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

  1. You said it Drinker: "Talk is cheap". I'm also not expecting to see any change. They are acknowledging that the political noise is hurting them, but I suspect the only action they plan to take is to quietly hope it all goes away while continuing to pump out garbage.
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  2. Crimson Tide was an excellent movie! I really miss movies that make you think, there don't seem to be any of those anymore. I also really miss competent, adult, characters. It's completely impossible to relate to characters that have reached the peak of their career, and been promoted through the ranks of an organization all the way to the top, and get somehow managed to completely avoid learning any maturity, common sense, or people skills.
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  3. As a big Bond fan, the previews told me to skip this one. This review hasn't changed my mind. I think I'll go re-watch some old ones instead, I feel that will be time better spent.
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  4. In general I can't stand Ryan Reynolds. He tends to exemplify the trend of main characters being incompetent, immature and childlike, whereas my preferred characters are competent, intelligent people. It only worked in this movie, because he's an NPC who wouldn't be expected to have had a chance to learn any maturity. Even so I found him hard to bear at times, but I still found the movie quite enjoyable overall. I initially didn't want to watch it at all, just based on who was playing the main character, but I walked through the room while my wife was watching, and it looked interesting, so I decided it was worth giving it a go. Comedy is such a difficult genre for me. 99% of comedy is people seeing how immature and crass they can be on film, that's not funny, that's just cringeworthy. Every so often some actual GOOD comedy comes around though, and it can be very entertaining. I hate to write off the whole genre, but it's awful tempting sometimes just based on the large percentage of it that is just so awful.
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