Awake not Woke!

Comedy is dying...

Or has it been dying for a while already? Either way, it’s crazy how they blow millions making these movies with dozens of people involved, but they won’t spend the right amount or even a decent amount to get a solid script. Am I surprised? Nah, not even a little. Honestly, I’m starting to get used to it, and that’s the worst part of all. There’s gonna come a point where people just stop consuming this garbage and the whole genre starts becoming dead. At least when it comes to movies, because in the theaters there’s still some real ones left like Ricky Gervais who actually dare to do comedy the way it’s supposed to be done. Now, my simplest take is this: if you wanna put on a comedy as background noise for a hangout with friends, it’s perfect. Otherwise it doesn’t make much sense → it’s genuinely bad. Except for one single scene that I’m not gonna spoil, so at least the people who still decide to watch it get that one good laugh. That’s it! I don’t recommend it, but it’s watchable. Bad, yeah… but watchable. Incredible! Oh, and of course it’s woke. A whole bunch of DEI casting, and Tenaya Taylor shows up looking like she’d do a better job as a painting hanging on the wall than actually delivering her own lines. No comment.

I knew before hand this was only 1 season before it was cancelled it just sounded interesting enough to give a chance. An alternate future sci-fi 1950's where con men sell time shares and property on the moon. In the 2 episodes I watched it's never actually explained if this is even a thing in this universe or not. It doesn't really make much sense, if it is a thing why would you need to sell people on the idea and everyone would know how expensive it would be, if it's not a thing then why would anyone believe it in the first place. You would think after scamming this many people in so many towns everyone would know who this scam company is, they use the exact same company name everywhere they go. The first episode sets up a very interesting retro Jetsons style 1950's but then it doesn't do anything with it. There doesn't seem to be much of a story, it just drags out in family dynamic melodrama. Slogging through 2 slow moving episodes just wasn't enough to keep going. It's a real shame as this is a great setup for a sci-fi show, just put some thought into some kind of story. The acting is good and there is some ok humor. It's not even that it's a bad show it's just so directionless and dull. The only woke I saw in those 2 episodes was way, way to much DEI overrepresentation for 1950's America. Given the cancellation after 1 season there's no real reason to watch.

It's an anti-woke theme in a B-movie

The story is based on someone trying to do something about rampant immigration issues. It's in a European city that's never specifically named. I think it's a composite of the Euro-countries that have let immigration get out of hand. The solution: kill the ones who rape and kill. Simple enough. The lead character is not as likeable as you may expect. There's wasn't enough tactical consultation to portray SWAT tactics. Try counting the mistakes they made. It's definitely a B-movie. The story never really resolved. It's more of a commentary showing the reality of how devastating cultural import can be on a peaceful society and the extreme measures required to counter it.

I won't say much about the movie itself as it's what you would expect. Bad over top acting, bad story, cheesy and corny as hell, but it's supposed to be. For the first 45 minutes or so it does a solid job of recreating the feel of the original with lots of little easter eggs thrown in. Dinklage actually puts up a good performance as the lead. Then in the second half it takes a hard left turn into woke political propaganda and never look back. There is a lot of DEI casting going on here including the heroic lead black female reporter. She makes a comment about humans have already killed the planet. A white male reporter sarcastically asks if 'him' is the proper pronoun and the female reporter calls him classless. There is a long scene of a group of white males called the nasty lads who we are told are political extremists take a restaurant full of minorities hostage. They are angry about gender swapping the mascot and complaining about the estrogenic thinking of America. One of them does the ok symbol to a side shaved black female and asks if she's triggered. This is clearly meant to be the proud boys and 'right wing terrorists' in general. Despite all the DEI casting there is not one single minority killed in this movie. In fact the official death count is 19 males (all white) and only 2 females. To top it off the males are all killed very graphicly and violently while one female is electrocuted bloodlessly and the other disappears in a fireball. What could of been a decent homage to a terrible yet infamous 80's movie throws it all away for an agenda.