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Questionable casting but decent story

Diversity casting and female empowerment aside, there is not much that would detract the story.

An excuse for victim culture to be shoved forward

Normally, this is not my kind of movie, but I was prepping my meal and became a captive audience, so here is my dissertation.

This movie glorifies victimhood culture and the victim herself with no regard to morals based on intersectionality and heavy emphasis on emotional appeal.

Straw recycles the same liberal tropes as it had in countless other movies, and the ending does not make the protagonist more sympathetic and leaves things unresolved. Overall, it is a poorly made film with a goal set on pushing an ideology than making a movie that makes you feel better not worse.

DEI, girlboss, multiple mixed race couples, women smart men dumb. This is terrible. Bad acting, bad writing, bad everything. The action scenes
are cheap and ugly. Davidson is annoying and totally miscast. Eddie Murphy looks bored out of his mind and devoid of his usual energy he brings to his acting. The jokes and humor don't work and aren't funny in the least.

Greatest soldier movie ever!

Everything about this movie is great. It's based on a true story. I don't know how accurate it is, but the underlying theme was well presented. It's a story about convictions being put to the test when faced with circumstances that don't fit neatly into the preconceived right vs. wrong world that was expected. The young draftee, York, is perceived as being cowardly because of his conscientious objection to war. His faith is tested in combat where his bravery becomes unquestionable.
Most of the pivotal facts are verifiable. He was a baptized Christian and conscientious objector. He did reconcile his faith with being a soldier. He did lead the attack on German machine gun nests resulting in the Medal of Honor. His community did build a house for him and his wife.

One of the greatest series ever.

This is a "woke" evaluation site so... The only element that qualifies would be Gus Fring being homo. There's nothing in the series, or the prequel series (Better Call Saul) that supports that.
I read a story about Anthony Hopkins bingeing the entire series over a few days and writing a letter to Bryan Cranston telling him that it's the best TV series ever. Furthermore, he called Cranston the greatest actor alive. That's quite an endorsement.
I recommend looking at the impressive list of awards on IMDB.
Personally, I was hooked after season one, episode two. Walter recapturing the escaped dealer was priceless.
I've read criticism of the final season. The buildup was immense. There was so much tension by the 5th season, I don't think there was a better way to cap it off. It triggered a spinoff movie (El-Camino) that was very good. Also, the prequel, Better Call Saul, generated its own well deserved plethora of awards.
The production is top-tier. I especially liked the cinematography. Bryan Cranston is a woke, Hollywood Liberal along with Baldwin, De Niro, and the rest of that cesspool. If you can get by that, there is no woke in Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul.

It's a good, bingeable show.

This is actually two story lines that bump against each other and eventually mingle. The story of Jimmy and his journey from con-artist punk to the flamboyant Saul Goodman is worth watching. To me, the better story is Mike Ehrmantraut. He was one of the best characters in Breaking Bad. There's a lot of backstory involved.
I'm having trouble figuring out what the extreme woke ratings are from. There's no LGBT representation. There are no minority heroes. I think minority advocates would have trouble with the depiction of illegal immigrants and drug cartel types.
Kim is a great character who shows zero emotions. Rhea won an award for playing her. She's smart and competent, but not woke.
If I ever figure out what is being called Woke about this series, I'll edit this review.
The production is outstanding. I recommend looking at the awards list on IMDB. I think they spent more time accepting awards than filming.

I didn't see anything woke but I only made it 30 minutes into this poorly written mess. The acting is good and it's competently made, but that's about it. So basically this homicide detective with what appears to be super powered hearing runs into a stopped car and bumps his head and goes almost deaf. Yup, actually runs on foot into it. He needs hearing aids that barely work and sometimes not at all but somehow is still on the job as a homicide detective. Sure why not. The deaf female witness character is instantly nasty and unlikable, as to be expected. The sign language interpreter the police department uses is unavailable and apparently the only one in the entire city so even though he barely knows how to sign they need him interpret for them. But wait she reads lips and is capable of giving a written statement, not only
that she caught the entire thing on video! What is this writing!

For the real fans, this movie is super

I've been reading the other reviews, expecially the bad ones, and I get the problem: many comparisons with other Superman movies, not with the original charachter. This is, in my opinion, the movie that best represents the comic Superman, and pays respect to Christopher Reeve's interpretation.
Wokeness: ok, Perry isn't white, but I don't see wokeness: Lois Lane has always been bossy and brave, in every comic and movie! The immigration part, imho, is not political, but it's only showing Superman's human (and weak) part.

Nice and not woke

The movie is nice (not the best Smurf movie but it's ok). Babies may not understand some jokes, I guess the entry level is 7-8 yo.
No lgtb charachters, no misanthropy, nobody wants to teach you lessons other than kindness is the best strategy.
Kids get a good message out of it.

DEI overrepresentation in casting. Packed full of girlbosses. The acting is not very good, the action scenes are average at best. Hollywood, liberal
fearmongering misuse of the term 'Assault rifle' and 'Assault rounds'. The shaky cam when used right can be very effective. Here it's so over the top
and exaggerated it's just annoying and makes the action sequences hard to even tell what's happening. What a waste of good actors.

I just finished bingeing season one... NO woke. Highly recommended

Sometimes, the term "woke" on this site makes me feel like Inigo Montoya confronting Vizzini. "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." I don't think depicting woke elements is woke unless it comes with an agenda. There is no agenda in this one.

It is possible that, in the first few episodes, Carl's lodger (room-mate), could be confused as his "domestic partner." As the story unfolds, you find that both are very interested in women. That's a sad commentary on the state of modern television. We automatically think "There's the mandatory woke." There wasn't a single representation of the LGBT.... agenda.

There is a woman boss but she's incompetent, political and conniving. She's a true DEI disaster. That seems opposite of woke to me. There is an almost total absence of minority group representation. There's a Syrian who is a very large part of the story, but there's no agenda to go with it. He's a very interesting and enjoyable character.

The protagonist is a genius detective who gets along fabulously with nobody. He made a sloppy mistake on a routine call. That got him, his partner, and a uniformed officer shot. Now, he has a partially paralyzed partner, mandatory sessions with a pretty psychiatrist, and a plate full of guilt as he takes on a politically driven task of starting a cold-case squad consisting of himself in a converted basement shower room, complete with urinals. This eventually grows to a group of 3 misfits. He seems to be a detective version of House M.D. who is a medical version of a detective (Sherlock Holmes).

The story is very well told. It unfolds slowly at first, and goes in several directions. The twists are unpredictable and realistic. A helpful hint: Pay close attention to names and faces. You need to keep track of the characters to get the full impact of a very good story.

A story told over a full season is my favorite format. I hate detective shows that depict full cases in a single episode. I enjoyed this as much as any detective series I've ever seen. I highly recommend it. I'm looking forward to Season Two.

More VJJ woke

Lead “M” character run by a bull and semi Fem
Nice airstream tho.