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What's the worst ACTUAL movie you've ever seen? (hexbear.net)
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As in like, I get there's really terrible B-movies and shit like Neil Breen's work that ends up on BOTW, but what's the worst movie that actually had a decent sized budget and was made by an actual movie studio and maybe even had some somewhat well known actors in it?

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[โ€“] MarxMadness@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a film about an inherently political topic that's almost entirely free of politics.

It doesn't even portray war reporters all that positively, or make the case that what they're doing is important. The one guy is cheering and saying something like "I live for this!" as he's watching bombing going on in the distance -- depraved shit, especially if you don't even have a stake in the fighting. And at the start of the film the main lady says "my parents are in [flyover state] pretending none of this is happening." Then what the hell is so important about The News?

[โ€“] Krem@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

All this is stuff that I liked about it. It would have been even better if the main characters were not americans, but traveling there to witness the mess.

I appreciate depicting war inside the US the same way the US depicts war happening outside it: two or three sides fighting, people get caught up in the fighting, no clear ideological sides, just people shooting at each other from shacks and balconies, and committing war crimes out of sheer anger at the other side but we don't find out what either side is.

The movie is not great but if it had shown the motivations or bases of the sides in the conflict, shown soldiers in clear uniforms, shown one side being depraved criminals and the other as principled soldiers, then it would have been even more shit. I appreciate the mess. If/when the americans start having a civil war it would probably be between two bullshit factions and the outside world would probably be justifiably shrug-outta-hecks