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Finding this little gem of a film and must comment

I re-watched the original "The Craft" movie and decided to watch the 2020 remake, "The Craft: Legacy". What a treat. Woke before its time. I said to my wife, "who's that ugly linebacker in the coven?", not knowing the actor was a trans anyhow.

To be honest, discovering the trans actor coupled with a sad, old, out of place David Duchovny, I somewhat forgot about all the other propaganda stuffed in this movie, but it is there. We can use this movie in our documentary, "the evolution of wokeness". That would be fun.

More like this, please!

Kudos to everyone involved in making this! The movie has an agenda and it's aimed at children. Remember when that was a good thing? It's back. The children are targeted with advice like: Don't talk too much. Don't be a bully. Listen to what other people have to say. Respect each other. You know, that kind of agenda. I'm all for it. The movie itself was top-tier, animated comedy. There is nothing second-rate about it.

It's Adam Sandler. What do you expect?

I really liked this movie up until it got over-the-top silly. The cameos were great. It was a real laugh-out-loud movie until the final showdown tournament. There was no agenda. It's remarkably similar to the time they tried to make a sequel to Caddyshack. It's worth watching, but don't expect too much. I would rate the first half of the movie with 5 and the second half with a one. That makes it a 3.

Best to Avoid

*Spoilers*

I’m 4 episodes in out of 6. The black female detective has just said “the world is full of men who think they’re owed everything because they’re male and pale.”

Previously, a black female character said that black ancestors were all heroic warriors.

All white male characters are presented as deeply flawed, psychotic, immoral, terrible fathers, cheats, evil, lost, sexually impotent, or incompetent at their work.

A white male American right winger who is a prepper dared to criticise affirmative action and in the next episode the black female detective breaks multiple laws including breaking and entering to shoot him in both legs and it’s then celebrated and of course she gets away with it.

The two characters that figure out that the white male lead is an evil psycho are a black female and an Hispanic male (who because he’s male is also an alcoholic, pervert and mentally broken).

The only character that isn’t broken by their past is a black female.

The black female detective is described with the white male epithet of a “knight”.

The only reason this doesn’t get maximum marks for wokeness is that one of the arsonists is a black male, so at least that one aspect goes against the normal anti-white messaging.

It's pretty and empty

First, it's visually quite satisfying, maybe a little over the top.
It should be: Besson is the incarnation of style over substance, and Mezieres, who drew the comics this was derived from, is up there with Moebius. Valerian (the comic) inspired Star War's visuals, Mezieres worked on The Fifth Element, and so on.

On the other hand, Besson probably thinks Avatar has a deep and meaningful political relevance. So same here: thin, lanky aliens living in a Rousseau-esque, good savage utopia, laid low by the evil of white man and capitalism. Oh, and the power of love. Wouldn't have seen that coming.
It's a French comic from the 70s, and the French are either world conquerors or communists. And well, by the 70s, they had stopped conquering.

Thankfully, the actors don't lean too much into that. DeHaan has a good grip on the character: be unremarkable, somewhat charming, and appear bumbling and inefficient, despite getting obvious elite results.

Delevingne (WTF? Prob French name bastardized by the Brits) seems actually pretty OK as an actress, but far out as a person. Even playing a role, she reeks of the danger zone on the crazy/hot matrix.
Her character is a somewhat tentative girlboss: she bosses her male partner around, but she gets damseled most of the time.

Actions scenes OK, lead chemistry OK, plot MIA, well-meaning (as in, useful idiot) socialism all around.

Meh.

Edit: just 'membered, comic Laureline's a green-eyed redhead. So, basically a Celt. At least she didn't suddenly turn black. Red Heads Matter!

For fucks sake

This started off very good, was really getting into it. Full of mystery, makes you think etc.

Suddenly in the 3rd episode faggotry pops up to ruin it. Thought it being from 2009 it wouldn't have that shit.

Fucking cunts ruining a good show with this nonsense yet again.

Woke obsession ruins good plot

They changed a story based on good books about a female cop into a woke Olympics. From the overtly gay team member to the constant reminders of how bad men are… they didn’t waste any opportunity to shove another woke theme into the plot. Ruins the show. Which has promise, like all of Michael Connelly’s writing does.

It’s woke, but..

..it’s kind of an equal opportunity offender. The woke elements aren’t done in a propaganda/agenda driven way, and it’s an original story. They aren’t hijacking some older, nostalgic intellectual property.

Yes there are woke elements, but everyone will be able to find something to hate and like through the 4 Season run. What I’m saying is, it’s worth watching. Don’t let the woke scare you off if psychological thriller type stories are your jam.

DEI black and gay characters. Another horror/comedy with scares and no actual funny humor. Most of the kills are offscreen so there isn't even
any fun to had there. The acting is ok but the entire story and dialog is pretty lame. It's another movie that wants to be an 80's throwback and
kind of seems to lean that way in the beginning but then there are modern cars and smartphones so it makes no sense. The characters are not funny just annoying, pathetic and unlikable.

Excellent!

Absolutely magnificent spy thriller with great suspense and intrigue! The female lead is a programming genius, but she doesn't know how to fight or handle weapons, which is quite refreshing! There's great action scenes that don't defy physics and gravity. There's very little woke comments, not even enough to make it unpleasant. I HIGHLY recommend this TV show!

*Edit
The first season was absolutely excellent. The second season isn't as great and ends when the evil white Rebuplican politician sabotages the black Democrat in order to create a more "isolationist" agenda. A bit too woke to enjoy.

DEI casting of a good Sci-Fi story

I just finished Season One. The core of this story is true science fiction. The story from the book is conveyed as well as can be expected. The previous reviews are accurate in the matters of DEI. There was an obligatory homosexual added. One of the main characters was changed from a male director of a research facility to a strong female corporate director. The strongest, moral-based leaders are minorities while the foolish and morally deprived characters are white male. The author is a bit of an enigma. It's true that he's a Chinese communist. In an interview, he said that democracy won't work in modern day China. He also criticized the Communist Party in some of his works. He also seems to be an advocate for one-world government. That theme runs through a few if his books, including this one. He also expressed that he avoids talking politics. Meanwhile, his works shout politics. Not necessarily in advocacy one way or another. That said, the story does come through. This is about contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The initial, light-speed, communications and development of real-time communication are on-par with physics theory. That is, the parity of particle spin not being subject to distance. Therefore, real-time communication across unlimited distance is theoretically possible. The book delves heavily into high level dimensional theory. That part didn't come through in the movie all that well. The acting and special effects are good. The brutal attack at the Panama Canal was very graphic in the movie. This is good science fiction if you can wade through the obligatory woke casting.

The later seasons were an effort to watch.

The first few seasons were excellent, well elaborated high powered lawyer drama. But when they added Katherine Heigl that's when it started to go downhill. She was the girl boss with horrible attitude, who was supposed to have been in the army and box every day, yet didn't have the physic appearance to reflect. Don't get me wrong, she's a gorgeous actress, but her background story didn't match her appearance. There were woke comments about the patriarchy and race that didn't need to be there. It made the last few seasons not as appealing at its beginning.