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submitted 8 months ago by wombat@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

Been awhile since we've done this thread, and it's always fun. Here are some of my picks:

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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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[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

That one you really liked when you where younger

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago

Jokes on you, I watched small soldiers until the tape wore out and that movie's whole message is centered around how the military industrial complex brings fascism home to roost

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago
[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I also had the CD and listened to it on repeat.Thank you for reminding me. I can't believe I was listening to bone thugs 'n harmony when I was like 5.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 months ago

My brother was given a wreckx-n-effect tape for his 6th birthday by a family friend and I attribute this as a key event in the radicalization of me and my siblings, rap brings the truth to the people

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Lmao, nice! Welcome! cat-vibing

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Small soldiers was so good. It’s probably bad now since I haven’t seen it since I was young, but I remember it being sick as fuck.

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

No its still good. Give it a watch, you won't regret it.

Also the cast is great. This movie and Howls moving castle were almost made at the same time with Phil Hartman and Kirsten Dunst and they were the last things Phil Hartman did before his death IIRC.

Plus you have David Cross as one of the toy designers and Denis Leary as the mega-capitalist.

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