The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. The inciting incident is Will Smith going to Wall Street and seeing all the happy, smiling rich people walking out of the New York Stock Exchange, and deciding he wants to be like them. There is no irony in this or in any other scene; pursuing a finance-bro internship at all costs is portrayed literally and uncritically as the "happyness" in the title. The entire rest of the movie is a masturbatory hustle-culture fantasy in which Will Smith having to do things like being homeless, sleeping in subway bathrooms, kissing the asses of as many banking executives as possible, and foregoing feeding or clothe his kindergarten-age son are portrayed not as indictments of the system but as evidence of Smith's smart, bootstraps-oriented thinking. The rich people throughout the movie are jovial and well-adjusted, always willing to give a smart guy like Smith a shot (but only when they see his plucky bootstrappiness firsthand, which they only do once he insistently fellates them first); meanwhile, all poor people are miserable, underhanded slimeballs who are nothing but trouble for Smith. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.

What else?

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Dark Knight Rises.

    Was literally made just a year after Occupy and had Bane's revolutionary movement clearly modeled after it. Also, the very premise of a revolutionary leader manipulating the foolish masses in a bid for power (while planning to betray them later down the line for some convoluted conspiracy involving some vaguely Chinese-Middle Eastern cult) and it's up to some billionaire with a messiah complex to save them is... um...

    • UlyssesT
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      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I saw the movie's fictional Rapid City football stadium get blown up while I watched this movie in a movie theater in Rapid City, SD. Say what you will about the movie, but I enjoyed the moment.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Think this was more of a fascist movie. A lot of Nolan's movies have a really sus vibe to them. People like to bring up the mass-surveillance stuff Batman uses. He also really has a thing for extra-judicial murder squads with cool uniforms (can't really blame him though, he shares that affinity with Hideo Kojima).

      • Goblinmancer [any]
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        2 years ago

        Tdkr was one of the most blue lives matter movie ever