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Fight Club is kinda a fun movie and you can read some interesting "deconstructing masculinity" vibes in it but fuck me if everyone that has a Tyler Durden avatar isn't waving a giant red chud flag.
Up there with American Psycho, Starship Troopers, and Taxi Driver as films that sketchy men with terrible media literacy love and take absolutely the wrong things from.
Reading Junji Ito Manga and deciding that climbing into your hole is for Cool Dudes.
idk if Starship Troopers has a big unironic fanbase. It's just so in-your-face with how stupid and incompetent the regime and the propaganda is.
If there wasn't before, there will be soon. Starship Troopers is back in the zeitgeist with TV shows, video games, toy lines etc. being made about it and each of these iterations is more derivative of the verhoven critique of the blatantly fascist source material.
I just watched a trailer for Starship Troopers: Extermination the other day and it has all the trappings of the Verhoven film except, it's played sincerely and the humans win in the end and that's a good thing. There are alot of people where this is/will be the dominant Starship Troopers medium for people new to the setting, and maybe I'm being uncharitable with this part, but I assume it will also color interpretation of the film (if they ever get around to watching it.)
I definitely see people on twitter praising it without seeming to realize that it is satire, but you're right that twitter is not Real Life and shouldn't be mistaken for such.
I have to be very quick to point out that, while Fight Club reached me at a very formative point in my life I didn't miss the entire fucking point
Identifying with Tyler Durden is absolutely missing the point lol
The first time I saw it I guessed the ending and got yelled at for spoiling the movie despite my being the only person there who had t seen it before. That's when I knew Tyrel Dudeman was right. We should live in a dilapidated squat and fight people occasionally.
In a weird way having a delusional self-identification with a fake Chad that lives inside a brain is like... missing the point while also somehow getting it but in the worst way possible. Pretty funny, really.
It's like being too much of a dullard for inverse psychology to work. Tobacco companies: "Don't smoke cigarettes." These guys: "Okie dokie, I won't, then." Brains so smooth you could skip them across a pond.
I thought the point was that you should blow up lenders to free people from debt