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Chick flick, feminst-style
Why, those evil, evil men. And lotsa butch lesbians. Not funny enough to make it charming and relatable, just a lot of emasculation. Better off watching Fried Green tomatoes with a pint of ice cream.
Created: 07-22-2022
Boring, woke. Not even a decent chick flick.
At least chick flicks are relatable. This was a swamp that lacked story, depth, and a real director. Don’t waste your time.
Created: 07-22-2022
Nah.
Not made for everyone, the way superhero movies should be. Pass.
Created: 07-22-2022
Review by Gabe Kaminsky
A feminist revenge story about a barista who dropped out of medical school because her friend Nina was gang-raped.
To combat all the “horrible” and “rapey” men in America, Cassie pretends to be blackout drunk and lures men back to her place, only to let up the act and condemn them for trying to take advantage of her. The protagonist poses as a rock band staffer to the medical school dean who dismissed her classmate’s rape case without evidence and befriends the woman’s daughter. Then, Cassie threatens the dean by telling her she dropped her daughter Amber at a college party with drunk college kids, trying to gain information about Nina’s death.
“Promising Young Woman” aims to communicate that all men in America are out to subdue and wreck women, especially on the college campus. In one scene in the film, Cassie laughs at the idea that an individual accused of rape would be innocent until proven guilty. The film is a full-on Me Too embrace, satirizing the important notion of due process.
This film perpetuates the evil stereotype that our fellow Americans are doomed, awful, irredeemable people. It aims to instruct and vilify, not to entertain with nuanced storytelling. The film only contributes to the great divide in this country and is no doubt the rallying cry for the modern-day feminist on leftist college campuses and beyond.
Created: 07-22-2022
Review by Gabe Kaminsky
Directed by Jason Woliner and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, the “Borat” mockumentary-style sequel shows all the signs of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The 2006 film was funny and nuanced, but the sequel entirely fails because of its preoccupation with former President Donald Trump and his vice president Mike Pence, as well as ridiculing ordinary Americans.
The plot is about Borat (played by Cohen), who travels to the United States because he is promised freedom from Kazakhstan if he gets a gift for Pence, a “lady killer.” This is to satirize Pence’s religious faith because he will not stay alone with a woman who is not his wife. Borat goes to America with his daughter in a cage, to harp on the left’s (misguided) notion that President Trump built the cages that the Obama administration actually did.
From here, the film divides into various sketches aimed at communicating the stupidity of normal Americans. Borat meets with Republicans who shout conspiracy theories about prominent Democrats like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, and presses the men on COVID. Rudy Giuliani is shown in the film, in a video leaked by actress Maria Bakalova (Borat’s daughter) pretending to be a reporter. Giuliani is seen putting his hands down his pants.
In its endlessly woke nature and goal of vilifying 50 percent of the country, “Borat II” fails miserably and is a joke of a film. As Federalist Culture editor Emily Jashinsky reported on Tuesday, Cohen admitted that the film functioned in order “to inspire people to vote and remind people of the immorality of the government prior to the election.”
Thus, the new Borat film is an open propaganda piece. But consumers crave stories.
Created: 07-22-2022
Review by Gabe Kaminsky
“The Prom” is what happens when Hollywood elites stereotypically attempt to characterize small-town America. It stars Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Kerry Washington, and Keegan-Michael Key.
As Federalist staff writer Tristan Justice chronicled upon its release, “The Prom” is essentially about Christian homophobes in Edgewater, Indiana who cancel the high school prom due to a lesbian student who wants to go with another girl. The entire town ridicules her to no end and the film becomes a corny attempt to label everyone not from urban America as outdated and immoral. Justice characterizes the foremost problem with “The Prom” below:
…[T]he film takes the challenges to the extreme by amplifying a select minority of people present in every community. This raises the homophobic hysteria to the point where it’s hard to take the production very seriously. The abject vilification of ordinary people living in a small midwestern town, meanwhile, only serves to further divide a culturally polarized country.
Given its propagandizing goal intent on communicating that we should never trust our neighbors because they all probably “hate” gay people, “The Prom” is a huge woke flop that we all knew would be nominated given its A-list cast and $300 million deal with Netflix. It demonizes conservatives, or just people not from urban vacuums, as universally awful people.
Created: 07-22-2022
Review By Gabe Kaminsky
Sorkin’s third directorial movie is based on a group of leftist activists charged in 1969 for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Abbie Hoffman was a leader in the “Flower Power” movement of the ’60s, and a drug dealer who would eventually hide from police after being charged for selling cocaine in 1974. Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the militant Black Panther Party, is characterized as a hero.
There are obvious implied messages in “The Trial of the Chicago 7” that detract from its entertainment value. Police are all “pigs” who supposedly attack the rioters first, Republicans are careless and abusive of shared freedoms, and hippies were moral citizens regardless of their frequent violent outbursts.
As Kyle Smith notes in National Review, “The combination of cutesy one-liners and Sorkin’s looming over everything like the giant head of Al Capone in the backdrop of the poster of The Untouchables tends to undercut the alleged drama.” Among the perpetual attempt to communicate aphorisms about the role of government and anachronistic depictions of the supposed righteousness of Hippie-culture in the face of public civility, the film becomes aggravating to watch.”
Created: 07-22-2022
We all know Brie Larson sucks.
Perhaps the only character in the MCU to live in a microcosm, Captain Marvel performed less than expected in her 2019 debut. Essentially a Mary Sue character played by the insufferable and pretentious Brie Larson, Captain Marvel was a victim of its own talking points, and its main star’s embarrassing behavior.
Captain Marvel’s own woke agenda wasn’t even clever enough to disguise itself. It’s as fake as Larson, and the 90s-era timeline it takes place in. Everything feels manufactured and forced, in contrast to previous MCU titles that felt effortless and invigorating. The result is that Disney now has no faith in the Captain Marvel character, even going so far as to preemptively name their upcoming sequel “The Marvels.”
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Just… if you don’t know, just…
Birds of Prey should be hated for one reason, and one reason only – it derailed the success of the excellent 2021 Suicide Squad film. If ever there was a poster child for wokeness, this was it, and it didn’t resonate either with female, or male moviegoers. At best, it made back its budget, or fell slightly short.
Amidst the obvious “all men are rapists/misogynists/idiots” theme that permeates Hollywood culture these days, Birds of Prey had the temerity to give a shout-out to extreme-radical Communist politician Bernie Sanders, a man who advocates for a 90% corporate tax rate, honeymooned in the Soviet Union, and said bread-lines were a “good thing.”
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Racist crap. Hard pass.
The makers of 2020’s Mortal Kombat adaptation were fully invested in the idea that an R-rating and some brutal fatalities would draw audiences in. As such, staple elements like a solid plot, character development, and adherence to the source material were considered unnecessary. After all, it’s Mortal Kombat.
Then there was Cole, a character written specifically for the movie, who nobody wanted, and felt like a stand-in. The reasoning behind the decision was to find an excuse to knock fan favorite character Johnny Cage out of the film, because he was white. The film nabbed a paltry, laughable $83 million as a result.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
