Comments by "Gakusangi" (@Gakusangi) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. The worst part is, the people that sacrifice these franchises in the name or whatever seems trendy at the time, will never fully grasp the weight of the damage they've done to pop culture. It's tragic.
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  2. Yeah, it's almost like while society keeps pushing to change standards (usually when it's in someone's favor) while other ones never change at all, especially with regards to how a guy's value is measured. That really hasn't changed in a long time. Looks, athleticism, sexual prowess and if they're making enough money. Still the key attributes.
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  3. No kidding! I get sick of hearing people give crap a free pass just because they spotted some underlining meaning. Fine, it's fine that some theme is there, but the rest of it and the delivery of that theme were done crappy, and that makes the whole thing crappy as a result.
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  4. Everyone keep in mind, this is the girl who eventually grows up to want to kill puppies to make clothes. She's ranked like 3rd on the top 100 list of greatest villains since her inception, putting her just below the coin toss that is The Joker and Darth Vader.
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  5.  @ImmaLittlePip  I'd say that even now, Anime is at risk. Especially with a certain company looking to monopolize it, they'll put themselves in a key position to influence the content, even at the source since the creators will know that without this company there's no international distribution of their work, and translations by fans doesn't earn them back anything. Anime has become very mainstream, and that can be a bit of a problem for it.
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  6. I think consistency is the biggest issue that most sequels have today. When characters and settings start changing for no reason, it creates a disconnect with the original source material and makes it harder to get into.
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  7. Anyone else notice that the boxes that get broken have yellow tape on them? Just like the boards you use for the windows in RE2 Remake.
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  8. Yes, and a second yes!
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  9. I can't believe anyone tried to make the argument of Anakin being a Mary Sue. You'd have to completely ignore his entire character arch to even play with the idea.
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  10. Agree with a lot of this, and I understand that you're just working with changing up Luke in this film, and then setting up the next film a bit better with the ending. That being said, Leia really did need to die during the Kylo attack, and slipping that in here would probably make this version of the movie nearly perfect with your Luke arc too.
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  11. What a waste of good talent. I hope everyone gets to come out of this okay and move on to better things.
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  12. The issue I have is them changing the story, the one thing you didn't have yo change. I wanted an updated version of the game I played in the 90s, not fangame that wont resemble the original. People like me that wanted the continuity... WE are the wraiths in the game.
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  13. One of those videos I can't really sit all the way through. Not because the Drinker is doing anything wrong, but because the topic and the fact that it's all very true, pisses me off so much that I can't really endure sitting through it.
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  14. Don't surrender this one guys, they don't get to do to it what they did to Star Wars, Star Trek and Indiana Jones.
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  15. Hearing this definitely eases a lot of my concerns.
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  16. Welcome to the frontlines.
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  17. Acceptance isn't any better, their goal was to control and use it or destroy it, so either way they would be winning.
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  18. Dunno. Making up a new main character with literal plot armor, omitting a fan favorite lead character (Johnny Cage), killing off a large portion of the villains right off the bat before an official tournament... I mean this movie is serviceable if you're not a fan and don't know hardly anything about Mortal Kombat, but the 90s flick is quite a bit more faithful to the plot and background lore and really, what is a MK movie made for if not it's fans?
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  19. This is such a simple franchise as far as plot and characters are concerned that you have to activity be trying to mess it up to make it this bad.
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  20. So a few things that people that really like the franchise that the Drinker probably missed. Some people might call these nitpicks, I call it a clear indication of the shows quality and the investment the makers had in it. 1. I'm going to disregard the absurdity of the opening bombing sequence for the most part, the one thing I will touch on is that in the show the bombs go off in the afternoon at some point on the West Coast. Well, we know that on the East Coast the bombs dropped around 9 almost 10AM (this is even referenced in Fallout 4), meaning that the bombs on the West Coast went off around 5 - 6AM. Seems like a small thing, but the small things add up as you continue. 2. A personal problem I have with the plot concerning the Vault Dweller, Lucy... didn't we already do the main plot of Fallout 3 in Fallout 3? I mean, looking for your missing father? We're really doing that again? It wasn't that engaging the first time, and you're literally reusing that plot. He's even going to have previous connections with the outside world despite seemingly living in a vault at the beginning, why didn't they just cast Liam Neeson again while they were at it? The Geiger counter thing was stupid with the raider. They were literally surrounded by other vault dwellers with pipboys and holding it up to him from across the room got a high reading instantly. They should have been found out immediately the second they showed up. If you can apply some critical thinking to even smaller flaws in Star Wars, I don't think it's a stretch to be critical of stuff like this. Smaller things have been eviscerated on this channel. This doesn't even require knowledge of the lore for the series, we see how it operates in the show and yet it only worked that way at that exact moment. 3. The USA iconography with the Brotherhood makes no sense. They are a faction that broke off from the United States and they are in a rivalry with the Enclave who are the last remnants of US government and ideology. They would not have flags that even resemble the US flag and they certainly wouldn't fly a US flag at their bases and camps, which you see them do in the show. Also, the cult-like representation is... it's just not the Brotherhood. They're technophile isolationists and should be so few in number by now that they're completely unable to defend themselves from the NCR and other larger factions at this point. I don't know who this faction is in the show, but it's not the Brotherhood of Steel, they just have power armor and not even lore accurate power armor at that. 4. Okay, I wanna put a fork in this once and for all. Ghouls are NOT ZOMBIES! They are not actually undead. They require things like food and water and oxygen to survive. There's even a quest in the first game entirely oriented around their water purifier because they need water to live. I don't know why there's this retconning going on that's insistently changing what ghouls are, but they aren't zombies, they're lot more interesting and nuanced than that, even the feral ones that basically fill zombie role. Pretty much everything to do with The Ghoul in his introduction was bad, save for the actor they got playing him, who is a good actor that I do like. I'd like to point out that all of this was in episode ONE, this was the FIRST episode of the show. It's not a very promising start, it would have to get really damn good to just ignore things like this and enjoy it.
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  21. The minute you stop seeing value in the lessons of the past it he moment you're doomed to repeat all the same mistakes it already got over. People trying to push ever forward never realize how many steps back they're taking until they land flat on their face, confused as to how they got there when they were all eyes ahead. It's not just a problem in Hollywood or modern publications or any social media platform you might follow, it's a societal problem. This is the type of people we are making now and the people allowing it to happen for short gains will hope they're gone by the time these mistakes finally hit places where they can do even more damage. I mean the people that ruined movies and video games, can you imagine the kinds of politicians that would come out of that group? Can you picture their policies? Do you think their ideas, that can't even turn out a profit in entertainment, could sustain an economy? There's a a lot to be worried about, and people need to start learning how to be adults again, and have better values taught to them before things go so far that it can't roll back. We're weren't in a great place twenty years ago, but we don't need to be a worse place twenty years from right now. We just need to start taking some initiative and quit being so scared, lazy and entitled all the time.
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  22. We have a female Indiana Jones, her name is Lara Croft. She could have a great movie franchise if a decent writer would get on it and not try to remake her into someone else entirely. So there's no point in replacing Indiana Jones.
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  23. I'm glad that Drinker brought up the importance of context with those interviews that were being put out there and had nothing to do with her being hired Star Wars. Pulling stuff like that is bad no matter which side of the argument you're on.
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  24. Doesn't sound like the WORST thing in the world, but could have definitely been better.
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  25.  @thundermarkperun1083  Meanwhile, on the opposite side, hunter, warrior and the ability to pass on genes have been the key male attributes. These days the last one isn't as necessary given advances in medical science (and just the priority placed on being able to perpetuate the species at large) and given that we've attempted to steer from an age where violence is the only means of defense (though conflict and warfare still exist) even the warrior side is downplayed a bit in modern society. So now a male's value is measured largely by looks and success. Those have been staples for a very long time now. Very consistent with little variation. Yet modern society seems to want to abolish the base female strengths and traits, even hijack the formerly male attributes while also devaluing those attributes in males. They either get to have them and get respect for them too, or no-one gets them is the mindset we're dealing with right now.
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  26. So how long will we have to wait for the softball "Rings of Power under performed" articles to come out? Calling it wikipedia-level understanding of the source material is an insult... at least if they read a wiki, they'd bother to be half-way accurate about what the lore and history and not just "doing their own thing" the whole time.
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  27. Most people can't even imagine in their wildest dreams the sheer amount of money just burned from this entire saga. More money than most humans on earth will see in their entire lives. Just mass piles of cash sacrificed for all number of bad reasons from lack of vision/planning, massive egos in upper management, trend chasing and in-hiring to gatekeep fresh talent from taking over. A decade of nothing but money burning on a pyre.
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  28. And Ian Malcolm still knows what he's talking about XD
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  29. Martin and King have two different problems. Martin can't finish something, taking far too long on his work to ever hope to get it done, meanwhile King got so spooked about not finishing his ongoing series that he rushed out this total mess of a story that complete shits the bed by book five. It's a shame, but there's a lesson to be learned in both cases. Never rush a story when you have time to take on it to make it the best you can, but also never waste your time putting it off, because then you'll never get it out there at all.
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  30. There were AvP comics and novels long before Paul made his crap movies. Not to mention some video games.
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  31. How does the Kurgan know that he's an Immortal? It's the one plot hole I can think of in this movie that really makes me think. The Kurgan knows he's an Immortal, Connor first experienced the headache "thing" that they get around each other when he first saw the Kurgan, but the Kurgan already knew he was there. Connor didn't have a history of being badly/fatally hurt and recovering miraculously, given how his clan reacts, so the Kurgan didn't hear some rumor that convinced him. How - did - he - know? It's the one thing that's bothered me in recent viewings of this movie. It's never covered in this film, and the best we get might come from some comic book adaptation of the novels? It's hard to know.
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  32. I'm really glad that Michael Keaton still has it, it makes me wonder what the hell took so long.
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  33. I mean, with a four hour run time, it can't just be better than the previous version, it can't just be a good movie either. For me to sit on a four hour flick, it has to be a GREAT movie.
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  34. So... Hollywood has gotten so bad that cash-in movies can actually overshadow them now and fulfill audience expectations faithfully. This is Clownworld XD
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  35. I'm sure TONS of people told you already, it's the Pharaoh's wife, not his daughter. In the second movie we do see his daughter, and Evee is the reincarnation of her.
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  36. A reset of the machine is needed to start making this right again. Hollywood is gearing up for a pretty big purge of currently management and even some "talent". If the shareholder letter to Disney is any indication, some sound minds actually interested in putting asses in theater seats are going to make thing happen in the next decade here.
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  37. Gawd, for as bad as this was, imagine this kind of dedication and grit compared to who's making movies today and what they're willing to put up with XD
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  38. Cruella has been voted the #1 most evil villain on top 100 lists more than a few times over the years. Wtf is Disney doing?
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  39. Indifference. No-one cares anymore, they've moved on, and this show will just fade out without any acknowledgement of its poor quality because what could be said that wasn't said the first time around.
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  40. One thing is certain... Tremors is a movie that Drinker really really likes.
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  41. I'll give the first movie a watch. Charlie's Angels is...junk food for your brain, if it does that then I'm happy...if it doesn't, it's an undeniable disaster of a fucking film.
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  42. When does it stop? Is it something that wont' die off because it literally can't? Has it become a perpetual-motion machine of activist ideology that just cannot fade away since it obviously can't be rooted out? When do they really run out of enough resources to be forced to stop this nonsense? It's been going on for so long and every triumph of common sense doesn't seem to slow it down. When do we get our entertainment back?
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  43. Kevin Feige and Kathleen Kennedy are still employed. Bob Iger is about to face the consequences of his actions.
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  44. Can we all finally accept that Sarah Silverman isn't and never has been funny? It's been driving me nuts for years XD And Seth Rogen has been grating my nerves lately too. He was in a couple of "okay" stoner comedies, and that's about it.
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  45. I think this is just them giving a little bit in a couple of places just to keep cash-flow and hope that we all get distracted enough again for them to resume the whole thing. They tried to rush it, it didn't work, now they're gonna move back to the long-game, but only in select areas. They wouldn't give up a major foothold unless they had no other choice.
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  46. They wouldn't have to beat anything out of her. Every role in a tribe is an essential role, it's necessary for the tribe to survive. That's why those roles aren't "chosen", they're the given roles based on what everyone is best suited for. That's why the men, who were typically the most athletic and- when needed -aggressive, got to fall into the caste of warriors and hunters. It was what they were best suited for. The women were better for gathering, crafting, child raising and things that didn't often have them immediately rushing into danger. If you wipe out the next generation of tribesmen and the people that bear them, then the tribe is dead and only time is needed to finish what remains. If a person isn't willing or incapable of fulfilling the role they have in the tribe, then they're just not trusted with anything. They aren't given things to do, because they need people that will do the things they have to for the best chances of the tribe's survival. No-one would value them, because they contribute nothing needed. That was usually far worse than anything else. Often people were more than willing to do whatever they had to if it meant they weren't regarded as useless. That's a mindset that really doesn't exist today. People have a very strong sense of SELF-importance, regardless of what they offer society at large, so being devalued because you contribute little or nothing at all doesn't have the same impact it used to- and should. It's why this sort of stuff keeps cropping up, so people that don't do a whole lot can feel empowered and meaningful, when they should be working to do their best and offer whatever they can instead of trying to declare to everyone that they matter because they simply exist, and consume.
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  47. I hope all these actors get a chance to be in some better written movies.
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  48. Summary, ok movie. Not preachy, not the best written thing since Laurence of Arabia. Good performances, good effects, nice sense of realism at parts, but very middle of the row.
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  49. This is supposedly based off some notes that Martin gave them? Is that correct or are they just doing their own thing at this point?
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  50.  @MikhailaRaibead  ...So we can hope that the books won't take inspiration from this?
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