Session #1: From the Ashes (60,455 views)

Anything that actively uses actual U.S. military vehicles, weapons, etc has worked with the U.S. military on messaging and has been approved by them. It's part of the deal for companies to get to use those things. That's why so much of it is basically propaganda that doesn't have anything genuinely critical of the U.S. military.

Why would Marvel movies spread chinese military propaganda?

Update: it’s sunny

But I’m leaving again today

It’s raining again.

And videogame fans are way worse,

Video game adaptations tend to suck hard, but mostly because nobody's managed to take the right approach. Closest actually good adaptation I can think of is the first Mortal Kombat film (not the second). Probably the most popular "adaptation" has been the Jovovich Resident Evil films, but those were so disrespectful to the source material and so focused on promoting Jovovich that they may as well not count.

And then there's Uwe Boll. Aside from his films sucking, I remember claims people made over a decade ago that he purposely made his films bad because German laws meant the government would offset flops made in Germany. I don't know how true (if true) that actually is though. Been a looooong time since I saw it.

There's a lot of potential to video game adaptations if done right. Though when they're done right, whoever makes it will have to put up with GGers whining that it doesn't star a straight white man banging a harem of women wearing dental floss.

I'm not getting my blood up over Marvel movies hyping up the US military because that's been a staple in all US action movies (particularly the general audience, summer blockbuster type) for decades now. salarta is right in that studios contractually have to do that. There are also monetary incentives from the US government to do it. (The Transformers movies still hold the trophy for the most hamfisted application.) You'll only ever see critical portrayals of the US military in like, dramas, documentaries, or sometimes comedies that deign to go there.

Anyway, let's not pretend Golden Age comics weren't preaching truth, justice, and the American way. Reproducing nationalist propaganda in media ain't new. Hell, reinforcing standing societal hierarchies and values (the ones held by those at the top of said hierarchy) ain't new.

On a completely different topic, I am overjoyed that the Game of Thrones series finale was unsatisfying and disappointing! Doubly overjoyed that I'm finally free of that show! I survived Mad Men, I survived Breaking Bad, and now I've survived this!