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Race Swapping=Very Woke-Yet Still Watchable
DEI casting. Barry's mom has been race swapped to Spanish making him half Spanish and from a mixed race parents. That is not true to the source. Iris West has been race swapped from red head and white to black creating another mixed race love interest for Barry. Race swapped Supergirl from blonde and white to dark haired Columbian actor. Supergirl also comments "we came to this planet looking for a safe place to live and they put me in a cage" could possibly be an illegal immigration comment. Also it's no surprise her acting is pretty bad as she is an obvious DEI casting. Race swapping characters for DEI is VERY woke hence the 4 rating. However other than that comment I didn't notice anything overly preachy. Iris West part is very small and Barry's mom while a major plot point actually doesn't have a lot of screen time. Supergirl as well has lesser screen time probably due to her poor acting. I actually enjoyed the movie more than I excepted to. This gets a lot of hate but the acting outside
of the DEI is not bad. The story is ok, I mean it's a comic book movie so.... There is a lot of humor and for the most part it's not bad. The
Michael Keaton easter eggs are by far the best part of the whole film. The biggest problem I had was the very hit or miss CG FX.
Some scenes looked incredible while others looked very cheap and fake. The supergirl escape fight in the snow if particular looked terrible.
Also some of the desert finale scenes where pretty bad. Still I found it an enjoyable silly comic book superhero movie despite the
woke aspects.
Created: 09-02-2024
Interesting indie
Not entirely sure if the DIE casting was woke. Could be perceived either way.
Created: 09-01-2024
Technical woke free
Based in Philly, so the limited DIE casting was acceptable. Decent Shyamalan twist.
Created: 09-01-2024
Vintage woke is a thing now?
Full disclosure: did not watch past the 2nd episode, and pretty quickly was doing something else during the time.
Also disclosure: I grew up on the books, and take exception to a few alterations from Jackson, so there.
Very obviously lots of money in there, except it didn't go to the script. Or dialogues. Or casting really, although it was very charitable on their parts to give jobs to palsy victims.
Stallone made a career with half his face paralyzed. But it was only half. And he had talent.
Many shots look expensive. As in, how lack coherent cinematography can ruin a huge budget. And then you're left buying your Hobbits on Temu.
The woke is very retro: no lecturing, no pushing pronouns (yet, I guess), but man bad, white bad, girl good (scratch that, girl best, obviously), and severe case of the gay bug I would hazard.
Created: 09-01-2024
Accurate, relentless and mesmerizing
Historically accurate, at least enough to fool me.
Visually stunning, even in its gory moments.
I will note that the photography results from some rather extreme choices.
The showmakers seem somewhat fed up with the technical perfection of high-resolution digital cameras, so they paired them with some pretty retro anamorphic lenses.
I'm sure the gear was top-shelf and appropriately expensive, but I do mean retro as in 70s era Hollywood newcomers. Apocalypse Now comes to mind.
So, be ready to embrace blur, softness and chromatic aberration at the edges.
I does help build a visual identity, but I did find it distracting at times.
The cast is nothing short of stellar, both in its collective performance and dedication.
Apologies to the Japanese actors, who apparently re-trained in period-appropriate speech, their efforts push far beyond my capacity to appreciate them, but I can barely believe Bastow learned Japanese in a few months for this role, and with such results!
As for the story itself: I will not spoil it, but it is ruthless and heart-wrenching.
The title says it all: this is the story of a warlord.
Regarding wokeness: this show is accurate to a period when people did not have the luxury of utter stupidity.
So, no.
Created: 08-31-2024
It's amoral, repugnant and gripping
The rise and fall of an arms dealer during the end tail of the 20th century, with a large side dish of unflattering history from the ex-Soviet block and West Africa.
Cage's emotionless delivery does wonders for his barely human character.
One could argue the movie portrays small arms as the root of all evil in Africa, thus ignoring a more complex reality, but well, it's still good.
Created: 08-30-2024
Atrocious, lazy cash grab, even without the woke.
A committee of gen-Y liberal arts majors (so, a few millions worth in student debt) used a Chinese AI to extract visuals from the games, and fed print-outs to a troop of monkeys. And from the collective, collected, fermented poop emerged the script for this one.
That’s my version anyway.
They (whoever they are) lost any piece even remotely worthy of interest from the games’ writing. No back-story, no plot, no nothing.
The biggest offense probably being Roland. I mean, it’s not rocket science: name is Roland, class is Soldier. This character’s concept is obviously Paladin.
Roland from the games is this calm, collected man whose strong moral compass provides a counterpoint in a fun but nihilistic universe.
Here, we get Hart. So, hyper-active, try-hard, unfunny. At least they got the colour right. Then again, they never get that hue wrong, do they.
The rest of the cast is a trip down memory lane. I’m old enough to remember when Gershon was hot. And Blanchett was hot. And Curtis was a scorcher. Yeah, that old.
Here, they just look jaded and old. And boring. Welcome to Geriatric Park.
As opposed to the rest of the cast, who are downright aggravating.
As for woke: no direct preaching at least, just an all girl-boss cast, swapping all males out (Krieg and Roland are very secondary), dumbing everything down (I guess that’s to be inclusive).
All the good stuff that stands in the way of a good script.
Also, counter-woke element: for once, the red-head (Lilith) doesn't turn into a black woman at casting. Eat your heart out, MJ.
Trying to find some positive: I think I heard a few bars of Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole as background music at some point.
Nice.
And Motörhead later on.
Cool. Worth 1 point.
Created: 08-30-2024
A Disappointing Return After 10 years
Nothing woke. The first new Godzilla movie after 10 years is disappointing. The good thing is gone are the kids and silly light humor
of the series with a welcome return to more dark serious setting. The acting is ok except by any of the non Japanese actors. The soviet and
U.S. characters are just terrible actors. The Godzilla suit looks pretty good and the actor inside does a good job. The FX are a very mixed bag however. Some look great some not so much. Particularly the miniature sets. They lack detail and just look like obvious fakes during any destructive scenes. That's another problem. This is so slow and boring. Most of the movie takes place in board rooms with
politicians talking. The Godzilla scenes are all very oddly subdued and slow as well. A lot of Godzilla just standing around doing nothing or
slowly shuffling along the streets between buildings without damaging anything around him. There is not a lot of actual destruction going on in this. Most of the Godzilla action takes place in the final 15 minutes or so and the rest is really pretty skippable. Not a good return for Godzilla.
Created: 08-29-2024
genuine good comedy with wokeness
it has wokeness but the movie is a genuine comedy not shit like shehulk stuff.
Created: 08-29-2024
based on the trailer the whole premisse appears to be woke
music in the trailer ends with "don't talk to strangers that you may fall in love" meaning this movie is probably another one that follows the message and try to make people fear to relate to others aka destroy the nuclear family.
the story appears to be a strong business woman falls in love with a guy that appears to end up beating her(maybe because hes controlling or something)
Im incapable of rating the quality of the movie but because the premise appears to be something out of "me too" i rated this movie as woke
Created: 08-29-2024
Season 1 is mostly fine, goes downhill from there
The first season is excellent, with the exception of a small and isolated story point in episode 4 involving a father that is revealed to be a homosexual who previously visited a transgender prostitute. Overall however, the first season *is* good (almost on par with the likes of the initial Stranger Things episodes).
I would recommend bailing after there though because the wokeness becomes more prominent in the second season, with a very obvious and unnecessary lesbian relationship between two women by episode 3, and it only gets worse from there.
Created: 08-28-2024
Very Well Made Low Budget Thriller
Nothing woke. Great acting. Very slow burn thriller done well. I originally thought some of the characters were doing stupid things due to writing but it turns out to be part of their character and it hold true throughout the movie so not bad writing. Not a lot of action and will not be for everyone but if you like early Tarantino or Coen brothers movies give it a try.
Created: 08-28-2024
