Posted on 11/05/2023 10:15:06 AM PST by DallasBiff
1. Avatar (2009)
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
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"#2 is a movie I never heard of "Billy Elliot"(2000)."
I watched "Billy Elliot" once many years ago. It's about a boy growing up with a blue-collar dad and brother, both tough coal miners. Billy himself is kinda rough, too, but he yearns to be a ballet dancer, which his father rejects. The movie is probably on this list because Billy's friend turns out to be gay, and though Billy isn't, he doesn't turn away from his friend.
I’ll throw in “Gentleman’s Agreement”. Gregory Peck’s sanctimonious smarminess hits 11 in that one.
And one I watched for laughs, “Testament”, with its “Day After” vibe.
Oddly, while I once thought of Dr. Strangelove as a lefty movie, I think it can now be seen as an anti-military complex/ Deep State movie, no matter how much we love “Slim Pickens”.
“Chocolat”. I didn’t see it, but it is all that just from the trailer and description.
Pathetic list. Only about three of these are truly liberal/progressive. The Big Short was far more leftish than The Wolf of Wall Street. Start with Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Michael Moore, Adam McKay, and Oliver Stone, and anyone could make up a better list.
What the hell is “Superbad” doing there?
Good catch. Makes sense now. Thanks.
Laraine Newman was hawt then, hawt now. 71 and looks 49.
Kramer vs Kramer
Or “Spring Breakers” or “Bio-Dome” or “Paul”?
The only ones I’d call really leftist are “Sicko,” “Avatar” and (I’m guessing) “Blue State.” Matt, Ben, and Leo haters could also make a case against “Good Will Hunting” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but I wouldn’t go so far.
Whoever made up the list confuses queer or raunchy or zany with liberal or progressive, but most of this stuff isn’t really ideological compared with the rest of what Hollywood puts out.
It’s harder to make a list like this now, because so many movies are implicitly progressive (men bad, Whites bad, straights bad) that those with even more pointed political messages get crowded out.
Despite DiCaprio I would not call “The Wolf of Wall Street,” a liberal movie.
American Beauty. How did that ever win Best Picture?
It’s based on the nonsensical premise that all plant life on earth is dead.
Um, how are they breathing, then? And what are they eating?
One white... one black... one red.
Yep, almost walked out.
Who is the blonde?
The whole point of the movie was there weren’t enough fish for the penguins to eat.
Well that’s great in the end they finally had enough fish....of course that sucked for the fish being eaten by the penguins.
Laraine Newman.
The Whale should be #1.
a guy leaves his family for another guy, is hugely fat, ( before or after the gay guy, idk) and wants to make nice with the kids he abandoned for the queer.
Agreed.
A nihilistic suburban farce with closeted homosexuality and statutory rape subthemes.
Has not aged well.
Or “In And Out” with Kevin Kline.
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