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cimoreneWax's third week of vacation is starting now. We have done a lot of the little things that don't get done, like some errands and baking and started (not finished) catching up on laundry. That's fine, I guess. I guess it'll... get done sometime... idk.
We watched Robocop next from my list of silly 80s movies. It was very dumb, but it wasn't what I was expecting at all. That was funny. Not exactly fun, I guess? Point Break and Top Gun were the only two to live up to their iconic status so far, but there's still Blade Runner and Interview with the Vampire on the list, among others. Interestingly, Wax remembered Robocop being anti-cop, but it's not intentionally anti-cop. It is showing a future dystopia and it's very much against the privatization and militarization of policing, with capitalism very much coming off the worse for wear. It shows the ordinary cops being pretty terrible too, mostly not in a very realistic way - they're wearing body armor and are ridiculously violent, but the armor isn't as complete or effective as modern riot gear, ironically, and their ridiculous violence, far from being shown up as out of proportion, is kind of... less violent than the criminals. All the crime we're shown is stereotypical semi-petty ćrime straight from the 80s reaganite racist narratives about inner cities, but almost all of it is perpetrated by white guys who are apparently just permanently tweaking, except their behavior is both too bad to be explained by drugs (too coherently sadistic and psychopathic) and too good to be explained by drugs (their coordination and driving and planning ability and... stuff). They're just sort of weirdly inherently evil not-exactly-human bad guys who simply are bad in every overacted way they can think of all at once because they're just naturally bad, like fantasy creature villains, except they're a collection of random teenagers and Kurtwood Smith who is clearly an evil accountant although he's also a hitman, a coke kingpin micromanaging every stage of the enterprise, and apparently now a mafia boss who thinks he can executive level crime boss every facet of the city's nightlife going forward, and a single black guy to show they aren't racist against black people, the villains are just all white while being suspiciously anti-black stereotypes because of Reasons. The police chief is also black, and we see him prove he's a hardass in the introduction when they inadvertently show the cops are shitty and all stupid while attempting to show that they're genuine well-meaning salt of the earth types, but then later he goes easy on the white lady cop and says that cops can't strike because of their public duty, so he's obviously meant to be a good guy.
Anyway, there are two sequels I'm not gonna watch at all, but they probably address none of these issues.
Also my os crashed last night so I need to reinstall. I hope it's not my ssd - that's where the boot loader was. It doesn't seem to be a common issue. I'm just going to install a different ubuntu-based os alongside it so I can go in and at least save my settings.
We watched Robocop next from my list of silly 80s movies. It was very dumb, but it wasn't what I was expecting at all. That was funny. Not exactly fun, I guess? Point Break and Top Gun were the only two to live up to their iconic status so far, but there's still Blade Runner and Interview with the Vampire on the list, among others. Interestingly, Wax remembered Robocop being anti-cop, but it's not intentionally anti-cop. It is showing a future dystopia and it's very much against the privatization and militarization of policing, with capitalism very much coming off the worse for wear. It shows the ordinary cops being pretty terrible too, mostly not in a very realistic way - they're wearing body armor and are ridiculously violent, but the armor isn't as complete or effective as modern riot gear, ironically, and their ridiculous violence, far from being shown up as out of proportion, is kind of... less violent than the criminals. All the crime we're shown is stereotypical semi-petty ćrime straight from the 80s reaganite racist narratives about inner cities, but almost all of it is perpetrated by white guys who are apparently just permanently tweaking, except their behavior is both too bad to be explained by drugs (too coherently sadistic and psychopathic) and too good to be explained by drugs (their coordination and driving and planning ability and... stuff). They're just sort of weirdly inherently evil not-exactly-human bad guys who simply are bad in every overacted way they can think of all at once because they're just naturally bad, like fantasy creature villains, except they're a collection of random teenagers and Kurtwood Smith who is clearly an evil accountant although he's also a hitman, a coke kingpin micromanaging every stage of the enterprise, and apparently now a mafia boss who thinks he can executive level crime boss every facet of the city's nightlife going forward, and a single black guy to show they aren't racist against black people, the villains are just all white while being suspiciously anti-black stereotypes because of Reasons. The police chief is also black, and we see him prove he's a hardass in the introduction when they inadvertently show the cops are shitty and all stupid while attempting to show that they're genuine well-meaning salt of the earth types, but then later he goes easy on the white lady cop and says that cops can't strike because of their public duty, so he's obviously meant to be a good guy.
Anyway, there are two sequels I'm not gonna watch at all, but they probably address none of these issues.
Also my os crashed last night so I need to reinstall. I hope it's not my ssd - that's where the boot loader was. It doesn't seem to be a common issue. I'm just going to install a different ubuntu-based os alongside it so I can go in and at least save my settings.
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Date: 30 Aug 2021 02:43 pm (UTC)I vaguely remember Robocop as I saw it in real time.
Point Break was so weirdly amazing.
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Date: 31 Aug 2021 02:54 pm (UTC)