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.

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      3 years ago

      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.