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What's the most overrated movie of all time?
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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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I don't know if it's the most overrated, but there's a special spot in my spleen for Arrival. It establishes a universe with hard determinism and then totally fails to engage with it. The plot is resolved by a Chinese general convincing himself not to Launch the Missiles via a time paradox that, again, the movie makes no attempt to engage with. It's a perfect artifact of its time (2016) because it's a pure distillation of American liberalism, a broody, pseudointellectual exercise so convinced of its own inevitability that it no longer needs to justify itself.
didn't they lift the whole time travel mechanic from slaughterhouse 5?
It's apparently based on a Ted Chiang short story that's allegedly better, but I haven't gotten around to reading it.