Awake not Woke!

I like the general idea here but I feel like I've seen something similar before just not sure where. It's a look at a possible afterlife scenario and what happens when we die. The acting is up and down but the story is very poorly thought out. This is a horrible afterlife and I would say closer to hell. So you get to choose an eternity but only 1 and once you choose you are stuck there forever without a chance to change. All the choices are extremely specific and would get old very very quickly and become repetitive. You can't go see any friends or family because if you do you are stuck in whatever eternity they chose to be in forever with them. There are tons of rules and if you break them you are banished to a black void for eternity. This sounds miserable. I found this rather unfunny and more annoying than anything with some rather unlikable characters. I made it to 40 minutes and just didn't care to go any further. As for the woke there is the usual DEI casting including the obese body positive black female. Then there is the 'Eternity' choices, most of the them are extremely woke worlds. Including 'queer world-no straights allowed', 'man free world-you've dealt with your last man' full occupancy of course and and 'Aristocratic world that pushed colonialism as theft of resources and land from native people'. There were others but you get the idea, it's pretty eye rolling and clubs you over the head with the messaging.

Loosely based on a Florida serial killer in the 1970's. This is a very well made movie with pretty good acting and the 70's period is very well done. However it's marketed as a thriller but that's really a secondary story. It focuses way more on the family dynamic and teen angsty romance drama than anything else. I's not really a bad movie just not a serial killer thriller. The only woke is some DEI including the child characters black best friend. Another one I would really say is more of a 2.5 but for me I just don't think it's a 3.

As accurate as you can be in a two-hour movie

Firstly, it was completely non-woke. Secondly, it was very entertaining. Historical accuracy? If you're looking for that, it's foolhardy to think it will be highly detailed in 125 minutes of movie. The facts are mostly intact. The movie was about the beginning of George Washington's military career. George Washington was one of the most respected military leaders in history. That kind of respect is earned. It would be hard to overplay his heroism and determination. The main point of contention in some early reviews is the "glossing over" of slavery. That's a completely different topic. Historical facts don't often stand up against Confirmation Bias.

All the usual DEI minority casting and feminism with women smarter and better than men. White female Clara's husband is revealed and to no ones surprise he's black. Just have to check that mixed race couples box they love so much. The acting is...average I guess though some of the kids aren't very good. The writing's not great and the dialogue's pretty bad. The main group of characters gets very annoying quickly. This is another of those modern movies where they expect the viewer to root for and be on the side of a group of characters that are unlikable and irritating. The original dystopian sci fi setup in the first 20 minutes gets totally abandoned for a standard 'group of characters takes shelter in the wrong house' trope. This could of been set up in so many ways with the same results, group of delinquents rob a store and take shelter at a house, group of delinquents break down on the road, group of delinquents rob a house. The elaborate setup at the beginning seems mostly pointless and poorly thought out. While I did watch the entire movie it's nothing we haven't seen before. It's pretty horror lite but if you like those types of movies and can take the midlevel woke it might be worth a one time watch.