JustEntertainment's Reviews
Predictable "hero fights for sassy brat kid" story
The movie is a long string of action-flick tropes, from the "hero with a tragic past" to the "action scene in Eastern Europe" all the way to the good-old "betrayed by your own team" thing. There has to be a reason to fight, and like every film school seminar ever, that ends up being some bratty, sassy little kid with some rando illness.
The bad guy was seriously channelling his Jim Carrey Robotnik throughout the whole of it, which was less annoying than it was funny.
But! If you like that stuff, and eat it up with popcorn, then go for it. It's what you need.
As far as woke goes, it comes in the form of the cookie-cutter feminzazi characters. I mean, each one of them is the same exact boring inhuman fem-bot made of the same chunk of high-heeled playdoh.
Yes, the 19-year-old waif beating up hulking 30-40 y.o. battle-worn men three times her size without ever breaking a sweat or scratching a nail. Yes, all the women in this story are bossy as hell, in the same bossy-bitch "on the rag" way, even the sassy little brat for which our protagonist fights. They ALL lose their cool and yell at the guys. One of them (same character, otherwise) goes full-blown Star Wars Purple Haired DIsney General on the story and blows herself up for absolutely no reason whatsoever except.... the directors were a fan of the purple-haired lady, maybe? It seems that all of the female characters - all of them - were pretty much shoved into the story because Netflix thought it needed more tits.
The story would have been so much better without them.
Is that woke? Eh, enough to stick out like highly manicured thumbs. But if you ignore the screamy bitches, the action is still action-y enough to action. So, action on, Gray Man.
Created: 08-24-2022
No woke, lots of history and God
A historical drama about a man who fought in British parliament to abolish the slave trade. Despite it being a British film, it doesn't feel like a Morality Play at all - no woke casting or woke characters, no lecturing. In addition, the acting is beautiful and the pacing is good. Classy film.
Created: 08-23-2022
Woke AF
Take everything fun about Hulk, toss it out the window and add a green lady in a suit. Wizard of Oz? No! Just feminazi She-hulk. Pllt. No fun, just... tampons.
Created: 08-22-2022
No woke
A rare documentary from Netflix that doesn't wave transgender drag queens in your face. Just the facts.
Created: 08-22-2022
Woke free
A satirical comedy which is a breath of fresh air this day and age. No woke. Anti woke, if anything!
Created: 08-22-2022
Too woke to waste time on
While comics have always been edgy, Netflix always takes away the titillating edginess and rubs your face in its stinking shitty asshole. This series is no different. Don’t waste your time - the director cares nothing for entertainment, and everything about pushing The Narrative (tm) instead.
Created: 08-10-2022
Floppy dick ending.
The series was generally well filmed and edited. There were surprisingly few interviewees for having some 200,000 attendees, but so be it. They spent all the budget on music rights, probably.
While the narrative follows the downward spiral of the festival pretty accurately, suddenly at the end the director / producers / buzzkill dumbass filmmakers decide to end it with a 20-minute lecture on the #metoo movement and about the plight of the poor downtrodden vagina.
Until then, the film was about the festival, and it should have ended on the festival. Except it didn't. it had to run with the feminist slant. It's so awkward that it looked tacked on and shoehorned in.
Three people DIED at that festival, but the filmmakers spent the last half of the last episode angry that someone's tit was grabbed in a mosh pit.
So, just switch off the last half of the third episode, and you'll get through it with only mild woke damage.
Created: 08-07-2022
Biography, necessarily woke-ish
Since it's biographical, the film isn't forced woke. But the character in question is very gay and a strong supporter of Castro, which makes the film portray communism and homosexuality in a positive light.
Lots of gay kissing and gay sex scenes. But think of the film like "MILK:" there is no biography without the gay, which is that by which the character has to define himself.
Created: 08-02-2022
Is a gay film necessarily woke?
A conundrum. This film was made seemingly before the overtly woke wave of sexuality and racism slapping the cheeks of our children really hit the mainstream. In that context, is it blacklisting-level woke?
The elements are there, minus the racism.
A gay couple who run a nightclub (with the "feminine" partner playing a drag queen) must act "straight" for the sake of meeting their son's extremely conservative parents.
There are jabs at conservatives, but then again, there are jabs at the gay lifestyle. There are hints of "racist white people" when the issue of the gay dude (played by Robin Williams) being Jewish is somehow an issue.
That said, there are no "poor poor oppressed penises (penii?) being trampled by Evil White Men" bigotry scenes, no lashing out in long teary soliloquies about oppression, no checkbox "black female lesbians who don't need no man yass queen" characters.
So while it does technically checkbox for the woke, this film is still heavily enjoyable even from a mighty conservative viewpoint.
Created: 08-02-2022
No woke
Surprisingly fun and engaging, even "inclusive" without rubbing it in your face. No political jabs, racism, sexism, woke characters or woke takes.
Created: 08-01-2022
