Post by @fraggle@social.coop

2026-08-10 17:46 UTC

@thisislieven@c.im @jonathanreed@techhub.social @BenRiceM@mastodon.social I recommend checking out the top grossing movies for last year. It's almost entirely sequels, reboots, remakes at this point. I'm talking 18/20 of the top movies last year. And one of the two that wasn't was the fucking Minecraft movie. If you go back over the past few years it's been the same pattern for over a decade. I wonder sometimes if we're not thinking enough about the connection between that and politics. Like is it surprising we end up with backwards facing right wing political movements if all our culture is backwards facing, retelling the same old stories from decades ago. Meanwhile the biggest movie this year is an adaptation of a story from almost 3000 years ago

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@thisislieven@c.im 2026-08-10 17:57

@fraggle@social.coop I'm well aware and it's just maddening. In a sense all these movies based on video games are also a reboot? Just in a new format. That's not always a bad thing but Minecraft is not exactly high culture? Not critiquing it as a game but not sure it's worthy of other formats (it's also infiltrating theme parks now). There's a link between culture, politics, corporate, media - whatever else. I keep having a whiplash because we are regressing at rapid speed but there's also a movement that says it's been enough (hence the arrival of fediverse for a start). The question is what will win and I fear it won't be the right side. @jonathanreed@techhub.social @BenRiceM@mastodon.social

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