Been awhile since we've done this thread, and it's always fun. Here are some of my picks:

  • The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) is really bad. Will Smith's inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith's smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.

  • Air (2023) is really bad too. Literally a feature-length Nike commercial coupled with a fuckton of Michael Jordan worship, the message being that a bunch of rich guys deserved to get even richer because they signed a sneaker deal. The closing 5 minutes of the movie are a "where are they now" montage showing how much money all the Nike executives made, yay!

  • Anastasia (1997), which portrays the Russian Revolution as the result of a wizard's curse and communism as bad because it got in the way of the Romanovs living in big palaces and wearing fancy dresses.

  • The Post (2017), about a wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive who makes the heroic decision to...uhh...not block the publication of a story that would expose the lies of a corrupt president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)

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    • Rom [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Frost/Nixon

      As implied by the title, it attempts to further tarnish the reputation of Richard Nixon.

      How dare they try to ruin Nixon's pristine reputation!

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Smh won't anyone think of Nixon? He's so upset from being cyberbullied 30 years after his death.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      i just got whiplash after reading an angry fascist nerd complaining about how The Emoji Movie is too woke to presumably the same nerd reviewing The End of Evangelion

      there isn't even an explanation for why the End of Evangelion is liberal. It just says Shinji fails his boss and masturbates

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        There used to be an entry on there for American Psycho, saying that "despite" that title having American in it, it was anti-capitalist which is anti-american.