The worst thing is when someone who is a skeptic but still says like “I don’t like North Korea but a lot of the stories they tell about it are made up” and not once do they think “What even are the reasons I don’t like DPRK, and how many of them are made up?”
Like, they reject the propaganda but still come to the same conclusion the propaganda wanted them to reach anyway.
I always liked the Plinkett review of Crystal Skull for this reason. Stoklasa points out that both sides were doing what they believed would allow their ideology to win out in the Cold War.
He points out that the Soviet’s actions in the movie basically mirror the American’s, especially when Indiana Jones is actually harassed by the FBI for allegedly being a spy.
He points out that the scariness of a an alien mind control device is kind of lessened when one of the first things we see in the film is a America’s superweapon; an atomic bomb.
The lack of real conflict and consequences hurts the movie.
There’s also something of a “fuck you” about Americans making a film about the Soviets doing mind control doing the Cold War.
Anti-Chapo people once again proving themselves to be one of the most deranged segments of Twitter.
Most of the time they don’t even understand what they’re trying to say.
It’s called Mainstream media