The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. Literally glorifies the stock market and presents a finance bro job as the key to happiness. There's a scene near the start where Will Smith is outside the NYSE looking at all the suits going in and out and narrating how he was inspired by how happy everyone was, and how this inspired him to bootlick his way into some internship, the pursuit of which literally requires him to alienate his friends and family and sleep in subway bathrooms with his five-year-old son. Everyone in the movie is a lazy, unscrupulous asshole, except for the rich people, of course, who are portrayed as generous and open-minded for allowing Will Smith in the door after he kisses their asses the whole movie. All of his struggle with homelessness and poverty etc. is portrayed not as injustice but as the ideal scenario, rewarding the hardest, most dedicated worker with a job. It is literally r/upliftingnews: the movie.
The Lion King features animals literally bowing down in subservience to the animals that eat them, and this is explicitly justified in the movie, because monarchs eating their subjects is just the "circle of life"
Comparing a children's movie about lions eating zebras to the Shoah is not cool tho
I saw it in theaters and it wa wild. Somehoe seeing the animals in realistic cgi really drove it home to me. No one I was at the Dennys with after the film got with it though.
I ask you though. After an undetermined period of Scar's managemnt does not the savanna thrive? The lions complain they are not allowed the riches they once enjoyed. But fuck em. Fucking disney makes a movie about a strong African woman protecting her people and it works. Then tells us we aren't supposed to be hapoy it worked
And of course, the perennial answer, Anastasia (1997), which portrays the Russian Revolution as the result of a wizard's curse, and communism as evil because it got in the way of the Romanovs wearing fancy clothes. The stage version took things one step further by having an NKVD agent as the villain
A few friends of mine were talking about how great this movie was last night and I drunkenly yelled about how it was EXTREMELY GOOD that they were deposed / killed. I'm fun to be around, can't even talk about cartoon movies
Didn't Mao make the emperor and his family get factory jobs?
Seems way better to me.
Puyi got a variety of jobs. Amateur actor, street sweeper, gardener, tour guide. His sister got a normal job, Empress Wanrong was dead, his second consort Wenxiu had a really sad life but divorced him years before, His third consort Tan Yuling was dead, this fourth consort Li Yuqin divorced him in 58 after the CCP mandate that she get along with Puyi had failed and ended up living with some working class dude and suffering a lot of harassment for having been married to Puyi (Harassment Puyi didn't get) she was also really mad at having been a mere sex object for Puyi for her entire adult life, and his "cousin" Yoshiko Kawashima had been executed. Really he just had his sister until he found another wife.
I know too much about puyi. He's just a really fascinating figure
His time in prison greatly changed him, and he expressed deep regret for his actions while emperor. In 1962, he married a commoner, Li Shuxian, for whom he had a deep affection
bloomer energy tbh
They were married almost as soon as they met, and apparently they were very affectionate. She requested to be buried next to Puyi but the CCP nixed it.
Possibly because her specific request was that Wanrong also be there, and nobody knows where Wanrongs body is, possibly they don't want to put people in the qing tombs for historical reasons.
Also as a side note everyone who spoke of his job performances notes that he was bad at most things and very clumsy (Except acting, he was a good actor). But he genuinely seemed like he's been reformed. He would be embarrassed by waitstaff serving him, and he refused to board vehicles until everyone else was seated which meant he missed his ride once when he waited for the conductor to get seated before he'd go in.
He also reprimanded Pujie for reconnecting with his Japanese wife.
I'm sorry for the posts but Puyi is just so interesting.
You should make a big post about it if it hasn't been done yet. This sounds really interesting
You know I might. It'll be my one chance to write a historical essay touching on complex human emotions and a nuanced historical subject and entitle it "Puyi is stored in the balls"
I have a particular ethnic affinity that makes me partial, but I'm glad little Nicky got got. It doesn't usually work out that way. He was also a major negative protagonist in the lives and deaths of many ancestors, so again, fuck that guy.
It didn't happen in a vacuum. They were being held in a city that was under threat of being captured by the white army. If the whites took the city or smuggled the Romanovs out it would be a huge boon for the reactionary forces.
Man I've had this argument. Libs will never move on it, I swear to god that if Hitler hadn't committed suicide and instead had been killed by the Red Army they would argue that that was bad too.
Anastasia is frustrating because it's all "Oh everyone loved the tsar. Communism is a result of wizard casting a spell making everyone mad. Hot Nicky did nothing wrong and exiled Rasputin straight to hell" but HE ALSO MADE AN AMERICAN TAIL. A movie where the inciting incident is the fucking tsarist progroms with catssacks hunting down
jewsmiceAN AMERICAN TAIL. A movie where the inciting incident is the fucking tsarist progroms with catssacks hunting down jews mice
Oh shit I just got that
Forrest Gump. Forrest is basically rewarded for being a pawn of imperialism while Jenny is punished for being a radical. The movie reinforces the notion that the USA is good and just.
on that note, Forrest Gump is an intensely conservative movie. Forrest represents "traditional values" whereas Jenny is the symbol of the radical counter-culture of the 60s. One ends up a rich and adored war hero, the other dies of canceraids.
'mama says i was named after my great great uncle Nathan Bedford Forrest' set's up the tone for the whole movie
Yeah, I heard tires screech in my mind and decided to watch something else and just read the synopsis on Wikipedia later.
Apparently the novel it was based on was a satire about boomers where Forrest goes to space, which everyone who made the movie totally missed.
Oh damn, that adds so much to the story. I am shocked that isn't part of it
Was just about to say this. Fuck that movie and whoever recommended it to me LMAO
It is! Could have been a different film if forest and bubba was portrayed as fighting in mcnameras morons or any other situation where you could have some proper criticism of any of the shit hes ending up in. So much happened in that period, and what they chose to portray was desegregation (while not doing anything with it), anti war (but mostly hippie bs) and water gate (so we know where safe in lib territory) The only real legit parts are the implied abuse Jenny grew up in, and cl. Dan shedding his stoic notions of honor, but it just sort resolves itself or is forgotten. Lib movie through and through.
goddam, what a bullseye. I feel like rom-coms are cheating, but You've Got Mail is so egregious.
You forgot the part where the writer bf is framed as overly partisan and obnoxious for judging a character for literally dating Francisco Franco
I hate everything about that movie. Shop Around the Corner is soooooo much better.
Idiocracy. The poor are subhumans unlike the rich, but unfortunately the rich are too meek to assert their superiority over the serfs and dies out, leaving the former to destroy civilization with thier inferiority.
It's a literal fascist propaganda and the fact that libs really love that moves tells you a lot.
I dunno. I bought into that joke that president commacho is a better president than anyone we have. When he finds a super genius thst can solve their probelms he just puts him in charge. Which by any measure would make him the best president in US history.
There is some shit there to unpack and it gets lost in rasism shit of it.
I never know if that was meant to be intentional or not. Like the whole movie is basically saying "haha these people are all idiots", but in the end they're more equitable and kind than anything you'd see in a liberal reality.
The whole explanation it had was unmaterialist and eugenicist, etc.
But the way it depicted the particularities of late capitalist vicissitudes was weirdly spot on.
Thats really the thing about fascists, theyve always been able to spot the problems and frame them in reactionary terms, whereas Liberals really cant do either and parade around a lot of cultural bullshit.
Being one of the most mentioned movies on :reddit-logo: should tell you everything you need to know
Lincoln (2012). It jacks off constantly to muh compromise and middle way, and shows Thaddeus Stevens saying he doesn’t believe in racial equality to compromise with racists not as going back on his beliefs, but as a great thing to do and anyone who criticizes him for that (even a black woman) as unreasonable. They even say “a moral compass might lead you into a ditch”
oh i just realise what libsshit this movie was / the end of the Civil war was ...
-the "honourable" Capitulation of Lee
-The "just now getting around to" adressing Slavery in policy making..
:doomjak:
I swear that something like 70% of rom-coms are about girlboss meritocracy.
Probably Red Dawn, which internalized early 80s redux red scare brainworms for most of the older half of Gen X
Watching Red Dawn in theatres but booing the Americans and cheering deafeningly every time the communists show up.
Would be a good idea to have a bunch of members on a site that openly calls for violent revolution meet up in one spot
:fedposting:
Can’t wait for the government-subsidized Hexbear Poster reunion of 2034 after the Great American Liberation War ends
Anything Sorkin related. Trial of the Chicago 7 comes to mind recently.
That movie sucked so fucking hard.
Imagine making Abbie fucking Hoffman say "The system is fine it's just filled with bad people". :agony-immense:
Aaron Sorkin and putting his words in the mouths or revolutionaries and minorities, name a better duo.
Bulworth was Sorkin though. Exception proves the rule.
Edit: Bulworth, not Canadian Bacon
Wait it was? IMDB only has Moore as writer and Director. What was Sorkin?
Bulworth
Oh, so the 1998 version of Hamilton
Well, that's not quite fair. Hamilton is uniquely terrible. I think West Wing really broke him, especially because all the beltway goons started creaming their pants at it and really dug their fingers in early on.
Edit: Sorkin wasn't even involved in that one either... That's just Beatty and Pikser
He did Molly's Game and Moneyball which are imminently forgettable films with flat characters and contrived storylines.
Plus the two Silicon Valley jerk off films when he was trying to get in with them (Jobs and Social Network)
He's always been a shit hack fraud.
I enjoyed it even if it was lib shit often
my parents would never have known about the stuff in that film if it wasn't some lib ass courtroom drama
Was gonna post that. Every single thing about that movie deeply offends me.
WALL-E - Destroying the environment through rabid consumerism is okay guys, we'll send some robots and once its fixed we'll just go back to normal :so-true:
Darkest Hour - Didn't even watch this one because I knew I would hate myself but doing a biopic on Winston fucking Churchill is cringe enough
Any Capeshit - Don't even have to explain this I hope, they're usually just borderline or actually outright State Department propaganda.
Not a movie but the show The West Wing. You should unironically be put into a re-education camp if you watch this LOL
I mean isnt a rather big point of Wall-e that just relying on the robots to fix it was... Bad? Like isn't the captaim realizing that earth is his home, and its worth putting in effort to save it the big turning point of the movie?
Here's your kids movie: The environment is fucked, you're fucked. Enjoy drowning.
Lorax (the book and original cartoon, not the dogshit 3D animated movie) is how you do a good environmentalist message in a children's story
Good point. Fuck yeah, I forgot about solar punk. That shit is rad. I read a good solar punk short story a while ago about fishermen accidentally catching an endangered species and they went on a mission to return it to it's home. That was the conflict, "can we do good" Shit was rad.
No idea. I think it was some zene. You ever listen to the intergalactic railroad podcast? I thinknit was one of their bioinfocosim pan species anarchist ones. Or I am misremembering entirely
But no, the robots fix all the problems and let humanity survive exploring space. The robts were rad. It was the loss of personal responsibility and the unpreparedness of people to face new world thst caused peobelms. It was liberalism that was the probelm.
Nah, I'll fight for walle. That hit fully automated luxury comunism and they had to adjust to the new paradigm
The West Wing Thing is a good podcast that breaks down the brain worms in choice episodes.
It's hosted by Dave Anthony of the Dollop.
I watched Darkest Hour and didn't get it, it's basically just Churchill dictating to his secretary while she types.
The Post (2017), which is all about a fabulously wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive taking on a crooked president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)
OH my goodness that movie was such a self-important snoozefest. “Should we journalists do a journalism? Maybe if we can pat ourselves on the back about it for 5 decades!”
I don’t even think the publishing of the Pentagon Papers had any negative effect on the guilty parties. And even if it did, the horrors continued. Total BS.
Also she's best mates with McNamara and we're supposed to cheer for her only very lightly brushing him at the end while continuing to be chummy the rest of the movie lol
Anarcho monarchist
The only political philosophy that makes less sense than anarcho-capitalism
I mean, it kidna makes sense. The idea that some people just have the divine mandate and should be listened to but then it is randomly distrobuted so it is kinda fair. Honestly it kinda makes more sense than neoliberalism. At least the way J.R.R tolkien writes about it anyway. I am not up to speed on the theory
All I know about it came from this reddit thread and it sounds pretty stupid, what did Tolkien have to say about it?
reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/880hae/anarchomonarchism
Nah, he was before reddit brain. So he didn't have a treatise on it. That was just how his world worked. If you were a prince, it didnt matter if you just had a broken sword and no kingdom. Or if your kingdom was lost to a drgaon. But also, if you weren't a prince having a kingdom wouldn't make you one. Which I get is different from how modern folk describe the ideology. However it it an utterly unserious idea so I don't care.
“Charlie Wilson’s War” “Spies Like us” and “Stripes” for sanitizing Reagan-era Cold War policy for a centrist audience.
charlie wilsons' war is still funny because it showed we just kinda made a country into a weapon targeted at empires, then just left them there after using them and not wondering what they would do to the only other empire around.
The whole “inner city high school” genre. Dangerous Minds and Lean on Me are the two examples that immediately come to mind (with satire “ High School High” for good measure) but I’m sure there are a few more.
Bootstrapping porn.
Edit: “Lean on Me” not “Stand by Me.”
Stand by Me
I was under the impression that that was mostly about the four boys going to see the dead body, with not so much of a focus on high school? Is there something I was missing?
Both 80s movies named after classic R&B songs -- I can understand the mix-up.
