Awake not Woke!

One of my absolute favorites

It's not perfect, but in my eyes it is. Stands the test of time, so far. Great cast, great one liners and worth repeat watches.

Results of "science fiction movies I might have missed"

I came across No Blade of Grass by searching for science fiction movies I might have missed and this is one hell of a miss. On one hand, the story is well enough to keep you engaged, minus the occasional psychedelic turn, gang of English Easy Riders and absolutely rotten theme song. On the other, it's kind of lazy and dated: montage of pollution stock video and of dead animals, mediocre acting and the plot inevitably winds down to kind of a crawl. And No Blade of Grass is "Anti-Woke" in its portrayal of subservient women and all powerful, all knowing men in the film. They go hog-wild on that and it gets a little cringe after a while. What did I miss? It's not a classic, but it'll do. I'm happy I stuck around past the opening theme song.

Nothing woke. A thief gets trapped in a small town after a botched robbery with his drunk bumbling partner and hijacks an extremely dysfunctional couple while trying to figure a way to escape. This is not your tradition family friendly Christmas movie but it is a hilarious one. It's very 90's but it holds up well. Great performances and humor just don't expect a happy hallmark movie.

Un-original, even in its wokeness.

Admitedly, I haven't set foot in Norway in a long while. But I don't remember it as being quite that diverse. The crowds, not the characters with lines. But women everywhere in public office, that part is accurate. The rest (white men) are retarded. Main character is a nordic, loud-mouthed boss bitch with a colossal sense of her own importance. The only one in the room who can recognize footprints. By the way, the prints, close up, are fairly small compared to the beast's size. 150 feet, and the character does say 50 meters. Big ambitions, tiny bugdet, I guess. Creature's nowhere that tall. Nature shots are gorgeous. That's free. But well shot. Comamndo guy looks gay, Dad's a loony, G-man looks oddly Indian. The father-daughter chemistry feels off to me (or maybe I'm lucky with me wee lass). The only (short) scene that did not feel contrived was the guys bonding over Call of Duty. Script is Jurassic-zilla with a Scandinavian skin. How does one apply fire to offset regeneration if their skin is stone? Why are their tongues organic? Why do they have tails? Wait, that one is normal. Whatever, I just want my XP. Same level of stupidity too: no real-life military would deploy infantry against anything that big. And possibly not organic. Big boy, big toy. Bunker buster, baby, cause there's no kill like overkill. So yeah, _that_ kind of movie. Commando guy whips out his 416 after seeing the troll tank an artillery volley unscathed. Godzilla or Cloverfield did it better, with a creature so vast that it defied modern weaponry. Then again, budget. As for anti-Christianity: it's a staple of Nordic mythos that the pre-Christian creatures are not compatible with the new religion. Same as the Fay of Brittany. But trolls that can "smell the blood of a Christian man" go pretty far back in the folk tales, and are not a modern attack on Christians. There's a definite 'eco' undertone, though, despite a jab at 'Greta'. All in all, I don't think this movie is actively woke. It's passively woke, basically what 'acceptable' culture is to 'normal' people over there. Maybe even what the director / producers _think_ people want. Yeah. That far gone. Then again, it's from the guy who gifted us A-cup Tomb Raider (which I haven't seen), so maybe I'm wrong, and it's his attempt to placate normal people. Also, it is rather mediocre. Won't watch the sequel.