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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