JustEntertainment's Reviews
Very artsy, but not woke
A slowly evolving story about an undercover friendship. No woke. No forced casting, no sex, no politics, no lectures, no -isms to deal with.
Created: 11-17-2022
Drug smugglers, no woke
A Nicholas Cage flick about drug smugglers.
No woke, no politics, no forced casting. Some sex, but no gay stuff.
Created: 11-16-2022
No woke!
A coming-of-age true story about the camaraderie and life lessons a group of school kids learn on a boat trip during the 60's. No woke whatsoever, no politics, no forced casting, no sex.
Created: 11-16-2022
Fincher x modern woke.
Though being set in the 70’s, the worldview in which the characters exist is very woke. The viewer will have to wade through the swampy world in order to find the rhythm of the story. But once it gets there, arguably, it’s entertaining.
The protagonist is meant to be a 2020's-style modern, progressive feminist male in an 70's environment inhabited with racist, emotional men. He has an emasculating, vulgar girlfriend, establishing him as a beta masochist who’s into manly dominatrix types. Character-wise, it’s telling. There’s even a scene of him ironing his own shirts in front of her while she looks on with distain.
All women characters make disparaging “men are weak” comments. All women are masculine, overbearing and have lines saying verbatim, “I’m tough.” There is no normal or in-between with the female characters. This flat, cookie-cutter character might be the director’s aim, depicting how emasculation didn’t necessarily have the serial-killer result on the effeminate protagonist that it did on the serial killers in question.
And yes, identity politics. Gay, gay, gay. "Representation matters." The manly teacher character is a lesbian. If you’re into that stuff, there is lots of sex of all types, often depraved.
There are hints in the beta protagonist’s lectures like “we shouldn’t incarcerate criminals,” and any cops which think criminals should atone for their crimes are portrayed as stubborn, emotional morons. It’s disingenuous, too, because while the protagonist argues that nothing is black and white, the director only makes black and white types in his own movie.
The story is interesting, and Fincher is always twisted enough to make great stuff, but he hit pretty much every woke branch on the way down the Hollywierd tree with this one. At the moment the only woke stuff this drama lacks is pedophilia and political jabs, but I don’t know if I can get get far enough into the series to find out if he ticks those boxes, too.
Created: 11-10-2022
No woke
A rather entertaining documentary about the exploits of Eric Conn, a social security grifter and con artist. Generally fascinating, but the last episode is minimum story and mostly about poor people who want more money from the government. I stopped watching around then.
But was it woke? No. Politics? No. Racism? No. Just a story of a larger-than-life criminal.
Created: 11-10-2022
Feels like a film-school project
A hard-to-describe thriller that feels like it was written by an angsty teen out of film school who watched too much Lynch and wished he'd made Joker. Though not entirely boring, it's slow and unpolished, with dead ends and red herrings and "creepy" things that go nowhere and mean nothing.
But! It's entirely free of woke. No forced diversity castings, no gay, no sex, no politics, no feminazism, no lectures.
So if you like this kind of thing, watch it free of the woke willies.
Created: 11-09-2022
No woke.
Good old army film, when soldiers were innocent boys out on the battlefield learning to be men. A brilliant depiction of the savagery of WW1 and the atmosphere of the killing fields.
None of that modern woke stuff.
Created: 11-09-2022
Documentary, no woke agenda
The fascinating story of a conflict between France and Mexico, when a French citizen is imprisoned under the charge of kidnapping. A study of corruption of the justice system in Mexico. Also a study in international politics.
No woke, very objective.
Created: 11-09-2022
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No woke
Modern diversity casting, but there's no woke in this film. A camera crew follows a team of fire fighters into a building where an outbreak is going on, and everyone is quarantined inside. No racist lines, no politics, no sex, no sexuality, no pronouns, no fat blue-haired feminazis. Just a standard, run-of-the-mill kill-em-all zombie flick.
Created: 11-07-2022
Great film, no woke
Back when Hollywood knew how to have fun, they made films like this. A comical action / detective romp with a little romance and a lot of mick-taking of Hollywierd itself. No diversity casting, no politics. A gay dude is a main character but it's not about identity politics or "visibility," it's just plain old funny. No woke.
Created: 11-07-2022
