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 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