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Superdumb

It's a shame that instead of raising the bar, James Gunn shoved it up his own ass and wrote the script with it. Instead of offering a different take, he dumbed it down like Batman Forever.

Pure wokeness

Woke AF!

Good show

I watched the whole series and didn’t find anything that felt forced. I thought it might be more of the same at first, but it pulled me in from start to finish. By today’s standards it didn’t feel forced. Worth checking out.

Forced diversity checkboxes and weak plot.

Bloated, mediocre sci-fi thriller with a 'meh' plot that drags despite multiverse intrigue. Heavy wokeness weighs it down: black, gay billionaire tech mogul funding the multiverse tech, screams DEI billionaire trope. Super-strong black female bodyguard/muscle type. The core story feels forced and uninspired.
Acting is pretty decent - Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly try hard and could salvage better material.
But the forced diversity checkboxes and weak plotting make it ultimately forgettable. Overall, the show leans into Apple TV's usual diversity quotas without organic need, which dilutes the already mediocre story further.
Skip unless you're desperate for more Apple sci-fi.

Average romantic drama with action at the end, but only mildly woke

Only Mildly-Woke at most:
1) Female hero (so what, who cares, she's beautiful)
2) Diverse cast (who cares, probably a good thing)
3) Stresses "changing" climate (mildly woke, debatable topic)

Movie Quality:
1) Average to slightly above average
2) More romantic drama than action pic
3) Cartoon-ish characters, but they settle down mid movie
4) Satisfying ending

Cool sci-fi movie, pre woke era

This is a fun, engaging movie. It is one of the sci-fi versions of Groundhog's Day movies, except it is better than most.

Suspenseful, touching, and thankfully made before the lecturing "woke" era of Hollywood.

This one's a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand the acting is pretty good and it's a well made film. However it's all rather boring and almost
nothing happens until an hour into the movie. Even than there's almost no blood, the kills are bland and the story is not really very interesting.. While there's nothing woke I really wouldn't recommend this unless you like your horror very tame.

Considered to be an influential early slasher from Italy. I watched the subtitled version and the acting is not great but about on par for
1970's horror. Several of the kills are later copied almost exactly in the original Friday the 13th. There are some pretty inventive kills for the time and a couple of very brutal gory deaths with great FX. I found the movie to be a bit boring overall but it's worth a watch if you're interested in the beginnings of the violent gory slasher genre to come. Nothing woke.

This is completely pointless and has virtually nothing to do with the previous movies. It's a standard slasher set in the 80's with none of the
supernatural overarching themes. The acting is terrible and worse than the previous entries never gets the 80's right. Using music and props alone doesn't do it. The clothes, the hair, the dialogue the attitudes everything is wrong. The story is garbage and nonsensical. The kills are boring and bland. There is the usual to much DEI overrepresentation and of course the white female lead is attracted to the mixed Spanish boy. Even if for some reason you like the original trilogy this is much worse and nothing like those.

Well that was a complete waste of time. This series finished with one big giant garbage wokefest. This was so bad after about 30 minutes I started
watching the rest on fast forward just to see if it ended as I suspected it would. It's set in 1666 and for some stupid reason they decided to use all the same actors from the previous 2 parts but to play completely different roles. The acting is terrible and the accents are laughable. At no point does this ever feel like something from 1666, everything is way off from the language to the way people look to the attitudes, it's a bunch of Gen Z morons larping. The story is an absolute nonsense woke wet dream. The same mixed race sister and her black brother are back again this time with a white father, in 1666. The mixed sisters white lesbian girlfriend is back and there is a lesbian oral sex scene. Multiple instance of white men attempting to molest, rape or otherwise assault women and men are just in general bad and women are good. The entire series plot comes down to the evil religious homophobic white people are to blame for everything. The evil witch isn't really bad and is just the victims of the patriarchy and evil religion suppressing her lesbian love, IN 1666!!! This completely destroys any slight watchability the previous 2 parts had. Utter garbage!!!

Part 2 of a 3 part series. Continues directly after part 1. The DEI black brother and mixed sister with her lesbian white girlfriend are back but in minor roles the bookend the main story here. Ziggy character is the modern angry, aggressive, generally nasty unlikable modern feminist character. Almost the exact same character as the main one from part 1 actually. I immediately hated her as she is such a terrible person. Alice is another annoying female character and there is some general girl power stuff and DEI casting choices but nowhere near as woke as part 1. They got the music, clothes and aesthetics right for time but that's about it. The language, attitudes camera angles and everything else is off and just feels like modern kids playing a part. The story is cliché but it does move along the main overarching plot nicely. There are some pretty brutal kills and some decent blood and gore FX. However writing once again is just
not very good. You know there is a killer on the loose and you go running around camp alone screaming loudly trying to find people. Character breaks her ankle with the bone sticking out the side of her leg and just pushes it back in and is up and walking with barely a limp then
climbs up a rock wall face unassisted. Another character takes an axe swing to the leg and later is running across a field. Character is stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen with a large butcher knife and dies for about a minute and is brought back by CPR. Despite these problems I actually think this is a little better than the first one maybe a 3.5 but not good enough to round up to a 4.

Part 1 of a 3 part series. This is basically a play on the 90's slasher horror. The acting is ok and some oddities aside it doesn't too bad a job at portraying the 90's. It fells off in a few places and the actors seem like what they are, modern kids pretending to be 90's kids. The blood and gore is a little above average and there's some decent kills. The story is interesting if a bit of a cliché. The writing isn't too bad but there's a few lazy moments like music used that didn't come out until after 1994, using AOL dialup at the same time as talking on the phone. There are almost no adults around ever which is really out of place. There
is also a little overuse of music like they wanted to reinforce the 90's feel. They also state an established reason why and who the killer target, except there is at least 1 or 2 kills that break that rule. It is however crazy woke happy. The two main leads are a white sister and black brother, you never once see the parents. The black brother is obsessed with a white cheerleader. The sister is a lesbian. There is DEI overrepresentation everywhere especially considering the small town. Lead female is the typical violent, unhinged aggressive modern strong female type that the movie wants you to like except she's a horrible person. Multiple
lesbian kissing and make out scenes and the lesbian relationship is at the core of the plotline. Spoiler..........there is only 2 straight white people in the 5 core group members, guess which are the only 2 killed. It's somewhat watchable and entertaining if you can put up with the woke nonsense. If you're considering watching this I would suggest reading my review for the final part before starting.