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Barely above average

The Movie
Hotel Artemis has an amazing premise, with some very notable highs and great ideas. But the acting is dodgy and the movie lacks gravitas.

The Wokeness
The woke propaganda just makes everything worst. This is your typical woke cocktail of anti-white-man, anti-rich, anti-establishment. Every good or cool character is POC or female. The white dude is a squeamy little b*tch. We've all seen it before, it's tiring.

Surprisingly good

The movie.
I found it interesting with a fresh plot, some great characters and good acting. It lingers at times, but overall it's a thumbs up from me.

The wokeness.
The main character is gay and so is her friend, but it doesn't come through as typical wokeness. In fact, there isn't much dwelling on their orientation. They're just gay, that's all. It was handled perfectly, adding to the backstory without feeling fake or enforced by a wokifying department. I was quite impressed, well done movie.

Multiverse of Wokeness

The movie feels the need to confirm the America Chavez parents as lesbians. Strange has to be pushed aside in his own movie to promote Wanda and America's story. The movie's title sequence should have read Scarlet Witch: Multiverse of Madness. Everything is about Wanda needing to be with her kids. Not only that, she literally admits that she killed Vision and felt nothing, which contradicts Infinity War where she is literally crying as she is killing vision, and killing him being the sole reason she breaks down and becomes the Scarlet Witch to begin with.

Captain Carter from What If and Lashana Lynch Captain Marvel being added to the Illuminati because of whatever reasons, when the Illuminati is usually members of the most INTELLIGENT characters in the universe. This movie seems to wanna push more female representation more than the main character, even with Christine from a different universe, and much of it is unneeded, much of the female stuff seemed to be filler. Then to take all that representation and make it for nothing because the villain (Wanda) sacrifices herself in a redemption arc that feels unearned. Not only that, but having Captain Carter using a line from Steve Rogers that is attributed to him specifically, not his Superhero Alter-ego, "I can do this all day." That line was Steven's, and they give it to Captain Carter because why? It seems to cheapen that line with someone else saying it with no reasoning behind it.

It is also worth noting that the females who stand against Wanda seem to put up the better fight. Where Charles Xavier, Black Bolt, and Reed Richards are killed rather easily with very little effort. Not to mention, why is the SMARTEST MAN on Earth telling an all powerful enemy that one of his team can kill her with a whisper from his mouth, knowing that said enemy could possibly stop him? This shows he is not very smart.

All of this are things cheapen the Super Hero franchise that is the MCU because they cannot raise up female characters without seemingly tearing down the males.

A different take for a batman film

I really enjoyed this take/approach to a batman film. Robert Pattinson did a surprisingly good job in this movie. There were a couple scenes where my wife said "Does he have to be shirtless for this montage?" to which I replied "They needed to prove he doesn't sparkle anymore."

I thought the cast did a great job, acting was top notch. Cinematography was also very well done. The action sequences weren't over the top like a typical action film. I loved this films approach to Batman's gear and vehicles.. more ad hoc feeling, especially the bat mobile.

Now to the wokeness. My opinion was a little tainted going into the film, however, there were only a couple moments of blatant wokeness. One in particular is the one everyone has sort of brought up, where Zoe Kravitz delivers the line about Gotham being run by a bunch of "white privileged assholes." I felt that line was unwarranted, because corruption transcends race (if you need examples, look at all of human history).

Overall, we really enjoyed the film, 5/5 for originality and execution.

Wokeness, gets a 2/5 for the blatant dig that was totally not needed to advance the plot or complete the arch of the story. (We don't care that you hate white people, just tell your batman story)

Loved this improv gem

I was very pleasantly surprised at this show. Murderville isn't your typical murder mystery show, because the guest star doesn't have a script and they have to just make up their part along with the regular cast on the show.

So they use this to create some truly hilarious moments that had me raising up out of my seat with laughter. I hope they do another season of the show, I truly enjoy Improv comedy, especially when it's executed so well.

No wokeness detected, 0/5.
Overall giving it 5/5

Pretty Damn Good

Pretty good dang TV show! Each episode is different and I really appreciate it. Definitely not a type of tv show for someone who is very squeamish. Some scenes are very gory. If you have no problem with gross stuff, then you should have no problem while having a meal.

The story plot is pretty good. Each character has a good arch story. Recommend it!

An entertaining yet flawed chapter.

While this movie references the relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, it does not automatically make it woke. All it did was verbally confirm what everyone already knew, and then that was it. Not woke.

THIS NEXT PART CONTAINS SPOILERS!

While this movie is not woke, that does not automatically mean it is good either. This movie continues the violation of the lore with another installment that uses a character that shouldn't even be born yet (Minerva McGonagall) as well as changes JK Rowling's story of the death of Ariana Dumbledore by making Grindelwald a nonparticipant. Also making Ariana an obscurial, is contradicting the lore already established in Fantastic Beasts 1. Where they only live up to the age of 10, it is said to be EXTREMELY rare for them to live past 10 years old. Yet 2 existed within 3 decades time. That kind of diminishes the rarity. The writing therefore damages the story set forth by JK and the other writers. Also the recasting of Grindelwald harms the movie as recasting often does, because a different actor often brings a different performance and this is no exception. Mads Mikkelson is a good actor, but he completely changes the character of Grindelwald to what Johnny Depp brought to the role.

Funny, but laced with wokeness

This movie has some great laughs, and overall it was enjoyable.

But it was flooded with woke moments all throughout. Most of the wokeness centered around homosexuality. There was a joke about the whole "pronoun/preference" thing, but it seemed more like a disingenuous virtue signal.. because you know, we can't just ask a girl is there is some boy she likes, we have to include the 80 other genders that her love interest could identify as.

3/5 for wokeness, the only reason it's not higher is because the wokeness wasn't preachy.

3/5 overall, was a decent story, shot well, and had some very cringy/hilarious scenes.. the parts with crab man had be rolling.

Not a bad rom com, but has a side of woke

We love a good rom com. Love Hard delivers well in this category! The story was engaging, the acting was done well, there were some good laughs throughout with some genuine tender moments between the main characters that made the progression of their relationship believable.

My only gripe is that the main character was pretty woke herself.. examples included trashing "baby it's cold outside" which is a classic #metoo stance. Others revolved around hating "toxic masculinity." The alternate love interest who was "hot" was into all the toxic "man stuff" that she found repulsive. Eating meat, rock climbing, hunting.. She was compromising her woke pedestal to settle for the hot guy with no "character" and needed to realize she should be with the more sensitive, less masculine guy.

It wasn't enough to spoil the film because it wasn't presented in a preachy way, more like she just realized she shouldn't compromise who she is to be with the wrong person.

Overall, I'm giving it a 4/5, because it was an enjoyable movie that kept me interested and engaged

In wokeness, it gets a 2/5 for all the "baby it's cold outside" hate.

I legit thought this was the best Marvel movie in a long time I’ve watched so far (until I watched Spider-Man: No Way Home which was legit awesome). The story plot was very interesting and captivating. It was woke free in my opinion. An enjoyable movie for sure.

Okay, this movie is so meh. Like Turning Red, this movie isn’t really intended for young kids. Too many serious stuff in it that young kids wouldn’t get. The story plot was so not impressive to me. The reason why I don’t like this movie much is that Disney released this when George Floyd was a big thing. And you know all the characters in the movie are black….soo do the math. That’s the only “woke” thing I could think of from this movie. Again, I wouldn’t watch it again.

Hilarious and Sad reflection of the COVID era

This movie nailed a lot of the lunacy surrounding the COVID pandemic response. There were moments where I laughed out loud, as this movie mostly makes light of how ridiculous things like mask requirements and distancing really are and were.

This movie is basically "Tropic Thunder" in the fact that a bunch of "b-list actors" are coming together for a crappy franchise film with a completely ridiculous premise and terrible story. They even manage to make fun of wokeness, as one of the characters keeps trying to rewrite the script to make the plot more "environmentally friendly" (save the beast creatures)

There were parts of the film where the progression sort of fell flat, I feel like they could have trimmed some of the scenes.

Overall, I am giving it a 3/5. It's a very watchable film and there are some hilarious moments

For wokeness, 1/5. While it trends on the side of mocking wokeness, it does contain some woke elements, such as "promiscuity being normal" and some "toxic masculinity" called out.