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I was like here it comes the WOKENES
Almost if not subtle reinforcement of lesbian scene. You can see they portray men as weak and women in power.
Created: 05-13-2024
Very good
I liked this movie a lot. No wokeness.
Created: 05-12-2024
Leftist Woke Trash
A ton of DEI hires, 2 mixed race couples, white mother with a black daughter. so possibly 3. Illegals and poor people virtuous, rich people bad. Also pushed climate change and declares conservatives as deniers are evil. Obvious comments about the government being rascist by referring to 'Asian Crisis'. It's so obviously a leftist attack movie on anyone who isn't brainwashed like them. All the white children are selfish unlikable terrible people with only the adopted Spanish kid being a good person. The acting is pretty bad. The writing is stupid. This is not entertainment it's a straight up propaganda piece.
Created: 05-11-2024
Woke is the mind-killer
This film has the veneer of great science fiction. Just beneath, however, it rots from woke.
If you have not read the book, you might be blissfully unaware that everything in the film has been distorted by a Leftist lens. I will list a few examples:
*Spoilers follow.*
* The film adds Northern Fremen. They are anti-religious feminists who belittle the religious fundamentalists in the Deep South. Hmm.
* Chani in the book is a trad warrior/wife, whereas film Chani is an insufferable negative force who undermines Paul's destiny to be the Fremen Messiah. "What about me?" I don't blame film Paul for "trading up" for Princess Irulan, LOL. A seething Chani is the close-out to Dune 2, so this conflict will be central to Dune 3, which is already green-lighted.
* Fremen were isolated for millenia, so they should be a relatively uniform color - brown in the books - but here we have sub-Saharan blacks with the browns.
* "Jihad" from the books was replaced with "holy war".
* In the book, Paul drinks the Water of Life on his own to usurp the plans of women (the Bene Gesserit), but in the film he is manipulated into doing it by his mother, a Bene Gesserit.
Woke deviations aside, I found it entertaining. The tension was palpable, despite my knowing how it should end. I still favor David Lynch's Dune (1984), which is a masterpiece.
Created: 05-11-2024
It's Nothing Original, But Decent
No woke. Decent if cliched crime, mob drama. Good acting. I don't know the true story so not sure how accurate it is but if you like crime movies this is good enough.
Created: 05-10-2024
It's a Dystopian Utopia of Sci-Fi Goodness
Wokeness: The Patriarchy: occasional references to things like "the glass ceiling" are infrequent but jarring. Girl Boss Alert: Tiny women that are not super soldiers and without sci-fi power suits easily take out 250 lb trained combatants in hand to hand combat.
My opinion: Continuum is one of the best written and acted modern sci-fi series I've seen. If you find the pilot a bit clunky, stick with it as it gets better.
What are you in for? It explores themes of dystopian future societies, evil corporations, guerilla uprisings, super soldiers, fancy future tech, and most importantly, time travel and all the questions it raises. It can be brutal and violent. Alliances constantly shift and characters can be profoundly shaped by events, while many wrestle with their personal agendas, moral codes, commitments to causes and the future they want to realize. It also has a proper ending, which often doesn't happen when shows are canceled.
Created: 05-10-2024
Female Character into Male Avatar, but Nothing Too Drastic
The only thing I found woke about this movie is the part where one of the female characters gets turned into a male avatar when she's transported into Jumanji. However, she's forced into the game against her own will, and she thought she had picked a female avatar before she's inside the game avatar she chose. Also, when she and the other players beat the game, one of the players smashes the console with a bowling ball, the players leaving it behind and pretty much relieved they don't have to go through it again.
Besides that, no wokeness is to be found, and that's one of the reasons why it manages to be an enjoyable movie to watch.
Created: 05-10-2024
STD
The visual effects in Star Trek: Discovery are titillating, but everything else about the show is unbearable. Homosexuals are waaay overrepresented, and the plots are developed slowly and ridiculously. Of course, I bailed long, long ago, but from what I've heard it keeps getting worse.
The writers are woke and thus exhibit "doublethink". From 1984, "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." From a contradiction, anything follows, and therefore woke writers are incapable of producing logical fiction. Instead, they create something like a STD.
Damn you, CBS and Paramount, for ruining the Star Trek franchise. Here, have a zero!
Created: 05-10-2024
So, So Bad
A lot of DEI casting. White people racist, patriarchy, female victimhood, bad ass little girls standing up to boys twice their size and about 5 years older, and that's all in the first episode. One of the characters is literally a female John Conner from T2 ripoff. From the mannerisms, clothes, haircut, attitude. It's ridiculous. The acting is bad by everyone. Absolutely no 12 year old kid in 1988 acted or talked like these kids do. At no time does this ever feel like its taking place in the 80's. This is just more woke badly written and directed trash from talentless woke people.
Created: 05-09-2024
Great Korean Post Apocalypse Movie
Nothing woke. Post apocalypse Sci-Fi Action Korean movie. Good acting and fx. If your looking for straight up bloody, gory action with no political or woke bs this is for you. Nothing groundbreaking or original, including the story and be ready for over the top action. But it is not woke and just pure entertainment.
Created: 05-08-2024
Ashah kree lok, Jaffa!
The 1994 Stargate movie is meh, but the 1997-2007 Stargate SG-1 TV series is fire, I mean, naquadah. It's not woke.
I just finished rewatching the first season of SG-1. I'm limiting my viewing to one episode per week, so I have years of Stargate SG-1 ahead of me. Back in the day, it was the show to which I most looked forward each week. And I'm a Trekkie!
There are some episodes that highlight women's rights, like the one with the "Mongols" treating their women like property. However, it does not cross the line into woke.
Amanda Tapping in the first episode is... holy moly. She's a beautiful woman, of course, even now, but she was just 31 years old in 1997. Here she is at age 42, one year after SG-1 ended:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GUyT15pai4k/T3nElWSjZ0I/AAAAAAAAMyY/23LlnsclivA/s1600/Amanda+Tapping+-+Stargate+Stills+(6).jpeg
On alien worlds, almost everyone speaks English. The populations are said to originate from Earth, but long before the English language. The ancient Egyptian motif of the baddies is pretty cheesy too. You just have to suspend disbelief and break out the popcorn.
Rewatch this classic. It's way better than recent woke sci-fi.
Created: 05-07-2024
Great action movie, vagueness of politics makes it timeless
The most woke element of this movie is that journalists are portrayed as heroes. Otherwise, the movie is intentionally vague on its politics so that you can see your own side as the good guys no matter where you stand.
In the film, the federal government is headed by Ron Swanson whose politics are not discussed. We "know" he's bad because he "ordered air strikes on American citizens", has a third term, and abolished the FBI. The federal government is opposed by the Western Forces of California & Texas. Since, in real life, these states are opposites, this is an example of how the director intentionally blurs elements of our actual political issues so that we can't see thru the lens of our personal politics.
When we see conflict between the Western Forces and the feds, we can't tell whether the film considers the Western Forces to be good guys, it's just that the protagonists are following them around. There's also no racial element. When we get to the end of the film, we see black soldiers of the Western Forces kill black feds.
In the middle of the film, a bad guy, who is white (Jesse Plemons) kills a journalist who is from Hong Kong. However, this isn't based on race. Plemons kills the journalist only when Plemons learns that he is not an American citizen: it is nationalistic. We also never learn if Plemons' character was a fed, part of the Western Forces, some local militia, or just some random murderer.
There are some slow and boring scenes, but the movie on the whole is very entertaining, politically vague, and so violent.
Created: 05-07-2024
