Firstly, some of us media nerds are way into analyzing the fuck out of movies (and books and games and whatever), sorting out what was accidental, what was unconscious and what was willful and intentional, and the differences between fiction that’s meant to reflect IRL, fiction that features codes or conventions for sake of the audience (e.g. sound in space) or fiction that reflects author bias (e.g. Christians as represented in Pure Flix Entertainment cinema).

But yeah, speaking of Pure Flix, some movies are out there to send specific messages or to reflect certain dangerous worldviews, and I’ve seen enough of those to understand that one can’t safely just enjoy movies. A big example is the implication in the MCU (Disney) that the status quo (roughly IRL + superheroes, with civilization carrying on) is good, even though that’s not the case for most of us normies. In fact, Spiderman’s poverty trope was pretty much erased when Iron Man / Tony Stark takes Parker in and makes sure he and relevant family are cared for, and thus out of common precarity. Fucking Disney, man.

Then there’s also the problem with media in general, that a lot of it is subject to Hollywood accounting (the studios and labels cheat the artists and developers) and Hollywood management (infamously crunch in the video game industry, but mistreatment and undercompensation prevails throughout.) So a lot of what we consume comes with some gross baggage.

That said, I do enjoy movies quite a lot.