Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  you're agreeing with everyone using different words, and pretending like you're saying something different.
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  2. I've always used the classic Star Trek movies and series as the gold standard for how you can write political messages into content that isn't necessarily political on the surface - they asked the questions but didn't give you a clear answer, it's not supposed to tell you what to think, it's supposed to present a difficult situation, where there is no perfect answer. And that's what makes politics so difficult, there are very often situations where you just can't make everyone happy.
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  3. Brand recognition and China money are the only things keeping Disney alive.
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  4. The outrage mob makes taking risks too risky. Before all you were risking was just making a movie that audiences weren't interested in, or just wasn't that good. Now you're risking being unpersoned if you don't walk the line.
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  5. The worst part to me is how Wanda just had a change of heart in the end, just because she got shown that her kids were terrified of her. Like "ah damn, I'm the asshole. Sorry bout that whole trying to destroy the universe thing guys, my bad."
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  6. And completely forget the very simple concept, that a truly interesting character is usually flawed and relatable. Their "champions" are always so detached from reality, the strong independent wahmens that can beat the shit out of 5 guys at once, are super intelligent and charismatic, that are only single because "no man is man enough to handle them". It's boring. At least give her a weird nervous tick or something, ffs.
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  7. Right? Now can we please get a really great adaptation of Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, or Tekken? There have been a few that were ok, but none of them really got it, and it would be so painfully easy. Just fight. That's all. Talk less, fight more. Nobody plays any of those games for the cut scenes, I don't understand why every movie tries to make some intriguing plot.
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  8. Yea there were always some artsy fartsy movies, but most of them were major theatrical releases.
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  9. Scott Adkins has been making great action movies for years, even with a smaller budget than the movies all the other stars you mentioned have.
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  10.  @strategery101  yea "old guy that can still kick ass" can be intriguing if done right, like the Taken movies, but when the old guy is ooooooold to the point where the baddies could just kick him in the hip once and completely take him out of the fight, nope, no longer intriguing.
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  11. Absolutely, if movies didn't tell me the correct politics to believe, how would I know?
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  12.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  so you have time to make a comment, and reply to people's responses to your comments, but you don't have time to read the comments you're responding to. Got it. Makes total sense.
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  13.  @jflanagan9696  I watched this piece of shit a year or so ago called "Ava", about some super spy strong wahmens. And there was a scene towards the climax where she has a showdown with the male spy that was kind of like her MK1, he was trained by the same guy as her, they were supposedly equals in nearly all ways, and they have this brutal, drawn out fight where she eventually wins. I actually laughed out loud, like what is this shit???🤣 Alright, maybe some super trained elite spy chick can beat up some random thugs that don't really know how to fight, maybe she can beat up another spy chick, but how am I supposed to believe she can beat up another spy with equal training, but twice the physical strength and stamina? Come on man, I know it's a movie, but the "because wahmens" thing just tosses any semblance to reality straight out the window. She may as well have started flying and doing Crouching Tiger shit, totally ruined the whole movie. And it wasn't great even before that.
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  14. Yep, it didn't try too hard, it knew what it was. It was just fun and fast paced. I liked that movie a lot.
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  15. You kinda had a feeling Christopher Lloyd was gonna be a badass when they first introduced him..... But damn you had no idea how much of a badass he was gonna be.
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  16.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  but your first comment was saying that the movie was fine, and that people are only hating on it because they think it's woke (I'm summarizing, correct me if the interpretation is wrong), but that's pretty much exactly what the OP was saying, except you injected the part about being woke yourself.
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  17. The new Candyman had one of the most egregious examples of that I've ever seen, in the climatic scene where he's with his girlfriend and a bunch of white cops rush in and empty dozens of rounds into him for seemingly no reason. It would have been so damn easy to have him reach up to hug or kiss her with his hook hand and some rookie cop comes in and shoots him because he's freaking out and terrified, that would have actually been consistent and conceivable. But nooooo, Jordan Peele just couldn't resist hammering down his narrative, "hey, in case you haven't noticed, white people bad. It's always white people bad." And this is completely overlooking the fact that it was like 10 white cops, in Chicago. Yea, X to doubt on that one. I'm pretty sure Chicago PD is a lot more "diverse" than that.
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  18. ​ @jekkijekster is anyone here saying anything about a movie they wanted to win?
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  19.  @bobmclovinelectricboogaloo  it's actually pretty funny how Hollywood's "strong female leads" tend to actually weaken female characters in movies, not strengthen them. Most of the iconic male leads from action and thriller movies are flawed, they get beat up and knocked around, but they prevail in the end, they have qualities you don't necessarily like, but their redeeming qualities ultimately exceed that and you like them overall, or at least you want them to win. Sometimes you don't even like them at all but you still root for them. Those are the actually well written characters. Most of the women that get inserted into these roles recently aren't that at all, there's no suspense because they have that mystical "girl power" that gets them out of any bad situation, you don't really care about their motivations because they're portrayed as a cookie cutter cliche, they're all the same.
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  20. She'll accuse him of assault for waking her up from her coma, claiming she didn't consent to being alive. And it will ruin his life, he'll move into a one bedroom efficiency with his dog, eventually self delete, and she'll be a boss queen.
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  21.  @britasha1194  it's finally here! Just kidding, not a bot.
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  22. I think he used to be funny, Knocked Up, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Pineapple Express were all pretty great. Of course that was before woke culture took over, when people knew jokes were jokes, and you were allowed to be a little crude and inappropriate.
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  23. I was really hopeful, with Sam Raimi directing. This really might be the worst movie he's made, it's sad.
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  24.  @jjackshoeless  someone should make a "Scary Movie" style spoof making fun of all the girl boss cliches. The main character could be named "Slay Queen Checksboxes"🤣
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  25. God I'm so tired of the "ass kicking woman" trope, they've drilled that one so hard I just roll my eyes, even when it's done in a more conceivable way. I actually want the heroine to get her ass kicked in these movies and shows now.
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  26.  @SubZero-hs9xc  making a sandwich out of cat shit isn't the only way to make a bad sandwich, but if you make a sandwich out of cat shit, it's definitely going to taste like cat shit.
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  27. ​@marcianomorisson-ki9itno, Superman is Superman, he has an established look and identity. If you want a black girl boss, write a movie about a black girl boss.
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  28.  @B1G_WENGH  you desperately need real world friends.
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  29. SS had the perfect amount of "completely bonkers".
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  30.  @randaranatunga7259  I've heard people criticize it by saying it was ridiculous and stupid, my response is "I know, wasn't it great?" 🤣🤣🤣
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  31. The funniest part about Hemsworth's "idiot" character, that was meant to be some kind of dig about how men are dumb and women are strong and intelligent, is how Kristen Wiig's character turned into a drooling blob of hormones every time he entered the room. Which makes her even dumber than him. Accidentally.
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  32. Saw vs The Meg: The Final Chapter: No Seriously Guys, This is the Last One, We Promise: Probably
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  33. That seems to be an increasing problem with most MCU movies, whenever the hero is in a pickle they just bust out some invincible super superpower that would have been awfully convenient to use like I dunno..... Before they got in a pickle? So they didn't get into a pickle in the first place? Really kills a lot of the suspense, I've found myself actually thinking beforehand, "eh it's fine, they'll just bust out some invincible super superpower they never showed before." And then on demand, it happens.
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  34. I've been rewatching a lot of the old Star Trek movies lately, some of them are on YouTube movies for free. And damnit those are some rock solid movies, all of them. Well written, well acted, with a message that goes beneath the central plot. You actually care about the characters and they don't feel necessary to remind you who they are every scene, because they respect the viewer enough to know that you already know who they are. And they seamlessly blend humor in too, without having any clunky shift from serious to "this is funny now", it just flows along with the strong character development. At the risk of sounding like a boomer, "they don't make em like they used to".
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  35. He insisted on putting real bees in his mouth in his breakout role in The Candyman, and he got to say goodbye in his last role. We truly didn't deserve him.
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  36. You had me sold with the tribute to Harold Ramis, I've been wanting to see this and it'll definitely be the next movie I watch now. From every account I've heard from people who knew him personally, he was a really great guy, one of the rarities in Hollywood who really was genuine.
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  37. Well in Idiocracy, the award winning movie was "Ass", which was just someone's bare ass farting for the entire run time. So this isn't that far off.
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  38. Hell no, I'll take a 5 mile detour to avoid them.
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  39.  @davidjob4909  he doesn't make movies to appeal to a broad audience and make as much money as possible, he makes movies for his audience. That's what separates Adkins from the rest.
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  40.  @iamsuzerain3987  the writing was so good they even made you pause and think about The Borg, and if maybe they're not so bad🤣🤣🤣 they are bad, they're very, very bad, but they did make some compelling points about living without suffering.
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  41. Yea but she has 2 moms. So like... Yea. It's awesome. Because it's like.... Well you know. Diversity and shit. Yea, that.
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  42. I think offensive comedies are gonna make a comeback soon. There's a big demographic that's hungry for some of the good old stuff, and the online outrage mob isn't as powerful as they think they are. All it's gonna take is one writer and director to not give a damn anymore, and just go for it, as over the top gross and offensive as possible. And when that movie lights the box office on fire for 3 straight weekends, all the other writers and directors will take notice.
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  43. I actually kinda liked it. It got pretty damn ridiculous at the end, but it definitely had some really good visual horror in the beginning. Got considerably less scary as you found out more about the plot. But I wouldn't say it's a bad movie.
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  44.  @Doom-if9xd  and only in one direction. You can't change a non white character to white, or a female character to male, but you can and MUST change all white male characters.
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  45.  @nohandlehere55  I don't care what anyone says, he's an outstanding actor. He just doesn't take himself too seriously and isn't scared to get a little hammy in a serious role, but he does serious well too. There's no denying he breathed life into Captain Kirk that will never die, and always be iconic.
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  46.  @TheSuperappelflap  kinda painting with a broad brush there, you're mostly correct as a generality but there were a lot of different native American cultures with pretty widely varying customs and societal norms.
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  47.  @chanelhenderson8460  I'm willing to bet you refer to your cats as "roommates".
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  48.  @chanelhenderson8460  ah, so it's a pit bull, and you drive a Subaru.
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  49.  @JstJaybeingJay  but that's "punching down" or some stupid shit like that that only makes sense if you're stupid.
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  50.  @tbc9096  they've made 2 movies, neither of them were great. Not terrible either, they had some decent action, but they focused too much on this dystopian future plot, blah blah blah, we don't care, just shut up and fight more. It's so frustrating because it really was pretty good when they had the action scenes, there just wasn't enough of it.
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