into a pure tone of mediocrity.

Iron Man. The basic thesis of the first Iron Man is that billionaires will save us, everyone else is incapable or too evil to wield power. Let private individuals with lots of money solve problems.

All of them, especially the military ones

Not a movie, but I’m watching through Babylon 5 for the first time. I was a die-hard Trekkie when it first aired and avoided it on principle, but decided to give it a chance after all these years because I’m a fan of many people on its creative team, and because its popularity has endured for years. I’m about 2/3rd’s of the way through the first season.

B5 feels like it was made in response to criticisms of ST (story arcs, conflicts between main characters), although ST itself had already learned from these criticisms with DS9. And Star Trek itself is pretty lib in many respects, but B5 feels like it analyzed Trek’s writing and story structure to death, with no attention paid to its politics.

Three of the main cast are actual ambassadors, so it’s hard to take any political stories about them seriously, when they are essentially state concerns and actions embodied as individuals (the definition of liberalism).

There are occasional mentions of poverty among the low-class civilians on the station, but no analysis of the causes, and it never appears to affect the main cast.

Except for the head of security, who is just a straight-up cop, and who has been driven out of every other posting he’s had.

The station commander is basically a “good guy” for the sake of it. A strike among the actual labourers on the station is resolved when he just steps in and hands them a big chunk of the station’s military budget. I’m also getting vibes of a chosen one theme from him, but it looks like the actor left the series after the first season so who knows how that arc would have turned out.

Maybe it changes as the seasons go by. And in spite of these issues, I’m still enjoying it. But there’s no real analysis of political power dynamics, from a program that presents itself as explicitly political.

Camp X-Ray has to be up there i don’t remember much but something about Guantanamo and Harry Potter.