The Long Walk (2025)

Cybsled

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Chukzombi said:
Looks like from the 50s or 60s in an alternative universe. No way would the USA government kill young fighting age men for a tv gameshow. Especially in the Vietnam era when they need those young guys to kill the yellow man. Its a really dumb premise. The book made it seem mildly believable, but it's completely tarded the way it's been adapted for film.
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The story was written in the 70s and it takes place in an alternate timeline. I haven't read the short story in probably 20 years, all I remember is it was basically an oppressive regime controlling the US and things were really shitty for lots of people and people signed up for this because they basically got anything they wanted as a prize if they won. So you had naive young people but also desperate people where winning would basically fix all their problems.

The story sort of acts as sort of a metaphor for young people going to war - when those people are signing up, they aren't signing up to die. They're signing up for many different reasons - adventure, career, money, patriotism. But when the reality of the situation actually hits them, all that idealism goes out the window and they're just trying to survive. King's views on the Vietnam War played a large part in him casting the military as a villain in many of his stories - everything from The Stand to The Mist.
 
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Chukzombi said:
It might be good, but i'm dubious on this being made by the same people who did hunger games.
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Yeah but one of our other dudes said that it was the same guy who did the Constantine movie which was pretty good, so maybe there is some hope but who knows with modern Hollywood. Constantine came out years upon years ago at this point, and how often do you see smoking in films any longer. Kind of tells you how gay movies have become.
 
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Cybsled said:
Yup, the story written 45+ years ago predicted he would be president! I never knew King was Nostradamus all along!
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Bro you know it's going to be for modern audiences like everything else these days.
 
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Bald Brah

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Bro you know it's going to be for modern audiences like everything else these days.
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Yeah this guy has no clue how modern libtard writers think. Everything they do every day revolves around their hatred of Trump and making him look like the boogeyman.

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The evil-Superman-style character Homelander is becoming more and more of a direct Trump analogue this season. What was your thinking there?

He’s always been a Trump analogue for me. I’ll admit to being a little more bald this season than I have in past seasons. But the world is getting more coarse and less elegant. The urgency of our team’s writing reflects that. We’re angrier and more scared as the years go on, so that is just being reflected in our writing. But part of it is where Homelander’s story naturally goes. He has this really combustible mix of complete weakness and insecurity, and just horrible power and ambition, and it’s just such a deadly combo. Of course he would feel victimized that people are angry that he dated a Nazi. All he ever wants is to be the most powerful person he can be, even though he’s completely inadequate in his abilities to handle it. So it’s white-male victimization and unchecked ambition. And those issues just happened to reflect the guy who, it’s just still surreal to say it, was fucking president of the United States. And it’s a bigger issue than just Trump. The more awful public figures act, the more fans they seem to be getting. That’s a phenomenon that we wanted to explore, that Homelander is realizing that he can actually show them who he really is and they’ll love him for it.
 
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It's hilarious that in 2025 the retard crew in Movies and TV are still denying that modern audience writing/directing is pervasive. The cope is massive.
 
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LiquidDeath

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Wow, just watched the trailer and right up front it completely misses the atmosphere of the story. Like Arbitrary Arbitrary said, the whole starting line should have way more participants and be like a giant, bright, festive parade almost like an outdoor block party. That setup is necessary to take you from the highest high to the lowest low by the end. As predicted in this very thread back in 2019, they will ruin it because they have no idea why it was great in the first place.

Also, lol at Mark Hamill in this. Retard crew btfo.
 
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Chukzombi

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BrutulTM said:
Good Lord you guys are so fucking boring.
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Yes, it's boring. Everyone is tired of this stuff in everything. Its gonna be a good five or ten years before Hollywood gets over themselves. This movie is not immune to it. The very diverse casting is a direct part of it.
 
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