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Absolutely Woke (Season 1 Episode 1 - 5)
For those interested and utilizing this site, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is indeed very, if not unnervingly woke. It had some elements I quite agreed with politically and personally but more so with those I did not. The DEI drive within the show is painfully blatant and though I did LOVE the characters; It was too much, dare I say, far too much.
The television show itself does accel in story-telling but it does suffer a bit to forcefully interjected 'woke' ideologies. Combatted by the fact they are a whopping 50+ minutes long, it takes away from the story-telling and immersion fairly significantly in some situations.
The visual effects are outstanding. Completely and utterly outstanding. The same goes for the audioFX.
Overall, I had to stop watching the show by episode six of the first season due to it's blatantly woke-leaning politically motivated nature. Though elements were introduced in episodes 1-5 pretty heavily, I try to keep an open mind enough to understand that everyone has an opinion. By episode five though, there were basically eluding to the fact that if you aren't 'like' them, you're either stupid, a bad person or a mixture of both.
I watch television to be entertained, not to be dismissed, looked down upon or flat told that "I'm" wrong. This is a very hard pass for me.
Created: 06-25-2023
Nic Cage does not speak a single word...
...hilarious. Watched for free on Redbox. No woke elements other than diverse cast and interracial couple. Low budget Syfy made for tv movie.
Created: 06-25-2023
Long Bloated Boring Woke Mess
Lots of social justice messaging throughout. All the bad characters are rich white men. Corrupt white male mayor killed and replaced with virtuous good black female mayor. Main villain only kills white rich male characters because their rich and he's poor. We are even told at one point he's not really that bad because he kills rich white privilege characters that are in power. Thomas Wayne was now running for mayor and tied in with the mob? Rich white male I guess. Mobster owns everyone in power and has run the city behind the scenes for 20 years but forgot to buy the news media because of course they are always truthful and to be trusted and can't be corrupted.
The dark gothic atmosphere is almost perfect for a Batman movie. Almost perfect because it's too dark, so dark its hard to see what's going on in some scenes. The acting is good by everyone except Pattinson who is just an awful actor. He has no facial expressions and no range whatsoever. It's just angsty emo blank stare in every movie and he keeps getting hired somehow. The dialogue is all spoken very slowly and in low whispers and scenes just drag on for no reason. This could have easily been a 2hr movie. This is the DC Batman universe in name only. None of these characters resembles their original form in any way. Penguin is barely used and is just another thug. I don't know what the hell that laughable gimp suit villain was bit it was not the Riddler. Alfred is hardly there and that is NOT Batman. Where is the expertly trained martial arts fighter? This batman is just a street brawler. The great detective? Nope. He just bumbles around stumbling on clues or having other characters figure it out for him. Bruce Wayne only shows up a few times to look angsty and brood otherwise no character development there.
Created: 06-24-2023
The Woke Left Hates This Film!
...Because it's about them. You see kangaroo courts, and basically a Soviet-style takeover while Batman is in the pit. Which makes his climb out of the pit so satisfying.
Created: 06-24-2023
Mild Woke, But A Must See Movie
The mild wokeness is because ironically the villain in this film is the business. They mention how money is the god, and the part-timer eventually quits the job in order to spread the truth.
But over the years, the anti-capitalists have proved to be the actual problem (along work the woke capitalists like Starbucks). And they're dead on with their assessment about the media.
Created: 06-24-2023
Mild Wokeness
I think the only real objection I had was that it seemed to have a token Middle-Eastern as a prince, and there was so female empowerment crap. Mostly okay tho.
Created: 06-24-2023
I didn't find this woke free
For one thing, it seemed to be narrated by a millennial using crappy art.
For another, I think they had a vague jab about climate change as a cause for the monsters. And then you've got a bunch of teens living in what is essentially a commune. I didn't get very far into it before something about it really rubbed me the wrong way.
Created: 06-24-2023
White Guilt
There is an implication that she basically did this whole thing because she's a rich white person. This is not to say white people can't do nice things for black people but her motivation was suspicious enough that I put it into mild woke category.
Created: 06-24-2023
Depends What You Consider Woke, I Guess
Someone else gave it a woke-free rating. But to me, the whole Ukraine vs Russia thing was something cooked up by Biden to distract from his miserable presidency, just as the calling Trump a Russian colluder was a narrative they did to try to discredit him. Ukraine is a country that is still pretty darned Soviet (I know this, as I was going to there for Peace Corps then decided against). Russia on the other hand largely turned its back on all that, and should be our ally if not for leftists constantly trying to stir up mischief.
So yes, you could say this is not woke if you buy the Ukraine narrative. I don't however.
Created: 06-24-2023
The Premise is Woke
There might not be alot of black or gay representation. But the premise revolves around "secrets the church is keeping hidden." Part of wokeness is acting like the church is either molesting kids, hurting gay people, or is engaged in some sort of evil and/or superstitious activity. So by default, when a film pushes the idea of church conspiracy, it's woke.
Created: 06-24-2023
Action Film Tainted By Woke
Uhhh let's see, so the premise is that a leftist politician (I think her name was Sofia Flores) is murdered. We get to hear her speech and it's filled with cliches about taking back power/money from the government.
This is followed by our hero rescuing an FBI agent from "domestic terrorists" who are actually just rednecks. Which in turn is followed by a sorta true believer type getting harassed by cops for having a gun in his own car. Ummmm, you are allowed to carry a gun in your car with a permit. So in the first 30 minutes, we have: leftist propaganda from a politician, demonizing Southerners, and acting like the 2nd amendment doesn't exist. Oh yeah, and there's a "strong woman" who gets to fight with everyone and is always right, is black, and has an awful buzzed bottom haircut.
The action portion was okay but there was alot that I couldn't enjoy about this film.
Created: 06-24-2023
Decidedly Not Woke
The main character earns his powers through hard work. Predominant;y espouses capitalist work ethic, and for the most part, the hero system works this way. They are essentially licensed businessmen.
There is a minor bit at season 4 & 5 or so where you kinda sympathize with the villains, and there are very vague overtones of a kinda social class issue (basically due to being unable to do hero work without licensing, they talk about "liberation"). But they basically tell us that despite having a hard-luck story, these are villains going about things the wrong way.
Created: 06-23-2023
