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You still think this is gonna save the Marvel universe?
No way! Nope, it won’t. Eleven months before it’s out, they’ve already dropped four teasers showing who’s involved, and even if they brought back the entire original cast (including those who’ve had legal disputes with Marvel/Disney, like Scarlett Johansson or Terrence Howard), they couldn’t fix it. This has been rotten from the start, and the actors involved are just that → actors. They’re not saviors, and they don’t care if the story is told right. There aren’t many Henry Cavills in history; only he could stand up to the system because he has the backing and clout to do it. Don’t expect this movie to change anything. The same people who ruined it are still behind it, and swapping faces on the snake won’t change that. This franchise is dead, no matter how much noise they make. That’s all they want from you → pure copium. In the end, it’ll be just that: all bark and no bite. We’ll see how “awake” this movie really ends up being. For now, let’s leave it at zero and see how it turns out…
Complex film
I'm happy to say that Rabbit Trap is a bit too complex for me half watching it, but at least it's a film that makes us think and doesn't end ambiguously. It's my belief that so many films finish open-ended because the kiddos cannot accept an ending they do not agree with or, I guess, understand. Not that I'm unable to comprehend the plot, I just went into this Folk Horror film not expecting much. It really is a cool film if you watch it with intent and, you know what, I'm going to give it a re-watch with full my full attention. Zero woke in a new film. Refreshing. I'm recommending this as a watch, if you capture the details.
Oh, NO! Hell no!! This is NOT Pretty Woman!
According to the press, Anora is supposed to subvert the urban fairy tale of Pretty Woman, but it ends up being a movie that tries to legitimize the shitty behavior of white-trash people. It’s directionless, long, and empty. Beneath a failed comedy and an erratic tone, it offers a frivolous, whitewashed portrayal of prostitution, with a completely wrong take on what it actually is, despite the press trying to sell it as a “male gaze” critique, when it’s not. It’s just Sean Baker’s gaze, and the gaze of the people who paid to make this movie known. The protagonist is a flat, objectified character with no real motivations, and the supposed class or social conflict never gets developed. The humor is simply bad, the runtime is excessive, and potentially dramatic situations turn into pointless slapstick. The film comes off as offensive (especially to women), shallow, and lacking any real substance, recognized more for marketing and propaganda than for what should actually matter—and which it doesn’t have: narrative merit. Conclusion: Another movie inflated by the mainstream press, desperately trying to ride the success of a much better film made without all the DEI bullshit and the whole woke movement, just to have a shot at relevance → and still failing to even stand as a movie on its own.
A Political Pamphlet Disguised as a Show
The one who thinks watching this show is somehow cool and can’t see what’s rotten right in plain sight → it’s a total no-brainer: this show is SUPER WOKE! Yeah, it screams diversity, equality, and inclusion everywhere like some kind of plague. It’s splattered all over, from the show’s poster and art style to the very first words spoken on screen. It’s all planned, plotted, and manufactured so idiots will think this is peak art when it’s not. It’s straight-up communist propaganda, ready to be jammed into the heads of people who think they’re edgy and on the side of revolution, veganism, and all that socialist crap. The premise is interesting, but the execution is completely and deliberately designed to make you believe what’s being done is pure gold - it’s not. It’s just political messaging after political messaging for stupid snobs. That’s it. Totally skippable.
