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submitted 9 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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[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

I like Matt Christman's theory: Forrest was lying folks, he was literally just making shit up on that dumb bench to fuck with people. (this theory will also get people very angry for some reason)

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

Criticizing liberals’ soothing thought-terminating treats is a cardinal sin

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Thought that was Stavs theory.

Does make everything that happens after he leaves the bench kinda weird though.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Stav was more just confused that he ran across the country without stopping.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah but he was specifically asking if forest was an unreliable narrator or not, cuz Stav can't buy that a person could run a lot.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

He thought that the film must be magic for that to happen. Which ngl I don't disagree with his all or nothing stance with magic in film.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

The funny thing is I think his question was totally reasonable, he just worded it in the dumbest way possible

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

That is Stavi embodied in one sentence

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, sometimes he leaves me with a thousand isl... thousand mile stare.

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