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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Glory.
Fantastic movie, and I love it, but it’s a feel good patriotic movie about a white savior general who marches his black soldiers into certain death. Denzel Washington was made out to be a huge dick because he was the only guy to be mad about slavery and resent white people for it.
Similarly, Driving Miss Daisy. Hoke learns the value of being patient with a bitch-ass chud who eventually comes around because he’s so damn nice. Magical Negro movies are inherently lib.
The Help is like this too, except the white woman is also kinda magical because she inspires the help to sneak human shit into a pie and brag about it to a KKK member. They play it off like thr help would get away with it because the KKK lady couldn’t suffer the emvarasament, but IRL any black woman in Jim Crow south who did this would be towed behind a car and her entire village burned to the ground.