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What a surprise!

Initially I had no expectations for this; watched it because of a reviewer and it was very fun. Kickass action, funny humor, not a trace of woke. Recommended if you like John Wick/Dirty Harry type movies.

Come for david harbour, stay for leguizamo, leave wanting more

I would give this a woke free, but the only thing relatively woke in it is an interracial couple. It is not mentioned at all nor is the classic black people are oppressed undertone that comes with it. 5/5 my favorite christmas movie ever.

One of my favorites

I can't understand this movie getting any less than rave reviews. Watch it for yourself. It's got some action and a good story line but the main strength of the movie is friendship, loyalty, deception and greed.

Crap

Do not take your kids to this crap. I walked out with my daughter.

Yes, this is woke!

I can't believe people say this isn't woke?! The identities of the people tell you EVERYTHING. Main character: Black, divorced her black husband to become a lesbian with a Chinese deaf woman! Not woke!??!?! The woman DEMANDS her son speak in sign language. Then the only white people in the film are 1) MORONS 2) Evil pieces of crap. The story isn't woke, it's just bad. But the casting will tell you in every scene who will do something good, bad, brave, or evil just based on skin color.

This is a terrific movie. It deftly handles the relationship between the Jonathan Majors character and his fellow pilots. It's a true brotherhood and everyone has each other's backs. Yes the movie goes out of its way to illustrate the pains the Majors character has endured as a black aviator in 1950. But whereas similar movies use a sledgehammer to detail such injustices, Devotion balances these instances by clearly showing Majors' affection and respect for his white counterparts. It goes a long way towards making you care about Majors and the other characters and their plight.

I saw that another rater called this super woke. That's disappointing because it's not even a little woke. Interracial couples? Yeah, so. Are they all male/female? Yes! And the main male/female relationship at the movie's core is rock solid with the two leads 100% dedicated to family. Traditional morality is present throughout. This is a perfectly acceptable movie to throw on for the kids.

Useful, with light cringe

It's good to examine big pharma and criticise society's increasing dependency on drugs on a daily basis, and this documentary, while making plenty of excuses for it, does try to examine the negative side-effects of doing so.
It has a very strange color correction problem - everything is a pervasive pink hue. I wonder if it's by design, or the editor has some kind of problem where everything looks green to him?
Anyway.

The woke is subtle, but palatable.
It comes in the form of forced representation. Gays interviewed because "visibility," right? Of course a lecture on how black people are oppressed by the system. How women are the only people who can be doctors because, fuck white men, right?
There are even edits which prominently feature "Hillary for President" in background props.

That stuff is pretty hard to ignore, and once you notice it, it distracts from the messaging and makes the rest of the film suspect.
But if you can make it into a drinking game and some kind of "Guess who the director voted for!" bingo, it's informative somewhat.

Woke free

Great woke free movie about the capture of Bonnie and Clyde. Even shows the failure in capturing them by Ma Ferguson

Season 1 was fine, season 2 blew it;

The wokeness in this series is relatively subtle in season 1 and just gets worse as the series progresses. Season 2 cites false statistics and tries to be subtle when shooting down factual info but ends up failing miserably, making the political angle of Inside Job unnecessarily obvious and ruining the already terrible "comedy".

Any peery-eyed viewer will notice the attempts at subliminal messaging and begin to resent this utter pile of garbage people call a "show".

One of the greats

One of my favourite movies. Some great comic moments. I imagine some might disagree but not woke in my book.

Wokeness in the first minutes of the series

Guess not even Tim Burton can escape the wokeness disease. I just started the series, when characters get intruduced and one of the supporting ones is a black bald mermaid and states that she's royalty. Netflix copying the worst of disney and succesfully making it even worse. Not much of a surprise here.
I'll update my review if necessary once I had seen more.