Agree or Disagree - Action Movies/Superhero Movies are basically fascistic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. That what I was thinking - it's the same as classical 'heroes'

In which the important characters have amazing powers or weapons, and there are plenty of red-shirted extras as fight fodder for them. You can add Samson into the list, and even when a more explicitly fascistic (and real) story comes along, like '300', it gets sexed up with huge warriors and "with one mighty blow he slew the beast"-type stuff.

In fact, for all its liberal sentiments, the original Star Trek had an aspect that was more fascistic than a lot of these - a full military hierarchy, everyone in uniform, the red shirts ready to take the initial attack of whatever this week's enemy was, and die for the ship in it, and the awesome leader, whose word had to be obeyed, would come in and sort it all out. And the Federation expands by one more planet.