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Fried Chicken: Jan 9, 2011; Don't fry me, I'm no chicken!

Samurai Sanders posted:

Huh, why did they do that? Does it promote becoming a Marine in some way I didn't understand? All I got out of it is that you will get some very specialized training, wait years to use it, and then lose your chance and never get another.

Also I seem to remember them talking about another Marine who had become so addicted to masturbation that they had to send him home. It seems like a VERY odd movie for the Marines to promote.

edit: I guess if you consider ALL of that to be merely subtext that most of the audience won't see...but that's just getting insane. If I walk up to someone and hit them with a baseball bat, can I argue that no one saw the baseball bat hit their head because it was just subtext?

They did it because their standard for assistance is accurate representation, not pushing a message*. If they only assist Top Gun style flicks that leads them into murky waters of censorship and a shitload of lawsuits because some film makers didn't get a subsidy, not to mention the issue of freedom of speech being a positive right or not.

*beyond the standard "you can't create art in this paradigm without accepting this paradigm", yes, I've seen Zizek's film, I have netflix.

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Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

Fried Chicken posted:

They did it because their standard for assistance is accurate representation, not pushing a message*. If they only assist Top Gun style flicks that leads them into murky waters of censorship and a shitload of lawsuits because some film makers didn't get a subsidy, not to mention the issue of freedom of speech being a positive right or not.

*beyond the standard "you can't create art in this paradigm without accepting this paradigm", yes, I've seen Zizek's film, I have netflix.

The nadir of Military Approved films is surely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfighters

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hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Nintendo Kid posted:

The nadir of Military Approved films is surely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfighters

Lockheed must have been pissed after Grumman's ad for the F-14 was a major blockbuster.

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Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Fried Chicken posted:

They did it because their standard for assistance is accurate representation, not pushing a message*. If they only assist Top Gun style flicks that leads them into murky waters of censorship and a shitload of lawsuits because some film makers didn't get a subsidy, not to mention the issue of freedom of speech being a positive right or not.

*beyond the standard "you can't create art in this paradigm without accepting this paradigm", yes, I've seen Zizek's film, I have netflix.

Huh, I didn't think of it that way at all. I thought they were just another sponsor looking for a product placement, same as Coca-Cola or whatever, and would care how their product was portrayed.

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Fried Chicken: Jan 9, 2011; Don't fry me, I'm no chicken!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3678296

Kept the OP, because I don't think I'll ever top that

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