BizzleCast Ep. 1: Children & Hypermaterialsm: The Post-Consumerist "Dark Side" of Mega-Franchises

You asked for it - you got it! BizzleCast Ep. 1 is here. First we ask: Do the apparent progressive themes in major blockbuster movie franchises neutralize the public's ability to be fully critical of the Hypermaterialsm and excessive consumerism surrounding these properties? Action packed topics featuring: -Greetings from The Bizzle! -Little Bizzle & mid-80s HBO documentary educating kids about toys, materialism, and corporate manipulation (yes that actually happened!) -The devious and greedy way in which Lucas and other major film mega-producers (Cameron, P. Jackson, etc) use their movies to supplement their materialist/physical properties (toys, video games, etc) rather than the other way around. -Kids live now in an age of POST-CONSUMERISM: buying things is so central to daily life that we don't even think about consumerist aspect anymore. -Too easy for parents to buy iPad/video games to keep kids occupied -- kids now removed from physical reality and not forced to use imagination as much -Post-PG era where little kids can't see kids movies because they are all PG-13! Kids are therefore connected to the physical properties (Lego video games, iPad apps, etc) more than the characters and themes of these movies. -Do these movies REALLY have progressive themes or are they just window dressing?? -The Internet: how mainstream scifi/futurist movies completely ignore it and thus don't provide real discussion about where we are going in the future  -Hollywood and indie movies that DO address deeper, darker issues of technology, social politics, digital universes: Ghost in the Shell, Star Trek, Lucy, Her.  Also why Scarlett Johansson is involved in so many of these movies (and is just generally awesome) -Why Avatar was HIGHLY offensive if you are an actual environmentalist -Why we root against The Empire even though we ARE The Empire! -Political ideas in these films just drowned out by secondary bullshit -CAPTAIN AMERICA was Edward Snowden! Why no one talks about MARVEL being more politically progressive than we give it credit for