Been awhile since we've done this thread, and it's always fun. Here are some of my picks:
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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Yeah it sucks about the movie's politics but on a pure entertainment level I still love it. It helps that they're fighting the Fr*nch so it's not like it's a film about Brits putting down a fully-justified uprising or something.
They are fighting the Americans in thr novel and it was the war of 1812. I'm not really sure what politics you'd prefer in an historical drama, it's a pretty accurate depiction of the place and time. People were generally press ganged into naval service at age 14 or so and it was the only life they ever knew, i guess they could go into hat stuff more but it's there. I'm not really sure what you'd want from it without making it an entirely different piece of work