It is so excellent. And while the story is maddening and saddening, yet it is still superior to playing with others who can, all facts to the wayside, see only doom and gloom and negativity. Good decision of yours, OhioWFan to prefer to see a film about people who never gave up.
The root of it, IMO, is that we are in a self-absorbed, self-centered culture, and these folks are the products/victims of it. It's all about ME, and if I'm not happy then I turn tail and run.
President Bush hasn't done everything these folks want him to do, so they no longer support him. (That is, assuming that any of them ever did in the first place).