Awake not Woke!

As others stated the only woke is some DEI overrepresentation in background characters. It's a minor thing and not even that many scenes. I can't give it a woke rating based on that alone. As far as these Conjuring universe movies go it's up there with the rest of them in my opinion. The acting is great, the FX are pretty good. There is a minimal use of jump scares and more about building tension, sounds and visuals just out of focus and actual terror. This takes place in the 80's and it actually feels like it unlike so many period movies now that just throw some music and pop culture references in and think they did good. Everything from the film style, the clothes, the décor the attitudes, they got it all right. I've been watching these from the beginning and for me this did not disappoint.

C'mon already and get back together.

At an hour and 45 minutes, give or take, it's taking an extraordinarily long time for Zooey and Charlie to get back together and by the end, even the dimmest of all watchers know what's about to happen. Typical romance comedy stuff with just one thing that makes the film stand out: pups. There's a ton of doggies and pup-related stuff in this film. Maybe a little over the top on the dogs, but I must say if you don't like this movie because of the doggies, or just don't like animals in general, that's just wrong... to say the least. Is it woke for telling the viewers to flat-out adopt a pet from the shelter? If so, that makes me a woke liberal. Fun movie. About 30 minutes too long.

Important: Claire background noise for most of this film.

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.