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Great movie!

What can you say about this film?
Look, if you grab a magnifying glass and start dissecting it like some sad little nerd, you’ll probably find some square rock with the corners conveniently rounded off so nobody gets poked. There’s always something, isn’t there?
But anyway…
It was bloody entertaining. I walked out of the cinema proper buzzing, smiling like a fool, feeling like I’d just watched a proper movie from the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know… when they still made them good.

Another hurricane/horror movie. Starts off ok, there is a large hurricane approaching and most people are acting appropriately. Boarding up, businesses are closing, people leaving town. However then they say the interstate is closed due to flooding. What? The storm hasn't made landfall and its barely raining yet they closed the evacuation route? Nope. Then a character who's standing on a dock by the water has a printout showing the storm right off shore and says it's so big they may have to create a category 6. The graph clearly labels it as a cat 4 with 172mph winds. That would be 5 not a 4 plus those winds are very
bad but there have been storms that strong in reality so not as outrageous as they make it sound. On top of all that if it was that close to land conditions would be terrible already yet it's not raining there is no wind and the sun is shining as they look at storm clouds out to sea. The lazy writing is already showing at only 10 minutes in. We are then told it's 22 minutes until landfall yet people are still out driving around, getting supplies. Mandatory evacuations are playing over the radio which in reality would be a shelter in place notice, 22 minutes is way to late to attempt an evacuation. Once the storm makes landfall consistency goes completely out the window. Cutting from
scenes of extremely high winds and storm surge flooding the town to people still out driving around with light rain and little to no wind. Within minutes of landfall and flooding there's 2 people paddling around on a tiny boat and one of the characters claims 'I can't see a damn thing' while it's barely raining with clear visibility!! They pull up a satellite view of the town during landfall mind you and get a clear view of the town with no clouds in sight!! How did this trash director get 30 million in funding for this horrible garbage movie? I'm done
I can't take it anymore this is utter garbage. I made it 30 minutes and that's it.
Woke aspects-
There are 2 main families, a black uncle and his niece who are a normal decent family and he's smart well spoken marine biologist and a good Uncle, and a white trash redneck family and with 3 foster kids where the father is a p.o.s. moronic loser who treats the kids like garbage. Turns out they are just using the kids to get a government paycheck. All the white characters seem to be idiots with the black family being the only rational smart ones.

Some woke casting

Jon Hamm does a great job and the show is entertaining. Thad said, a few women have roles in his criminal activities that I'd say are a bit of a stretch. The woman running the pawn shop and the maid are at times a bit too girl bossy. Otherwise, an enjoyable show.

The person this is based on's ex wife was spanish so that is accurate and not a woke element. Also the best friend in the story was kept
mostly secretive to who he really was so having a black character is entirely possible. He's barely in it anyway and race is never brought up. There is the pastor and his wife who are mixed race white male and black female but I couldn't find if this is accurate or not. It could be a woke moment but I can't say for sure, and again race is never mentioned. The acting is good and this seems to be very accurate to the real story. Every time something would happen and I was sure there was no way it could be true and sure enough it turned out to be true. It's surprising how someone this smart could be so stupid at the same time. I feel like the movie drags a bit especially in the second half and could of been a bit shorter. Overall not a bad movie but it's not really what I was expecting. A decent watch and at least it doesn't seem to make a lot of it up like so many true story story movies do now.

Even the Japanese have been infected; impressive and boring.

Saw a few episodes, my youngest is still a pokemon fan. I seem to remember pokemon is typical Japanese short-hand for pocket monster, but let's not.

Visually very impressive, very short and incredibly bland episodes.

Woke notch because of wonderful black girl, stupid white man.

Heck, took a minute to check, Ai, who voices black girl, is mixed-race, because representation thingy is important, but Okuno, who voices white guy, well, check the pictures below, Japanese good ol boy (bloke was in Shogun!), representation out the window as usual.

It seems even more intentional as one considers that hafus are pretty rare and (/ because) not all well-accepted in Japan, especially when the non-Japanese parent is not Asian or white either.
Well, Ai's father is apparently Lebanese, which is black enough (ie, rest of the world to the Japanese), and well, black hafus are rare even in fiction.

A woman gets turned down for an Air bnb rental and they immediately blame racism because her last name is middle eastern then say the white guy gets accepted because of white privilege. They arrive at the very large nice house on the beach and the white guy that meets them there is driving a beat-up pickup. The middle eastern girl gives him a weird look and asks if this is his house in a very condescending tone clearly because she thinks he's white trash. She then says she didn't mean anything by it, so then after introductions of the 2 white brothers he asks how she got mixed up in this family. She takes offense and calls him a p.o.s. She then starts asking him if he
turned her down because of her name pretty much calling him a racist to his face. Typical hypocrisy of the woke. It's only 8 minutes and we already have fake white racist claims by the actual minority racist. I hate her smug entitled face at this point and the movie is pretty much already ruined at only 10 minutes in because of 1 racist hateful nasty character. For some inexplicable reason both the white brothers are after her even though she's a horrible miserable person.
They act like the home owner is creepy and an asshole yet he hasn't actually done anything at all at this point other than have them treat him like garbage and accuse him of being a racist. So after 20 minutes of nothing but screaming 'the white guy is racist' the whole time I'm done with this trash. Recommend avoiding this at all costs.

Well, this one’s tricky

I waited quite a while for someone to watch it first so I could know if it was woke or not. But since nobody said anything, I went ahead and watched the entire first season.

Straight to the point: Is it woke? Yes, it is. It checks all the diversity boxes, and there’s (NO SPOILERS) one character that fills the typical “poor victim” quota you usually see in Apple productions.

But is it entertaining?

Yeah, honestly. Even with the diversity elements and a character doing some occasional girl-bossing, it doesn’t ruin the story. I was actually surprised they didn’t lean harder into the usual woke topics they normally push in Apple shows.

So I started watching the second season.

By Apple’s woke standards, this one is pretty watchable.

Very entertaining.

This movie is over-the-top in a Rambo sort of way. The acting is great. The story is action-packed. The fight scenes are intense. Mostly, the lighthearted, confident, tough-guy attitude in the face of mortal danger is kind of like Dumas' original stories. It's like superhero for adults. It's a fun watch. There's no DEI or woke agenda.

Typical Woke stuff, but nothing outrageous.

(No Spoilers)
The woke stuff isn't too bad but it is present. However, the movie itself is mediocre. (Yes, I know it's a kids movie, but I watch all kinds and there are some great kids movies.)

Woke Stuff:
- A few of the characters are androginous to the point of looking trans. (A lot of the female characters look male and the male characters look female. I.E.: The principal; the main villianess; a few gag extras etc...)
- Main male characters wearing makeup and cross-dressing in flashbacks to high school. (They are spoofing "Boy George" from the 80's however their were millions of choices they could have made that didn't include a crossdresser who wore makeup.)

Movie stuff:
- Generally just a pretty boring movie made for the extreme A.D.H.D. younger generations.
- Not very original...The movie spoofs: Terminator; Beetlejuice; Wile E. Coyote; Fantastic 4; Groundhog Day (Happy Death Day) (in the first mini-movie) and more.

Not very entertaining.

Although the movie has its moments, It's really not that entertaining. It does seem to translate Orwell's allegorical novella to a modern world. The basics are there. There's a few changes like a waterwheel instead of the windmill. They skipped some of the events in the book like defending the farm against Farmer Jones or the neighbor. The progression is similar. The rules keep getting changed to suit those in charge. I enjoyed the movie. I recommend watching it as the allegory about Stalin-ism it's meant to be.

This is an anthology series supposedly based around true stories that take place in the suburbs. It's a bit hard to rate anthologies like this as every episode is completely different including actors and directors so I've decided to do a small review on each episode as there's only 6 anyway.

Ep #1-1 woke-1 overall-The acting is not very good. This has nothing to do with the actual real story this claims to be based on and might as well just be a completely made up story. The story is as cliché as it gets, the usual play with a Ouija board and bring back a ghost trope that's been done to death at this point. Pretty tame as horror goes and feels like anything you would see on late night network tv in the late 90's early 2000. The only woke would be the mixed race female lead with the white boyfriend.

Ep #2-0 woke-2 overall-The acting again is pretty bad. I'm starting to sense a theme. At least the story seems to stick closer to true events this time. Not really horror though it's a serial killer thriller and interesting enough but it does still have that late night network feel to it. Nothing woke though and a better watch than the first one particularly if you like true crime type of stuff.

Ep #3-0 woke-2-overall-As far as I've been able to find this is complete fiction and based on nothing factual though it claims otherwise. An odd decision given what the series is supposed to be. The acting for the most part is a step up this time with the exception of the narrator who unfortunately is talking most of the time. The problem though is the same as the other episodes. Everything is just so tame and sort of 'horror lite' like it belongs on network tv. Nothing woke though in this one as well.

Ep #4-0 woke-2 overall-Another 'based on a true story' claim that appears to be complete fabrication and based on an urban legend. The acting at least is decent in this one. It plays out like a typical slasher and it could of been a decent episode except it's all so silly. What's supposed to be creepy just comes across as gullible people getting pranked by someone in a mask. I mean nothing ever happens, someone in a bunny mask just stands around trying to be scary and then does nothing. There is no woke in this one.

Ep #5-5 woke-0 overall-This is at least based on an actual true story though it appears to be heavily altered. The acting is the worst yet. Attempts at horror and jump scares are pathetic and ineffectual. And then there is the woke factor. The premise is an all black family of five the husband being the only male move into a house that haunted by the ghosts of evil white settlers who took it from the good natives. The ghost possesses the black male father and turns him into
an alcoholic violent abuser while for some reason (I think we know why) the females family members are unaffected. Total garbage and the worst episode of the bunch.

Ep 6-0 woke-0 overall-Directed by Carpenter himself another actually based on a true story. Like the others the acting is pretty bad. The story is ridiculous. Basically a woman has a bad breakup with her ex than starts getting harassed by a 'stalker' sending videos, dick pics and threatening phone calls. Eventually breaking into her home surveillance system and her home, but never actually attacking her. The entire thing is so implausible and over the top you have to wonder how much was actually true. The resolution or lack thereof is unbelievable given the amount of evidence there claims to be.

The entire thing is pretty bad overall and can't really recommend watching any of them except maybe episode 2 if you really like true crime. Not overly woke as a whole outside of Episode 5. If you skip that one it's almost woke free.

Almost an hour passed by, and I didn't even realize it while watching this movie.
Maybe the mention of having a child before marriage is "woke" (I don't know; I don't support that stuff; marry first, then do the deed). Otherwise, it's okay.