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While I haven't read the book so I can't personally compare the 2 there are a good amount of articles and reviews out there saying this
is very different from the book. The acting is ok but everyone is unlikable or annoying. The plot makes little sense and spoilers follow.
Your wife is dying of cancer and wants to give all her money away so you just happen to find her exact lookalike twin down to height, mannerisms, speech and body size on Facebook. Your plan is to have her pose as your wife and sign something saying she is changing her mind. For some reason you decide to invite an investigative journalist onto the ship you are trying pull this off on. You put her up in a cabin accessible to anybody on the ship then are in said cabin coaching her without the door looked so anyone can just walk in and find you. As for woke there is DEI overrepresentation. One of the changes made in the movie is with the character Ben. I found 2 articles 1 saying he's white in the book and the other saying he's mixed race. Either way he is black here so we can get that important woke mixed race box checked. The other problem is in the book she is dating a different character and the Ben character is a background minor one. Here the boyfriend is erased and DEI Ben is now shoved into the story. There is also the laughable stick figure female head of security. All of the male characters are bad except for, you guessed it DEI Ben. As far as I can remember none of the female characters are portrayed as bad. I made it all the way through but it's a short movie and really not very good.

No agenda. A little dark.

Woke: None. That is, unless you consider the existence of a privileged, female, corporate executive to be woke.

The "twist" was predictable. The acting was top-notch. Most of the characters were unlikable by design. That's good acting. Overall the movie just made me feel gloomy. That was also by design. That's good directing.

I didn't recognize Jesse Plemens at first. When I saw El Camino, I notice that he put on a lot of weight. In this movie, he lost all that and more.

As predictable as the twist was, it was still intense.

Not really woke, but not very good either.

The entire movie you wait for it to get interesting. The main character is pretty much just insufferable for most of the movie. (Yes, that's the part she's supposed to play, but it just comes off as annoying as hell and boring.) If you like laughing at Kardashian type crap, this might be the movie for you. If you have a brain, you'll be bored and annoyed.

Movie Rating: 3/10
Woke Rating: 2/10

It's basically a new "Falling Down".

(No Spoilers.)

Well, if you've seen Falling Down with Michael Douglas, then you've pretty much seen this. It's enjoyable to watch a movie crap on the insanity of society. (Think of it as a slightly left leaning Idiocracy.) The premise, a man who finally snaps, is great... but there's some older woke stuff (The movie is from 2011. "It's older woke stuff, but it checks out.") ragging on Republicans as usual. That said, the movie does a pretty good job of crapping on everything across the board, though it just falsely attributes certain things to the Republicans. They also crap on the far right Christians, but other than the occasional woke dialogue, there's not much woke stuff. I did enjoy both main actors performances and the character designs. It was decently entertaining, however unless you've watched a ton of the other good movies that are out there, (In this vein, Idiocracy.) then I wouldn't waste your time.

Overall Movie Rating: 5.5/10
Woke Rating: 3/10 (I reduced the woke stuff by one point due to it being relatively tame for todays standards.)

Paramount strikes again

Straight to the point → Can kids watch it? Yes.

Does it have woke elements? Yes. → Barb never existed in the original stories; and that character is there to fill thA quota

As a SpongeBob fan who’s seen absolutely everything in that universe since the very first episode (including material made after the creator passed away), I can confidently say this movie is a total disrespect to its creator. Paramount didn’t even bother to include a simple “thank you” to Stephen Hillenburg in the credits.

Is it SpongeBob? It’s basically a rehash of the first movie and a very calculated breakdown of all the elements that make SpongeBob SpongeBob but without the interesting spark of Hillenburg’s original vision. Back then, SpongeBob was for the whole family, Squidward included. Here, Squidward is pushed to the background→ third place, maybe even fourth.

In the end, kids can watch it, but it really doesn’t do justice to what Stephen Hillenburg created.

Not for everyone

This is a strange sci-fi movie with a very strong central theme, built around a mystery that’s present right from the start. I liked it, it’s not a bad movie, but only about 80%.

To explain where I’m coming from, I’ll leave a link to a video by experts who’ve seen it, and one of them pretty much agrees with me.

⚠Fair warning ⚠ it has light spoilers.
They don’t say exactly what happens, but they do talk about the ending without revealing it:

→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gktEAYwnvh0

Woke before it even premieres

It’s not even out yet and it’s already woke as f!!!

You don’t even need to watch the trailer → just look at the casting choices and who’s playing who.

The lead actor is openly focused on LGBT community activism, hahaha. And that’s not even the point! An actor being whatever they are shouldn’t define a movie, but come on! The movie synopsis doesn’t even suggest they’re going to treat the source material with any respect.

Hasbro lost that a long time ago with the version they did on Netflix!!!

I mean → Kristen Wiig is RobotO!!!
And Idris Elba → a well-known activist who loves talking about regulations on knives → plays Duncan / Man-At-Arms.

Hahahahaha, this is gonna be a total shitshow all over the place.

What a joke!

There's bad writing then there's this. I called it quits after 30 minutes so this is the review based on that. Basically a med students brother
is in a botched robbery and they need to sneak into the morgue to collect evidence to protect him. The acting is pretty poor by almost everyone. The exception to this is the mortician and the lead female. The FX are actually not too bad and the basic plot could of been serviceable if not for the just brain dead writing on display. So the robbery in question takes place with her brother as the getaway driver sitting in the parking lot in the car waiting for the other guy to come out and escape but without the car actually running. His partner is shot and they are stupid enough to have planned it all through text on their phones so his sister is going to help him break into the morgue to get the cell phone back. Never mind that the cell phone would of been evidence collected at the crime scene not sent to the morgue. They go to see a veterinarian who he gets illegal Adderall from. Let's ignore that vets don't and can't write Adderall prescriptions, it's not used on animals. Her plan is to use Propofol to make it look like she's' dead of overdose and get sent to the morgue. Propofol is used as an iv drip sedative that only works if there is a constant drip, once stopped you wake up in about 10-15 minutes so would never work. But of course it does. She gets into the morgue to find out the morgue attendant is selling organs illegally on the black market. So they are harvesting organs from bodies that have been dead at that point for hours. Sounds plausible. She finds her ex boyfriend who was shot and pronounced dead at the crime scene who is hooked up to an iv in the morgue for some reason and surprise he's actually alive and gets up and walks around. WHAT?? He was shot and lying dead at a crime scene sounded by police and medics than transported to the morgue how many hours late and just suddenly wakes up and grabs her arm? That was it for me. There had to be an actual effort to write something this stupid. As for woke there's a lot of DEI overrepresentation. The white female leads ex boyfriend is naturally black.

For the viewers to decide

You Can't Teach Love is about a career-driven, corporate super woman crawling up that ladder to the top who just can't get a grip on being down-to-earth, much less take care of a child for a few weeks. She's late, doesn't bother to read instructions from the school, makes off handed comments about how the school is "free spirited" and littered with scooters and basically just shits on everything not corporate. All in the first 15 minutes until I just turned this slop off.

I imagine this film gets in your face regarding her career until, as is hinted early on, she gets "burned out" and must shed her pant suit for love of the kind of not-so-manly kindergarten teacher. Please, if you can watch the whole film, post a review!

How did I bloody miss this?

Bloody Hell isn't perfect but I'm giving it an excellent review anyhow because it's just awesome. So much damn fun, blood and guts, it's everything a film needs to be. There's just enough gore to be fun and even a little love thrown in as well.

Nothing woke. Check it out.

Good movie! Almost zero woke BS!

(No spoilers.)

If you're a fan of horror or the FD movies you'll love this one! It's genuinely a good movie, and it pays homage to the FD universe! Last movie for the actor Tony Todd (He died of cancer in 2024.) and it was great to see him as an addition. I'm very sensitive to the woke BS and there is almost nothing woke in this movie except maybe the obvious female lead characters as usual. (BUT, it doesn't feel woke... they don't have super human strength or anything ridiculous like in other movies.) For a horror movie, it was top tier!

Overall movie rating: 6.5 out of 10.
Wokeness: 2/10. (barely anything woke!)

A woke series made to provoke. Why?

Everyone knows it’s woke, they don’t even try to hide it. In fact, when the showrunner was asked “...what are you excited to share the fans?”, she literally said: “I am excited for the fans to dissect absolutely everything that they hate.”

So here we have a new step in the evolution of woke culture. Nothing that should really surprise anyone, considering everything that’s been going on lately.

The point is that this show is deliberately and maliciously made to destroy an already existing universe that used to be narratively solid (and, to be fair, it’s been getting wrecked for several series now). This isn’t just woke or even super woke → this is direct, in-your-face provocation. It’s the evolution of a movement that refuses to die.

The real question is:
Why are they doing this?

And the answer is simple, though not very transparent. They want to distract. They want to signal that they still exist. They’re dying, and just like the desperate shouting they do at street protests to get attention, they’re now doing the same thing with every series they put out.

The good news is that the numbers are not on their side. it’s been reported all over the world that a toy sitting on a chair (a Spock action figure), put there by the YouTuber Nerdrotic, got more views and more success than one of their episodes
[ you can see a news report about it here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqTF0wz1Ag ].
And sooner or later, this is going to have to be investigated as money laundering.