Unless I am mistaken Babylon is about how people the sacrifice people make, destroying themselves to produce great art...but this is a terrible view. This glorifies the "suffering artist" stereotype.
This is a moral judgement, a complaint that the movie is conveying a message you personally disagree with. It's nothing even approaching objective critique of the film. It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it, to paraphrase Ebert.
Why does Hollywood movies that criticize Hollywood or capitalism always end up portraying it either partially awesome or significantly awesome?
Because a big part of why these stories are appealing is the very duality you're referring to. In many ways Hollywood is awesome. It's a dream for thousands of people. For those that 'make it' it's stardom and partying and your creations or performances being seen by millions of people. To merge this with your earlier complaint, I promise you that most if not all of the modelmakers who slaved for months to product the practical effects in Star Wars (to pick just one example) are immensely proud of their work, their contributions to a great film, and remember the experience fondly for the rest of their lives.
It's also a grinder of exploitation, greed, backstabbing and general betrayal, and the rich taking advantage of the poor, the successful trying to stomp on the heads of the hopefuls in order to keep their status, and thousands of people working menial jobs in Los Angeles for years just for the chance to 'make it'.
he average person watching this is not going to learn a damn thing and glorifies characters like Jordan Belfort just like people were inspired by Gordon Gecko!
A decade+ of movies and TV shows moralizing their subject matter has warped people's perception of art. When the successful producer, literally gets away with murdering a struggling writer and steals the dead writer's girlfriend to live happily ever, does that make Altman's The Player a bad film? Because it doesn't push the 'correct' message it's teaching the 'wrong' lesson? Does it even occur to you that the movie might not be trying to teach you anything?
Do any of you know movies that criticize Hollywood that genuinely portrays the life of an actor or director as terrible? Like, not an actor that is tortured and abused but end up being this totally awesome musician or actors. It always seems to end up this way and I don't know why.
Two reasons: A) because it makes for a good story that people enjoy, despite your personal distaste for that, and B) Because that's often how it happens. The people who are successful in Hollywood had to fight tooth and nail to get there as well as get incredibly lucky. They had to fight through rejection and mockery and disappointment, maybe drug abuse, maybe much worse.
rather than being against capitalism because of empathy, because it exploits people and causes suffering to people.
Oh sorry you're just a communist complaining about capitalism. My bad I thought you were trying to actually make a point.