Movies & TV

Ghostbusters. A group of academic frauds are finally jettisoned by their university when they can no longer hide their fraud. When they go into private business they're angered that they actually have to follow safety and pollution rules. The older I get the more I hate that movie.

Forrest Gump pisses me off

Iron Man, with the DoD contractor CEO hero and the product placement.

Forest Gump for sure. I say it every time this topic comes up.

The National Treasure movies spend all their runtime mythologizing slave-owning libertarians who stole treasure from various groups of non-white people.

Take me to the gulag for loving those stupid movies. I accept my fate.

AirBud. "There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play basketball" has to be the total summation of liberal ideology.

I always get irked by the liberal compromise fetishism of Lincoln (2012). It is such a product of the respectability politics of the Obama era.

Anastasia is such a a piece of shit propaganda movie but Once Upon a December is a good song.

i'm surprised nobody wanted to score cheap points by beating the dead horse and say harry potter.

I'm gonna say zombieland

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) as an example of ur-liberalism. A literal boy scout troop leader becomes a Senator basically through random chance and then overcomes corruption in Washington by sheer individual grit and goodness.

The Iron Man movies, especially Iron Man 2.

The new Obama-produced movie (Leave the World Behind).

That one you really liked when you where younger

I'll take this moment to complain about how Tangled (a Disney Rapunzel film, basically) just assumes that pillaging native lands is the moral thing to do.

An old woman is using a magical flower out in the wilderness to retain her youth and health. It's quite literally the only thing keeping her alive. When the Queen of the kingdom falls ill, soldiers of the kingdom go out and just rip up the flower. The old woman, deprived of her only means to stay alive, rushes to the castle, only to find that the flower's properties are now stuck inside the Queen's baby. Reasonably assuming that the selfish-ass King and Queen who just gave her a death sentence were obviously never going to let her use those powers, she takes the baby and raises it in a loving (if very sheltered) environment, using her hair to live instead, again, this is the only way the woman can stay alive.

Somehow, the woman is the bad guy, and the King and Queen who raided the native lands for their own selfish-ass purposes are the good guys. It was perfectly moral to take the flower because old woman didn't enclose her land or have a fucking deed to say "THIS FLOWER BELONGS TO ME". The old woman's native knowledge of the land meant it could keep her (and who knows how many others) alive and healthy on an indefinite basis, while the monarchy just grab it, destroy it, and get a one-time use out of it because the lives of the royal family are more important than everyone else's!!!! Babysnatching isn't moral, but what choice did the woman have?

Yeah I may be overthinking a kid's fairy tale in movie form. But FUCK EM. I genuinely think it teaches children that there's no need to respect the environment or other cultures' understanding of ownership, nor the concept of public sharing.

Les Miserables (2012) was pretty damn bad and pissed me off for being lib before I even knew why, but upon reflection its because it fetishizes defeat and idealism and made the revolutionaries really unsympathetic and naive. It's actually a really good encapsulation of Western Radlib ideology and underdog fetishization

Transformers by Michael Bay was just a giant US military advertisement

The writer of Anastasia works on Handmaid’s Tale if that tells you anything…

most of them

Crash hasn't been mentioned yet

The American President. I didn't even realize until recently that this was written by Aaron Sorkin, but it makes sense, it's an early example of exactly his brand of hokey bullshit.

Whatever that movie was about Scooter Libby and the revealing of the CIA agent's name that was all ”How dare Bush and Cheney treat one of our CIA heroes like that!”, they mentioned it on the first season of Blowback.

Contagion.

...and then everyone got a vaccine and lived happily ever after.

It really shows the limits of Liberal thinking.

trial of the chicago 7

All the President's Men is a celebration of liberal institutions. Especially now that we know "Deep Throat" was literally just the assistant director of the FBI who got snubbed for a job. Three Days of the Condor is a much better Redford conspiracy movie.

Man of the Year

Basically, Robin Williams plays charismatic host of the unDaily Shown't -- a presidential candidate agrees to go on his show and he wipes the floor with them. After that, people start pressuring him to run. He's a late entry candidate and is only on the ballot in like 15 states - just enough to get enough points for the Electoral Collage -- everyone expects him to be a spoiler candidate. An expression of disappointment with the establishment. But! On that second Wednesday in November, turns out he won enough states and took the EC victory. The movie looks like it's going to be President Robin Williams antics as he thumbs his nose at congress, business, and the power players of american empire...

...but it turns out he only won because the new computerized polling booths did a computer oopsy and awarded victory to candidates by the alphabetical order of their names rather than by vote totals. The rest of the film is now a shadowy business thriller following the intrepid investigator trying to figure out what happened, dodging attempts on their life from the company that made the booths. It ends with Robin Williams resigning after he learns of the error, with Time magazine giving him the titular title Man of the Year

Apparently it's written by the same guy who wrote Wag the Dog which was a good movie I actually liked.

Charlie Wilson's War

Theres this anglo movie some years back where michael caine becomes a vigilante. Literally scratch a lib shit about how scary the poors are and how good it is to murder them.

"Harry brown"

Glory.

Fantastic movie, and I love it, but it's a feel good patriotic movie about a white savior general who marches his black soldiers into certain death. Denzel Washington was made out to be a huge dick because he was the only guy to be mad about slavery and resent white people for it.

Similarly, Driving Miss Daisy. Hoke learns the value of being patient with a bitch-ass chud who eventually comes around because he's so damn nice. Magical Negro movies are inherently lib.

The Help is like this too, except the white woman is also kinda magical because she inspires the help to sneak human shit into a pie and brag about it to a KKK member. They play it off like thr help would get away with it because the KKK lady couldn't suffer the emvarasament, but IRL any black woman in Jim Crow south who did this would be towed behind a car and her entire village burned to the ground.