• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Itā€™s nakedly hagiographic, so of course a random conservative lemmy mod is going to defend it. De gustibus some disputandum, eh?

      • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOP
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        Iā€™m refusing to watch it because it sounds like it was somewhat biased, which not only makes for a deceptive film, but a one-dimensional one. Itā€™s the same reason Iā€™m not watching The Apprentice (2024), everyone involved in that film seems to think that Trump is at best a bad person. (Although TBF Karsten Runquist claimed in his review that it humanizes both Roy Kohn and Trump, FWIW)

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          2 months ago

          The guy who plays Cohn crushes it. Itā€™s worth the ticket price to watch him.

          Reagan is biased as a movie. That said watching how he worked with both sides and inspired people is true. It reminds you that our system can work and how south things have went.

          The scene with tip really strike a chord. They were rivals but they liked each other as people. They were friends. Thatā€™s the politics we need again

          • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOP
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            The problem with using Jeremy Strong to pitch this movie as one to watch is IDK why Iā€™d watch him in this role instead of just rewatching Succession.

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              I havenā€™t watched succession but he is amazing in this roll. People that knew Cohn said itā€™s uncanny.

              The movie was eh. Very biased and some seems made up but Cohn steals the show

    • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
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      Oh no liberals didnā€™t like a movie! Cry me a river!

      I donā€™t care what critics think. I enjoyed the movie. Form your own opinion and donā€™t expect others to think for you.

      While most of the movie was just eh, the take aways were worth the price of admission.

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        Oh no liberals didnā€™t like a movie! Cry me a river!

        Hold on a sec, let me see if Iā€™m translating this correctly.

        Liberals hate this movie. Critics hate this movie. Therefore, critics are all liberals.

        Do I have that thought process about right? Do you think that there might be any other reason that a movie criticā€“people who have a professional obligation to watch and critique filmsā€“might not like this film? Or is the only possible reason that they didnā€™t like itā€“despite whatever they wroteā€“is because theyā€™re politically liberal?

        What youā€™re saying is on par with claiming that the only people that didnā€™t like Battlefield Earth are people that hate Scientology.

        • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
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          Why would I care if critics hate something? Are you someone that needs to be told what to like?

          I am making no such claim. Iā€™m saying I enjoyed the movie. I donā€™t need a critic to tell me to like or dislike something. Iā€™m an adult. I can make up my own mind.

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            Why would you care if liberals hate it? Are you someone who needs to be told what to like?

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            Why would I care if critics hate something?

            ā€¦Because itā€™s expensive to go see a movie in the theaters, and going to see something thatā€™s probably going to suck is a waste of time too?

            I pirated ā€˜Borderlandsā€™, and I still got ripped off. Knowing that ā€˜Borderlandsā€™ was only a slightly bigger pile of shit than ā€˜Reaganā€™, why would I want to waste the time and kill the braincells to figure out that the critics were right about Reagan, too?

            • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
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              I enjoyed Reagan. I think it was well the 5 dollars.

              Had no interest in borderlands. It looked like garbage.