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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. Literally glorifies the stock market and presents a finance bro job as the key to happiness. There's a scene near the start where Will Smith is outside the NYSE looking at all the suits going in and out and narrating how he was inspired by how happy everyone was, and how this inspired him to bootlick his way into some internship, the pursuit of which literally requires him to alienate his friends and family and sleep in subway bathrooms with his five-year-old son. Everyone in the movie is a lazy, unscrupulous asshole, except for the rich people, of course, who are portrayed as generous and open-minded for allowing Will Smith in the door after he kisses their asses the whole movie. All of his struggle with homelessness and poverty etc. is portrayed not as injustice but as the ideal scenario, rewarding the hardest, most dedicated worker with a job. It is literally r/upliftingnews: the movie.

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[-] UncleJoe@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

WALL-E - Destroying the environment through rabid consumerism is okay guys, we'll send some robots and once its fixed we'll just go back to normal :so-true:

Darkest Hour - Didn't even watch this one because I knew I would hate myself but doing a biopic on Winston fucking Churchill is cringe enough

Any Capeshit - Don't even have to explain this I hope, they're usually just borderline or actually outright State Department propaganda.

Not a movie but the show The West Wing. You should unironically be put into a re-education camp if you watch this LOL

[-] Sklorp@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I mean isnt a rather big point of Wall-e that just relying on the robots to fix it was... Bad? Like isn't the captaim realizing that earth is his home, and its worth putting in effort to save it the big turning point of the movie?

[-] LoudMuffin@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

yeah they literally go anprim at the end lmao

[-] Sklorp@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

Is it really anprim if you're doing it with robots?

[-] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago
[-] Indifference_Engine@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I think the generally accepted term is Solarpunk

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