The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is 1997's Small Soldiers
Joe Dante's satire was just a little too dark and satirical for its own good.
It’s not hard to see why 1997’s Small Soldiers, Joe Dante’s Gremlins-style attack on our cultural deification of militarism as an insane death cult, was not a hit. What’s surprising is that a film this subversive got made in the first place.
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