Awake not Woke!

Much like Tarantino and Ritchie

This is a dark comedy with James Spader playing a sociopathic bad guy. He did a great job of it. Several sub-stories come together into a hostage situation. There's good bad-guys and bad good-guys. Every character is quirky. The acting is top-notch. The closest thing to wokeness is a gay car thief stealing a convertible from the front of a gay bar. There's no agenda. Caution: there's a couple minutes of soft-porn between James Spader and Charleze Theron. It's unnecessary to the story. I watched it because it was on a list of Tarantino inspired movies. I would have to agree with that assessment.

Marketed as a zombie horror, it is NOT horror and barely zombies. It's a slow moving psychological drama. I think there was 1 single scene where a so called zombie was an actual threat, otherwise they just stand there and do nothing. The writing is terrible and nothing makes any sense. There's an EMP weapon that supposedly killed everyone on the island and turns only random ones into 'zombies'. How does an EMP do that? Don't worry about it. Why does one random motorcycle still work like nothing happened? Don't ask. Even though it's an EMP and instantly killed people why are they all messed up and look like zombies in various stages of decay and mutilation? Just watch the movie and don't think too much. There are no scares and nothing resembling horror. It's boring drama with little story and nothing happens. As for woke, there are far too many female characters for the situation and story being told and they are more focused on then the males. They just had to through in a creepy emotionally damaged male character in the middle to be a random out of nowhere villain. Best to pass this one up.

This is another one that would of worked better as an animated movie than an ongoing show. The entire premise is ridiculous and makes no sense even within the context of Marvel comics universe. A monkey that just suddenly magically turns into a ninja, firearms marksman top tier hitman just from watching a hitman train for a short period of time. No training himself and no supernatural powers, it just happens. The hitman than dies and his ghost is for some reason attached to the monkey and is forced to follow him around to get revenge. Why can the two of them understand each other? No idea. Why does nobody seem to notice or think a monkey in a suit with glasses jumping around killing people is odd? No idea. The voice acting is good and the animation is fine, that's not an issue. The majority of the humor comes from the dead hitman who spends the entire movie fast talking one liners nonstop, the monkey just grunts and that's it. It's amusing at first but the gimmick becomes stale pretty quickly. There's an entire storyline where the old pathetic male detective and his DEI smart female partner try to tell the police force that there's a monkey killing everyone and nobody believes them. This is about 4 episodes in when dozens if not hundreds of people would of seen him and he would be all over security cameras and social media posts by then. Then the monkey is wildly inconsistent. One minute he's bumbling around and easily captured and tortured, then suddenly turns invincible badass. It's bad writing and makes no sense and it gets worse and dumber as it goes. Then this is Disney's Marvel so there's the usual heavy dose of virtue signaling and social justice commentary. There's also a heavy dose of the feminism, the usual girlbosses, females smarter and better than males. . Pretty sure I saw a man wearing a bra in the prison scene. I made it to 5 episodes when it got really dumb and some flamboyant seemingly gay characters started showing up.

Woke AI movie

Subtle, but woke. The way they wrote the story makes it subversive. It’s set in the ‘80s, and the woman is the one steering the whole plot, turning the male lead into this guy who’s got work problems and can’t deal with them properly. Terrible character development. The daughter is body-positive and a lesbian, so of course nothing bad happens to her the entire movie. Same goes for her girlfriend (it’s not explicit, but you can totally tell), who’s a minority and also gets zero negative consequences… because she doesn’t have a dick, unlike the dad and the son, who are the only ones that actually take serious hits. Total disappointment. You go into these movies hoping they’ll be good, and Hollywood just keeps trying to wreck everything it touches with its dumb politics. Oh, and last thing: the timelines make zero sense. It was only at the end that I realized it was a J.J. Abrams movie… and I could’ve skipped it.