Fox Business: LEGO Movie "Anti-Capitalist"

[Cid Silverwing]

Exactly the same reaction they had to that Muppets movie, the one concerning some Hollywood dude with remorse or something?

 

[Magmarock]

Wow Fox news is pretty amazing in just how insane they are. I doubt a news program like this could exist anywhere else in the world. Maybe there are worse but I don't know and I don't want to know.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they didn't actually *WATCH* the movie. Certain *REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED*, it's not anti corporation.

It's Fox News. They employ 2.7 million people just to think of ways to find liberal bias in everything.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

And I suppose every form of entertainment that features an evil corporation is anti-capitalist. Things like Aliens, Resident Evil, and Superman.

Well, of course.

Come on, Canadamus! Get with the times, man!

Well then I guess it's time to dust off the torches and pitch forks.

 

[Something Amyss]

Granted that Fox News and Fox Broadcasting are separate divisions...but maybe these people should take a look at their own productions before bitching about other's work.


Best Simpsons character by far. The early seasons really wouldn't have the been same without the subtle and sometimes less than subtle anti-capitalist tendencies.

You realise they ***** about Matt Groenig, right? And that his own work has gotten him in trouble with the network?

However, as Foxs first love is money, Newscorp would run a show about polygamist Muslim lesbians teaching kids to blow up buildings in the Bible Belt if it'd make them money.

 

[Something Amyss]

Well then I guess it's time to dust off the torches and pitch forks.

You're not thinking Fox News enough. It's second amendment remedies!

 

[Vigormortis]

Well then I guess it's time to dust off the torches and pitch forks.

And I'll bring the sign boards and megaphone.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well then I guess it's time to dust off the torches and pitch forks.

You're not thinking Fox News enough. It's second amendment remedies!

Maybe we should organize a mass burning then?

 

[Living Contradiction]

HAAAAAhahahahahaaaaa!

Fox News attacking a movie made at Fox Studios. The Orobouros is finally eating itself! Yay!

Oh, and Fox? Not that you care but the movie isn't anti-capitalist. The Pope is anti-capitalist. It's important not to confuse the two.

 

[Something Amyss]

Maybe we should organize a mass burning then?

Nonononono, my friend, we need guns! Lots of guns! And we need to say we will use them! But if a shooting happens, we must also say we never intended to actually harm anyone with the guns we were threatening to use. We were just going to....Use them to build bridges!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Maybe we should organize a mass burning then?

Nonononono, my friend, we need guns! Lots of guns! And we need to say we will use them! But if a shooting happens, we must also say we never intended to actually harm anyone with the guns we were threatening to use. We were just going to....Use them to build bridges!

Well we could bring guns to the mass burning.

 

[Something Amyss]

Well we could bring guns to the mass burning.

As long as no guns are harmed in the burning. That would be like slavery[footnote]Before anyone comes after me, keep in mind I am mocking Fox talking points, not stating my beliefs.[/footnote].

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well we could bring guns to the mass burning.

As long as no guns are harmed in the burning. That would be like slavery[footnote]Before anyone comes after me, keep in mind I am mocking Fox talking points, not stating my beliefs.[/footnote].

No no, of course not. We'd be burning the anti-capitalist propaganda.

 

[General Winter]

While the talking points in this article are ridiculous, there is something to be said for CEOs as villains. It isn't anti-capitalist, but it is extremely lazy and has been done so many times before. No, not every CEO is a saint. But not every CEO is some criminal out to exploit everybody either.


But no, this movie is not anti-capitalist. I knew that when I was in the store today and saw Lego Movie tie in merchandise. I know this is somewhat of a tangent, but does a 90 minute commercial for a product need a tie in product? Am I the only one who finds this ridiculous?
http://www.lego.com/en-gb/movie/products/products/

 

[Norithics]

Poor CEOs. Maybe they'll be able to comfort themselves by skiing down their enormous mountains of money.

 

[Erttheking]

Ok seriously. It must be getting to the point where every Republican who isn't a nutjob (In other words, most of them) must be embarrassed to be associated with this station.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I want to know if these news anchors really believe the things they're saying. I really do. I can't imagine that these people are that far removed from reality that they fully believe this. If they do, then I think they only need to look in the mirror for indoctrination.

 

[Dagda Mor]

Fox actually started out kind of reasonable, but then it went straight on down to stupidtown. Keep trying, guys.

 

[Racecarlock]

Dude, one of the heroes is a corporation owner who happens to be so rich that he can manufacture gadgets and vehicles shaped like bats.

Do you need the koch brothers getting a blowjob in the film before you stop saying stupid crap?

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I wonder why FOX didn't bring up that

Spoiler

Lord Business was also running a police state using propaganda, rewritten history, and rigged elections to keep absolute power.

They must have already met their daily hypocrisy quota. Also, I know this is FOX Business so they're most concerned with building a saintly image of our corporate overlords but the movie overall doesn't seem to have any economic or political ideology behind it. It satirizes counter-culture and mainstream culture in equal measure. It even counteracts the main message (unstructured creativity is more fun) by showing that orderly following instructions is more practical and effective.