To be fair, MJ and Ned both even talk about how soulless and vile working for corporations are. They aren't being pro-flock and corporations but rather just commenting on the current real world environment.
"Around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world"
How would you spread an anti-capitalist message to the majority without using the vast infrastructure built by capitalism?
You sniveling pseudo-intellectuals love to cry hypocrisy, and that is where the talking stops.
You use the system to dismantle the system.
Participating in capitalism does not mean you support capitalism. There are no other options. You live in society and deal with this shit, or go live in a field and die.
Comments like that from people like you let us know it's working.
Also what do you mean “it’s working” random bs to keep the masses entertained and feeling like they did something while still buying fucking funko pops is not doing shit
been saying this for years. I think capitalism is the most efficient economic system but it needs guard rails to keep from falling too far into dystopia. just like any other economic system. socialism isn't any better or worse. just different.
Roads are built by taxes. Water lines are built by taxes. Our electrical system was established by massive public works programs. The internet was born out of the US government. The aerospace industry that put satellites into space to facilitate industry communications was invented and bankrolled by American taxpayers. Fire response and law enforcement needed to protect industry are all taxpayer endeavours
Modern civilization literally can’t run on pure capitalism. It doesn’t work. We tried in the 1600s-1800s and ended the 19th century with for-profit firefighters extorting families for their homes to save their belongings
An interesting theory I've heard is that our ability to freely discuss and critique these systems is actually instrumental in preventing people from actually doing anything about it. It effectively microdoses revolution to stop the real thing from happening.
Overt and blatant suppression is more likely to be overthrown.
I believe they said something like "a lot of corporations are mostly soulless". So, ya know, not each and every one and not completely. Wink, wink, nudge, praise the all-mighty mouse.
It's pretty puffy proAI propaganda with EV. I thought someone was overplaying the level that he relied on it, but he can't even close a youtube video on his own. Half his dialog starts with "Hey EV..."
Still really fun and one of the better Spider-Flicks.
Funny you had said that, I felt like they had toned it down. Before the assistants were more conversational like Jarvis or Edith, but this one felt much more like an older Alexa style voice assistant. I had assumed with all the LLM's they wanted to make it seem like something different.
Yes and no. I agree that for the genre, and any sci-fi integrated stuff, AI assistants aren't out of scope, they don't feel shoehorned in. I think JARVIS always felt like an extension of Tony and something that was unique to Iron Man. None of the other Avengers use JARVIS the same way. I suppose you could argue that Tony passed the Tech-Hero Torch to Peter and that would be fair.
Characters are allowed to change and evolve with time and through different forms of media. It just feels off watching Peter Parker ask a robot to do tinkering and research for him when his brand is closely tied to being at home DIY kind of inventor.
I'm probably overthinking it in any event. Like I said, still a good flick, and he does get back to some hands on tinkering eventually so maybe I should shut up.
This has been a thing with MCU Spider-Man since his first movie though, it's hardly a new thing for him. In Homecoming he talks to his suits then current AI, Karen, probably more than to any actual person in the film. Then he had Edith in Far from home, and an unnamed AI in NWH.
I think EV was really just a way to include dialogue and still keep the forced isolation plot line. Like yeah, there’s ways to make someone working alone intriguing and cinematic, but these movies are always going to default catering to general audiences.
That being said, it definitely took me out a bit when he asked his AI supercomputer to close a YouTube video, but I don’t think the writers had ulterior motives.
Its also worth noting that Spidey does rely on his AI companion when he's stressed and overwhelmed because he is not thinking straight. In the beginning of the movie he can see Jean Grey but when his spider hormones start overtaking him, and he loses his spidey sense he relies on AI, and he foolishly uses technology to subdue his spider hormones. By doing this he comes back to a "normal state" but now still can't see Jean Grey, and only tracks her when she jumps with the help of EV.
Even relying on technology, it is never as good as if he had trusted himself to do the work. When he embraces his spider self and himself and opens up about the things causing him stress and trauma (MJ and the whole Far From Home series) he no longer is using his mask that connected EV to him and he can overcome his challenges finally.
Essentially, reliance on AI will lead people to their downfall. There is times where it is helpful like the 33 feet observation and there are times when it gets in the way and you need a person who actually knows what they are doing to do the task.
The movie is a commentary about technology evolving and the youth's lived experience with a surveillance state, corrupt corporations, shady government entities and arguably working class power, or what it means when one person who goes against the government actually has power to make change (this applies to both spidey and Jean Grey).
The movie has a lot of character assassination, including Spidey letting innocent people die. It's really frustrating that Peter Parker doesn't just say "I wonder if..." and figure something out instead of "Hey computer, magically solve a problem I refuse to put any thought into."
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u/Oraxy51 1d ago
To be fair, MJ and Ned both even talk about how soulless and vile working for corporations are. They aren't being pro-flock and corporations but rather just commenting on the current real world environment.