Awake not Woke!

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Not sure what happened in Acts 1 and 2. The movie was quite unfunny, at least for me and I was expecting kind of a fun movie. Lucky for us, that all changes about a half hour before the film ends. Go ahead and use this as background noise for any time before that. The characters are translucent, of course one is a lesbian. Get to know them for a minute or so in preparation for the last half hour. It's a bit Leave it to Beaver around moms, and it gets more life lesson preachy and especially sappy towards the very end, but yeah, from about a half hour towards the end of the film, for 15 minutes, Oh What Fun is fun. And I dig Michelle Pfeiffer. She's cool. For a Rom-Com mom Christmas movie, I say give it a whirl. I even bumped the overall rating up a little as I made it though the movie. It's a little too mom focused to be in my Christmas rotation, but good for a watch.

A great show that degenerates into parody

The show is magnificent during the first 3 seasons, although there are feminist undertones present from the very beginning, i.e. the presence of shieldmaidens whom historically never existed in any culture, especially the Scandinavian culture. And the other element is the blatant anti-Christian subtexts. At the end of season 4 the show truly degenerates into just feminist propaganda, anti-religion, a perversion of Scandinavian history, you have a lesbian relationship with the queen of Kattegat that goes nowhere, shoehorned in for nothing, you have anti-male speech by female leaders and you have a small scene that plays as a joke regarding a transexual prostitute in a muslim Northern Africa. There are amazing moments and arcs throughout all this especially Bjorn's arc and Ivar's arc, after Ragnar's arc is ended, so the show is not by a long shot a shit show, the production design is awesome although not entirely historically accurate, the music is amazing, the acting is top-notch, only the modern propaganda is nailed with a hammer and it takes away from an otherwise great show.

All you need is a terrible cast and crappy plot

To disinfect a film from any wokeness, just write yourself a terrible script and get your crap cast to run 15 minute monologs about who the hell knows what. Gemma (Alexandra Bard) is his assistant / secretary / lover / confidant, an actress who only sucks just a little less than Doctor Henry (Robert Brettenaugh). The film starts out with Gemma's terrible acting as they fart around doing stuff from the movie The Fly, then it morphs into kind of nothing in the middle, followed by what could be a rock star heroin withdrawal as Gemma sticks patiently by the Doctor's side while he says he will rip her apart and drink her blood. I hated this film.

There is a good bit of DEI casting in the secondary characters but nothing too bad. The villain is a rich white male but his wife is good and needs to teach him a lesson even though she's just as greedy as he is. The acting is ok but the writing is so implausible and not very good. These two bungling idiots are so dumb they would of realistically been caught 10 times over. They need to break in to a top of the line most secure safe that changes it's combination every 60 seconds and sends the code to a key fob or an app on your phone. Seriously? That's the worst safe security system you can have. This makes it much easier to break into the vault, you just have to steal the fob or the phone. This guy can hack into his security system at will and so whatever he wants and not get caught but never thinks to hack into the phone app? Apps are notorious for security flaws and making them vulnerable to hacking. Then there is the safe DNA scan to gain entry. I won't spoil it for anyone but if you see it's so stupid, that's not how DNA markers work, again worst security ever!!?? There's a lot of that kind of writing here. Despite that annoyances there are some genuine laughs and funny moments and we did make it all the way through. It is still watchable as a one time holiday film but not something I would ever watch again.