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Not Horrible But The Worst In The Franchise
The black female friend/roommate is a total DEI hire. Horrible character that is totally out of place for this franchise. The entire purpose of the character is a cringe unfunny comedy sidekick spouting social media gen z nonsense constantly. This has been a serious horror franchise not the Scary Movie series. She assaults and kicks a white male in the crotch for calling her unattractive and nothing happens. That character single handedly brings the rating down a point. You could completely remove her character from the movie and change nothing else and it instantly becomes a better movie. The acting is average at best. The horror aspect just isn't there though. The creepy atmosphere this franchise is known for is gone and the attempts at jump scares are poorly implemented and don't work. It's probably a 2.5 in reality but I couldn't being myself to give a 3. Better to re-watch the original trilogy instead. Even The Last Key is better than this and that was a big step down.
Created: 11-30-2023
Was This Funded By The DNC?
Wow this isn't a movie it's a liberal California writers wet dream put to film. The shooter is a liberals idea of a 'crazy alt-righter' who spends the entire movie preaching politics over a two way radio. It's a lefty propaganda movie that tries to make the right look like crazy, violent, racist gun nuts. The owners of the gas station are good innocent Mexican immigrants who we have to make sure have American flags hanging around the store and make sure they are in all the scenes. Of course there has to be the mixed race bs like always. The writing is terrible with everyone being as stupid as possible. Somehow hiding behind plastic convenience store shelves protects you from rifle rounds in this reality. Everyone in this moves and reaches for whatever they want to get as slow as humanly possible so the shooter has plenty of time to see them and line up a shot. Other than the lead the acting is abysmal especially by the black boyfriend who obviously was hired for quotas rather than ability.
Created: 11-30-2023
Chinese propaganda
The wokeness here is not the standard American/European wokeness but rather the endgame of wokeness: stop your whining, your Party leaders need you to sacrifice yourselves for the Greater Good, thank you very much. Throwing bodies at the problem reminds me of the film Chernobyl. That is the Communist way.
Spoilers follow.
In the movie, the Sun is rapidly expanding, which has an obvious parallels to climate change, so that is another neo-woke aspect. Whereas fascist governments need a human enemy against which to unite the people, Communist governments need a non-human global threat to unite all people in a globalist system from which no one can escape.
The plot makes no more sense than Hollywood blockbuster sci-fi movies, which surprised me. Here, 91% of Americans oppose the only way to save the world. They are willing to suicide-bomb themselves to prove their point. To control thousands of giant rocket engines to save the Earth, the good guys need the Internet, but the Internet's root hub (wut?) is of course in China (wut?) and it's down. A brash, obnoxious American leader is worried that time is running out for the Chinese to reboot the Internet, so he wants to abort the rocket plan, but an elderly Chinese Communist party leader points his cane at him and shouts him down in the style of "You shall not pass!!!", yelling that his people will not fail. He is, of course, correct, but his people succeed only because of the most implausible Deus ex machina "AI" intervention.
There are lots of scientific errors. The space elevator was cool, though.
42% of the reviews on IMDB are 10/10, around that of The Lord of the Rings movies. I call Communist voting shinanigins.
In summary, this Chinese blockbuster is Chinese propaganda. This is the second movie, but it's a prequel, so order of viewing is not important. However, it may not be worth viewing at all.
Created: 11-30-2023
Beautiful, Subtle
Valerian has a casual subtlety to it. The message is so subtle that it’s barely noticeable. The film is quite tolerable in this respect. Perhaps it is just being true to its comic roots? In any case, if woke movies in general were handled like this, I doubt we’d need a website such as we’re on warning us off of hazards.
Note to Hollywood: use a scalpel not a chainsaw. I guess.
Created: 11-30-2023
Accurate
It is basically historically accurate, just a few artistic liberties taken. Oppenheimer did indeed have a fling/affair with a commie and married a (former?) commie. It's interesting that the film did not shy away from making a link between Jews and Marxism, as well as UC Berkeley and Marxism. How can such intelligent people advocate such a deadly form of government?
I think the film is too long and a bit overrated, but I will grant it a 5/5, because the current competition is so weak.
Created: 11-30-2023
Woke free
Zero woke. No DIE casting. No interracial. No woke themes. Good action flick.
Created: 11-30-2023
Religion bad, atheism good -- once again
wz-372176, on October 2020, wrote:
Every time I hope a documentary will give me an inside look at a different, interesting way of life, I get the usual, tired, "breaking away from" Amish/ Hassidim/ Mormonism/ whatever. Always with an assumption that religion is oppressive and evil and has nothing good to offer, so why tell us about it?
This was so disappointing, we had practically no information about the Hassidic way of life, only three people who had experienced unusually bad situations, the same sort of things, domestic abuse and molestation that can happen in any walk of life. They were part of the only 2 percent who want to leave the sect.
The counselor in the beginning exclaiming over the woman's number of children and saying "Where was your choice? You had no choice!" was such an obvious use of a trigger word, it was laughable.
We're led to think of the Hassidim as terrifying people keeping their members prisoner, even though "freedom" is just a few blocks away. These young people have left a secure world of warmth, community, tradition, and purpose for a world of drugs, violence, crime and prostitution, but the documentary is careful not to hint at any of that. The positive side of Hassidim was never shown and the secular life was a false promise. A fantasy in the guise of a documentary.
Created: 11-29-2023
Part of the Chris Nee universe - Recommend to avoid
After seeing too many episodes of Ridley Jones, and getting it off our family screens early enough (we managed to avoid any serious woke damage) I became aware of, and wary of, the name, Chris Nee. My kids have been watching Spirit Rangers now for a lot of episodes, and caught one promoting indigenous 'treaty rights', hopelessly transparently. The next one I saw was all about 'cultural appropriation'. Ugh. Its perfectly possible to respect our indigenous fellow citizens, and respect legal agreements, but the subject of historical treaties is very complex, as is the whole subject of North American history and indigenous relations. This show is pretty woke and ideologically biased, and certainly trendy in all things that the New York Times would appreciate. Nuff said. Would not recommend.
Created: 11-28-2023
Not really woke, Nice Korean Revenge Movie
So I wouldn't really call this woke. While the female lead is very small there are only a few scenes of her going hand to hand with larger male combatants. She mostly uses her environment and weapons so I don't see it as woke. This is a decent revenge film with good acting and some nice action. Nothing really exceptional but about what you would expect from this type of movie.
Created: 11-28-2023
Better Than Expected
Woke consists of some DEI hires and a few woke lines. Nothing too bad. Movie itself is ok. Some funny moments though Devine gets to be a bit much after a while. It's also painful to watch the 70 year old Brosnan and Barkin physically overpowering large trained guards in body armor. It's worth a watch if you are looking to kill some time.
Created: 11-28-2023
Everything woke turns to shit
Disney really couldn't resist. Interracial children couple, overwhelming DIE casting, every demographic, even what appears to be an androgyny elf, and race swapping characters from the previous 2 movies, black "multiverse" Santa, as well as a brown Santa that ruins Christmas.
Created: 11-28-2023
A New Low For A Franchise Already Scrapping The Bottom
Woke consists of girl bosses, girl power and the laughably bad Jason Momoa anti-masculinity flamboyant character. Right at the beginning we have a small female character beating up a room full of trained full body armored men in hand to hand combat. As others have mentioned I'm not actually sure this is meant to be woke as the movie is so stupid, brain dead and cartoonish with reality this just fits right in with the rest of it. The acting is horrible the dialogue and attempts at humor terrible. The CG ranges from pretty good to looking like a bad xbox game. The action sequences are so stupid and gravity defying physics everyone in this would of been dead 100 times over already. Cars are completely crunched in and demolished in one scene then driving around like nothing happened in the very next cut. This is another one only for the low IQ gen Z crowd.
Created: 11-27-2023
