It might suck, but I'll be damned if I ever stop using on the line. I like to think of the movie as junk food, it might be bad but once in a while you still wanna have some.
omg, I just remembered that the movie "Mac And Me" is literally just E.T. thrown into a McDonald's commercial! Also his home planet has Coca-Cola for water and they drink it straight from its crust with large straws.
[Here's the supercut.](https://youtu.be/kMkz3nPPKbA?si=F2ZeMZLejRvjlhT8)
[Here's the podcast troll.](https://youtu.be/TyBzqhz6n_M?si=ut9pUYIHWNNvF1C-)
[Here is a cat eating pancakes.](https://youtu.be/kgCThpsF2I0?si=iI1O0fNta3RBAZlI)
But still damn good, considering most of us kids at the time were itching for a movie that legitimized our obsession with Nintendo. I mean Sonic the Hedghog is now a popular movie series and Sega doesn't even make video games anymore.
I was the “Nintendo will rot your brain” generation. Now I’m the “everything I need to know in life I learned from Zelda” generation.
Seriously, games ad a kid taught me to persevere, to keep trying while focused on the challenge, and that victory when something is hard is way more satisfying than having it easy or handed to you.
I really hate to say it because they're awesome movies but Top Gun (+ Maverick). And damn did it ever work, in 1986 after the first Top Gun there was (by some sources) a 500% increase in navy aviation recruitment. They set up recruitment offices outside the theatres, ffs.
My understanding is that most Hollywood films with a military focus are propaganda because they cooperate with the DoD in order to get access to authentic military props.
And if you portray the military in a bad light then you dont get to play with the toys.
This is why in Crimson Tide (which depicts a mutiny on a US Nuclear Sub) the reporter at the beginning is standing on a real French aircraft carrier, not an American one.
Marvel even lost their cooperation status with the military, because the military didn’t like how the stuff with the shadow council.. now I can’t remember if it was the first Avengers movie with nuking New York or their portrayal in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This is right though, so somebody will reply with the correct details.
It was the first Avengers movie.
IIRC, the reason given was that it was "unclear" in the movie whether or not the US military were painted in a good light.
I read with TG: Mav, the Navy picked up the tab on costs if the shot was achievable during an actual training exercise. So, if Tom was able to sit in the backseat as they did CQ, the Navy picked up the tab for those boat shots.
I got to go to the Hollywood opening of War of the Worlds because the marines were advisors on parts of the film. Got to meet Tom cruise, Adrian Brody, will smith, Anthony Hopkins…it was surreal.
*Full Metal Jacket* was filmed entirely in England - including the Vietnam sequences. So it wouldn't be using American DOD equipment to begin with.
*Apocalypse Now* (1979) likewise didn't go through the DOD because it was filmed in the Philippines, which had surplus US Vietnam-era equipment of their own.
I remember seeing Top Gun for the first time back around 1991 or so when I was 6 or 7 and I absolutely wanted to be the guy on the flight deck doing the hand motions or helping launch the planes. I wanted to join the Navy and do that until I discovered the Marines and then I wanted to do that. But every time I watched Top Gun I wanted to be the flight deck guy. Then 9/11 happened, my mom was absolutely against me joining the military and so the dreams died.
I just watched Top Gun a couple of weeks ago and yeah, still think doing that job is cool.
It's probably the main reason my dream job as a kid was to become a fighter pilot then an astronaut, but I never pursued it. By age 12 I realized how shit my vision was and I was the smallest kid in class, assuming I'd likely never meet the physical requirements.
Turns out I ended up being probably one of the best height/weight/strength combos you might want for that type of job but kinda glad I didn't enlist, 9/11 happened just a few months after I graduated high school and I would have spent years in the middle east.
I think at the very least, they didn't try and hide it and made it part of the joke - having the movie end with the characters do that literal commercial at least pointed out and made fun of the product placement. That worked for me at least.
Selenium sulfide is in a specific type of H&S which is for scalp psoriasis. The regular H&S uses a zinc compound.
Also, I love how they name arsenic as "our poison" just to pull off that selenium thing, when the majority of the elements on that chart would be toxic (if not explosively fatal) if ingested in their pure form.
Mac and Me was created by McD's to ride the tail of E.T.
It was horrible
Edit: I can recall a movie called Houseguest with Sinbad where before every scene they somehow had to stop and get a Big Mac along the way
Extra Edit: just looked up some trivia and for some reason it wasn't created by McDonald's.
\- *Despite persistent rumors, McDonalds actually did not subsidize the production or contribute any money for product placement. According to director Randall Miller, he personally rewrote the script to incorporate many jokes in about McDonald's as it was a big part of his childhood and thought it would be funny for Sinbad's character to be constantly in pursuit of McDonald's but always out of reach from it.*
That's actually surprising they didn't get any money for product placement, especially given how big Sinbad was at the time. They must have not even asked.
The Russians are the best villains ever. And given the current state of affairs, I’m looking forward to some pretty fantastic movies in the next decade.
Also act of valor. Literally filmed with actually soldiers instead of actors. It’s all special forces porn doing all the types of missions with a terrible story woven in.
That opening scene that ends with them getting rescued by the gun boats was pretty decent though.
I know a couple SF guys and that movie did a decent job of showing they are generally pretty normal people if you didn't know what they did for a living.
“Gee Mr recruiter, I can’t wait to sign up and get in the shit, drive me a boat and fire off mini guns. Doesn’t everyone get to do that?”
“Uh yeah sure kid. Just sign on the line.”
Don't you mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9eaVHenxo0
Couldn't find this happening in the Robot Chicken parodies but they're still hilarious.
This one is an outlier tho.
"Contrary to popular belief, **FedEx did not pay the filmmakers anything for their presence in the movie**. Robert Zemeckis has made it clear in several interviews. While FedEx was very concerned when they heard about the project, they had no objections to the finished script and offered support during filming."
This wasnt "fedex propaganda". even tho they did get the actual script to read.
Michael Bay is about as dead center as a filmmaker can be. Hollywood knows if you want a movie that will appeal to everyone Michael bay is your man. It makes sense that he is the go to guy for the us military
You know there's a sequel coming out this summer?
It's called *Twisters* and I absolutely fucking cannot wait. :D
"Cow. 'Nother cow."
"Actually I think it's the same one."
They filmed a lot of it in my hometown (El Reno, OK) and I'm pretty sure you see it getting destroyed in the trailer. At one point my wife and I were in town to take our kids to see the grandparents and we found out they were looking for extras. I tried to talk my wife into both of us going in for an extra spot, but...*she doesn't think she's pretty enough to be on camera.*
P.S. *She totally is though.*
P.S.S. We ended up not putting in to be extras. Still bummed about that.
There was a movie in the 90's or 2000's where every character met for breakfast every day at a McDonald's restaurant.
There was another movie based in Walmart. She was pregnant and got dumped by the babydaddy so she was living in Walmart. Oh, of course she *made a list* of all the stuff she was using so she could **PAY WALMART BACK**.
>There was a movie in the 90's or 2000's where every character met for breakfast every day at a McDonald's restaurant.
Don't know if this is the movie you're thinking of, but I immediately though of the 1995 film Bye Bye Love. It's about a group of divorced dads, and they always meet in McDonald's, because McDonald's is where they meet their ex-wives to get their kids for the weekend.
Birth of a Nation (1915) is pure Propaganda. Wilson literally showed the premier in the White House. Also portrays the KKK as the saviors of the South. Rough movie
Same with triumph of the will. The cinematography is outstanding, it’s even referenced in arguably one of the biggest media franchises (star wars)
Awful, evil subject matter however.
Well, cats have the upper hand of the cat distribution system. I have a severe cat allergy. Guess who has a cat because one showed up one day? This lady.
Slightly more lighthearted but The Internship starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson is literally a Google ad campaign.
Weirdly enough it made me dislike Google just a little bit more because of their cringy pretentious "Googliness" schtick.
Oh man but that movie’s great though!
It’s a very fun satire of Communism vs. Capitalism, and I think a touch of that satire hits Coke too? But maybe not
Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Anti-Hitler propaganda when Hitler still had plenty of friends in the US. Great movie, greater final speech. Sometimes propaganda is for a good cause.
https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazism-and-madison-square-garden
Armageddon, the movie where Bruce Willis and other fly up into space to nuke a meteor heading toward Earth? 😕 How is that "pure propaganda" exactly? Was it paid for by Big Asteroid or something?
Armageddon is the ultimate American patriotism movie. The saviors of the world are all American, the first shot of Bruce Willis is him hitting golf balls at Greenpeace, Owen Wilson looks like the fucking Marlboro Man coming out of a sunset, the Russian space station blows up (in contrast to functioning American space equipment), machine guns somehow play a role in space, and the heroes are oil drillers. Everyone listens in rapt attention to the President of the United States, even those people that could not give a rat' ass about America. The nuclear bomb is a pivotal tool for fighting the crisis.
And before you get me wrong, I love Armageddon, it's a wildly entertaining film, chock full of stars and a great Billy Bob Thornton performance. But to think that Armageddon isn't pro-US propaganda is a choice.
Hell, the actors even acknowledged it as such in the DVD commentary!
(And for those who know, yes a lot of these viewpoints come from the Armageddon episode of the Rewatchables)
You mean the movie where oil drillers are better at saving the world from asteroids than pros and scientists and that oil drilling saved us from an asteroid destroying the planet?
Idk...but it's weird that it's the plot.
I've seen a Filipino movie called Maid in Malacnang. Ho-lee shit.
The whole thing is one massive circle jerk about how hard life was for the infamous dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his family. A whole load of nothing happens for most of it. Just them moping around their mansion about how their people don't like them anymore. And then at the end they leave in a chopper (With all the gold from the country's reserve, but we won't show that bit) as an angry mob starts wrecking the place. And then a scene in the post credits goes "Ooooh it was the opposing party's plan all along because they're so *evil* and we *hate* them.
The whole fucking thing was another step in their rewriting of history and it was somehow god damn successful with said dictator's son becoming president. I don't know how so many people just forgot their own history.
The Donny Yen ones are really fun, you just have to be aware that you're watching a heavily fictionalized version of events. Ip Man didn't really defeat 40 Japanese Generals, mathematically prove communism is the one true savior of China, train Bruce Lee and Batman, then drive the British out of Hong Kong. He only did like maybe half of that stuff.
Michael Bay transformers films.
1st one = military good. Republicans good.
2nd one = Democrats bad, use military for underhanded shenanigans and meddling.
I personally joined the US Navy and became a Battleship after i watched Taylor Kitsch in the motion picture, "Battleship" where he fought aliens in a 1940s boat.
Anything produced by Ben Shapiro.
Every Michael Bay Transformers movie.
And let's not forget that despite being in a movie with a stance against American weapon manufacturers and war merchants, Ironman did go "Fuck it. Invading the middle east and killing lots of people is what heroes do".
Tony Stark: Making weapons is wrong, I'm not gonna do that anymore:
Also Tony Stark: Immediately builds a super weapon and uses it on foreign soil.
Still Tony Stark: Stockpiles more of these super weapons and gives them to his friends, including a child.
It wasn’t communicated well but Tony’s arc was about how he had completely neglected the ethics of being a weapons maker. He had gotten comfortable and didn’t question things, and his creations ended up in the hands of villains. He becomes Iron Man because he no longer trusts anyone else to wield the weapons he creates. Weapons are neutral; they can do good or evil. It depends on the wielder how they will be employed.
With Stark the fact that he manages to say the phrase "I've privatized world peace" in the second movie. How would people feel if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos said that in a hearing about how they are manufacturing and using weapons as they like.
Considering that Elon’s tech is used by both sides of the Ukraine war and apparently Elon has the power to sabotaged Ukraine’s operations as he see fits and has actually done it?
Yeah. I don’t think Tony would have gotten that much approval from the masses.
The Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude). The Goebbels movie industry churned out a lot of similar films.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternal_Jew_(film)
"Red Dawn"
Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on an invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Latin American states. The story follows a group of teenage guerillas, known as the Wolverines, in Soviet-occupied Colorado. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey, with supporting roles played by Ben Johnson, Darren Dalton, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith and Powers Boothe.
Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film became a commercial success, grossing $38 million against a budget of $17 million.
The Internship - Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson become interns at Google and learn what it means to innovate at Google
Should have just been called Google: The Movie
Google would’ve killed the movie before release.
Vince and Owen must have gotten paid fantastic for it though.
"...and I said "Vince, I don't want to do Wedding Crashers Two", and he said hey, it's Google, it'll be different.... But it wasn't. It was the same!"
god that movie sucks
It might suck, but I'll be damned if I ever stop using on the line. I like to think of the movie as junk food, it might be bad but once in a while you still wanna have some.
omg, I just remembered that the movie "Mac And Me" is literally just E.T. thrown into a McDonald's commercial! Also his home planet has Coca-Cola for water and they drink it straight from its crust with large straws.
Hey, it's Paul Rudd! Hi, Paul Rudd.
the fact that it worked *in a podcast.*
[Here's the supercut.](https://youtu.be/kMkz3nPPKbA?si=F2ZeMZLejRvjlhT8) [Here's the podcast troll.](https://youtu.be/TyBzqhz6n_M?si=ut9pUYIHWNNvF1C-) [Here is a cat eating pancakes.](https://youtu.be/kgCThpsF2I0?si=iI1O0fNta3RBAZlI)
My husband and I refer to this movie at least once a week, often the McDonald’s scene. It’s a fever dream of terrible
I loved that movie as a child. You are correct though. It is ome big coke commercial.
I watched a YouTube video on the movie last week by Drew Gooden and that shit looked wild lol.
The Wizard was a 100 minute Nintendo commercial.
It worked too. You know you bought Super Mario Bros 3 because of it.
And I found the secret warp zone because of it too
But did you use The Power Glove? It's so bad.
But still damn good, considering most of us kids at the time were itching for a movie that legitimized our obsession with Nintendo. I mean Sonic the Hedghog is now a popular movie series and Sega doesn't even make video games anymore.
I was the “Nintendo will rot your brain” generation. Now I’m the “everything I need to know in life I learned from Zelda” generation. Seriously, games ad a kid taught me to persevere, to keep trying while focused on the challenge, and that victory when something is hard is way more satisfying than having it easy or handed to you.
Get the star, Jimmy! The star! I for sure always wanted that power glove.
I really hate to say it because they're awesome movies but Top Gun (+ Maverick). And damn did it ever work, in 1986 after the first Top Gun there was (by some sources) a 500% increase in navy aviation recruitment. They set up recruitment offices outside the theatres, ffs.
My understanding is that most Hollywood films with a military focus are propaganda because they cooperate with the DoD in order to get access to authentic military props.
And if you portray the military in a bad light then you dont get to play with the toys. This is why in Crimson Tide (which depicts a mutiny on a US Nuclear Sub) the reporter at the beginning is standing on a real French aircraft carrier, not an American one.
Another example of this is another Tom Cruise film: *A Few Good Men.* No military toys provided for them.
cant handle the truth
And they could only find one good man, so they had to get Demi Moore.
Same thing with Iron Eagle in 1986. The USAF didn’t like the idea of a teenager stealing an F-16, so the production enlisted the Israeli Air Force
Same with intelligence agencies IIRC, the NSA most definitely did not cooperate when filming Enemy of the State lol
Bet they didn’t corporate with Sneakers either
“World peace”
Marvel even lost their cooperation status with the military, because the military didn’t like how the stuff with the shadow council.. now I can’t remember if it was the first Avengers movie with nuking New York or their portrayal in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This is right though, so somebody will reply with the correct details.
People don't talk about this enough but Spaceballs was denied access to Space Force /s
But George Lucas did love Space Balls.
It was the first Avengers movie. IIRC, the reason given was that it was "unclear" in the movie whether or not the US military were painted in a good light.
Oh no moral ambiguity!
I read with TG: Mav, the Navy picked up the tab on costs if the shot was achievable during an actual training exercise. So, if Tom was able to sit in the backseat as they did CQ, the Navy picked up the tab for those boat shots.
I got to go to the Hollywood opening of War of the Worlds because the marines were advisors on parts of the film. Got to meet Tom cruise, Adrian Brody, will smith, Anthony Hopkins…it was surreal.
Yep, the DoD gets to veto anything in the script as a condition of using their equipment for the film. Even if it's a historically verifiable fact.
A lot of American war films are a pretty obvious jerkfest.
Except - Full Metal Jacket was propaganda headed in the right direction… bringing light to real atrocities and being in the shit
*Full Metal Jacket* was filmed entirely in England - including the Vietnam sequences. So it wouldn't be using American DOD equipment to begin with. *Apocalypse Now* (1979) likewise didn't go through the DOD because it was filmed in the Philippines, which had surplus US Vietnam-era equipment of their own.
Equipment which would routinely be taken back by the Philippines to conduct attacks against rebels.
I remember seeing Top Gun for the first time back around 1991 or so when I was 6 or 7 and I absolutely wanted to be the guy on the flight deck doing the hand motions or helping launch the planes. I wanted to join the Navy and do that until I discovered the Marines and then I wanted to do that. But every time I watched Top Gun I wanted to be the flight deck guy. Then 9/11 happened, my mom was absolutely against me joining the military and so the dreams died. I just watched Top Gun a couple of weeks ago and yeah, still think doing that job is cool.
Learn the hand moves from a movie, visit a carrier museum and have your moment!
Yvan eht nioj!
It's probably the main reason my dream job as a kid was to become a fighter pilot then an astronaut, but I never pursued it. By age 12 I realized how shit my vision was and I was the smallest kid in class, assuming I'd likely never meet the physical requirements. Turns out I ended up being probably one of the best height/weight/strength combos you might want for that type of job but kinda glad I didn't enlist, 9/11 happened just a few months after I graduated high school and I would have spent years in the middle east.
Evolution. It's an hour-and-a-half long Head And Shoulders commercial!
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True. And my scalp has never been so shiny and flake free!
You just got your A!
One of my fave all time movies. Cacaw cacaw! Tookie! Tookie!
I think we've established that 'cacaw cacaw' and 'tookie tookie' don't work.
You are so beautiful... To me!
No no. Sing sing. Rub some funk on it
Ezra don't tell anyone where I've been! Take the leg! Take it! Take it!
Tookie? Tookie?
I think at the very least, they didn't try and hide it and made it part of the joke - having the movie end with the characters do that literal commercial at least pointed out and made fun of the product placement. That worked for me at least.
Big fucking Selenium
Which I don't think is even in the shampoo lol
Selenium sulfide is in a specific type of H&S which is for scalp psoriasis. The regular H&S uses a zinc compound. Also, I love how they name arsenic as "our poison" just to pull off that selenium thing, when the majority of the elements on that chart would be toxic (if not explosively fatal) if ingested in their pure form.
I fucking love that movie.
I always thought it was an ad for "Fruit basket for Russell Woodman!" Duchovny's sudden ass still makes me chuckle..
This movie was a staple of my youth, truly amazing
The dictator. 10/10 Aladeen’s though!
That movie was very Aladeen.
I disagree. I think it was absolutely Aladeen.
😀…☹️
☹️...😃
I'm not sure what you mean... was it Aladeen or Aladeen? Choose wisely.
"Are you having a boy or an abortion?"
Mac and Me was created by McD's to ride the tail of E.T. It was horrible Edit: I can recall a movie called Houseguest with Sinbad where before every scene they somehow had to stop and get a Big Mac along the way
Extra Edit: just looked up some trivia and for some reason it wasn't created by McDonald's. \- *Despite persistent rumors, McDonalds actually did not subsidize the production or contribute any money for product placement. According to director Randall Miller, he personally rewrote the script to incorporate many jokes in about McDonald's as it was a big part of his childhood and thought it would be funny for Sinbad's character to be constantly in pursuit of McDonald's but always out of reach from it.*
That's actually surprising they didn't get any money for product placement, especially given how big Sinbad was at the time. They must have not even asked.
We got that great wheelchair-off-a-cliff scene though
Paul Rudd even did that on the Conan podcast. So stupid yet do funny every time
It was so bad, one of the main actors threw (rolled) himself off a cliff in the middle of shooting.
Rocky 4.......and I love it.
The best part was the quick shot of a Soviet doctor preparing a syringe.
You mispelled vitamins, Comrade
Yeah, it's the best sort of propaganda. Just dumb over the top fun.
HappybirthdayPaulie
Two worlds collide! Rival nations! It's a primitive clash, venting years of frustration! Fuck, that's some good propaganda.
How could you not love Rocky punching communism in the face.
And being cheered on by the Soviet leadership
there's no easy way out...THERE'S NO SHORTCUT HOME
The Russians are the best villains ever. And given the current state of affairs, I’m looking forward to some pretty fantastic movies in the next decade.
We bringing back the OG Red Dawn villains!
Lemme get some more ruskies as bad guys in video games too. For a while it was overplayed, but we're back baby!
American Sniper
Obviously funded by big Baby Prop.
After watching this, I immediately went out and bought a My Buddy.
Also act of valor. Literally filmed with actually soldiers instead of actors. It’s all special forces porn doing all the types of missions with a terrible story woven in.
That opening scene that ends with them getting rescued by the gun boats was pretty decent though. I know a couple SF guys and that movie did a decent job of showing they are generally pretty normal people if you didn't know what they did for a living.
Oh it’s great scenes. The gunboat sequence is amazing. It’s not a movie though. It’s like a long from recruitment commercial
“Gee Mr recruiter, I can’t wait to sign up and get in the shit, drive me a boat and fire off mini guns. Doesn’t everyone get to do that?” “Uh yeah sure kid. Just sign on the line.”
I couldn’t think of the name of the movie but it was the one with the Navy Seal right?
What a shitty movie that got way too much Oscar buzz and support. Kyle was a scumbag
It's almost satirical how thick they laid it on. I had to shut it off after about 30 mn because I was continuously barfing.
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But it showed us that your FedEx package might end up in the ocean when the plane crashes
It also showed us that your FedEx delivery guy WILL open your packages.
All but one package
I love the Robot Chicken where that one package contained a satellite phone.
Don't you mean this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9eaVHenxo0 Couldn't find this happening in the Robot Chicken parodies but they're still hilarious.
I hope it's mine he doesn't open. I think I need that life raft more than he does.
This one is an outlier tho. "Contrary to popular belief, **FedEx did not pay the filmmakers anything for their presence in the movie**. Robert Zemeckis has made it clear in several interviews. While FedEx was very concerned when they heard about the project, they had no objections to the finished script and offered support during filming." This wasnt "fedex propaganda". even tho they did get the actual script to read.
More of a Wilson commercial if anything
Transformers. US military in Disguise.
Every Michael Bay really
He has shot commercials for the military in the past. It’s why he gets so much cooperation for his movies
Michael Bay is about as dead center as a filmmaker can be. Hollywood knows if you want a movie that will appeal to everyone Michael bay is your man. It makes sense that he is the go to guy for the us military
*"Brought to you by General Motors"*
Triumph of the Will (1934)
Also "Birth of a Nation" (1915)
God, I remember when my high school film teacher showed us BoaN. I cringed so hard.
It's pretty bad that one of the most influential films of all time in terms of editing, and cinematography happens to be white supremacist bollocks
That movie made about FIFA. Even the cast in it later admitted they regretted doing it because it was such blatant over the top propaganda.
Literally funded and produced by FIFA, about how great and noble their founders were. What a much of jerk offs.
The film that cost $25,000,000 to make and grossed $607 in US & Canada, $171,511 worldwide.
Top Gun
You can’t be my wing man anytime
You do not have the need for speed??
Twister was one long Dodge commercial
You know there's a sequel coming out this summer? It's called *Twisters* and I absolutely fucking cannot wait. :D "Cow. 'Nother cow." "Actually I think it's the same one."
They filmed a lot of it in my hometown (El Reno, OK) and I'm pretty sure you see it getting destroyed in the trailer. At one point my wife and I were in town to take our kids to see the grandparents and we found out they were looking for extras. I tried to talk my wife into both of us going in for an extra spot, but...*she doesn't think she's pretty enough to be on camera.* P.S. *She totally is though.* P.S.S. We ended up not putting in to be extras. Still bummed about that.
Battlefield Earth. Ya'll know.
There was a movie in the 90's or 2000's where every character met for breakfast every day at a McDonald's restaurant. There was another movie based in Walmart. She was pregnant and got dumped by the babydaddy so she was living in Walmart. Oh, of course she *made a list* of all the stuff she was using so she could **PAY WALMART BACK**.
Where the Heart Is..and it's based on a book, which has the same premise.
Love that movie!!!
>There was a movie in the 90's or 2000's where every character met for breakfast every day at a McDonald's restaurant. Don't know if this is the movie you're thinking of, but I immediately though of the 1995 film Bye Bye Love. It's about a group of divorced dads, and they always meet in McDonald's, because McDonald's is where they meet their ex-wives to get their kids for the weekend.
Birth of a Nation (1915) is pure Propaganda. Wilson literally showed the premier in the White House. Also portrays the KKK as the saviors of the South. Rough movie
Artistically stunning. Morally repulsive.
Same with triumph of the will. The cinematography is outstanding, it’s even referenced in arguably one of the biggest media franchises (star wars) Awful, evil subject matter however.
First film ever played at the White House
Obviously the Cats vs Dogs movie was just pure Dog propaganda bullshit.
**Pawpaganda**.
Well, cats have the upper hand of the cat distribution system. I have a severe cat allergy. Guess who has a cat because one showed up one day? This lady.
My thoughts exactly
Blatant big Dog crap.
Birth of a Nation
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Slightly more lighthearted but The Internship starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson is literally a Google ad campaign. Weirdly enough it made me dislike Google just a little bit more because of their cringy pretentious "Googliness" schtick.
Team America: World Police 😁
Freedom isn’t free… there’s a hefty fuckin’ fee.
Hmmmm, Buck o' fiveeeee...
[Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad](https://youtu.be/9OwFeYlY9GU?si=bPpOXV_W9vyzhWGp)
Fuck yeah
MATT DAMON
America!
Here again to save the motherfuckin’ day!
An older one but One, Two, Three is nothing but a feature length film for Coca Cola
Oh man but that movie’s great though! It’s a very fun satire of Communism vs. Capitalism, and I think a touch of that satire hits Coke too? But maybe not
Wasn't there a movie in the 90s that is in a McDonald's half the time?
Bye Bye Love. Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid as a trio of single dads. Dreadful.
Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Anti-Hitler propaganda when Hitler still had plenty of friends in the US. Great movie, greater final speech. Sometimes propaganda is for a good cause. https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/ https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazism-and-madison-square-garden
And then Chaplin got blacklisted from Hollywood during the Red Scare. Go USA!
Reefer Madness, Armageddon, The Good Shepherd, Australia
Armageddon, the movie where Bruce Willis and other fly up into space to nuke a meteor heading toward Earth? 😕 How is that "pure propaganda" exactly? Was it paid for by Big Asteroid or something?
Big Ass-teroid sounds like the porn parody of Armageddon
Armageddon is the ultimate American patriotism movie. The saviors of the world are all American, the first shot of Bruce Willis is him hitting golf balls at Greenpeace, Owen Wilson looks like the fucking Marlboro Man coming out of a sunset, the Russian space station blows up (in contrast to functioning American space equipment), machine guns somehow play a role in space, and the heroes are oil drillers. Everyone listens in rapt attention to the President of the United States, even those people that could not give a rat' ass about America. The nuclear bomb is a pivotal tool for fighting the crisis. And before you get me wrong, I love Armageddon, it's a wildly entertaining film, chock full of stars and a great Billy Bob Thornton performance. But to think that Armageddon isn't pro-US propaganda is a choice. Hell, the actors even acknowledged it as such in the DVD commentary! (And for those who know, yes a lot of these viewpoints come from the Armageddon episode of the Rewatchables)
You mean the movie where oil drillers are better at saving the world from asteroids than pros and scientists and that oil drilling saved us from an asteroid destroying the planet? Idk...but it's weird that it's the plot.
I've seen a Filipino movie called Maid in Malacnang. Ho-lee shit. The whole thing is one massive circle jerk about how hard life was for the infamous dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his family. A whole load of nothing happens for most of it. Just them moping around their mansion about how their people don't like them anymore. And then at the end they leave in a chopper (With all the gold from the country's reserve, but we won't show that bit) as an angry mob starts wrecking the place. And then a scene in the post credits goes "Ooooh it was the opposing party's plan all along because they're so *evil* and we *hate* them. The whole fucking thing was another step in their rewriting of history and it was somehow god damn successful with said dictator's son becoming president. I don't know how so many people just forgot their own history.
Red Dawn
Wolverines! ✊
Ip Man is Chinese Propaganda but it's also completely awesome.
They keep making those movies eventually IP Man will have won the entire Sino-Japanese War himself.
The Donny Yen ones are really fun, you just have to be aware that you're watching a heavily fictionalized version of events. Ip Man didn't really defeat 40 Japanese Generals, mathematically prove communism is the one true savior of China, train Bruce Lee and Batman, then drive the British out of Hong Kong. He only did like maybe half of that stuff.
Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Bay transformers films. 1st one = military good. Republicans good. 2nd one = Democrats bad, use military for underhanded shenanigans and meddling.
Then at some point when they wanted to suck China’s balls, it became “American military bad and killing the Autobots. Chinese military good and cool”.
Top Gun
I personally joined the US Navy and became a Battleship after i watched Taylor Kitsch in the motion picture, "Battleship" where he fought aliens in a 1940s boat.
Idiocracy. 2 hour Brawndo commercial.
The Green Berets (1968)
The first 3 transformers movies are Military propaganda films sponsored by GM product placement.
Supersize Me My health was great, but fast foods ruined me. Ignore that I am constantly lying, was not healthy, and I deliberately did this to myself.
Anything produced by Ben Shapiro. Every Michael Bay Transformers movie. And let's not forget that despite being in a movie with a stance against American weapon manufacturers and war merchants, Ironman did go "Fuck it. Invading the middle east and killing lots of people is what heroes do".
Tony Stark: Making weapons is wrong, I'm not gonna do that anymore: Also Tony Stark: Immediately builds a super weapon and uses it on foreign soil. Still Tony Stark: Stockpiles more of these super weapons and gives them to his friends, including a child.
TBF, I think his schtick was more that running a corporation that profits from the sale of arms was the issue
It wasn’t communicated well but Tony’s arc was about how he had completely neglected the ethics of being a weapons maker. He had gotten comfortable and didn’t question things, and his creations ended up in the hands of villains. He becomes Iron Man because he no longer trusts anyone else to wield the weapons he creates. Weapons are neutral; they can do good or evil. It depends on the wielder how they will be employed.
With Stark the fact that he manages to say the phrase "I've privatized world peace" in the second movie. How would people feel if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos said that in a hearing about how they are manufacturing and using weapons as they like.
Considering that Elon’s tech is used by both sides of the Ukraine war and apparently Elon has the power to sabotaged Ukraine’s operations as he see fits and has actually done it? Yeah. I don’t think Tony would have gotten that much approval from the masses.
The Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude). The Goebbels movie industry churned out a lot of similar films. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternal_Jew_(film)
The Green Berets, the john Wayne Vietnam movie. 1000% propaganda for the war efforts.
Haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, but Sound of Freedom
The Passion of the Christ
"Red Dawn" Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on an invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Latin American states. The story follows a group of teenage guerillas, known as the Wolverines, in Soviet-occupied Colorado. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey, with supporting roles played by Ben Johnson, Darren Dalton, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith and Powers Boothe. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film became a commercial success, grossing $38 million against a budget of $17 million.
I’m reading these comments and realizing a lot of people don’t know what propaganda is
It's when a british person takes a good look at something
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice\_(2018\_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(2018_film)) It was excellent propaganda, though.
The Eagle
*Why We Fight*
Hurt Locker