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Recent Reviews
Michaels
10-12-2024
"We seek peaceful coexistence!" -brain slug / Lt. Cmdr. Remmick
"Jurassic World Domination" is packed with action and nostalgia but little else. I can't help it... I enjoyed it! It is James Bond, but with dinosaurs. Woke aspects are sometimes subtle. Because of the disagreements between previous reviewers, I will go into details. SPOILERS FOLLOW Here are the woke aspects: Evil "Steve Jobs": He is an evil, corporate mogul-nerd. With a little grease he could be Bill Gates. At least he is not bald, but he seems to be the woke trope of "old white man bad". It's not enough for a woke point on its own. It's only in the presence of other wokeness that we can be sure of the intent. "Neo" black male: He betrays the evil old white male to save the world. His character feels like DEI. The script seems to call itself out when, after being betrayed, the evil CEO cries, "I gave you every opportunity!", i.e., "I gave you Equal Opportunity", i.e., "I gave you a chance you didn't deserve, because you're black... And this is how you repay me?!" "Neo #2" old Asian male: Much the same as the black male, he betrays "evil Steve Jobs" in an attempt to redeem himself and save the world. Jeff Goldblum: His character is the final person to bite the hand of the evil, old, white male that feeds him. Padme: "But at least he's not a minority, right? RIGHT?!" He is Jewish. (Plot twist: so is Natalie Portman.) Parthenogenesis: This is the ability of a female to asexually reproduce. This is known to occur in komodo dragons and several other vertebrates. Many lesbian-feminists would love to self-reproduce without icky male sperm. Dominion seems to imply the girl is created that way by her mother, although Fallen Kingdom (which I did not see) established that she is a clone. They were trying to draw a similarity between her and Beta/Blue and wound up creating confusion. Or not? Based on a hint in the dialog, I predict that her mother gave her monitor lizard DNA so she would be able to reproduce via parthenogenisis. We'll see in next film. In any case, we're in dangerous territory. Coexist: The theme has shifted to a hippy-dippy "coexist". We must learn to live alongside the extremely dangerous dinosaurs that are being illegally smuggled into our country and then multiplying exponentially. Sound familiar? The dialog is explicit about this "coexist" message in the ending. "Indiana Jones" black woman: I found her agitating. Her acting screams that she is there for DEI. If you are not bothered by the personality of this character, I can understand, but you have to admit her role in the plot is clunky. The actress played a similar role in the Apple series "Invasion", but as a cop. In both, she is a very strong-willed woman who initially tries to ignore the plight of a victim before switching sides to help due to a sense of right and wrong, compassion, and a desire to save the world. However, Chris Pratt's strong male character helps offset black female Indiana Jones. Another counter-balance is the lovely Bryce Dallas Howard, whose character is feminine and timid, except in her will to get back her kidnapped adopted child. If Bryce had acted like her character in "Argylle" and karate-chopped her way past dinosaurs, my woke meter would have red-lined. In summary, if you put on your "They Live" sunglasses, the themes here are "Minorities: rise up against your evil, white male CEO masters", "women: reproduce without males", and "everyone: coexist with invaders". This is open for debate, so I am cool with the above woke scores from 0 to 5. It's worth a watch. Just don't forget to wear your "They Live" sunglasses.
Jon Loder
10-10-2024
As usual, sequels go downhill with each iteration
Dirty jokes can be funny. Being dirty doesn't make them funny. That is, unless you're a boy in middle school laughing over things that start with "milk, milk. lemonade." Unfortunately, this movie broke new ground on vulgarity without humor. There's some innuendo about homosexuality. The Negasonic-watsit character is still there with her "partner." I'm not a fan of the multiverse story lines. This movie was just plain boring to me. I actually paid $29 on Prime because... you know... Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. I knew it was going to be a must-see. I regret the purchase.
Michaels
10-09-2024
Huh?
This is an unusual film in which there is almost no dialog. Nothing overtly woke, but there is a subtle vestige of wokeness that I will get to later. The start of the movie is gripping, with palpable tension heightened by the lack of dialog. The image quality and cinematography captivated me. The end of the movie is like "huh?" I read ScreenRant's explanation and that satisfied me in terms of understanding, but basically the artsy fartsy director refuses to have his creativity limited by commonsense. I am more of a hard sci-fi guy. The plot would work as a (weak) Twilight Zone episode, by cutting out the repetitive middle. SPOILER FOLLOWS. The aliens are woke. They didn't assimilate the woman, because she is crippled emotionally, therefore handicapped, therefore in a protected group deserving of better treatment than everyone else. It's subtle, but the only alien invaders who would think this way are the alien invaders created by woke writers. It is maybe half a woke point, which I will round down to 0. Watch it you want. It works as a visceral experience. Stephen King gives it top marks. For other reasons, I'm pretty sure he is insane.
Michaels
10-08-2024
A long, slow journey to a cringy ending
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" was corny when it was released in 1979, and it has not gotten any better with time. Nothing woke. The eye-rolling is largely in the last few minutes of an otherwise bloated and boring attempt to outdo the space psychedelia of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe my large 4K OLED just wasn't up to the task, but I was feeling neither awed nor entertained. I watched the director's edition, which tightens up the pacing and makes other improvements, but it's like trying to polish a turd. V'ger is horny, but thankfully not woke. Could you imagine if this movie were done today? Ilia: "The Decker unit is too white, male, and straight. V'ger chooses to 'join' with the black lesbian unit." The use of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s theme feels jarring. I’m kidding, of course; TMP had it first, but let's be honest, that theme totally belongs to TNG now. I remember having the reverse feeling in 1987 when TNG premiered with the TMP theme song. I love Star Trek. In fact, The Wrath of Khan is my favorite film. So it is with great sorrow that I cast The Motion Picture to the depths, never to be watched again by me.
