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Never seen someone point this out before but yeah he straight-up gets a power-up every time
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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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The scene where the 8 year old tells him how to operate the LAW rocket launcher is a classic cinema moment.
They were trying to take the audience on a journey from "this guy is a righteous badass who has been pushed too far" to "this guy was fighting across la to murder-suicide his wife and kids, he's the bad guy" but it really didn't land. Folks remember the cool violence, not the end.
Same genre of missed satire or critique as fight club, taxi driver.
Starship Troopers too. You basically can't make satire of this type without a huge proportion of the viewers going "whoah, cool shooty guns! wow! I'm just like the protagonist!"
That's not the fault of the people making the movies, that's the fault of dumbasses not being able to actually understand things and don't understand the concept of "show, don't tell". Like Fallen Down, Starship Troopers, Fight Club, Taxi Driver, etc are very heavy handed and obvious in terms of satire. They clearly show you why. The only way for these movies to be more obvious would be for them not to be satirical.
I mean, I am pretty sure the government specifically under educates people so they are easier to manipulate.