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"Name the worst people to have glowing biopics."


  

          

Name folks who got glowing, positive Hollywood biopics (or even depiction in general) before the world figured out they suck?

I'm thinking Gifted Hands and Ben Carson.

JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy.

Megan Kelly and those terrible Fox News Women in Bombshell.

Anyone else come to mind?


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Steve Jobs.
Jun 13th 2024
1
Lol. I didn't see it.
Jun 13th 2024
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      The movie was more sympathetic than it needed to be
Sep 08th 2024
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Che Guevara
Jun 15th 2024
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i used to love motorcyle diaries
Jun 17th 2024
7
Wait, folks don't mess with Che no more?
Jun 17th 2024
10
      The Cold War?
Jul 03rd 2024
14
Chris Kyle aka American Sniper
Jun 15th 2024
4
^^^^
Jun 17th 2024
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“Notorious” wasn’t about Diddy, but they portrayed as Yoda
Jun 15th 2024
5
Yeah Diddy in Notorious was part of the inspiration for this post.
Jun 17th 2024
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The JD Vance one is the worst, imo.
Jun 17th 2024
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LIKE I SAID.
Jul 15th 2024
18
Legend of Bagger Vance>>>>JD Vance.
Jul 15th 2024
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Dude is the King of the grifters
Jul 15th 2024
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I had no clue he had a biopic
Jul 16th 2024
22
      His bio is how he became a senator. Not that he got a bio because he
Jul 17th 2024
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J. Edgar Hoover
Jun 27th 2024
11
Forgot this one. There must also be Kissinger depictions in movies...
Jun 27th 2024
12
Winston Churchill
Jul 03rd 2024
13
I'm sure the Amy Winehouse biopic was a nice fluff piece overall
Jul 06th 2024
15
the Travolta Gotti was a funny effort
Jul 06th 2024
16
Margaret Thatcher
Jul 09th 2024
17
Captain Phillips
Jul 16th 2024
21
What Captain Phillips do!?!?
Aug 13th 2024
25
Richard Williams
Jul 23rd 2024
24
Griselda if you compare the series to the real person
Aug 13th 2024
26
But how does this compare to Pablo Escobar biopics?
Aug 15th 2024
27
      well if we just go by Narcos
Aug 16th 2024
29
Reagan biopic incoming
Aug 15th 2024
28

Nopayne
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1. "Steve Jobs."
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Buddy_Gilapagos
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2. "Lol. I didn't see it."
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Did the movie not show how much of a d*ck he was?


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30. "The movie was more sympathetic than it needed to be"
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It showed glimpses of his rage and rigidity and his ability to mischaracterize anything that didn't align with his vision of himself or his desires.

But, I didn't feel it landed how emotionally devastating his process was to create the objects of his desires, especially to people close to him. Maybe that's because all the people he abused (my words) ended up coming back to him, even his daughter. It was more of a flattering movie than I thought Danny Boyle would do.

It was just unexciting, except for some rather big shouting scenes—the complete opposite of Jobs, who was highly compelling to follow, even with his faults.

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3. "Che Guevara "
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7. "i used to love motorcyle diaries"
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at the time i didn't realize how much of rosy picture it is.

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10. "Wait, folks don't mess with Che no more?"
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What did I miss?

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14. "The Cold War?"
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>What did I miss?

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4. "Chris Kyle aka American Sniper"
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6. "^^^^"
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5. "“Notorious” wasn’t about Diddy, but they portrayed as Yoda"
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9. "Yeah Diddy in Notorious was part of the inspiration for this post. "
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8. "The JD Vance one is the worst, imo."
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Complete hero worship, absolute poverty porn. Hated it with every fiber of my being.

11/13: Hot Frosty (on Netflix)
11/23: Three Wiser Men & A Boy (on Hallmark)
11/27: Christmas Under the Lights (on Hallmark Mysteries)
12/14: The Santa Class (on Hallmark)

  

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18. "LIKE I SAID."
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11/13: Hot Frosty (on Netflix)
11/23: Three Wiser Men & A Boy (on Hallmark)
11/27: Christmas Under the Lights (on Hallmark Mysteries)
12/14: The Santa Class (on Hallmark)

  

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19. "Legend of Bagger Vance>>>>JD Vance."
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And ye gods, did I fucking hate Bagger Vance.

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20. "Dude is the King of the grifters"
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Ron Howard owes everyone an apology.

  

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22. "I had no clue he had a biopic"
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Perhaps if I'll remember when I get home, I'll do a web search.

He's fairly young for being a governor, so I'm assuming it was done fairly recently.

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23. "His bio is how he became a senator. Not that he got a bio because he"
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was a Senator.


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11. "J. Edgar Hoover"
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Movie sucked on top of the portrayal. Also, one of Leo's weakest performances.

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12. "Forgot this one. There must also be Kissinger depictions in movies..."
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that don't make clear the pure evil of this dude.


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13. "Winston Churchill"
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15. "I'm sure the Amy Winehouse biopic was a nice fluff piece overall"
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Probably didn't delve into her racism or homophobia at all. Not sure, haven't seen it, won't support it.

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16. "the Travolta Gotti was a funny effort "
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I guess its the opposite of your criteria but aside from being one of the worst, and horribly miscast movies ever, the attempt to make Gotti a sympathetic victim and all around great guy were so funny

  

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17. "Margaret Thatcher"
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The Iron Lady. A puff piece film that blatantly omitted the fact that the bitch was a dog whistling racist pile of shit.

And fuck Meryl Streep for praising her as some feminist icon. Can't stand that vapid asshole either.

  

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21. "Captain Phillips"
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25. "What Captain Phillips do!?!?"
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24. "Richard Williams"
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Dude may have been passionate about Venus and Serena, but he abandoned his first family. He walked out on his wife and five young kids and never looked back before starting a new family.


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26. "Griselda if you compare the series to the real person "
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She did some bad shit in the series but they portrayed her like this girlboss single mom who had to navigate the patriachy of the drug game.

The series opens with a quote from Pablo Escobar about how she was the only person who scared him. I don't know if that quote was real but the woman in the series certainly wouldn't scare him.
The real Griselda Blanco struck fear into men because she was a fucking psychotic monster.

The series made her far too sympathetic. Not to mention someone that hideous looking being played by Sofia Vergara lol

  

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27. "But how does this compare to Pablo Escobar biopics?"
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Is it just more stark because it's a woman or is this series more flattering than movies about drug lords like Pablo Escobar?

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29. "well if we just go by Narcos"
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Seeing that they're both Netflix.. Even though the Pablo is charismatic, and seen (many times understandably) as a champion for the poor, I dont think there's sugar coating the things he did... blowing up planes, bombing the shit out the city, killing politicians. The later the show gets, the more desperate and violent he gets, thousands of innocents are killed regardless of who they are (social status, etc)... they're not really trying to make us see his side of things, by the end he's a literal terrorist. it also helps that the story is told/narrated from the DEA side

With Griselda there's a clear attempt to act as if she's doing what she's gotta do. Theres a part where she puts a hit on one of her own soldiers but turns out his child was in the car and gets killed, and she feels terrible about it, where in reality Griselda (at least according to her top soldier) was like fuck that kid. Same soldier tells another story where he went to a house to kill people and she got mad at him for letting the babies live... these are the kind of things that might make that Pablo quote true, but they want us to empathize with her on some level because they're trying to have it both ways.
For an emphasis point It's not told by law enforcement like Narcos but its parallelled with a story about a female detective trying to navigate a bunch of grab-ass male cops despite being vastly superior to them, and it could be 100% accurate how it was for her, but it seems to only be in the show for the whole girlboss thing

I think the movie Blow suffered from this. George Jung is portrayed pretty as great guy, but literally everyone fucks him over. Kill the Irishman... same issue. It's also why i tapped out of Godfather of Harlem which sucks because i love Forrest Whittaker. I guess it's harder when the character is a real person, and not a fictional anti-hero ala Tony Soprano or Walter White... a Pablo Escobar story written from his perspective probably wouldn't work

Should also mention Sofia Vergara was awful lol

  

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28. "Reagan biopic incoming"
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Surprised it took this long.

  

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