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Not sure. Thanks for the help.
So, yeah, I got it. I think I'm too old or just not interested in the film Wednesday and from IMDb, I see that almost all Jenna Ortega films aside from "The Babysitter: Killer Queen" and possibly "X" are movies I got no interest in. It does seem Jenna is kind of a man-hater, or, in the least, a feminist. And why did they mention Marie Curie? I forget. So, for that, I'm upping my wokeness and lowering the overall rating. The movie really did kind of suck.
My previous review:
Honestly, I didn't really follow the plot for this "reboot" of Beetlejuice. I'm sure it's not complicated. Maybe I just did not care. So, in hindsight, I really don't know if there's any elements of wokeness in the film. Can someone help me out and I'll update my review accordingly :) The overall rating stands. Not that good.
Created: 10-15-2024
Holy Moly. Can I get more than 1 minute into a film?
Before some teenage jackass guy explains he is a "lover of boys"? Seriously, I don't give a shit anymore if the film is good, bad or otherwise. I'm so tired of being gay shoved in my face! Maybe this film is excellent. Don't care. Propaganda. Just don't care. End of rant.
Created: 10-15-2024
Meh
I watched this movie two years ago and thought it was decent. I liked it a whole lot less the second time through this year (2024). The call backs to the old cast and films were what made this good the first time. It’s not worth sitting through a crappy film full of insufferable female characters, buffoonery male characters, dei and a gender neutral villain just to see the old guys one last time. I’ll take my Ghostbusters in the OG flavor, thanks.
Created: 10-13-2024
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.
Created: 10-10-2024
Meh. Needs more Bing-bong.
The only fun part was watching the Anime Video Game Character try to exit the vault.
I agree with another reviewer. Everything was in place to make this totally woke, and you could sense Disney pulling the plug in the final seconds to release.
It’s sad that this is a celebratory moment in the current life arc of Disney.. that they didn’t go full woke. Yay?
Created: 10-07-2024
I used to make fun of Marky Mark
and I still do.
Mark Wahlberg, on the other hand, has really grown over time.
Mel Gibson is excellent, as expected.
Great story, honest movie, worth the time.
Created: 10-05-2024
Who Is The Target Audience For This?
Over representation with a LOT of DEI casting. Another one with virtually no white males except in villain roles. All the females are better than the males and talk down to them. Multiple mixed race couples and love interests. The daughter has a dream/fantasy where she kills her father and love interest because they don't give her what she wants. The acting is terrible as is the cliché story and writing. The humor is strictly middle
school levels of stupid. The daughter is just annoying and irritating as hell. I suppose the comedy may appeal to the very young.
Created: 10-04-2024
very good movie, wouldn't say is woke but the mc is a female robot that becomes a strong mother type of stuff
Wouldn't consider really woke because it makes sense with the story, even tough it checks some elements that you could consider woke.
Created: 10-03-2024
Smashing opening episode
(I haven't seen the Batman movie this is spun off from)
This is a street-level, no frills, no superpowers take on Oswald Cobb, aka the Penguin, who's always been the Capone-like figure of the Batman universe.
This iteration of Cobb is an old-school mob grunt (cue Parton's 9 to 5), with just enough smarts to dance of the razor's edge, ie: enough to get himself in trouble, barely enough to get himself out, and with just enough residual humanity to not have risen through the ranks.
The three leads are brilliant (drowned-in-latex Farrell can't rely on his handsome face this time), the production value is through the roof, and the pacing is adequate for once. Here I was, thinking writers who could do exposition and not be boring were extinct.
No obvious woke elements (although, why do every fictional city mayor have to be a black woman?).
Furthermore, the creator (writer) for the show is a woman. And they did not even advertise it. Maybe even decided to let merit stand on its own.
Such a 20th century concept.
Edit: 2nd episode just as good. Can expect a full good season before it's infected?
Edit: never wrote the end-of-series edit. It's 5/5 all along!
Created: 10-01-2024
Decent movie, but this genre is always contrived
Good movie of the Machiavellian vengeance sort, although the tail part is over the top.
Butler is (as often) excellent. Foxx I find to be somewhat hit or miss as a rule, and this time is not a hit for me. At least, he has the loud-mouth asshole part down pat. Must be method acting.
In favour of the script-writers, they don't push any protagonist as morally superior.
The putative bad guy is driven mad with grief, and argues his actions as necessary, not correct, even though he kills beyond the sphere of direct culprits, and seeks to enjoy retribution. He was clearly capable of discreetly bombing or poisoning all his targets on the same day, without a possibility of being stopped, and still make his point.
The supposed good guy's morality is variable and self-serving, and thus just a system of excuses for his own selfishness. In short, he's a small man, a sleazeball hiding behind the authority of his office, who puts his career, not justice, above the safety of his family and co-workers. .
One "just doing his job", the other his perceived duty.
The script spirals out during the second part, and the plot-holes enlarge quickly. Biggest of all being the Hollywood ending. Seriously? Are they reading their own characters?
Oh well, still a decent movie.
As for wokeness, I don't think the production was going for forced diversity, Philly being 1/3 white, 1/3 black.
But it's funny that all decision-makers are black, and get a whole lot of white people killed.
Created: 09-27-2024
Not the Crow, should have been it's own bland 2020s drivel
The original Proyas movie was not exempt of imperfections. But it did ooze style. Styles, really: goth, grunge, whatever. The Cure's Burn was written for this movie. It has RATM, NiN, J&MC, 90s shot pure straight through the skull.
And it did have charisma, by the truckload. Lee was charismatic. Top Dollar was charismatic. Even the minor villain who's whole spiel is to be stoopeed was charismatic.
This movie is emo, all the main characters look like they have pronouns, and I'm probably too old for this shite.
The cinematography is actually excellent, but the pacing is all wrong. The movie wastes the best part of an hour on Shelley, who's supposed to be an ideal, an incarnation of regret, but not a person. And it's not even worth it. Neither Shelley nor Eric come off as real characters.
The idea of a villain who's corruption and despair incarnate is fine, if somewhat out of place (ie: it's not the Crow, make your own movie with its own brand). But Draven, being its polar opposite, becomes some sort of unstoppable zombie, tanking through action scenes like a bloody terminator (pun intended). It bleeds, but you can't kill it.
It's a slog, it's a grind, and it's tedious.
Actually, Draven is not the opposite of his enemy here. He's just a force for destruction, whereas the original was motivated to kill also to save future victims.
And it has forced diversity, white man bad, perfect woman of colour, and obviously male lead sacrificed for the female happy ending
Created: 09-26-2024
You don't get a second chance at Indiana Jones
Selleck (allegedly) turned down the leading role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, because he had a very good start with Magnum, P.I.
One has to make choices.
He was later given an opportunity to change his mind. The resulting movie could never be a threat to the Indy franchise, though.
I find it, well, charming would be the word. It is predictable for sure, but Armstrong is charming, Selleck is a charmer, and the make their merry way through a, well, charming if somewhat a little naive adventure tale.
But on thing it has not, is Raiders epic breath. Partly because the writers seem scared of the 'high fantasy' ambitions in Raiders, and partly because of the photography.
Comparing both movies makes one realize how good of a director Spielberg was. Both movies were shot for basically the same budget, but Raiders is so much more dynamic and vibrant, whereas High Road seems to lack enthusiasm.
As to woke, Armstrong character is a flapper proto-feminist heiress, which is in accordance to the time and place, and appears more loud and out-of-touch with practical reality than modern girlboss, cause the 80s still knew that a 100 pounds woman can't take on an Afghan guerilla war party on her own. Her character is more a victim of a rich and sheltered upbringing than of the Patriarchy (tm) (c).
Created: 09-26-2024
