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Agora (2009)
Movies like this always lose credibility after fact-checking.
I've watched movies like "Trumbo", "American Sniper", "Lone Survivor", etc. all of which claim to be true stories and all of which later disappointed me because they weren't really "true" stories at all. I generally liked these movies at first but the moment I started digging into the facts, I discovered plenty of facts that discredit the storylines. I can still watch those movie and enjoy them but I can't take their claims of truthfulness seriously anymore. Movies like these betray your willingness to invest yourself into the stories. They manipulate people into believing lies and that in my mind makes the movies trash. And it's the same for this movie, "Agora". I initially enjoyed it as a movie. But after learning about the amount of facts that they twisted in the movie to sell their anti-religious (particularly anti-christian) narrative, I think it's just trash. They deliberately altered settled historical facts in a lot of places and they added details that have no historical backing to them, all in their attempt to make it seem like Hypatia was caught up in a science vs. religion tug-of-war. And as a skeptical agnostic, seeing all the overly enthusiastic anti-theist atheists "religiously" celebrating the movie like it represents the truth is just embarrassing, to be honest.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Ultimate Edition Is So Much Better
I just watched the ultimate (extended) edition of this movie and I'm pretty surprised it actually carries a good storyline. I don't know why they had to go release the theatrical one cus that just put everyone against the whole DC movie franchise. I mean, I didn't think it was perfect but this was way better than the other one.
The Other Guys (2010)
Bad.
I'm genuinely confused how people can be so divided about this movie? I thought it was crap. I mean, what was funny about it? the only real funny scene that was original and actually funny was the argument about the lion and tuna. and people actually thought mark walhberg shouting, "I'm a peacock!" was funny?? lol what?! I mean, is it because y'all are watching it in theatres and getting carried away by the crowd laughing or something? did y'all watch it while you're high? or just bad tastes? lol what is it? 😅
Dark Waters (2019)
People Need To See This Movie.
"Dark waters" deals with a huge subject matter that has way too much relevance for people all over the world. Way way more than Hollywood or the stupid Oscars would like to admit. The thing that bugs me is that a movie like this was overlooked by the Academy Awards for movies like "once upon a time in America" and "parasite". I thought of that so many times while watching the movie and to be frank, it sure made me lose faith in people and humanity in general that a movie like this movie has gone almost completely unnoticed while the demand for relatively crappy movies goes up.
Lan feng zheng (1993)
Chinese people should watch this
More people should watch this movie, especially the Chinese, to get an idea about how the Chinese communist party took away people's freedom and dignity one step at a time, and also to get an idea on how it could happen to any nation not careful enough to learn from history. Visually a very simple movie, yet it has a powerful and relevant message for everyone.