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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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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 41 points 8 months ago

Transformers by Michael Bay was just a giant US military advertisement

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

That's a factual statement considering the US Department of Defence is involved in the funding of many Hollywood movies.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago
[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I love this reading of the Michael Bay transformers where the Decepticons are unironically the good guys trying to snuff out the fascist autobots who destroyed their home and wish to do the same to the whole galaxy, its a fairly compelling argument as presented by this video, which is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVSl9wtToc

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

lol, i love that video. i like that i can't tell if it's a credible take (i.e., that Bay's intentions align with the videos conclusions). i remember loving the first two transformers movies when i was younger. i maybe saw the third one, but i definitely haven't seen the fourth and fifth(?) - i don't even know how many there are.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

when the big combo robot had testicles and the racist robots showed up that was the one where young me was like, what the fuck am I looking at

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] axont@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

If I remember right the DoD censored a line from the first Transformers about a troop committing suicide

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

read National Security Cinema by Alford & Secker

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