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None woke

I didn't find woke elements. Movie and songs are ok

Good show but woke

I like the show, but this is how it works (except for the main charachter):
- girl are badasses, boys are softies
- whites are often weaker than black
- of course gay people is normal

Not woke at all

No pushing on diversity, no "normal" gay stories.

Woke consists of a the gay neighbor who shows his wedding video with a gay kiss. There's also a unnecessary derogatory statement by a white female character no less about the male lead being a 35 year old white male who thinks he's going to be a rock star. The acting is decent and the writing and story are passable though pretty basic and you can see the ending coming very early on so there are really no surprises. The FX are overall good and if you like body horror you might like this more than me. A few too many jump scares in my opinion but there are some creepy and disturbing scenes. The female character could of been written better. She is pretty unlikable and treats her boyfriend like garbage, blames him for everything and openly flirts with the neighbor before finding out he's gay. Watchable but nothing great.

Well written, clever, and entertaining.

I didn't perceive any woke agenda outside of the typical situation of a teenager setting the older folks straight on critical issues is thinly veiled. Perhaps that should tic the woke-meter. It's not enough to detract from the enjoyability of the movie.

This one is a little hard to rate on the woke scale. The John wick movies by this time are so over the top unrealistic with him basically
being super human it's ridiculous. There is an argument to made that this is just an attempt to make a female version of John Wick so it
is by definition woke. I see this as a mix of bad writing and woke together. John Wick at the time of the first movie is ready to retire and
has been at this for a very long time. He has built a reputation through decades of experience and life lessons to get to be the machine that he
is. Here however she goes through a training montage gets sent on her very first mission ever and easily defeats 5 assailants at the same time, in
a dress and heals on ice. She gets beaten and kicked but is never injured or even bloody and just gets up like nothing happened and beats them all down. Then we jump 2 months later where she appears to have taken on and killed dozens of men in a basic warzone, yet she is again uninjured with no bruises or any visible blood and perfect made up hair and clothes without breaking a sweat. This trend continues throughout the movie, every fight her opponents are bloodied
and bruised but she always looks perfect never breaking a sweat and not a hair out of place. She physically takes on and defeats much larger men but the minute her opponent is a woman she has a much harder time beating them. She is an immediate super powered invincible Mary Sue who appears to be equal in skill and ability to John Wick an the end of his career. Then there is the argument that they picked 5'6" actress who is rail thin with no muscle definition. Some of this can be written off as bad writing as John Wick 4 has plenty of invincible stupid writing for that one as well but I think there is definitely some woke at work here. Then there is the white male Pine character with the black daughter. The acting is decent by most everyone, the story is nothing new just a generic revenge plot. The action scenes are the now typical for the franchise unrealistic over the top nonsense with a terminator
type character versus stupid canon fodder enemies that die easily by the dozens. They actually have an opportunity toward the end of the film to kill her but for some stupid reason decide to just capture her instead. They literally just the spent the entire movie trying to kill her than just don't when given the opportunity. Another example is the sword scene in the burning building when multiple enemies with guns refuse to simply shoot her and instead just run up to her to be killed like morons. The flamethrower guns with seemingly infinite 'ammo' is another notably bad writing moment. We are also told through the entire movie
by everyone how dangerous this tribe is and no one wants to mess with them. Then this newb just out of training easily slaughters her way through the entire town while they all act like bumbling untrained fools instead of a tribe of highly trained dangerous killers. I suppose it's a one time watch for fans of John Wick but it's the worst of the franchise by far.

This isn't woke, but it does have agenda.

This movie addresses the social angst of high-school students in their different cliques. There is a jock, a socialite, an emo, a nerd, and a stoner. They spend the day figuring out that they have more in common than they thought. The realization that they have been misunderstanding each other was enlightening. They also realized that they would go back to their normal, classified roles. This time, these five students would have a better understanding of differences. They didn't address any racial or gender issues. I really don't understand this movie having a Woke rating.

Not woke, but...

This is a very good, entertaining movie. Robin Williams proved himself to be more than just a comedian once again. There was no woke agenda other than middle-aged, white academics being appalled at the idea of girls being admitted to the boys prep school. That's a slight tic on the woke-meter but it rounds down to zero. I would give it a 0.25.
The problem I have with the movie is the idea that 17-year-olds are ready to choose their own path. Independent thinking is a good thing, but adult responsibility isn't a threshold that goes from not ready on Monday but completely ready on Tuesday. It's a slow process that requires parental guidance and authority. That authority was somewhat ridiculed and undermined by ad-absurd um portrayal, resulting in tragedy.

Objective reporting with an entertaining flair.

Right or left, this is a must-see. The agenda is ostensive. Matt set out to expose the fallacy of gender fluidity. He allowed the interviewees to make their points, uninterrupted. There were no deceptive edits.
The absurdity of gender-fluid ideology exposes itself with an open platform. Thanks, Matt.

So much wasted potential. Mark Petrie has been race swapped from white in the books to black. The Dr Jimmy Cody a white male in the books has been race and gender swapped to a black female. There is no mention of race or gender throughout for either character however this is clearly a DEI decision therefore the higher woke rating. Both of these characters are also of course 'Hero' characters. The rest of the casting
is pretty good and the acting is decent. The Striker character is a bit of a miscast and in not at all like the book. There are 2 major problems
with this movie. The first being it's far too short. The book is very long and trying to fit this into a sub 2 hr movie is ridiculous. Everything is far too rushed with no time spent on any of the characters. While they included most of the large cast and scenes from the book no time is spent on any backstory
and none of the characters are fleshed out at all. For instance the Ralphie and Danny sequences takes place over 5 days in the book but here it's in the same night and within several minutes. Characters jump to conclusions and say things that make no sense because huge chunks of the book are left out that get the characters and the story to that point. Then for some reason they added extra scenes not in the book that serve no purpose. A few odd changes as well with the biggest being the ending. It is completely changed for the worse and unrecognizable from the book for no apparent reason. The second issue is while the
the cinematography is excellent and the movie is shot very creepy with some good tension the actual horror and action scenes are terrible. There is no scares and those scenes are just bland and sterile. It's almost like a different director shot the action/horror sequences.

Another franchise destroyed

Honestly, I’m not writing this review with much joy. It’s not even anger, just disappointment. It sucks to see big producers and directors not taking care of the universes they built. I’m not gonna go on forever listing pros and cons, but I’ll just say this: the first few episodes actually started off with some pretty interesting premises and fresh ideas, showing a real intention to expand the universe.

I watched it with some skepticism, and it kinda grew on me… [even though, right from the start, the crew should’ve been way smarter and more cautious than the ones in the original movie, those guys didn’t know what they were dealing with, but these ones do, and still don’t act like actual scientists].

Anyway, even though there were a few solid points they could’ve explored, they ended up trashing the whole franchise by introducing something that completely breaks the logic of the Alien universe. The original story was about a human being (Ripley) who, despite all her flaws, kept pushing forward, faced her fears, and risked her life to kill the alien that wiped out everyone she knew and loved aboard the ship. That’s gone here. Instead, we get a constant DEUS EX MACHINA, something that at first seems interesting, maybe even a cool antagonist setup, but turns into some kind of goddess-level system that can control anything running on electricity (and apparently stuff that isn’t, too!). Ridiculous.

Don’t watch it. It’s not worth your time. Yeah, it’s got some woke stuff in it, but honestly, that’s not even the worst part. The real problem is the total lack of respect for the franchise, and not even for the director or the original creator, because he’s the showrunner here. He’s been lost for a while now.

Cheers.
I’ll leave you with this:

New sci-fi stories will be born. Once they finish destroying all the classics, new ones will rise. That’s for sure.

Expected Woke-Fest

White male characters are all baffoons and/or evil, ususally both. Left wing activism is celebrated, while any form of government authority is deemed as fascist. Female characters are all superior to their male counterparts, even though the girl-bossing is not as blatant as in other movies.

The film has a slight air of subtlety, but generally it is a home run of pro-left-wing activism, pro-immigration, pro-left-wing-terrorism and anti-conservative propaganda.

The most frustrating thing is that PTA is a talented director and unlike many of his woke counterparts he has delivered an entertaining and aesthetically pleasing film which will be lauded as masterpiece.

If you look beyond the cinematography, the occassional humerous moments and the high standard acting, it is essentially woke Hollywood slop with the usual boring tropes.

Unfortunately liberals will be insufferable when this movie is inevitably showered with awards in the spring time of next year.