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Luke finally saw JOKER, which leads us into a free-flowing conversation about blockbusters.

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Tony Mines

Genuinely disappointing that Luke quite liked Joker. Personally, I'm firmly in the "it's irresponsible and dumb" camp, in the sense that I think it matters whom is speaking if a piece of media is proposing to tackle certain real world subjects. I would have skipped the movie myself, but a usually trusted and politically astute friend described it as having "a lot critical to say about the rentier class" and tried it purely on that recommendation. I did not find said analysis to be present. I mean I squinted and everything, but I couldn't find it. The hell am I paying a subscription for if not to have a disembodied voice confirm for me that my friends are wrong!?

Borat Madingus

Hearing Luke's thoughts on Fury Road being great because the mythos isn't over explained makes me want to hear you guys review Evangelion. That's a series/film with a huge mythos that is explained with so little dialogue, and leaves people either researching Kabbalah or Freud by the end of it. Also made in the halcyon days of the end of history, and explores how technocratic bureaucracy will survive the apocalypse, so tangentially (maybe) related to the M&U central thesis.

Elias Brander

Well Evngelions quiet dystopic feeling is mirroring Japans own end of history, in the massive exonomic stagnation they were experiencing. Also its just very good, but still a lot to make fun of, pretty ideal.