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Jack Nicholson is great as always
Minor diversity hire content but the Scatman Crothers character is endearing and he is the only person that is nice to Danny, so I think he's a great role model.
Created: 12-12-2023
Chief Brody is an excellent role model
Chief Brody is an excellent role model
Created: 12-12-2023
Poor Acting, Amateurish Film
Woke Dei black female lead. The acting is pretty bad all around but the lead is especially terrible meaning probably hired for the diversity check box. Boring bland horror film with no scares and a jumbles mess of a story. Pass.
Created: 12-12-2023
Heart warming story with no wokeness
I thought this was a very heart warming story about a missed connection. It was a nive way to spend an hour and a half and definitely scratches the Hallmark style movie itch.
Created: 12-12-2023
Basketball people dunking on y-t's
0bama produces Netflix film adaptation that says white people shouldn’t be trusted in the apocalypse.
Created: 12-12-2023
Get woke, go pseudoscientific
Here a woke journalist applies his warped perspective to fascinating ancient archaeology.
The woke aspects are minimal and brief, yet jarringly inappropriate as Graham Hancock tries to shoehorn his ancient history theories into support for his woke political beliefs.
He worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Independent, and the Economist (cough, Communist), among other Leftist publications. Turning his woke-ified brain to archaeology, he has posited theories such as that the ancients used telekinesis to build monolithic structures. Thankfully, he omitted his most extreme theories like this from the show.
The thesis of the show is that there was some advanced and apparently nearly global civilization that has been lost to time and rising sea levels. He shows good (already known) evidence that civilization arose earlier than conventional wisdom once held. However, I see no good evidence for his assertion that a lost mother civilization seeded the whole world with knowledge. His argument hinges on similarities in symbols and mythology in the Old and New World. For example, pyramids are found around the world, and the local legends usually say they were built by giants. I mean, what do you expect the legends to say? And pyramids are the easiest way for primitive civilizations to build high. (He does bring up this counterpoint, but argues against it.)
Graham spends much of the show defending himself from Wikipedia and others that attack his character. The Serpent Mounds park in Ohio would not even let him film there, citing basically that he is a quack, LOL. His woke-ism causes him to value his feelings above all, REEEEEEing at archaeologists, who somehow will only accept physical evidence and not emotional arguments.
Now, there is nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. And I am sometimes willing to go against everyone's opinion. I just think Graham Hancock needs to be smarter, more logical, more skeptical, less emphatic, and less woke to make a TV show worth viewing.
Note that this is a Netflix show, and Hancock's son is Netflix's head of unscripted documentaries, LOL.
Minus the wild theories, the subject matter is truly great, and may get you thinking. Best to hunt down real documentaries, though.
Created: 12-11-2023
They Don't Make Em Like They Used Too
Gregory House is the most lovable ass-hole I've ever seen on television. Whenever I want a cleanse from all the current political-correctness, this is my go to. The jokes are unapologetic. The truths this man lets out are simply staggering. There is *zero* chance this would ever get funded nowadays, so you know it's going to be good!
The last few seasons do taper off, but overall it's well worth it. I never watch "medical shows", so I wouldn't let that stop you from enjoying this gem. Cherish the fact that this was ever produced, those days are over.
Created: 12-10-2023
My Favorite Scifi Serial
The Wokeness
Lets touch on this since it'll be interesting to dive into it through the lens of a 1990s show. You will be greeted with some "girl power" moments in the first few episodes, so you may think this is an angle that will play out often in the series. It is not, and when it is, it is tasteful.
Stargate comes from a time when women were preaching equality, not equity. In that vein, Captain Samantha Carter will play the role of a female integrating into a mostly men-dominated world. The show will touch on it at times. However, get prepared for a different narrative and a different message than you are used too.
SG1 preaches comradery, understanding, trust and bonding between sexes. It also makes fun of Carter at times, exposing a few of her own biases. It's such a refreshing take, yet watching this I feel so sad about how things have turned for the worst.
In a panel she did a long time ago, actress Amanda Tapping also shared some heartwarming thoughts about "strong female characters". When asked about her role, from a modern angry female, she responded along the lines of "You must remember that it is men like Brad Wright who stuck out their necks to help forward our cause". The days when men weren't evil and women didn't hate men, what a throwback.
The Story
SG1 is bar-none the single best scifi serial. Just watch it. Screw Star Trek or Star Wars, this is where it's at ;)
Created: 12-10-2023
Very hit or miss, high highs, low lows.
This one is going to take a few words to unpack, so bear with me. First off, wokeness.
The Wokeness
The show shovels feminist garbage down your throat every time it can. The main character is truly unlikeable, since in the feminists' 10 commandments, a women shall not be nice. Silo is filled with gender-reversal and so on. Men take a backseat to "strong independent women" etc.
*However*, there is an attempt here to steer off the mary-sue trope. Sometimes it succeeds. The main character has flaws and is once or twice, helped by a man. Heresy! the feminists cry, eyes filled with bitch-tears.
There is a single mention of a gay couple during the show, and crazy enough, I wished they delved deeper. Analyzing how a siloed culture would react to same-sex couples. For ex, on the one hand you might want to encourage making kids... But on the other, limited mouths to feed... Anyhow, a non-propagandist exploration of that topic would've been interesting, if done right.
If you are sensitive to wokeness, this will be too much for you. But it isn't as bad as other shows, there was a visible attempt to tone it down. Pulling it back 1 or 2 notches more would've been perfect for me, allowing me to get immersed and forget that at its core, this is a feminist propaganda piece, not art.
The Show
Silo is at times brilliant, with good acting and twists, but more often than not quite dull and sluggish. I've already talked about the main character being hard to like, others aren't much better either. I'd say you have to really push through the mid-section, to enjoy a superb last 2-3 episodes.
In case you want to suffer through it, the show raises many questions and it *does* answer them. You'll get a great payoff at the end, leaving you satisfied and interested for more. Whether I can survive the wokeness of another season remains to be seen.
In terms of the setting, everything is very surface level. The world and culture remains vastly unexplored, or simply identical to modern life. The show breaks its own internal logic at times, pulling you out of it. Silly scenes also lower the impact of the overall drama.
Visually, the silo is too clean, looks unlived in and artificial. The decors are repetitive copy-past CGI and only serve as a facade. I understand budget constraints, but this show would've done well with more "practical stuff" thrown around on sets. Shadows and darkness aren't utilized well. You never get that sense of mystery, triggering your imagination to dream about how it would be like to live in a silo, or what lies in the hidden spots of this vast underground city.
Overall, this is a toss up. Flip a coin, watch a few episodes and see if it's your jam. You WILL be rewarded by a great ending, but you'll probably hate the main character (by design).
Created: 12-10-2023
Netflix being Netflix
As every piece of "art" this guys create, there's always forced inclusion, LGBTI+ ludicrous side stories nobody asked for, and other amenities from the always vigilant social warriors. Watchable, if you fast forward the woke parts.
Created: 12-10-2023
Traumatic
A look at the horrors of war with none of the glories you usually get in war movies. Nothing woke.
See, Netflix? if you don't inject woke, you can actually do good movies!
Created: 12-10-2023
Average 70s show
Woke free overall
Created: 12-10-2023
