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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 06:19 PM
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Are there any movies today that...
make social commentaries while being entertaining?

StarWars (namely the newer ones) makes a whimper of a commentary, but it along with the story is lame so it's not going to stick. The older ones were a bit less specific; generalized.

"The Matrix" had one line about humanity, but that was all...

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BigDaddyLove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 06:28 PM
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1. Do you mean political commentaries, or just social.......
ones, because most if not all fictional films make some sort of social commentary based on the point of view of the writer/director etc.
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 06:28 PM
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2. "Fight Club" was the best social commentary I've seen for a while.
Love that movie.
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