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Movies (or media in general) where you believe the lesson was lost on most audiences

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First me, it's Scott Pilgrim

Most people I know love this series for the obscure pop culture references and it's satire and mockery of hipster culture. But I think most people miss the main point of it; Scott and Ramona are terrible, terrible people.

And I'm sure there other examples but right now this is what immediately came to mind, and I'd love to see what other people bring up.
 

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Blade Runner's point was lost on Ridley Scott, if we look at what he did with The Final Cut and 2049
 
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Wall Street.

Michael Douglas said he lost count of the number of stock brokers who came and thanked him for inspiring them to get into the business.
 
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Rick and Morty, considering that much of its fanbase is ignorant to the fact that Rick is a horrible person who should not be admired.
 
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The Jungle.

His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States.[2] However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Sinclair famously said of the public reaction, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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I saw Django Unchained in theaters with a mostly white audience and I remember everyone laughing at really odd moments. It's like they were numb to all the racist brutality and just thought the whole thing was funny. I came away from it feeling kinda gross.
 
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Definitely
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A bunch of people thought it was super sacrilegious, but if you put any thought into how Jesus and his cohorts in the Bible were described, it made perfect sense.
 
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I don't think it was anywhere near being the majority of the audience, but there was a small group of critics and weirdos who seemed to think that Trainspotting glorified or promoted drug use.
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Dead babies, going from clean cut sporty guy to dying in squalor, shitting yourself in bed....yep, total glorification.

EDIT - Is there any chance that those of you just posting the name of a movie could expand on it a little please? Some of them I've not seen, and even the ones I have, I'm not sure what's being referred to as the point that was missed.
 
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Godzilla and Evangelion are both franchises where people either assign the wrong themes to them due to oft repeated memes and/or straight up say they don't have one because they have TERRIBLE media literacy. Like NGE isn't some big religious epic and the original Godzilla doesn't have a "atomic/hydrogen weapons are bad poor japan :(" theme.
 
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Kopite said:
That's the point isn't it? What do people tend to misintepret it as?
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People make up things to absolve Joel. Everything from, "they didn't know if it would work" to "the virus had gone too far and logistics of cureing the population would be impossible."

Literally takes all the power out of the ending just to feel better about the character when none of that was even a consideration in his mind.
 
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In The Lion King, how did Simbas father come to power? I assume it was by killing the previous pride head.. so why was the uncle the bad guy if he was just doing what lions do?
 

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Kalmakoffee said:
First me, it's Scott Pilgrim

Most people I know love this series for the obscure pop culture references and it's satire and mockery of hipster culture. But I think most people miss the main point of it; Scott and Ramona are terrible, terrible people.

And I'm sure there other examples but right now this is what immediately came to mind, and I'd love to see what other people bring up.
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I guess, but you could find a lot worse, by just looking down the street.
 
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Stouffers said:
In The Lion King, how did Simbas father come to power? I assume it was by killing the previous pride head.. so why was the uncle the bad guy if he was just doing what lions do?
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The movie could have used some more patricide. Also why don't we see the lions ripping a Zebra to pieces while its still alive?
 
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I feel like Saw 3 was right with Jigsaw's apprentice saying the whole thing was bullshit and they were just murdering people. Sadly the fan base and makers of the future films didn't agree.
 
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Fight Club.

Tyler Durden is an anarchist asshole who becomes an Objectivist symbol of what it was he was originally fighting against. The narrator eventually overcomes his machismo fascism by embracing empathy and taking responsibility for his shortcomings instead of blaming capitalism and women for his shortcomings.
 
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Shit, pretty much any movie that requires you to think for a second.

All the ones named in this thread, plus: Starship Troopers, Terminator 2 (as evidenced by its sequels), A Song of Ice and Fire (as evidenced by what the show has become), Guardians of the Galaxy (StarLord is a stunted child, not someone to emulate), Watchmen (Rorshach is not a good guy), The Dark Knight Rises, LA Confidential, Apocalypse Now, and on and on.

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Legit confused by the people who walked outta that movie and thought "You know what? A race war would be the solution to black people's problems!"
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I mean...
We can dream can't we?
 
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