Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. The problem comes down to two things: - High quality writing can't be mass-produced to a schedule. - You can't entertain people and scold them at the same time.
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  2. The absolute obsession with trying to portray every female character as superior in every way to every male character, and every non-white character as superior to every white character - is killing entertainment. I watched Reacher recently, and although far from perfect, it's a great example of how to write a supporting character, (detective Finley) who is a capable and valuable ally to the hero, and who has his own personality and motives - but who doesn't overshadow the hero or have to put others down to make himself look better.
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  3. Did anyone else love that the seemingly massively fat and slovenly German crime-boss, could actually kick ass, do slick fight moves and almost defeat Wick? I didn't expect to see him doing high-kicks to Keanu's face, and it was a really cool surprise.
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  4. I love how "The cost of Godzilla Minus One" is becoming a standard unit of measurement - like double decker busses and football fields.
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  5. It never fails to amaze me how DC comics: with all the oldest and most iconic comic book heroes - managed to totally miss out on 15 years of the super-hero movie boom. The biggest phenomenon in Hollywood history.
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  6. Spot on. The cult of Hollywood always depended on the illusion that they were classier and more refined than us. Now they're constantly demonstrating how ignorant, trashy, self-obsessed, arrogant and utterly pointless they are. Of course - they could just shut it, but their narracistic personalities simply won't let them do that.
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  7. It says something about modern Hollywood that just "not being obnoxiously woke" now makes me regard a film as being at least "tolerable". That's how low they've set the bar over the last 10 years.
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  8. It's makes me eye-roll so hard when 21st century film-makers try to project their own values and attitudes onto historical characters who were brought up in a totally different environment with totally different ethical systems and without any kind of fail-safe between them and death if things went south. Wokeness is a decedent luxury for rich and complacent societies who think that everything is going to be OK no matter how badly they mess everything up.
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  9.  @rodrigojimenez2535  Perhaps you really are perfect in every way - but the rest of us suffer from flaws that we must struggle against to try to be better people. Religion is one of the ways people conceptualize that struggle which is at the core of the human condition, between our base and ignoble motives and our higher ideals and aspirations. I guess you could say the self-help movement is another way - but however you look at it - no one who has ever done anything worthwhile has not had to make that hard choice every day between the easy but corrupting road, and the hard but uplifting one. That's what being saved means, in a religious or a secular context. Doing what's right even when it's hard.
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  10. Anyone the woke media tells me is evil - is someone who I at least want to hear their side of the story. . . . . . .
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  11. They must be SO proud of their work to be demanding that it be a secret which games they were involved with. . . . . . . .
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  12. It is unbelievably sinister the way the modern entertainment industry is relentlessly demonizing the concepts of love and family as things worth striving for.
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  13. It's because the entire story-arc of Wendy in the book is about her growing up and becoming a mother. And they have to shit on that because the soulless, dead-eyed creatures who write this stuff utterly despise both maturity and parenthood.
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  14. Sounds to me like her issue is with Islam rather than with men - but I guess if you want to speak at the WEF, you can't say that. It's not politically expedient.
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  15. Quite . The "Great Man" theory of history is very unfashionable these days, but Napoleon is the kind of figure that makes it really hard to argue that sometimes one individual really does shape their whole era.
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  16. "they pushed Henry away" Yup. They clearly never wanted a white male hero in the series at all, and they especially didn't want one played by a man with some actual artistic integrity.
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  17. "The first step is demoralization" - Yuri Bezmenov
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  18. And will happily sacrifice their own profits to promote grooming in schools.
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  19.  @TheSuperappelflap  Name a more lucrative film franchise than the MCU. I'll wait.
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  20. I'm so upset - I wanted them to keep burning money on this.
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  21. I think I'd honestly be more shocked if Hollywood didn't spew pure venom at us at this point.
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  22. "but sirs/maam/them/it/furry/catperson" That could legit be Drinker's next catchphrase.
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  23. I mean - not to be catty about the woman playing Snow White, but I don't think Gal has any reason to feel threatened on that score. . . . . . . .
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  24. It really is a right wing issue now. Arguably it doesn't need to be - but it's just a simple fact that the left really, really doesn't want people talking about this issue.
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  25.  @Vivi_9  I'm sorry my truth bomb made you uncomfortable. Oh wait - no I'm not.
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  26. That bit where Blanc is yelling - "It's just DUMB!" It's meant to be all clever and ironic, but somehow it just makes you realize how truly dumb this whole thing is.
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  27. Well, these are the same people who look at orcs and instantly think - "Africans". And then call us racists.
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  28. TBF - most of Africa did move to London in the last 10 years, so why not her too?
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  29. I've had a couple of years to get used to it - and I still can't believe just how fucking SMUG that woman is when she delivers the line about the suit. It's gorgeous watching them fall flat on their faces.
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  30. Shame he didn't show the consequences of that culture - stagnation, poverty, decay, hopelessness.
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  31. It's amazing how you can start with every conceivable advantage and still lose if you mess things up enough. If you want a great Superman movie, you still have to go back the Christopher Reeve versions that are over 40 years old now.
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  32. "The answer to these questions are never as interesting as the mystique around the character" This is a point that is never appreciated in Hollywood's obsession with prequels and origin stories.
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  33. I'm reliably informed by the MSM that the people at the top are never to blame for anything that goes wrong.
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  34. "Some women actually want love, their own family" Sorry - not allowed under feminism.
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  35. There were so many heartening things about this election - but the revelation of the total irrelevance of both the legacy media and the Hollywood elites: is certainly a highlight.
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  36. "Is it possible to ride a polar bear into battle?" (Kislev's cavalry roars in affirmation!)
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  37. I'm noticing "THE MESSAGE!" is starting to crop up on other channels, and I'm really hoping it turns into a meme.
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  38. I'm so pleased "THE MESSAGE" is becoming a meme.
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  39. "The first step, is demoralization" - Yuri Bezmenov
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  40. Yeah I've noticed that no matter how "diverse" the heroes get in Hollywood - the cannon fodder are always white men. You NEVER see women, (and rarely non-white males) being casually blown away by the dozen. Funny that. . . . . .
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  41.  @Heike--  "Today: "Nuclear war is preferable to Russian victory in Ukraine"" A lot of people in the 80s still had some vague idea what war actually was like - judging by the witless hysteria over what's going on Gaza, a lot of people today are apparently shocked to discover that war is not in fact like Call of Duty, and tends to be quite unpleasant.
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  42. I love being told who is a "real" fan by people who, A - Think fandom is "toxic". B - Turned up two minutes ago to virtue signal and will be gone by this time next week.
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  43. "Not until you respect my pronouns Dave"
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  44. That is a very good example actually - imitating the actions, but completely missing everything that gave the actions meaning.
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  45. I can't speak for anyone else, but it's true for me - I've endured so much spite and condescension from the entertainment industry in the last 15 years I've just learned to avoid it.
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  46. "I absolutely DESPISE them" I assure you - not as much as they despise us.
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  47. It was video-gamey - but it managed to do it in a way that still played to the strengths of cinema instead of just mimicking a different medium.
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  48.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  That's a common argument made by people who don't understand how narrative or story-telling works. You can have ANY conceit in a movie if the movie is based around that conceit and the rules that govern it are explained. That does not give you the right to simply ignore every rule governing our normal reality without explanation or context. Example - James Bond can have a "magic" wristwatch that disables the villains lair with an EMP burst at the critical moment - so long as he was given the watch by Q at the start of the film and Q explains what it is and how it works. That does NOT mean Bond can then just snap his fingers and make the villain spontaneously combust without any explanation because "well the watch isn't real anyway, and so now Bond can have magic pyrotechnics as well". Only bad and lazy writers use an explained and planned fantastical element as an excuse for failing to obey common reality. So - if you want to create a fictional tribe of Amazonian warriors were the women are the hunters and fighters, go ahead. But you need to explain what that society is and how it works, not just project it onto real history as if it IS real.
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  49. People don't actually want "representation" - what they want is to see something that is a true expression of the culture that made it. That's why western audiences love anime and martial arts films: and eastern audiences love classic Disney and brash American action flicks.
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  50. No they didn't. It would take something vastly greater than Amazon to ruin something so timeless and uplifting.
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  51. Don't let these people blend back in - we need to keep records of who was pushing this.
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  52. "There's some pretty crude observations about modern culture being obsessed with feelings over facts" A curious notion to riff on from a Wachowski brother who now insists on being called a Wachowski sister.
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  53. "Stuntman turned director" sounds a whole lot more appealing than "activist turned director".
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  54. "I suffered less than in the previous episodes" This is truly tremendous progress - at this rate they might rise to merely "boring" in another 10 seasons or so.
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  55. Indeed. I think that "GO AWAY NOW!" was directed at Marvel rather than us.
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  56. I was going to write a comment just bashing She-Hulk: but everyone is already doing that, and rightly so. So instead, I'm going to take this opportunity to say - this is why I like this channel. You have someone who is highly literate and knows cinema inside and out, taking the time to seriously and intelligently break down why the script doesn't work, and how you could fix the flaws in the narrative. Actually using this dumpster fire as an opportunity to help us understand why great entertainment is great and why we should appreciate quality instead of just bash lack of it. So thanks drinker. Appreciated.
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  57. It's amazing how so many of the people I used to make fun of 20 years ago turned out to be the good guys, and the people I used to think were cool turned out to be noxious children in adult bodies. Maybe that's a broad cultural point, or maybe I'm just a shit judge of character.
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  58.  @bonsai-zone  "I like movies presenting basically new ideas and problems" Well then you're shit outta luck because human story-telling has been following the same few basic narrative arcs since Gilgamesh and the Iliad. If you don't have the patience for anything that develops beyond a single film then all I can suggest is - don't watch franchises.
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  59. "To delight a whole generation. . . . . . .of developmentally challenged 14 year old girls" Oh Drinker - please never change.
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  60. Movies back then were made by guys who had been through two world wars and a great depression. Movies now are made by people who think putting a gay pride emoji on their Twitter profile makes them a hero.
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  61. The system always takes care of its own. "Consequences" are only for little people.
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  62. Hollywood covered up the mass rape of children for 50 years and is going to let Alec Baldwin get away with literally shooting someone dead. You think Smith is going to be held accountable for being your common or garden thug?
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  63. Kermode can be entertaining, but he's been drinking the woke kool-aid for years. Which I guess isn't surprising since anyone who wasn't, wouldn't have had a regular gig with the BBC for what. . . . . .25 years now?
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  64. Better still - don't try to awkwardly shoe-horn a "strong female character" in there, and just make a film showing some Indian hunters trying to survive against a Predator. That's actually quite a cool concept, make it like "Apocalypto" and it could have been awesome.
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  65. Typically at this point in an action franchise's life - you have your popular but aging principle star become a mentor to a young upstart. Hollywood used to be good at making those kinds of movies, but sort of forgot how to do them when they decided everything had to be deconstructed and laughed at.
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  66. The sad thing is we all knew this was how it would be as soon as they announced it. We all knew they would learn nothing, change nothing, and double down yet again.
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  67. Perfectly put - I really enjoyed "Red Cliff", despite there not being one single character in it who looked like me. I would have enjoyed it less if they had artificially forced "diversity" into it.
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  68. All those things like the Star Wars prequels and Crystal Skull - wound up looking pretty good compared to what came after.
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  69. ​ @bonsai-zone  "And did they ever develop the characters" Yes. Compare Luke or Han in A New Hope and then compare them at the end of Return of the Jedi. Or compare Sarah Connor at the start of T1 to her in T2, or John Conner at the start of T2 to the end, or the Terminator in T2 at the beginning and the end. Again - you don't seem to be one for seeing beyond the most superficial elements. If you don't like the basic concept that underpins a franchise - then don't watch it. But what exactly is it you expect? A Terminator movie that's a frothy rom-com? A Star Wars movie that's cosy murder mystery in the English countryside? A Bond movie where Bond becomes a gay, tee-total relationship therapist? You shouldn't make a franchise movie for people who don't like the franchise.
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  70. Just think - people now look back on the Star Wars prequels as "the good old days". My god, just saying that makes me want to weep.
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  71. I had the exact same thought - it takes now courage to fight a guy half your size when you know that as one of Hollywood's chosen few you will never be held accountable. But then - I guess if the guy had any stones he'd have divorced his slut of a wife.
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  72. Yeah - but that wouldn't have conveyed the "men are shit and the source of all my rich-girl problems" message that is the whole point of the film.
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  73. Once again - European culture is the only culture in the world where it's considered acceptable to marginalize the ethnicity that created it.
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  74. The GOT actors who have had careers afterwards seem to be all the ones who had careers before it.
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  75. It's become a common pattern across the entire "woke" movement: you launch a deliberate and coordinated attack on people, then when those people fight back, you claim victim-hood. "Why do you care?" they sneer as they smash up something you love.
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  76. This is why I don't consume corporate media anymore except in rare circumstances: because it's made by people who don't like me, don't like the source material, and see their job as to discredit what went before under the banner of "updating it". As Drinker said in another video - "The Mona Lisa doesn't need you to scrawl a moustache on it in crayon to "update" it". I can't stop them doing it, but I can turn my back and refuse to acknowledge that there is any version other than the original, "non-updated" version.
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  77.  @bonsai-zone  Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The fact that you think "Empire Strikes Back" and "Rise of Skywalker", or "Terminator 2" and "Terminator Dark fate" as "all the same": really does suggest you are not one for discernment or applying quality filters to what you watch. Some of us understand the difference between developing an idea, and pissing all over it.
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  78. I agree that as time goes on, they'll need to aim their content away from the already convinced and try to get more mainstream. But since independent conservative media is in its infancy - the first thing they need to do is just prove to the world that it's possible, and show that there's an alternative to the woke Hollywood monster. First there needs to be proof of concept, then comes broadening the appeal.
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  79. When the official BBC mouthpiece is now referring to "THE MESSAGE" - Drinker can congratulate himself on genuinely shifting the culture a notch.
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  80. One needs to just consider it completely unconnected to the real thing. See it for what it is - bad fan-fic.
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  81.  @jw9737  "There are a lot of damn good female fighter pilots " Hmmmm. Call me a cynic, but I'm afraid I've heard one too many versions of the same story from different countries and services - in order to meet political imperatives to get women into "elite" positions, the entrance requirements were lowered again and again.
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  82. That's fantastic. Star Trek at it's best was always about inspiring people to be the best version of themselves, and to encourage everyone else to do the same.
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  83. "visceral combat sequences that tow a fine line between brawls and ballet" Indeed. I think the phrase "shotgun ballet" was originally coined for the John Woo films.
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  84. As a small mammal, do you feel it's time to de-colonize nature documentaries?
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  85. Anyone who says "I am smart" - probably isn't.
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  86. Finally - we get to see orcs attending group therapy and crying about how Sauron never really loved them.
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  87. Ohhhhhh shot fired! Fired right into the bullseye.
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  88.  @larbot3433  And they were happiest when the men were in charge. . . . . .
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  89. Agreed - Star Trek was supposed ultimately to be optimistic. And modern Hollywood wants everything to be bleak, depressing, post-modern and nihilistic. Because that's what they are.
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  90. I think there's an inherent tedium to watching super-heroes fighting in modern movies because you know that: A - No matter how many buildings they throw each other through, neither will come to any real harm. B - The writers will contrive some way to maintain the status quo so that the same basic plot can be repeated again next time.
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  91. Sounds like a certain lab in Wuhan too (cough cough).
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  92. I'm very much in favour of this - it's time the normies realized the utter contempt the Hollywood elites have for them.
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  93.  @user-qp5xh9ky4t  10:36
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  94.  @user-qp5xh9ky4t  Of course I didn't watch it, I don't have a Disney subscription, and given their recent behaviour I have no intention of ever getting one. If you love this stuff - go ahead and watch it. But don't take it so personally that other people have better things to do than watch the same formulaic crap over and over again with a different title.
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  95. Liberals - "White people need to shut up and listen to people of colour!" Egyptians - "This show is insulting to our culture" Liberals - "SHUT UP BIGOTS NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK!"
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  96. That's why dear Will is so sensitive about it - he knows everyone is sniggering about him being cucked and doesn't know what to do about it.
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  97. As has been noted elsewhere - Robin Hood doesn't steal from the rich to give to the poor, he steals from the government to give people back their taxes. Which a message I'm guessing lefty film makers aren't so keen on.
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  98. Wow. I was NOT expecting this review to go down like this - but I'm glad they allowed Shatner and the character that he made his own: a dignified and poignant send off.
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  99.  @SeriousMcnegative  Nothing to be embarrassed about - Woo is one of the most influential movie directors who ever lived.
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  100. It's amazing how things like the Star-Wars prequels and the Star Trek films from the 90s, now seem like "The good old days". That's just depressing.
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  101. "Professional critics hated it" Which we all know is entirely because of those critics politics, nothing to do with the film itself.
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  102. Sometimes old and corrupt things need to die to make way for new and healthy things. Disney is very, very corrupted at this point. It's drifted a million miles from charming films that delighted the child in every age group that the world fell in love with back in the 20th century.
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  103. Not enough chicks. Not lame enough. Not gay enough. I can't possibly watch.
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  104. Ever since this came out - I've been thinking "I can't wait for Critical Drinker's take on this".
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  105. "Be careful what you wish for - you might just get it"
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  106. Those who can't create anything new - destroy things other people made to make themselves feel they're important.
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  107. Tolkien understood that a powerful feminine energy doesn't manifest the same way as a powerful male energy - and that that's OK, and you don't need to fight it.
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  108. Yup - the week that reminded us that feminism has proved vastly more destructive than nuclear weapons.
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  109. I can't stop the deliberate destruction of European culture by the cultural Marxists, but I can turn my back. And that's what I've done.
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  110. The fact that you didn't understand what was said - is not a reflection of the literacy of the person speaking.
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  111. The cast Aladdin was middle eastern. The cast of Mulan was Chinese. The cast of Black Panther was African Why shouldn't the cast of Thor or the Little Mermaid be European?
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  112. Old Trek was made by the "greatest generation", to inspire and uplift people who had been through and seen the very worst humanity was capable of, with a vision of how things could be better. New Trek was made by millennials, to tell people that they should succumb to their own worst instinct, be slaves to an ideology of pettiness and spite, and assume that everyone is just as awful as the people who made the show.
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  113. As soon as I saw "World Economic Forum" in the background, I just thought, "Oh here we go. . . . . ."
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  114. Is that like a personal attack or something?
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  115. "I dunno when it started" With feminism - so at least 60 years now.
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  116. Exactly - it's a great idea. If you ever saw "Apocalypto" the idea of doing something in that kind of style featuring some Indian hunters Vs a Predator sounds really awesome. But of course like every other great movie concept now, it gets instantly ruined by wokeness.
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  117. They need to just leave Ghostbusters alone - it was a product of a particular moment in time and space, and it just isn't going to fit into the demands of a never-ending franchise with heaping dollops of modern Hollywood's hang-ups and assumptions.
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  118. I cant help noticing that the decline in quality seems to have coincided with an increasing predominance of female writers and directors.
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  119. 8:23 - I would genuinely love to know what these people think romance is supposed to look like They don't. None of them has ever loved anyone or anything but themselves, and despise anyone who has.
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  120. I don't think I've heard Drinker so happy - and that's really rather splendid. If the goal is to stop Russia getting nuclear weapons, they are about 70 years too late however.
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  121. My problem with it was I just didn't feel any of the guests had done anything bad enough to deserve death (except possibly the guy who knew they were all going to die and brought a date with him anyway). And so the reaction of Slowik to not being satisfied with his life - just felt psychotic and self-indulgent. I didn't even find Margot/Erica all that sympathetic: she makes no effort at all to save anyone else or to try to talk Slowik out of his mass murder/suicide plan. At the same time, I'm asked to feel sorry for this celebrity chef who keeps his subordinates in near slave-like conditions for his restaurant's success, and then kills a load of them and his guests because HE is having an identity crisis. Interesting film, a lot to recommend it: but also a bit morally all over the place.
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  122.  @kcbondurant7959 Actually she said Pakistani men. So maybe listen to the interview before giving lectures about it kid. There's only one religion that behaves this way - how ever much denial the adherents of that religion indulge in.
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  123. The utterly hysterical rage of the liberal media towards this film: is all the proof I need that it's hit its mark.
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  124.  @joshuawood1436  Still waiting for a franchise that made more money. . . . . .
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  125.  @joshuawood1436  The films issued under a common franchise name constitute a franchise: that's what the word means. And the MCU is a franchise you absolute muppet: and it's the most profitable movie franchise of all time. Come back in a few years when you've grown up a bit and learned what some words mean. OK kid?
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  126.  @joshuawood1436  No kid - you didn't. Try looking up some numbers and get back to me. OK?
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  127.  @joshuawood1436  No kid - I'm trying to get you to understand that money is the key metric in Hollywood, hence why I said "biggest phenomenon". Twenty seconds of research would have confirmed this, and saved you the humiliation of spending two days defending a really silly comment you made to try to sound smarter than you are. "the MCU is a "studio"" No kid. That's "Marvel Entertainment". "Iron Man was a stand alone franchise" No kid. He's a character in a franchise. That's why he's in films that are not called "Ironman". This is Are you done now kid? It's just I don't really have time to fill in all the years of school you missed.
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  128.  @jasontodd6604  I think we're probably wasting our time with this guy - multiple people have explained it to him and he's not listening. He's one of those very weak people who will keep digging himself in deeper for days on end rather than just admit he got something wrong like a grown up.
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  129. ​ @SonGoku-tp8gb  I don't really have the patience to waste time on someone who doesn't understand Hollywood is a business. I didn't know there were so many people out there who were so spectacularly unworldly.
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  130. As soon as they involved Phoebe Waller-Bridge - it was doomed. Her whole shtick is humiliating and deconstructing male heroes to make a Mary Sue sidekick look better.
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  131. "The orcs were the good guys really all along"
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  132. I think we can all agree it was worth turning a blind eye to Weinstein for decades to get this.
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  133. It felt like he was addressing the whole of modern western culture - and I wholeheartedly concur. Just - GO AWAY!
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  134. There's a hundred things in the Indiana Jones films that are never going to be allowed in modern Hollywood - and any classic film that gets re-booted in the current Hollywood milieu is near certain to be a steaming pile of donkey dung. Better not to sully your memories.
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  135. As someone who knows a little about firearms - "Porcelain gun invisible to X-rays" always makes me chuckle.
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  136. I honestly don't care about some dude cosplaying as Rocky. Those movies only worked because of the heart and sincerity Stallone put into the main character.
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  137. 'We Didn't Know How Good We Had It" - sums up literally everything from the 90s.
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  138.  @willmungas8964  I don't know what your fathers experiences or reasons for saying that were. I am sceptical firstly because of the general background in western society and government in general of promoting for traits over ability, the trend across military forces to sacrifice standards to the political imperative to promote women, and also because of the inability of women to compete successfully with men in comparable activities like elite-sport and race-car driving. But then, I'm not a pilot. So I could be wrong.
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  139. The allegiance of global corporations is to the global ruling elites, and the religion of the ruling elites is wokeness. One of the tenets of wokeness is that ordinary people (especially the white ones) are a mindless horde of vicious, intolerant bigots who need to be beaten down at every opportunity: and so these corporations display their obedience to the ruling elites by parroting their religion, and by directing as much hostility as possible against ordinary people. They know exactly what they're doing.
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  140. Lol - yes that is literally what these writers think would have been the better and more uplifting ending.
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  141. Yeah - Drinker really had it spot on when he talked about how spiteful all these remakes feel. They actively take pleasure in knowing they're shitting on something you used to love.
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  142. The golden rule with woke is - "they want to destroy it just because you love it".
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  143. Agreed. "Assassin FM" was perfect for the universe - kinda silly, but also perfectly in keeping with the tone and feel of the film.
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  144. Well - for the last two years they've been told that looting and burning and beating people in the street is to be admired as "mostly peaceful protest". If that's not a perfect example of "adults behaving like children" I don't know what is.
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  145. Why is it no matter how much money they spend on modern fantasy franchises - they all look like cheap Saturday morning dramas from the 1990s?
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  146.  @detrimen  "That’s men for you" Ladies and gentlemen - exhibit A for the prosecution. . . . . . .
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  147. I'm honestly surprised the Superhero genre has dominated for as long as it has - spandex, CGI and bloodless punch-ups were getting old for me a decade ago.
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  148. There's a reason that for nearly all of history, actors were put in the same bracket as beggars and prostitutes.
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  149. This is not incompetence - this is deliberate demoralization.
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  150. 3:58 - They even ripped off the Olympic motto: "Faster. Higher. Stronger."
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  151.  @loganscott814  "there's a difference between sex and gender" Yes. Exactly. Sex is a biological fact. Gender is just made up. The former is fact. The latter is feelings.
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  152. Hollywood is the most hermetically sealed ideological echo-chamber on the planet - and it's now required for the writers of woke and failing shows to tell their audience to stop watching and double down on what's destroying it. And like everything else in that unpleasant world - everyone has to fall in line, or be blacklisted.
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  153. May you lose money on a scale no film studio before you could ever conceive of Lucas Film. You deserve it for the malicious way you've ruined everything you had that people once loved.
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  154. I wish I could say I thought Drinker was being paranoid there - but I can very easily see it happening. They've already tried to remove Gone With The Wind, then had to settle for forcing people to watch a woke re-education lecture beforehand. It stinks of a deeply sinister agenda to replace and erase the past. Perhaps to send a message that we too are replaceable and erasable.
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  155. I can't stop them shitting all over beautiful things - but they can't make me watch them do it.
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  156.  UnitedStatesofAmerica1984  "that'll trigger 95% of Drinker's fanbase" Have you seen the like count on this comment? What is wrong with you?
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  157. Disney - "We are delighted to announce Kathleen's replacement: Joy Reid!"
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  158. Critical Drinker slamming modern Hollywood is vastly more entertaining than modern Hollywood is.
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  159. Hollywood is like a drug addict - they know woke is killing them, but they just can't stop doubling down.
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  160. So what? Yes there's a lot of mindless sheep out there. Aren't there? "Electricsheep". With a sheep avatar. . . . . . .
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  161. ​ @electricsheep1984  When everyone you meet keeps telling you the same thing - maybe you should consider they might be right.
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  162. Feminism killed western culture.
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  163. Wokness is like the dark gods of the warp - you can't let "just a bit" in: you keep them out entirely, or succumb to the darkness.
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  164. Nuclear weapons haven't killed anyone since 1945. Feminism on the other hand. . . . . . .
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  165. I really hope the internet remembers who these people are in a few years when they're trying to pretend they were never part of this movement.
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  166. It's going to be a fascinating study for future historians to analyse why a society with collapsing birth rates was so desperate to demonize motherhood.
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  167. "I don't think I'm the target audience for marvel anymore" They've made it very clear we're not the target market - which is entirely up to them, but they don't get to whine when we lose interest.
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  168. If Marvel wanted to shake up the MCU: this is how they could do it - make something low-key, grounded, realist and understated. But I guess all the 12 year olds in China probably wouldn't go for that.
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  169. It's shows how much of a strangle hold woke ideology has on mainstream Hollywood that none of them were willing to make a film about something so bursting with comedy potential.
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  170.  @MegamanXfan21xx  Apparently the horrible thing doesn't actually happen - according to the people who loved "Cuties" and covered up Epstein's client logs.
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  171. "This isn't about good or evil: this is just about power" Wow - these people really are straight-up telling us their world view aren't they?
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  172. Wanda sounds like an awful lot of brainless people I've tried to debate over the years - they end up winning the argument because what they're saying is SO mind-bendingly stupid, it would take months to explain why it's invalid.
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  173. Yet more cultural appropriation of European heritage. Yet another beloved classic hideously mutilated and shat on by the woke cult. Get on the high-seas and download your childhood favourites now - before Disney deletes the originals and only allows you to have the "improved" version.
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  174. So. . . . . .is everyone in the whole galaxy a strong independent girl-boss now?
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  175. TBH that's kind of how a lot of developed economies are going. The men don't want to do anything because they know the society despises them, so they just adopt a very minimalist life and/or live off someone else: and do nothing.
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  176. Drinker's videos have been so much more entertaining than most of what he's reviewed.
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  177. Isn't it interesting how the messages of modern entertainment - selfishness, entitlement, childlessness, hedonism, self-obsession and contempt for all that came before you: perfectly mirror the values of the woke liberal elites and further their war on the west? Interesting coincidence. . . . . . .
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  178. Wait - the character in Ironheart is called "Ri-Ri"? As in "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"? It's beyond parody at this point.
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  179. You can almost hear the Drinker sharpening his knives. anxious to get stuck into this one. . . . . . . . .
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  180. Feminists like to moan about how women supposedly used to be portrayed in Hollywood - but can anyone think of any film, from any era, that was as utterly vile and hateful towards women as this is towards men? I have never seen women subjected to this degree of indiscriminate loathing in any form of media, ever.
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  181.  @rolfknappmann  Jackson's made some great films - but didn't he also make a lot of really bad, schlocky zombie movies in his day?
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  182.  @jamstonjulian6947  Yup.
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  183. She really was taken outback by the studio's PR team and worked over with the "this is what you say and don't say" bat wasn't she?
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  184. If you look up "cultural decline" in the dictionary - there's that publicity photo they put out for this movie.
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  185. "For some reason people are going nuts over this movie" Identity politics. That's why all the establishment critics have to praise it to the rafters.
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  186. "at how men viewed woman for the last 10,000 years" Bullshit. Women have always been respected as mothers, wives and as the moral conscience of society. It's true no one over the last 10,000 years was stupid enough to try to make them do the role of men - because as our society has shown. they're not very good at being men. Just as men are really bad at being women. The psychopathic hatred that feminists have for men, comes from entitlement and narcissism: not oppression.
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  187. It's also pretty gross that an entertainment industry that constantly preaches about cultural appropriation - took East European folklore and legend, and shit all over them to push their wretched ideology.
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  188. They're signalling their allegiance to the global ruling elites - they couldn't care less what plebs like you and me think.
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  189. It's amazing how much she kinda sounds like Tony Montana refusing to leave the mansions even as the enemy close in from all sides.
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  190. A film critic critiquing a film that is critical of overly critical critics. This is critic-ception.
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  191. It says a lot about the state of modern cinema that her narrative arc is purely self serving and vain-glorious. Not about service to others.
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  192.  @TheLawliet10  Both are products of European folklore - and therefore deserve the same basic respect as the folklore of other cultures. That includes being portrayed by people from those cultures. Should an adaptation of "Romance Of the Three Kingdoms" have a "diverse", non-Chinese cast?
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  193. Thing is there's so many people saving me the price of a movie ticket, I'm starting to long for a few more moments where someone makes me want to buy a movie ticket.
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  194. I get a lot of stick for saying this - but western civilisation is much worse than it was 30 years ago. The only things that are better are technological, not cultural.
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  195. When I heard about this, I suspected there would be spiteful internal studio politics at the bottom of all this.
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  196. It's the same pattern as the MSM spending 20 years gleefully taunting white Americans with their impending demographic demise, and then howling about "racist conspiracy theories" when Tucker Carlson observes the same phenomenon. There's no such thing as objective truth you see - the only truth is power.
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  197. I never really got the hate for Ghostbusters 2: I enjoyed it as a kid and I enjoyed it as an adult, and as a double bill with the first one, it makes for a great afternoon.
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  198. There's a good reason why for most of history, acting was looked down on as a profession. Anything for attention.
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  199. So it turns out the rich white guy actually STOLE everything from a strong, smart woman of colour who really invented everything? Oh Hollywood - you're so subtle with your political messages.
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  200. They could have used this as a chance to do something really grounded and down to earth - a grounded, human protagonist with no physical powers who has to rely on guts, guile and occasional glimpses of the future: to fight down to earth criminals.
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  201. I enjoyed episode 1 - my biggest issue with it was that the orange-haired girl in it seems to be good at everything rather than having a specific strength that compliments the team. It's a little Mary-Sue-ish.
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  202. Just keep playing guys - maybe people will forget we're here - The most persistent classical quartet in cinema history.
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  203. The sad thing is there's probably quite a smart, funny and insightful show to be written about the legal repercussions of super-hero shenanigans - but of course, that would require some effort, intelligence and moral compass. Not just cheap CGI lazy writing and vast doses of "the message".
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  204. "Reality really does come at ya hard" I was vastly disappointed that there wasn't a joke about Tatiana there.
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  205.  @kenjohnson3947  Thank you for being so honest in admitting you have never once in your life ever questioned the official line you were fed on anything.
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  206.  @AEgir347  Of course - don't you think we should try to understand how terrible things came to happen?
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  207.  @kenjohnson3947  I'm afraid if you mock people who say they want to hear both sides of a story - you do rather invite ridicule from those with a brain.
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  208. It sums up his whole career - it looked so promising, then. . . . .just. . . . . fuck.
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  209. Having just heard about "The Proud Family" - I honestly can't wait for Disney to just die. It's fallen so far from what Walt originally created I don't think it can be saved anymore.
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  210. Did your wife's boyfriend train you to say that?
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  211. What people always respond to - is timeless, compelling stories: in a setting that speaks of a distinct cultural tradition. That's why people can love both Lord of the Rings and Manga. What they don't respond to shallow writing in a setting that is deliberately stripped of all uniqueness in a quest to be everything and nothing.
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  212.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  I'm not terribly interested in your - "Every culture except the west fits woke ideology" cliché. It's a fantasy promoted by leftist western academics like Margaret Mead who projected their own politics on to the peoples they studied. They wrote their conclusions first and then went to look for "evidence" to support it. That's not how you're supposed to do history, and real historians like John Keegan do a very good job of demonstrating the flaws with them. Fortunately people like you who think everything should be a tedious toxic preach-fest: seem to be losing. People can smell bullshit, and they vote with their wallets. I'll stick with Ghostbuster 1984, and you can have Ghostbusters 2016.
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  213. Just think how much more entertainment Critical Drinker has provided than this series, and for a miniscule fraction of the cost.
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  214. Every year. I fall for something. Every. Single. Year.
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  215. I don't mind if a movie decides to place style over substance. Space empire needs to steal peasant grain? OK. Coal-fired spaceships? Whatever. What you are not allowed to be though - is boring.
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  216. What a tough guy Will Smith is - punching a guy half his size for making a joke. And of course, this being Hollywood, there will be. . . . . . .no charges. Because heaven forbid the liberal elites might ever be held responsible for their actions.
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  217.  @blazejefferson  OK mister "aktshcully aktshully" - I really can't be bothered to argue with autistic people who don't understand money.
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  218.  @Costelad  When did I ever say that? Why can't people do basic reading and comprehension anymore. 🙄
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  219.  @joshuawood1436  "Stand alone franchises liek ironman" Lol - you don't even understand the concept of a "Cinematic universe" do you kid?"
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  220.  @SonGoku-tp8gb  Hollywood is a business. It's bout making money. Would you like me to bring in glove puppets to explain this to you?
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  221.  @SonGoku-tp8gb  Calm down kid, this isn't your gender studies class. No one cares that you don't understand Hollywood is a business. We find it baffling that a supposed adult can be that silly, but it's really not a problem for anyone but you.
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  222. I hate to be a downer - but she's a hooker: figuring out what men want and telling them what they want to hear, is literally what she does for a living. I'd have said whatever I had to say to get me out of there too.
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  223. Even though they never get as many views, I appreciate that Drinker highlights the good movies rather than going for the easy clicks of "everything's terrible".
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  224. Would it really be SO hard to have a bounty-hunter do some actual. . . . . . . . .*bounty hunting*?
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  225. Why do you watch the channel then?
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  226. “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell That's what modern "culture" is, it's about smashing up your history and your heritage to make you forget all the "old" stuff.
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  227.  @bennyboylabs  Well she likes to tell everyone she has creative input into the films she's in (as she did with the last Bond) - so either she's lying in which case why employer her at all, or she's telling the truth and has to take some of the blame.
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  228. This film sounds like the epitome of - "Because the script needs the rest of the plot to happen"
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  229. There's an absolute desperation on the part of certain people (not all of them black) to believe that sub-Saharan Africa had an importance in world history that it quite simply did not have.
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  230. So they start the film with 5 wanted stars?
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  231. Being "better than expected", is pretty damn good given what we were all led to expect.
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  232. "Tolkien was a genius, a polygot, a great intellect, extremely religious and one very hard-working man" Yeah - but the people who wrote rings of power, have degrees in "diversity inclusion and equity", or "DIE".
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  233. "the world is still heavily based on patriarchy" No. It really isn't. It wouldn't have given an avowed feminist half a billion dollars to make a film that's all about hating men if it were. Our civilisation was vastly healthier before feminism.
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  234. "No one's going to be winning any Oscars for this" For reasons that have nothing to do with quality - no it definitely won't!
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  235. People are indeed virgins until they have sex. Great observation there She-Hulk.
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  236. Who'd have thought the scenes written for them by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century: would turn out better than the one's created by generic hacks. . . . . . . .
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  237. When did company bosses stop responding to unproductive employees "demanding" things by laughing and telling security to escort them from the building? Ah yes - when the globalist elites started imposing "ESG" scores. . . . . .
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  238.  @ShadowSonic2  Drinker has explained many, many times the difference between compelling and poor character development. The fact that your only response to ALL of that analysis is a mindless SJW brain-fart, tells us you are not a person worth listening to.
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  239.  @user-qp5xh9ky4t  "it's okay to think for yourself" . . . . . . .says the man who binge-watches vast amounts of factory-produced woke slop: and then whines that I should stop being so mean to the vast mega-corporations that have taken a huge steaming dump all over western culture while telling me that I'm the problem. Some of us ended the metaphorical abusive relationship the MSM wants to keep us in, and have moved on. You're like a battered wife that keeps going back again and again because the guy bought you flowers and said he was going to change.
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  240.  @user-qp5xh9ky4t  ""abusive relationships"???? are you high" It's called a metaphor. I didn't occur to me I'd need to explain that concept to an adult.
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  241.  @thedeltastrat  How can you say turds don't taste good when you haven't tasted every turd?
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  242.  @thedeltastrat  "because they've been scientifically proven to be bad for you" So has Coke Cola. Come on mr autism - How do you know they next turd you sample won't be delicious and nutritious?
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  243.  @thedeltastrat  It's called a "heuristic", a mental short-cut to reduce cognitive load. You know that turds are highly unlikely to taste good, and I know that mass-produced blue-pill TV from Disney, is highly unlikely to be enjoyable for me to watch: particularly if my favourite critic doesn't rate it. You live with your assumptions, and I'll live with mine,.
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  244.  @user-qp5xh9ky4t  "someone doesn't need to take it literally" And yet somehow - you managed it.
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  245.  @epicmusic9029  "all he reviews in modern movies is franchise films and one or two other films" He's reviewed (positively) three movies that do not fit that description just in the last three weeks. Everything Everywhere All At Once, Northman, and Whiplash. Three. In three weeks. You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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  246.  @OreoOreoCookie234  "You base your facts off of others opinions" That's literally the point of watching a REVEIW from a REVIEWER. If someone lobotomized you with a rusty hook, your IQ level would not change one single point would it?
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  247.  @AK-vj9uu  Oh dear - I've triggered another snowflake by not sharing its addiction to generic corporate slop. Nice avatar by the way - I though flaming skulls looked cool when I was 11 too.
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  248.  @AK-vj9uu  Whatever kiddo. 847 people understood the point I was making. I don't really care that much if you and a couple of other fan-boy zombies are triggered that I don't want to join you in wasting my life consuming 40 hours a week of formulaic corporate slop.
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  249.  @epicmusic9029  Sounds like this Jahn guy is a lot more your cup of tea. You enjoy watching him.
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  250.  @CeCe1066  1100 people agree with me. So I'll hang with them, and you hang with the other cattle who mindlessly eat whatever the corporations feed you. Remember - support the latest thing, consume next product, and only trust official information.
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  251. You know - maybe Drinker should do a series called "Production Heaven" about the making of films that turned out just *perfect*.
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  252. Napoleon was played by a man. A white man. In current year - that counts as a win.
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  253. The idea of doing a whole film in one take with no re-shoots sounds really impressive - until you remember that's what theatre actors do every night.
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  254. And of course she's a lesbian. Everything is so predictable these days.
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  255. Hollywood is absolutely determined to ensure that Henry Cavill's career will never take off.
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  256. Yeah - it sounds like "2012" and "Armageddon" and those kinds of massively OTT disaster spectaculars that were really popular about 10-15 years ago. Loud, dumb, stupid, implausible: but pretty harmless compared to the cultural poison they spew out now.
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  257. 0:51 - RIP this tree.
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  258. Well - nuclear weapons killed far fewer people than feminism has. . . . . . .
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  259. "it’s time for all of us guys to stfu and listen" Why don't you stfu and listen? We all have to listen to this woke, SJW, liberal-left, identity politics bullshit all day every day. Just once maybe you could try zipping it and listening to a different POV instead of always assuming you know everything because you can repeat everything your gender studies lecturer told you.
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  260. For the great majority of history - actors were regarded as the dregs of society. Everyone understood instinctively that these were people who valued attention more than virtue. The cult of celebrity is a 20th century aberration caused by the ability of the mass media to manipulate images. Now the internet is laying bare that entertainers are what everyone knew they were for centuries - selfish, vapid, narcissists.
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  261. "Lol! We totally owned those toxic, white, cis-male fans by destroying the value of the brand we own!" Someone should tell these people about an old saying regarding a nose, and spiting your own face.
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  262. They're desperately trying to make "Attack me with all your strength" into a meme - and it's not going to happen.
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  263. "is so funny to me" Tiny minds are easily amused.
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  264. I just assumed this would be a Star Wars property for some reason. . . . . . .
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  265. And he's standing up for racism by. . . . . . . .copying a white folklore tale.
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  266.  @zveznicht883  "You want to be smarter than this" No, I wanted to be entertained by clever writing. I just didn't get it.
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  267. There's a reason why WWE continues to be popular - even though the fights are choreographed, there's something REAL about two humans brawling on an unmistakably human level: without the weightlessness and meaninglessness of the fight scenes you witness in every comic-book movie.
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  268.  @EminenceIncorperated  Try reading it again - maybe you'll understand it this time.
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  269.  @EminenceIncorperated  It's cute that you think I concern myself with the whining of inferiors.
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  270. Proof that nothing is ever too small to be offended by when you want to be offended.
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  271. Well - Britain just gave a guy two years for putting up stickers saying you shouldn't feel bad for having white skin: so at this rate the death penalty for non-woke ideology might not be that far off. . . . . . .
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  272. These movies are so stylishly cool and viscerally exciting: you can forget how utterly silly and ridiculous everything about them is. Keanu somehow manages to sell it all - which makes him a better actor than I used to give him credit for.
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  273. Modern Hollywood identifies and empathizes with monsters and villains because. . . . . . .well, finish the sentence yourself.
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  274. When you strip away everything that is unique and cultural about a setting and adapt it for "modern audiences" - it loses it's soul. Everything looks the same now. There's nothing that tells a story from a distinct time and place anymore - it's all the same bland, grey "diverse" globalist mush that has no roots in anything.
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  275. Apparently cultural appropriation magically stops being a thing when you cast a non-white person to play characters from European mythology.
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  276. It's all about demoralization.
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  277. As soon as I heard about this film - I could almost hear Drinker sharpening his knives.
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  278. What always strikes me is that the LOTR trilogy could only have been made in a very short window: a few years before, and there wouldn't have been the technology to make it work. A few years after, and we were into the age of woke, and it would have turned into "Rings of Power".
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  279. I very much the doubt the feminazis who made it have that level of self-awareness or self-reflection. When feminists tell you they hate you - believe them.
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  280. The least believable part of this film is the British police responding to a terrorist incident with the same kind of urgency and intensity they reserve for responding to hurty words on social media.
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  281. It never fails to amaze me how humans have the capacity to sacrifice their own self-interests in order to preserve their ideology.
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  282. I don't think the people who write modern entertainment have the slightest conception of how basic human psychology works - no one seems to react to anything the way an actual person would.
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  283. The problem with modern Hollywood isn't just that the people in it have never had to strive or suffer - it's that they also have absolutely no empathy. They don't know how privileged and spoiled they are, and think their petty whining deservers to be regarded as equivalent to some epic tale of heroism and endurance.
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  284. TBF - they might have cancelled the premier just because London is a grubby, crime-ridden dump these days.
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  285. They will never do anything but double-down. They simply don't know how to do anything else.
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  286. I don't think most people realize just what a hard road it used to be being a pro wrestler - they endured staggering levels of physical punishment, miserable pay, no job security, no benefits and near constant pain. Things are better now, but it's still not a path for anyone who doesn't really want it.
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  287.  @kamronramelmeier9264  "but since you hate anything related to women" Not true - I love porn.
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  288. "Betrayals that anyone with more braincells than your average reaction channel would see coming" Hmmmm - I wonder who that might be taking a shot at. . . . . . .
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  289. And then you have a little thing called - "Cultural Marxism".
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  290. I'm so upset - I wanted them to keep burning money on this.
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  291. Yes I've noticed SJWs and feminists are the most likely to virgin shame young men, and then shake their heads in wonder when those same lonely dysfunctional desperately unhappy men become violent. It's almost as if they want things to end badly. . . . . .
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  292. You gotta do better Marvel - you gotta step up.
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  293. What the hell is Hollywood gonna do when Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves are retired? The two of them single-handedly keeping the industry looking cool.
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  294. Yes I noticed that "subtle" piece of pro-infanticide proerganda. . . . . . .
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  295. IKR. The way these people get high off of their own farts is partly hilarious and partly disturbing.
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  296. "The first step - is demoralization" Yuri Bezmenov It's not an accident that everything you used to love is being degraded and ruined.
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  297. TBF - it's easier to be optimistic if you literally, physically can't harmed.
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  298. The interesting part is that I think a female re-make could have worked. Had they had a tighter script, better casting, less of an agenda, more respect for the original, taken themselves less seriously and the material more seriously, and if the director could have refrained from declaring war on the fan-base - I can see potential in it. Also I know this is unsayable in current year, but it wouldn't have hurt if the cast were a bit better looking.
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  299. "This is not a left and right issue" I agree it shouldn't be - but it clearly IS. The left is full on melt-down screaming that this issue must not be discussed.
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  300. I can't remember seeing a "damsel in distress" on my screens for decades - I would actually quite like to see male heroes rescuing a woman once in a while.
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  301. Ironic that the main character feels such survival guilt when it's precisely because he didn't throw away his life uselessly in a hopeless war: that's he's still around to risk his life in a far more worthy cause.
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  302. "A character is only as smart as the person writing them" . . . . . .annnnd that is why every character from modern Hollywood is a self-obsessed narcissistic moron.
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  303. "so what problems do men have apart from being stupid?" And then they wonder why boys start listening to Andrew Tate. . . . . . .
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  304. As soon as there are no consequences to anything - all dramatic tension is gone.
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  305. If you wouldn't cast white actors in a Chinese or African folktale: then you shouldn't cast black actors in a European folktale. That's simply asking for the same respect for European culture that is shown to every other culture.
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  306.  @nytesla_punk3327  Which is probably why I used the term "folklore". Do you understand English?
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  307.  @nytesla_punk3327  Have you considered it's possible there's more than ONE story about mermaids? I know this is big-brain stuff - but, consider it. . . . . .
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  308.  @nytesla_punk3327  And which part of the world are they from genius?
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  309.  @nytesla_punk3327  Cop out.
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  310. "When you think of the heroes of the second world war, what comes to mind?" Honestly? I'm starting to have some serious doubts about who the good guys were. . . . . . . . .
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  311. Even a half decent video game movie is a pretty astounding feat given the history of the genre.
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  312. It's telling that there's no footage for this video - not even a trailer.
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  313. At this point - I actually want them to keep this up indefinitely. I want them to spend the next 20 years grimly churning out disastrous, woke, Rey-based Star Wars films: stubbornly refusing to acknowledge anything is wrong and calling fans names as viewing numbers drop below the levels of mid-afternoon "Murder She Wrote" repeats.
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  314. We all know this was never audience driven - it was driven by the political prejudices of Hollywood insiders.
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  315. These days anything that's not hectoring preaching and lecturing you is a win. And it's sad that the bar is now that low.
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  316. They doubled down on woke. Like an addict, they knew it was poison, but they just couldn't help themselves.
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  317. I'm not altogether convinced making money is a major factor in Hollywood anymore - that might sound crazy, but think about they continuously double-down on woke, preachy, depressing, nihilistic re-boots of classic franchises: whose only role seems to be to demoralize everyone and lose money.
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