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I am not entertained
I am still a fan of Scott’s. Well, was, until very recently. I even trudged through Prometheus. And Covenant. I’m a masochist. I deserve a good spanking.
Scott’s always had a situationship with historical accuracy, at best; see Last Duel, Napoleon. But now he’s gone and ghosted it. And slept with its mother. In its own bed. Live-streamed on Twitch. Because why not.
Female legionnaires? Zombie baboons from Hell? Gladiators riding rhinos shouting lasers out of their arses? (whose arse is up for debate). Football? Seriously?
To be fair, female gladiators had been a (rare) thing, because why not? Gladiator games, especially into the 3rd century, were pretty much American wrestling, if a fair tad bloodier, but mostly kayfabe. So, yeah, women, for the same reasons.
Except by the purported time of this movie, they had been banned because morality.
Washington is a pro, as usual, but out of place. The real-life Macrinus did manage to briefly claw his way into power despite his non-noble birth. But he couldn’t have done it with a black skin.
Pascal plays himself, as usual, so, Eternal Eunuch. Despite the hefty run time, his balls don’t drop. Also, why is he everywhere when that kind of money could hire an actor? And he’s a Roman general, too; who were well-known for general foppishness. General of the Emo Empire.
Maximus Redux is, well, present. He does a fairly good job of shouting while looking like a wet, miserable dog. And breathing, also. He breathes. That about wraps it up. But his character benefits from Chosen One Powers. Surprisingly, he’s not female.
The rest of the cast is better than Pascal, which is neither difficult nor enough.
So yeah, black-washing, female empowerment, so-called progressivism, and heavy recycling of the previous plot.
As anything with Pascal in it, it’s anti-male, smash-the-patriarchy, and much ado about nothing (literally; in Shakespeare’s time, ‘nothing’ was slang for an absence of dick). Polar opposite of the original.
Seats were stiff. Popcorn was crap. An evening wasted.
Edit: regarding the omnipresence of xir Pascal (no gender assumed), rumour apparently has it that it owes to his overt political pandering for the Party of the Ultimate Good (PUG?), but also to his checking of diversity boxes (ie: non-white, non-male) while being "white-passing".
The sheer and very literal racism of the morally superior never ceases to amaze.
Created: 11-18-2024
Made to order 2024 alien enthusiasm
There has been an explosion in the online alien video genre. Lots of B grade investigative type shows are popping up like this one. It's entertaining, but the people featured in this series and ex-whatever, govt / military / scientist are without much personality to engage the viewer. Except for the recycled appearance of figures more prominent in more popular series like Melon and Bigalow, it seems this series is trying to introduce new characters but they do little to carry viewer intrigue. They are kind of just there. They make a lot of sweeping statements and claims leading viewers to a conclusion but don't offer much evidence. I'm half way through the series and it better pick up or I may not be able to keep watching. I wouldn't call it woke, but they do have one gay ex military pilot helping do investigations for whatever reason which could just as easily be done by George Knapp alone. None of the characters that work with George are necessary at all including the ex-CIA guy. This series could just as easily be called Knapp Alien Investigations.
Created: 11-14-2024
Could have been good, but lazy
I like Adkins, in a Van Damme kind of way, but let's be honest, he's even less able to carry a movie on his acting chops alone.
The whole movie feels cheap. Sometimes in a clever way, as in the constrained settings, but mostly in a, well, cheap way.
Adkins is pushing 50 now, and it feels as though he's not trying that much anymore. Eve used to be a smoke show, but that was 20 years ago; she's still apparently too expensive to actually appear in more than one scene, though.
Photography is competent if uninspired, music is absent, it could be an OK movie, but the script needs so much tightening!
Characters feel flat, artificial, cookie-cutter, and the actors feel jaded. Except for the actress playing Mona, she gives it an honest try.
The dialog-to-brawling ratio is very unfavourable for Adkins, who also looks fairly awkward handling firearms. The script has more holes than plot, but could have been rather easily fixed, which is all the more frustrating.
Giving Adkins the John Wick training is probably expensive; proof-reading a 50 pages script is probably affordable.
Oh well, Adkins has done worst in the past.
But not often.
Created: 11-13-2024
Season 1 Awesome, but sadly went downhill in 2.
I really loved season 1, it was crazy, random, unexpected. Good characters for the most part.
Only complaint was the bitchy disrespectful woman in it, which sadly is way too common, and i'm sick of that shit. Which is the 2 score for wokeness.
Season 2 only 2 episodes in the faggotry appears (crossdressing disgustingness) I tried to keep watching and turned it off. I come back a few days later it looks like from s02e02 at the end it was resolved and that character won't be back, so i'm hoping it'll continue without any of it.
So far season 2 isn't as good as the first one, but i'm still giving it a go since it seemed to get past that stuff.
Created: 11-13-2024
Not that woke
Some one liners and conversations, but nothing indoctrinating. Husband is fully emasculated and wife is strong, independent. Wild ending.
Created: 11-12-2024
One of my favorite re-watch movies.
I have no idea why anyone would label this movie as woke. It's very entertaining. The CGI is great. Tom hardy is outstanding. The story is, well, it's a superhero movie. It's outlandish. Just let go and enjoy it. The little quips between Venom and Eddie make the movie.
Created: 11-11-2024
Over-rated in my opinion
Missed this in the hey-days of MTV, finally got around to checking what the hype was about.
The first runs do a pretty good job of a suspenseful, dialog-less, condensed narrative, with each episode being under 5mn. And the main characters dies before the end of each episode. Music is different and appropriate.
The last season is closer to the norm: 22mn and dialog. And far less interesting.
Still, I couldn't get over the art style, and the pervasive sexual fetish imagery.
I can see how it could serve the underlying discourse, but I find it complacent, and thus gratuitously degenerate.
Not woke per se, but definitely proto-edgelordy of the time.
A miss for me.
Created: 11-11-2024
More Anti-White Racism
Given that Brandy is a terrible actor and always has been her casting here is straight DEI. Of course her husband is white. Stepmom is a racist. Her awful acting is front and center in the first 5 minutes and it doesn't get any better. The writing is poor and makes no sense. One scene she's upset that her employment taking away some of her classes and afraid she might lose her job and then a couple scenes later she just suddenly quits because her boss missed their appointment, then the next scene she's complaining about not having money to buy a can of paint. Portrays Christians as crazy racist evil cultists. This is yet another slow boring drama attempting to leach onto the horror genre to trick people into watching. There is nothing scary, no blood or gore, no kills. Just a senile old annoying woman's bodily functions. It's racist anti white trash, nothing more.
Created: 11-11-2024
10 Seconds to Interracial Lesbo Love
I really don't actually try and watch these shit films so I can get all in the movie's face about having a lard-ass black woman and white chick going at it 10 seconds into the film. I just wanted a stupid, maybe rom-com type to watch with my wife on a Sunday morning.
Created: 11-10-2024
Griefing+Zombies+LoneSurvivor
Badass Lone Survivor learns how do deal with grief while helping others in his way to reach his sister that is in another state in the middle of a zombie break.
Created: 11-10-2024
Low Budget Nonsense
Some DEI casting. Cheap CG. Acting and dialog are not so good. More bad writing. Terrorists blow up 2 bombs on a bridge trapping and cutting off the police van and they don't bother to immediately call in support even though the enemies take forever to work there way up to the actual transport they want to attack. The main character calls in 911 to report bombs going off and terrorists on the bridge and is told by operator they don't have the authority to dispatch anyone. Also if I'm understanding the badly explained story the woman being transported is a witness set to testify against the villains. That should be a WITSEC program with the U.S. Marshalls not a police prisoner transport as this is a federal military issue, and why would you put your witness who is a target in a bright red jumpsuit? Just one police van with 3 officers and no escort at all. The main villains terrible over acting is laughable every time he's on screen. There's not even any good action to save this low budget stinker.
Created: 11-07-2024
