Awake not Woke!

Great movie!

What can you say about this film? Look, if you grab a magnifying glass and start dissecting it like some sad little nerd, you’ll probably find some square rock with the corners conveniently rounded off so nobody gets poked. There’s always something, isn’t there? But anyway… It was bloody entertaining. I walked out of the cinema proper buzzing, smiling like a fool, feeling like I’d just watched a proper movie from the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know… when they still made them good.

Another hurricane/horror movie. Starts off ok, there is a large hurricane approaching and most people are acting appropriately. Boarding up, businesses are closing, people leaving town. However then they say the interstate is closed due to flooding. What? The storm hasn't made landfall and its barely raining yet they closed the evacuation route? Nope. Then a character who's standing on a dock by the water has a printout showing the storm right off shore and says it's so big they may have to create a category 6. The graph clearly labels it as a cat 4 with 172mph winds. That would be 5 not a 4 plus those winds are very bad but there have been storms that strong in reality so not as outrageous as they make it sound. On top of all that if it was that close to land conditions would be terrible already yet it's not raining there is no wind and the sun is shining as they look at storm clouds out to sea. The lazy writing is already showing at only 10 minutes in. We are then told it's 22 minutes until landfall yet people are still out driving around, getting supplies. Mandatory evacuations are playing over the radio which in reality would be a shelter in place notice, 22 minutes is way to late to attempt an evacuation. Once the storm makes landfall consistency goes completely out the window. Cutting from scenes of extremely high winds and storm surge flooding the town to people still out driving around with light rain and little to no wind. Within minutes of landfall and flooding there's 2 people paddling around on a tiny boat and one of the characters claims 'I can't see a damn thing' while it's barely raining with clear visibility!! They pull up a satellite view of the town during landfall mind you and get a clear view of the town with no clouds in sight!! How did this trash director get 30 million in funding for this horrible garbage movie? I'm done I can't take it anymore this is utter garbage. I made it 30 minutes and that's it. Woke aspects- There are 2 main families, a black uncle and his niece who are a normal decent family and he's smart well spoken marine biologist and a good Uncle, and a white trash redneck family and with 3 foster kids where the father is a p.o.s. moronic loser who treats the kids like garbage. Turns out they are just using the kids to get a government paycheck. All the white characters seem to be idiots with the black family being the only rational smart ones.

Some woke casting

Jon Hamm does a great job and the show is entertaining. Thad said, a few women have roles in his criminal activities that I'd say are a bit of a stretch. The woman running the pawn shop and the maid are at times a bit too girl bossy. Otherwise, an enjoyable show.

The person this is based on's ex wife was spanish so that is accurate and not a woke element. Also the best friend in the story was kept mostly secretive to who he really was so having a black character is entirely possible. He's barely in it anyway and race is never brought up. There is the pastor and his wife who are mixed race white male and black female but I couldn't find if this is accurate or not. It could be a woke moment but I can't say for sure, and again race is never mentioned. The acting is good and this seems to be very accurate to the real story. Every time something would happen and I was sure there was no way it could be true and sure enough it turned out to be true. It's surprising how someone this smart could be so stupid at the same time. I feel like the movie drags a bit especially in the second half and could of been a bit shorter. Overall not a bad movie but it's not really what I was expecting. A decent watch and at least it doesn't seem to make a lot of it up like so many true story story movies do now.