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mainer

(12,184 posts)
Sun Dec 27, 2020, 09:44 AM Dec 2020

WW84 has Trump as villain!

Pedro Pascal plays a failed businessman, conman, and media personality who acquires Presidential powers and looks exactly like a young Donald Trump. The movie is so-so but te Trumpian character is wildly entertaining.


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thucythucy

(8,742 posts)
1. There's a reference to Trump in "Scrooged."
Sun Dec 27, 2020, 10:07 AM
Dec 2020

Bill Murray's character is sent into a sewer by the ghost of Christmas present. Finding himself in this dank, freezing, filthy place below the streets of NYC he says something like, "Looks like Trump Tower."

This of course was years before 2016.

Clash City Rocker

(3,541 posts)
2. Maxwell Lord was always a parody of Wall Street types in the comics
Sun Dec 27, 2020, 10:24 AM
Dec 2020

But it wasn’t until he gained mind control powers that he became a straight up villain.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
3. Boring movie - too long, mixed plot lines, too many errors
Sun Dec 27, 2020, 10:27 AM
Dec 2020

I love my superhero/super-heroine's - but this mish mash did not satisfy

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