Real life bad people made out to look like heroes
by JurijFedorov | created - 27 Jan 2020 | updated - 27 Jan 2020 | PublicHollywood tends to glamorize a bit crazy people who fight some big organization. But often these people are just as bad if not worse as the thing they are fighting.
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1. Concussion (2015)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Director: Peter Landesman | Stars: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, David Morse
Votes: 100,627 | Gross: $34.54M
Unfortunately Dr. Bennet Omalu is largely considered a quack. He claims to have invented the CTE term even though it was invented in 1949. And he constantly acccuses scientists out for being bribed without proof. His studies on CTE are also low quality and some are nonsensical. He most likely stole brains so that his results could not be rechecked.
All around this guy is everything science shouldn't be. There are people actually doing good work in this area who are made to look bad because of people like him. Still works part-time for an university. Just incredible...
2. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,768 | Gross: $2.45M
This is just a terrible case. It's one of the only times I have rated a movie 1 star rating because of how much they lied about real life. It ends with text making him out to be some hero journalist.
In reality he is an example of everything wrong with journalism. He did do basic research, but his conclusions were extreme compared to his evidence. 3 government reports were made on his claims all disputing his conclusions. He killed himself partly because he couldn't get a job in journalism anymore. But that's on him. He set back journalism a few years.
3. Erin Brockovich (2000)
R | 131 min | Biography, Drama
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick
Votes: 221,571 | Gross: $125.60M
It's a good movie. But is Erin Brockovich a good person?
She is one of those people who sue big companies for any suffering no matter if it's related to their product or not. Her cancer claims in this case were just cancer. There is no proof anything the company did caused any cancer increase. Still it made her a millionaire. What she did was close to stealing and the movie makes her out to be some hero.
Afterwards she still continued her frivolous lawsuit cases. Absolutely despicable person. A rich person making all rich people look bad.
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