Hey -- do you like movies where the only interesting character is killed 20 minutes in and replaced with a robot?
How about movies where there's more robot women than real women? Where every character is one note? How about where violence solves violence?
Then you'd love The Machine.
Otherwise, maybe give it a pass.
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Actually violence solving violence is the solution in most American modern action adventure films. Its a classic American trope since the silent era.... there are exceptions, but they are rare or comedies. Same with much of American tv of the same ilk.
ReplyDelete90% of all westerns, 75% of noir, most pulp based films/tv, etc.
Americans are not good at negotiation, reconciliation, forgiveness, peace making etc. And we tend to degrade those who run away from physical confrontations or simply sit and wait it out or bend knee to superior force to avoid it.
Occasionally its violence against an object/place that is contested and the cause of the violence, rather than people but that's more rare than in other cultures.
Joseph Teller You're not wrong. The movies I like where violence solves violence are usually sarcastic (Robocop), or the violence begets further violence (Mad Max). This has neither of those attributes.
ReplyDeleteI'll pass on it then as well, thanks for the heads up.
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