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I am so sick off movies that cavalierly use sex workers as a plot device. Why did Maya Rudolph have to be a prostitute in Idiocracy (one of my favorite movies). Are there any movies out there that portray the reality of sex work?

Research indicates that a significant proportion of sex workers have experienced abuse in childhood, including sexual abuse. Emotional abuse in childhood is also a significant risk factor for sex work. Factors like poverty, lack of education, homelessness, and substance abuse can also contribute to a person's involvement in sex work. Few women working in the sex industry are happy hookers on a glamorous career path. Sex work is a degrading job, leaving women very vulnerable. There are many reasons why women become sex workers, but it is far from being an easy way to earn money; women mainly become involved as a last resort and stay out of desperation.

Many reviewers have said the they do not find Michael Keaton funny, but I do. He is also a fine dramatic actor as well. Henry I love merely because he has a reputation as one of the most likable stars in Hollywood.

It ought to be very easy to suss these scammers out because they all fit the same profile...people like Elizabeth Holmes, Amanda Riley (Scamanda) Anna Delvey/Sorokin, and Anna Stubblefield.

When I was watching Scamanda, which is a very similar story to Belle's, I realized that she never looked sick, she always looked healthy, and like Belle had perfectly groomed eyebrows. Later on in the series, Amanda's stepdaughter makes the same observation. No one else noticed this?

How is it that people get taken in by someone who is obviously lying? There have been cancer scammers before and since Belle Gibson. You'd think that a company like Apple, with all their "geniuses", would have insisted on a fact checking before investing. Did it not occur to anyone at Apple to consult oncologists or even ask Belle for proof of her diagnosis?

I suppose many of her followers were young, impressionable women who decided to invest emotionally in a person they did not know...which I find strange. I may be more skeptical than the average bear, however, it took me about 30 seconds to find out that brain tumors do not typically metastasize.

I find the lack of critical thinking and intellectual curiosity appalling; not only in her followers, but also the magazines that gave her awards and the business who agreed to give her money for her fraudulent claims.

BTW, she apparently made additional fake claims, e.g., her brother was autistic, which can read about on her Wikipedia page.

I agree that the movie was very "meh," but I still enjoyed it (while making holiday cards).

As Isaac Asimov famously said," There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

In other words, "Don't believe everything you think."

I just find it amusing how many people make assumptions, and are so certain of themselves, yet their criticism has no basis in reality

"First, the storyline is very good though I don't trust its honesty based on Hollywood's track record of distorting so-called true stories." "but much of it doesn't appear to be factual " Here is some advice for all the wannabe film critics out there: When a film is billed "based on true events," that means...take it with a grain of salt. Filmmakers use a lot of artistic license; they are accorded leeway in his or her interpretation of something and is not held strictly accountable for accuracy. It's not a documentary.

Show me ONE, just ONE movie "based on true events" that is 100% accurate. They do not exist.

This is for all the cry babies who object to the fact that Jordan did not appear in the film...which, by the way, the cry babies could have looked up, but no, they wanted to complain.

"MJ is a legend, he's such a god you can't show his likeness, you might be Charlie Hebdo'd." In the midst of promoting the film, Ben Affleck has given an interview to the Hollywood Reporter, where he explained the conscious and excellent decision for the star not to appear in the film.

"When you become much more than a hero, an athlete or even an icon, you start to be an idea to people. You touch them and you start to represent hope, excellence and greatness. You are unique," he began.

"There was no way I was going to ask the public to believe that someone other than Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan. It was a deliberate choice. I thought he was too majestic for anyone to imitate. Jordan is too big," he continued.

One guy said: "However, the film neglects to tell us that Vaccaro soon left Nike to work for Adidas." Actually he was fired by Nike in 1991 - six years after the release of Air Jordans - but moved on to work for Adidas and then for Reebok. He and Strasser and Moore all went to Adidas, where they forged that company's floundering basketball program into Nike's biggest competitor.

This is for all the cry babies who complained about the Jordans' "greed." No, the Jordan family was not greedy. That scene was pure fiction. In reality, Deloris never insisted on Jordan getting a cut of the profits from his shoe, but she was instrumental in pushing Michael to pick Nike's offer over other, more prestigious sneaker deals.

Mrs. Jordan heads several charities. In 1989, Mrs. Jordan and her son co-founded the Michael Jordan Foundation to raise money for disadvantaged children. Not only was she the President of the foundation, but she also began the Michael Jordan Education Club that encouraged students to improve their grades and attendance. Soooo greedy, huh?

Michael Jordan did not receive the red Mercedes 380SL he insisted on from all three interested parties. Instead, Vaccaro pulled out two toy cars and started rolling them on the conference table.

"Yet big corporations can make 'movies' like this to inject their brand into the brains of people." "Objectionable propoganda (sic) for Nike and Jordan, and Ben Affleck should be ashamed of himself." "This film was made by Nike, for Nike and to increase Nike's sales. "

Nope. Ben Affleck did not seek Nike's approval for 'Air' - only Michael Jordan's. "It's not a history of Nike," Affleck said of his new film. "There's interviews and books about that."