Awake not Woke!

If you finish it, you're a masochist

The truth is, when I saw there was a War of the Worlds movie with Ice Cube in it, it definitely caught my attention (how innocent of me 🤦‍♂️), and it made me think that, despite all the shitty popcorn movies we’ve been getting, maybe some halfway decent popcorn flicks were still being made here and there. But when I started watching it, I was blown away by the terrible quality of what I was seeing. I didn’t even make it past the 30-minute mark. Either someone laundered money with that movie, or they made it right in the middle of the pandemic from home and everyone had their internet cut off. Because besides being insanely bad, it’s also woke. Yes, woke. But that’s not even the worst part. The worst part of all is that Amazon has the balls to promote it on their platform. Do yourself a favor and watch something else. It’s not worth it.

Oh shit! I watched the movie again without even checking here first to see if someone had already commented on it. Since I actually watched it all the way through, I can say this without hesitation: yeah, it has some comedic touches, but it’s working inside a subgenre that’s already hard as hell to make funny - acid comedy. The previous comment pretty much nails everything it points out, but I’m gonna add a bit more. Both Tim Robinson’s character (the lead) and Paul Rudd’s are well acted overall, but the one that really stands out is Tim Robinson, because he’s actually doing the job he was paid to do. Paul Rudd, on the other hand, is also a producer, and as a producer you’re playing a different role in the project. What does that mean? It means HE READ THE ENTIRE SCRIPT AND SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES HOW IT ALL ENDED UP COMING TOGETHER IN THE FINAL CUT. So when you ask yourself, “Why the hell does this even exist if it’s this cringe?” it’s for the same reason the woke movement exists: creator ego and caprice. They either think what they’re making is some kind of raw gem, or they just don’t care because they wrote it high or wired, hanging out, laughing their asses off - and it’s only funny to them. P.S.: If I could give it less than 20%, I would.

I watched the first 2 episodes before calling it quits as this was cancelled after only 1 season only. It's pretty much an all female cast but given the story is a ten year reunion at a Catholic all girls school it makes sense so not going to ding it for that. There are some feminist comments and while I don't remember anything being said in the 2 episodes there is a strong suspicion that at least 2 of the characters are lesbian, and I am guessing several others as well. There is also a heavy dose of DEI diversity casting in characters. This is supposed to be a comedy first and foremost with the apocalypse setting appearing to be a secondary only plot device to keep them all stuck in one place. As I said it's supposed to be a 10 year reunion making them in their late 20's but the writing and characterizations are firmly set in high school. Everybody is annoying, unlikable, irrational and overly emotional. Nobody acts realistically for the situation they are supposed to be stuck in and the all act like they are still in high school with petty stupid squabbles and instant mood swings if someone looks at them wrong. Every single one of them is so stupid it's hard to believe anybody actually managed to graduate in the first place. All the humor is of the annoying eye rolling characters screeching at each stuff so if you like that type of thing there's plenty here.

More Racist Woke Jordan Peele Garbage

I shouldn't be surprised really, Jordan Peele is the most racist critically celebrated producer of mediocrity and garbage since Spike Lee. While he produces instead of directs this it's all still there. Mostly black cast who are all good intelligent people surrounded by terrible evil white people. The entire premise of this movie is the exploitation of black athletes by the evil white people and this new upcoming star black quarterback has to sell his soul to a demonic cult of all white rich people to be a star. He has to defeat the previous black star player, who's sold his soul to the white cult. He then rejects the white cults offer and the movie ends with the black man slaughtering all the white cult members clearly meant to be the good wholesome smart black man escaping the evil clutches of the white man taking advantage of and using him. I don't think it gets much woker than this racist garbage. I saw a lot of articles and reviews talking about the great performance of the lead. I mean if spending most of the movie standing there looking straight ahead with no expression on your face is impressive then sure. Wayans is a miscast as the former football great who seems to be intent on giving a performance bordering on comedic parody while the rest of the movie wants desperately to be artsy pretentious horror. Long lingering shots of nothing, or flashes of quick cut edits interspersed throughout the movie pretending it's deep and impactful. Just skip it like I should of, it's not worth wasting your time on.