The Pursuit of Happyness 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.
Just realized "Interstellar" from Nolan deserves to be here. No need to actually save the Earth, magical plot quantum black holes and future human space gods will save us! All history is predetermined by a magic providence.
What bugs me is earlier Nolan films (especially the Prestige) are very cynical. It's all just a trick, and you should find pleasure in the trick and its entertainment. His more recent films have gotten very "woo woo" liberalism though. No need to actually address society anymore, just magic things (Tenet suffered from this too!).
Even the Batman films were basically whitewashing of Bush-era policies. Kidnapping people in order for them to be within your jurisdiction to imprison. Creating tools for mass surveillance, but it’s okay because we put it in the hands of the good guys. Bane was originally written to have much more sympathetic class conscious motivations. But they removed the part where Commissioner Gordon revealed that the crime crackdowns justified with the lie surrounding Harvey Dent’s death didn’t even work. They were just padding numbers to fit a narrative around crime like politicians always do. They made this giant symbolic sacrifice and if wasn’t worth it and that’s why Bane had the sway that he did.
as a huge batman fan and leftist i’ll always hate the dark trilogy (dark knight is solid though mainly due to heath ledger but still flawed). the original quadrilogy (yes even batman & robin) and the new batman are far superior to nolan’s
One thing I appreciate about The Dark Knight is the climax with the two ferries with bombs on them. It was an explicit repudiation of the dark premise of the Batman series, where some people are just violent sickos at heart who need to be beaten up by vigilantes.
Oh yes, yes it does.
It only added to the :brainworms: of the "mankind must leave the cradle, humans must become an interplanetary species" escapist fantasies of liberals that never want to even dial back their consumption.
that story would be very cool under a communist context though
Not saying it wouldn't, but when it's billionaires with god complexes fantasizing about increasingly wasteful and convoluted "spacesteads" to escape what little taxes and legal liabilities that may have inconvenienced them, then masking that all in Manifest Destiny ideology, the appeal is lost.
literally Elon Musk’s wet dream in film
Tenet is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life. Having the protagonist literally scream "I AM THE PROTAGONIST!" was a level of shit I had never thought possible.
It really fucking sucked
Yeah it's crazy how much Nolan has lost his mojo. The Prestige is fucking great, has some fun twists. Tenet was basically entirely predictable. When he fights himself the first time I just instantly understood and realized how dumb it would be.
Kept hoping for more. There wasn't any more.
"fuck the story, I have cool time travelling shit to explore"
i know interstellar isn’t anywhere close to perfect but my god that movie captivates me every time i see it
Hey just because a movie is :lib: doesn't mean it can't be good or entertaining.
I don't agree with that interpretation of Interstellar, it kind of requires the viewer to think that everything in the movie could actually happen in real life.