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Remakes suck
The latest chapter in the Men in Black franchise will probably be its last, thanks largely to the formulaic woke elements that comprise the bulk of the story. Essentially, International is little more than an excuse to shoehorn – at gunpoint – male and female genders into two respective categories, with separate criteria.
Namely, the men are all morons, and the women succeed simply because they’re breathing. Remove all the humor, miscast the male lead, and try to ride the coattails of brand recognition, and the result is a film that managed to claw back its own budget…barely.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Is this the death of Bond?
In truth, No Time To Die is less woke than audiences first thought, but that doesn’t mean wokeness didn’t have a part in its downfall. Any 007 film delayed for so many years was bound to test fan patience, but the cast and crew decided to pick at the open wound with divisive, highly charged rhetoric.
Eventually, it became obvious that the filmmakers were out to neuter Bond for the sake of the fractional woke minority, and it didn’t play well. Bond’s womanizing, bad boy behavior is tied inseparably to his charisma. Remove one, and the other goes with it. As of today, the film has grossed $661 million worldwide, which sounds like a lot, if not for the fact that it needed to gross at least $900 million to break even.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
How to ruin a great franchise, 101
There was a time when Elizabeth Banks was a relatively likeable actress, but she’s since denigrated herself into toxic unpalatability. It’s no surprise that her directorial duties on 2019’s Charlie’s Angels reboot ended in complete, abject disaster. You’d be hard-pressed to find one person within a ten block neighborhood that remembers it.
A Charlie’s Angels film that has the audacity to scold the audience for referring to the leads as “Angels” obviously has an agenda to keep. That, combined with a horrid marketing campaign, which sounded like it was drafted by Hillary Clinton herself, proved that this take on the classic series wasn’t going to win any support.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Let’s a pretend this doesn’t exist
It wouldn’t be worth mentioning woke killjoys without including Rian Johnson’s universally panned Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Not only did the film go down as the second-worst Star Wars film in history next to The Rise of Skywalker, but it lacked anything resembling a plot, or even forethought.
As a result, fans were left scratching their heads over the swiss cheese narrative, while squirming in discomfort over the woke specter hovering over the story. The elastic finally snapped with the introduction of Vice-Admiral Amilyn Holdo, a cookie cutter third-wave feminist cutout, who spent her entire time emasculating the only intelligent male in the room.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Rapey bitch story
The DCEU is essentially a series of mini-franchises cobbled together into a single Justice League narrative, and one of them is Wonder Woman. Most moviegoers loved the first film, primarily due to the fact that Gal Gadot’s heroine was not only strong, but also kind-hearted, romantic, and maternal – all things the Left despise in a woman.
It’s no wonder then, that Wonder Woman 1984 decided to go in the opposite direction. Wonder Woman goes from a likeable superhero to a woke caricature within the span of the introduction. She even rapes an innocent man (literally) in the middle act, which seemed to fly just fine with Hollywood.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Don’t bother
It could be argued that the so/so success of the recent Ghostbusters: Afterlife is directly attributed to the God-awful 2016 reboot, helmed by the insufferable Paul Feig. The decision to swap genders and make the Ghostbusters female (with Chris Hemsworth as a non-intelligent version of Annie Potts’ Janine character) was the first mistake.
For a film this woke, the jokes should have been funny, but fans would have found more humor by drinking razor blades. This, combined with Leslie Jones’ unacceptable attacks on fans was enough to critically derail the film. Conversely, Afterlife grossed $166 million against a $52 million dollar budget, but would probably have fared better, if not for this monkey wrench.
Slade Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Don’t waste your time.
In the aftermath of the masterpiece that was Terminator 2, the titular franchise by James Cameron never succeeded in duplicating its own success. However, all progress ground to a screeching halt with the super-woke Terminator: Dark Fate, which came straight off of Hollywood’s modernized assembly line.
The decision to off John Connor in the first five minutes, and replace him with a super-petite Mary Sue was just the beginning of the film’s woes. Radical eye-rolling feminism was everywhere, completely derailing the magic created by the first two films. Since Dark Fate was meant to be a direct sequel to Terminator 2, it was insult to injury, and flopped as a result.
Slide Hale
Created: 07-22-2022
Not half the film Spielberg made
Although there is a scene or two which tries to confabulate an explanation for the crappy not-dinosaurs, there is really no excuse for the woke that permeates the film. Diversity is great, equality is great, but this film goes out of its way to make it awkward, cringey and unnatural. Woke indeed, and on the wrong side of the Dino-sheeted bed.
Created: 07-22-2022
Don’t even bother.
There isn’t a shred of a hint of the fun 80’s cartoon in this terrible trashing of our beloved icon. He-man dies in the first episode and is replaced by She-bitch. It’s all about smashing the patriarchy, not even in high heels - in fat dyke outfits with feeble, feeble boys. If there is ever a way to destroy a franchise, Netflix is the masters of it.
Created: 07-22-2022
An anti-woke classic.
No woke in this spectacular war film adaptation of an equally spectacular book. See what happens when woke isn’t ingrained into our film industry? Perfection.
Created: 07-21-2022
