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

  1. Don't let these people blend back in - we need to keep records of who was pushing this.
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  2. "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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  3. "Stuntman turned director" sounds a whole lot more appealing than "activist turned director".
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  4. "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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  5. Indeed. I think that "GO AWAY NOW!" was directed at Marvel rather than us.
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8.  @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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  9. "To delight a whole generation. . . . . . .of developmentally challenged 14 year old girls" Oh Drinker - please never change.
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  10. 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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  11. The system always takes care of its own. "Consequences" are only for little people.
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. ​ @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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. The GOT actors who have had careers afterwards seem to be all the ones who had careers before it.
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31.  @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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  32. 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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  33. "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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  34. As a small mammal, do you feel it's time to de-colonize nature documentaries?
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  35. Anyone who says "I am smart" - probably isn't.
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  36. Finally - we get to see orcs attending group therapy and crying about how Sauron never really loved them.
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  37. Ohhhhhh shot fired! Fired right into the bullseye.
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  38.  @larbot3433  And they were happiest when the men were in charge. . . . . .
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. Sounds like a certain lab in Wuhan too (cough cough).
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  42. 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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  43.  @user-qp5xh9ky4t  10:36
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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @SeriousMcnegative  Nothing to be embarrassed about - Woo is one of the most influential movie directors who ever lived.
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  50. 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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