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Outstanding movie

Every aspect of this movie gets 5 stars including casting, acting, directing and, probably even the grips. Colonel Winter glorifies war, having never actually participated. General Irwin has been there and understands the tragedies of battle. The two clash when Winter becomes the General's warden. Not much is said about the crimes Irwin was convicted of. Over the course of the story, Irwin helps a prison population to rediscover honor and self-worth. They learn that war isn't a game, but, when it's necessary, the discipline and honor of a soldier is vital.

One of a kind series

I remember when the full season was available in the early days of HBO streaming. It was probably my first TV binge. I couldn't wait to see what happened next. The character development and chemistry was outstanding.

Dark humor made surprise appearances often. There's a full array of characters you love to hate, or hate to love. I'm not sure how they did it, but they made this entertaining without glorifying organized crime.

One of the best things to say about this series is that the knew when to end it. It stayed interesting up until the final episode.

Unrealistic funniness.

This movie breaks new ground. At PG-13, the f-bomb was dropped a few times. The physical humor is clever. I did mention unrealistic, didn't I? This is kind of like a live action genre of things like The Simpsons, Family Guy or South Park. If you like that kind of comedy, you'll enjoy this movie.

Halfway through episode 2... some Woke boxes checked.

This started out with a couple of major woke flags:
- The protagonist is black with a white wife.
- Episode 2 had a monologue rant in a 1692 slave ship that had some post-slavery agenda. I'm not defending slavery in America's first century. That is an atrocity that was ended with the blood of many Americans. I agreed with slave traders being burned alive on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic. This rant mentioned 300 years (to 1992) including being shot by police and deprived of human rights, etc.

Episode 3: A deal killer for me. A homosexual sex scene was pending. One of the participants walked into the room with full-frontal-nudity. His partner was sitting on the edge of the bed in obvious desirous anticipation. Click... no more. On to reruns of The Sopranos for the night.

CAUTION: If this was MPAA rated, it would have a hard time keeping R. It really pushes the edge. Perhaps crosses over. In the first 3 episodes, there were three full-frontal nudity shots and a dick-pic. The sex scenes were beyond MPAA - R.

There was also a lesbian sex scene in episode 3. It was brief, but there nonetheless.

If the wokeness presented as an agenda, I would've maxed the scale. It's just incidental and edgy from the minds of the woke.

The acting is great. The story is interesting. I really wanted to see where it was going. I may read the book.

Woke and feminist ideology

Paramount+’s Castaways delivers stunning visuals and tense survival stakes, but its heavy-handed feminist lens undermines nuance: capable men like the pilot and soldier are reduced to cowardly gammas, while “boss girl” leaders face zero accountability for reckless calls. Woke ideology dominates, sidelining balanced storytelling.

This is our CGI and AI future

God. This movie is awful. We see in the first few minutes how absolutely terrible the CGI is. Car chases and explosions in the 80's, when we all had to actually blow shit up, were just so awesome. And here's our CGI and AI future: bubblegum chewing "artists" at their computers over Dar Robinson.

And let's spend a majority of the film watching truly distasteful characters. Way too late for the father's redemption the unicorn should have spilled his guts a few seconds after they met. It's not particularly woke, but so funny now that we have evil, disgusting, rich and unlikable characters, they're all white (except the scientist types, I guess).

I can't remember if I like Jenna Ortega. I didn't like the remake of Beetlejuice. She seems alright and the film kind of highlights her, and she's cool enough for that, despite her not being a "pure heart" or whatever, more of an angsty teen. And I liked the St. Vincent song at the end (let's talk woke right there!). I can't recommend this film.

I have never heard of this director before this. While the movie is in English it's country of origin is listed as a joint production with Netherlands, Norway and Belgium. The story is a travelling Magician books a night in a hotel and the next morning he finds he's trapped inside a maze of corridors and tries to find his way out in an increasingly weird environment and strange occupants. This is one of the most oddly bizarre, weird and strange movies I've seen in a long time, and I loved every insanely crazy second of it. This is very reminiscent of 80's 90's Gilliam, Lynch and Cronenberg. It reminded me a lot of a twisted dark Alice in Wonderland. The cinematography and sets are excellent with great acting and an incredible performance from Crispin Glover. While there is humor I wouldn't really call it a comedy. I would say it's a mix of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. This will definitely not appeal to everyone and I am probably in the minority on this one but if you enjoy any of the directors I mentioned give it a try and be prepared for one hell of a twisted experience.

Babysittin' kids with a twist

A review on IMDb says Night of the Reaper is best watched as background noise, and I kind of agree. It's quite slow up until a little over the half way point and for some reason, I didn't much care for the youngish actors / actresses (Jessica Clement) in the movie. Don't know why.

I am on a winning streak finding films with unnoticeable or zero qualities of woke these days, without even reaching back to the 70's. None of that here. I mean, the plot isn't bad, it was made well enough; I find Night of the Reaper just not too interesting. I will however, recommend it to watch if you've got nothing better to do.

This was a surprise for a movie from the U.K I'd never heard of. Basically a middle aged loser and his friends refusing to grow up while battling drug addiction and a recurring pattern of self destructive behavior and violence. He gets arrested and has 6 months of probation to turn his life around or face prison time and lose his wife and kid. While it's all done in a very comedic way it also deals with some very realistic problems. I've known people like this including the wife that just can't seem to get out of a bad relationship and just keeps giving him more and more chances despite constant failures and refusing to change. So while it does deal with some very serious material this is a dark comedy at heart and I personally found it hilarious with excellent comedic timing and laugh out loud moments. The acting is good and the writing is tight and well thought out. I would highly recommend this if you enjoy
self aware English humor. Just be aware it's extremely vulgar and not for clean family viewing. As for woke there is maybe a bit much for DEI casting but the characters are shown to be good and bad. There are few woke comments but they seem to be more making fun or using it for comedic purposes.

Slow pacing in the last half

Spoiler free. Roofman is a good film. The pacing kind of slows towards the end, and we get a life lesson, albeit a light lesson we likely saw coming. From the looks of it, the movie follows pretty closely to the real life story without injecting any modern nonsense into the story. That's cool. There's quite a long man-butt scene with Channing Tatum. If I looked like Channing Tatum I'd head to the grocery store naked. I think he's a cool-ass actor. Go ahead and watch the film and credits for the film. It turns out to be a slightly feel-good movie, unless of course, you're going to absolutely hold it against Channing for the gun wielding robberies.

James Gunn is Atlas to DC's entire world

I think any Gunn production would score highly on woke and overall ratings. Simply how the man is and I very much respect him for that

Creature Commandos is a all around great. Less explored parts of the Suicide Squad finally getting the treatment they deserve and each character is a wonder to follow. Any global politics conflict is neatly avoided by basing the conflict on a fictional country (Although one placed close to Russia)
Comedic timings are great, emotional bits hit hard. Fantastic 6 episodes

Wokepoints:
wlw/bisexuals, positivity portrayal of sex workers, nazi sympathism in the US (if it's woke to say it's a thing and that it's bad)

This series made me a fan of Gogol Bordello because of Dr Phosphorus

Stupid fun, great to watch with friends

Batman gets transported to feudal Japan, along with the batfamily and a bunch of supervillains. Which on itself is a good enough hook to warrant a watch
The first half of the movie is so extremely unique visually, you'd think the director crystalized the essence of swag, then proceeded to crush it up and snort it through a silly straw. But then Batman learns about the power of friendship and sucks out all the rendering effects. And I'm only half joking about that. But there's a megazord fight afterwards so it balances out.
I can't say much about the plot because there's barely any. Half the villains get next to no screentime and are acting wildly out of character (Like Poison Ivy getting a steel plant built). But there's a megazord fight afterwards so it balances out.
It's also near comedic that the movie does not give you a second to ponder on any foreshadowing. - "GORILLA GRUD IS GONNA BETRAY YOU, BATMAN" and then he does just that. Exactly 8 seconds later. Incredible!
So is it a good movie? Not really.
Is it good Batman movie? Yessir, they really nail the funny side of the Batman universe
Is it a great movie to watch with a bunch of friends and just lose all your collective marbles at the sheer absurdity that is the megazord fight i keep mentioning? Absolutely!
And Daimiyo Joker is maybe one of my favorite Joker designs ever

As for woke? Standard Batman dose of woke. There's jewish people, people that wanna battle climate change, bossy cat ladies who act like they own the place
And a talking gorilla. Although I'm not sure if he counts


Needed a mental break so I ported over my review of this from some other site, still need to find time and watch the sequel!