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Great series, no wokeness

There are times in life, that I think everybody sometimes has, where you find out about an event that happened in one's life and you say "how did I miss that", "where was I", or "how do I not hear more about that". Well recently for me it was the events portrayed in the 2021 BBC-Netflix series The Serpent. It's just such a sensational story, something right out of a Hollywood script, and when you see the dubious words "inspired by true events" you can't help but thinking that a lot of creative liberties had to be taken. But no, the series was amazing faithful to historical facts. The tale is epic, spanning decades, and the series does a phenomenal job recounting nearly everything there is to know about a serial killer who preyed on young travelers in southeast Asia in the '70s. So much of it is just unbelievable, but then you look up the history and you see that it really happened. The acting is phenomenal as well, Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman simply disappearing into their roles so that you'll not be able to see them as anyone else for a long time to come. My only gripe is that the back and forth time jumps seem kind of gimmicky at times and can confuse things rather than enhance them, but other than that I can really find no fault with anything in the series. Plus, if you're as interested in the story as I was you'll see that that events have unfolded even further just since the series came out.

Well made sad garbage

The filmmaking and acting isn't bad at all for an IMDb low-rated movie, it's just that the story is kind of garbage. I'm like, ugh, whatever. Stupid HAL-9000 computer that runs and controls all things IoT. Predictable. Seen it before. At least the rogue computer wasn't a vindictive mixed race electronic lesbian couple. None of that.

Not So Great

This is a little hard to rate as I have never seen the original source material. Reading some reviews however it seems there were multiple gender and race swaps. I only watched the first episode but there is
a nonexistent 'non-binary' character played by a mentally ill 'non-binary' actor that shows up in later episodes. There also seems to be a lot of complaints the this is totally inaccurate from the source material.
Personally I found the GC to be top notch. The acting however is very hit or miss, some good some very bad. The humor and dialog is childish and cringe. The fight scenes are very badly done and choreographed.
It's possible it gets better in later episodes but given this was canned after 1 season why bother.

Much better than it deserves to be

Thanksgiving is funny, brutal, gruesome and quite fast paced for a 106 minute slasher flick. This movie could have gone so wrong in so many ways. Instead, drawing on the best of Scream without being quite so hamfistedly meta, Roth brings the hammer down quite literally on quirky film comedy built for children and instead creates an unsubtle comedic slasher that has the viewer cheering on as blood and guts literally rain from the sky. The opening scene is absolutely pitch perfect and fills the viewer in on everything they need to know to enjoy the violence to come.

Thanksgiving compares well with Evil Dead Rises, a movie I find myself thinking about while watching the gore and slasher scenes. Much like Rises, Thanksgiving has AAA-quality horrific blood and gore that curls the toes of all but the most stout combat veterans or drug-addled surgeons. Unlike Evil Dead, Thanksgiving has an actual story and character development to fall back on. Between the hatchet kills and grusome oven scenes is a mystery.

The acting is forgettable and largely average with the sole standouts being Patrick Demsey as the Sheriff and Rick Hoffman's lovably hatable Thomas Wright. Hoffman is such a charismatic shithead that his smile alone carries half the scenes he is in. Every single female actor is basically the same character with little verisimilitude. Jenna Warren (Yulia) is so marble-mouthed at certain points that I had to check if English was her first language before criticizing her. This is probably my main knock against the movie, but it is a rare slasher fan who is going for the great acting and emotionally-laded soliloquy.

In every other respect, this film delivers and is one of the best of 2023. I will probably not rewatch it casually, but I am looking forward to both Roth's next film (Borderlands) and the Thanksgiving sequel.

Thanksgiving gets 7.9 out of 10 final girls.

Worst Marvel Movie Ever

Taika Waititi is a hack who has no understanding or respect for the characters, universe or story he is telling. Gone is the noble warrior Thor from the previous movies, Thor is a completely castrated
bumbling fool of a joke in this, actually all the male characters
are. Black Valkyrie and Woke She-Thor are super strong and perfect and amazing. This is just one big girl power movie. Black Valkyrie is now king/girl boss, Korg is now gay, Heimdall's kid is trans.
Sif who was actually a great female character in previous movies is completely sidelines and not even in this but for about 1 minute. What the hell the Zeus character was supposed to be I will never
now. So many good actors in this acting like totally morons. This was so bad I actually felt embarrassed for the actors to be doing this trash. Things just happen in this that make no sense or completely
go against established rules. How exactly is She-Thor worthy to hold Mjolnir and why does it transform her into an exact replica of real Thor? How is Thor can just seem to just spread his power around to anyone at will including turning a bunch of children into a mini Thor army complete with full power? Stormbringer was crated from the flames of a dying star and will turn anyone who not
worthy that touches in mad, but here literally anyone can just grab it even a child and nothing happens. Also very noticeable is the camera angles and what appears to be platforms for She-Thor to make her look
bigger. Natalie Portman is a very tiny 5'3 and Chris Hemsworth is 6'3 yet in every shot she appears to much closer in size to him. Even Tessa Thompson who is a slightly taller 5'4 is usually shown to be
shorter than She-Thor. This suffers from the uneven VFX a lot of modern movies do as well with the terrible and obvious green screens and sometimes great looking FX shots missed with some really terrible ones.
The only bright spot in this is the completely wasted excellent performance by Christian Bale as Gorr. His few scenes are excellent and very well done. It's actually almost like 2 different directors filmed this
movie, one competent that shot the dark serious Gorr scenes and the incompetent Waititi who shot the rest like a bad Monty Python parody of the MCU. It's just rapid fire jokes and none of it is funny!! How do you
take this dark tragic storyline and turn it into the absolute worst marvel movie ever? This might actually be the worst super hero movie ever beating out Catwoman and even Blue Beetle.

Not a bad show

For me, I don't find mildly woke things the worst, kids are going to see lesbian or gay couples throughout life. So in my opinion, this show is not "in your face" with wokeness, there's just a lesbian couple.

No woke

Good epic

So Much Potential

Based on the 1st 2 episodes only. Over the top DEI hires. This is a mix of animation and live action parody/satire on superheroes in general and seems to be DC comics in particular. The animation is very well done, but unfortunately the live action acting is terrible and the VFX are pretty bad. The comedy is all over the place, sometimes very subtle, sometimes slapstick and sometimes very in your face. I personally didn't find it all that funny but the storyline could of been great if they had maybe dropped the live action and just went with full animated series. I couldn't get past the first 2 episodes as the acting is just so bad it really ruins any chance of enjoyment.

Complete Woke Garbage

This is a woke disaster. Andra and Grayskull have been race swapped from white to black. He-Man and Skeletor are
killed in episode 1 and it becomes the Teela show. From there on she seems to transition into a steroided out man
complete with bulging muscles and a male body. Everything revolves around Teela and her 'journey'. We are constantly
told she's amazing and the best ever, never mind that she's a horrible unlikable character. In season 2 Skeletor returns
for half a second and is a total simp for Evil-Lyn and is tricked into giving his power to her so she can
also transition into a muscle bulging steroid male character and become the villain. Except she's not really evil just
manipulated and tricked into it by Skeletor, because females can't be bad. The voice acting and animation
is very well done it's just such a shame that that fake fan Kevin Smith had to get his little beta
hands on it. Go watch the original or 2002 series instead.

Terrible, Terrible Amateur Movie

Full disclosure I could only make it about 30 min in before giving up. The usual mixed race couple was all I really saw at that point. Everything about this is so bad I was expecting Steven Seagal to show up at any second. The acting and dialogue are terrible. The fight scenes and action are so poorly done and shot it's so obvious how slow they are moving. Find something else to watch, anything really.

Not exactly woke, maybe woke-ish

Woke is limited to just DIE minor/background characters and subtle lines mentioning global warming, no monologue(s) about it. Mild woke, not super woke.

This show is mildly woke but doesn't go out of its way to flaunt these elements. The story is very interesting and goes off the rails pretty quickly but in a good way. The mixed race and LGB couples are present but aren't shoved down your throat. There is no moral messaging on how we are supposed to feel about them. I like how it was pulled off here. I would recommend this show.