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  They Live 1988

  ★★★★ Added 1

  Happy that I finally watched this classic anti-capitalist film. There are aspects of this movie that seem cheesy, of course, and for someone who is coming at it from a left-wing perspective these parts can appear as turn-off. But I think the various stereotypical action/thriller motifs are ultimately a good thing. They bring the film further away from the typical didactic trappings that left media finds itself stuck in. From a cerebral point of view, these elements appear irrational and…

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  Prospect 2014

  ★★★★★ Added

  Pretty shocked that I liked the movie. Was expecting the opposite. The idea of a rugged, American-colonial style space world is what made this. The lack of character development felt a bit more real to me than anything else (major complaint about the film). It was a feature, not a flaw, given the dog-eat-dog context. What kind of personal development does one expect under lumpen-colonial conditions anyways? The demand for personal introspection in space is a false one, and I was glad to see it rejected here.

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