Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. I finally watched the first episode of season three. For a hero of the show, Michael Burnham cries at the drop of a hat. Everything makes her cry. She lands on the planet she meant to land on. She cries. She runs into a guy with a space ship, she cries. She purposely strands herself on the planet, and then she cries. All of this in the first five minutes of the show. Is that one of the courses they have to take at star fleet academy?
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  2.  @Iron-Bridge  It's the problem with government run anything. They feel their customers create nothing but problems for them.
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  3. That clip with Jeremy Renner is just freakin' classic.
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  4.  @justsillyrachet1737  " Who wouldn’t cry after going through such an experience" Well, someone trained in Vulcan logic and thinking. And likely someone who's gone through military training. And for sure someone who went through command training in the military. Someone like that would be hard as nails.
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  5.  @ericlf3087  Perhaps, but that's the equivalent of someone sells parts from junk cars suddenly becoming a car mechanic and race car driver.
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  6. When you care more about the story than the owners of the story, it's time to let it go and enjoy movies 4-6 and 1-3. You can safely ignore anything else.
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  7. The really interesting part is his illness which makes you wonder if he's imagining things or they're real. It adds a whole different layer of "interesting" to the show. It's really very good. I thought it was better than the Jack Reacher Amazon show, although I liked both.
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  8.  @Dragonage2ftw  Thanks for that bit of confession through projection.
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  9. "Don Jon" if anybody wants to watch it.
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  10.  teleg871  I tried, but it said you must first send us your credit card number to reach you. We're waiting for your credit card number.
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  11.  @KilliK69  Well the current generation of the MCU has been a failure if you compare it to the previous movies. As usual, Disney is turning the whole thing into a princess movie.
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  12. You forgot "Altered Carbon" on Netflix that showed so much promise in 2019 fell apart and became unwatchable in 2020
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  13.  @_ripVanWinkle_  Well, the financial consequences are making it clear the fans aren't buying into the woke/trans agenda at Disney. It's independent of what The Drinker says. Unless you believe "The Drinker" is so powerful he can move financial markets and affect peoples choices of entertainment in a measurable way. So the bottom line is "The Drinker" can say what he wants, the customers have made a decision that Disney movies aren't very good these days.
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  14.  @JohnDoe-xf2ke  "Bad Robot is an American film and television production company led by J. J. Abrams and Katie McGrath as Co-CEO" Not sure how McGrath got that role.... she's been a character actor in a few TV shows and movies.
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  15. Bill Paxton was an expert at playing really smarmy, corrupt characters. Think of True Lies.
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  16. Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Her tag line should be "Now, I am become commercial death, the destroyer of movie franchises" When will Jeff Bezos grow a pair and hire talented people?
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  17.  @Kpimpmaster  Why "message" at all? Does it add to the enjoyment of the film in a way that generates more revenue? And I will say that it's impossible to "message" the whole trans ideology that will not negatively affect your bottom line. There's too many negatives associated with it, like it or not.
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  18.  @ewjiml  He's not un-empathetic at all. They bring him in when the stakes are high and he has to break a few things to get the job done. And what the hell is a "Womanizer" anyway? That describes all guys on any dating app. When people use that term it sounds like they came straight out of Victorian Novel, and people are getting "the vapors" because a man was "committing adultery in an unrepentant way"
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  19. She gets frustrated in her high-paying job..... That's never happened to a man! It's also weird she takes constructive criticism from co-workers as an attack. Brittle manager.
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  20.  4Freedom4All  So Bond is fictional. If you want a real spy, they're very boring, and the real guys who "clean up" at 3-letter agencies are probably pretty boring too. Bond is bond. If you don't like it, don't watch it. The producers had any balls, they'd have Bond sleep with a lesbian and she'd announce she was giving up girls for Bond.
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  21. Well, they want strong independent women who are terrible actors, have eyes wide apart and claim that the movie Snow White is creepy
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  22.  @FuzzyWuzzySnuzzy  Well, you create the mythology first and then the world If you try to do it the other way around it will not be interesting. LOTR works because the mythology was created first and the stories came from that. It's why the Amazon version of Middle earth was a disaster, even though they invested $1B in it.
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  23.  @remyd8767  Most Disney films are very depressing these days.
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  24. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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  25. I asked someone a few years ago why they took the words of an actor more seriously than their neighbor, and I got a vague "they've seen things that we haven't". And they got very uncomfortable and they quickly left (A win-win)
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  26. This has to remind you of Disney flipping off it's fan base and losing 100's of millions in subsidies. Likely for the same reason, too.
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  27.  @TOXICYT2016  It is if your life revolves around thinking about your sexuality every waking minute.
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  28.  @Kpimpmaster  In the end though, the beast turned out to be truly handsome and rich. Beauty and the beast is perfect example of Disney before they decided old fairy tales needed to be updated "for a modern audience". Today, they'd insist that Mrs Potts was a lesbian and chip was a trans person.
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  29. Angelina Jolie probably is one of the few recently who can pull it off, and yes, i get there are others historically, but we're talking 21st century now.
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  30. I only knew about Doctor Who because when I worked at an IBM facility, a woman who was into Sci Fi TV had recorded every episode and loaned me about two boxes of VHS tapes and I watched them all. While the special effects were ridiculously bad, it was engaging, and thoughtful. And I was hooked.
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  31. I've had a list of books to finish.... classics... for a couple decades. I've been catching up with them as audiobooks, and the stories are compelling, and these classics are nuanced and have really interesting observations and lessons.
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  32.  @razorfett147  Only the first of the new movies was worth watching.
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  33.  @captainrogers18  And the reality is they can't. It's kind of like trying to turn "white" into an insult. It always ends up being a compliment no matter how hard you try.
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  34. Women don't even want them.
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  35.  @FuzzyWuzzySnuzzy  Is there though? What questions did you have left about Pandora after the first movie?
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  36.  @HummelJaeger  Because they had people who cared about the product. With a new generation, you're the product, and the people in power are doing their best to show you that the way you think and the way you live is wrong. If they were a private businesses, they'd be gone quickly, but your taxes are propping up their brand of social justice.
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  37.  @ninjaman0003  So you're saying you take huge hits in revenue because that audience will die some day? Can you name a woke movie that exceeded expectations? Can you name a LBTQ+ themed movie that did really well at the box office?
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  38. I think you're right, but if you look at that movie as a metaphor of what happens to a man as he ages, the whole thing makes sense, not necessarily as deconstruction of Westerns (which are cartoons, after all), but a deconstruction of his own career.
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  39.  @ChristianIce  The Egyptians seem to care the most. You should ask them. As for the rest, nobody's watching it, nobody has any desire to watch it.
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  40. Critical Drinker, I think what happens is that it's a very powerful thing when an adult loses his temper or has an outburst, and it has an immediate effect on the audience. So writers are not subtle and they sit around and say "Spock is really angry, and so if he has an outburst as a Vulcan, it's REALLY powerful". So they make Spock act completely out of character and they high-five each other thinking "Wow, this will be an AWESOME moment when Spock loses his s***!". It's like getting a sugar high, it's cheap, quick and doesn't require any setup. So they do it over and over again in the same movie so it actually has no effect on the audience.
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  41.  @lilgingy75  Iger was the one who came up with the woke ideas and put Chapek into the CEO position and then fired him when he tried to stop the Woke.
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  42. You forgot Seth Rogan.
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  43.  @WaltherPPK007  Well, except that Hollywood and the government actually were infiltrated with people who admired Joseph Stalin and who thought communism was a great idea. It is said at the time of the invention of the Atomic Bomb that Stalin knew about developments faster than Roosevelt. So although actors and the press like to claim this was a witch hunt, it was an issue, which is why it persisted for so long.
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  44.  @dalegribble4308  A socialist is a leftist who thinks that Scandinavia is socialist paradise.
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  45.  @dalegribble4308  There are very few classic liberals left these days.
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  46. With a message this strong, you can see this movie making 10's if not 100's of dollars in the theaters and on late night TV.
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  47. So the deal is that the only thing stopping disney from doubling down on the woke B.S. in the movies is because the stock prices are tanking. If the stock price goes back up, they'll be back in the panderverse faster than you can spell Kathleen Kennedy.
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  48. ​ @generalkang1969  It's worth pointing out that the Wicked Stepmother in Snow White mirrors reality.
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  49.  4Freedom4All  "there are so few men like that" In the circles you travel, yes. In circles where guys have money, this happens quite a bit. Or do you think the concept of "sugar daddy" is obsolete?
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  50. Multiple ruined cash cows... Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Marvel universe. In fact, she's probably cost Disney many billions of dollars in her reign of terror. She's also proved "Girl Power" is no substitute for competence.
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  51.  @BWMagus  It's certainly not a calamity, but there was no reason to make her suddenly "the master code breaker" and out of nowhere was smarter than every mathematician in the UK. In The Drinker's own words from previous reviews, they've done nothing to establish her as someone who knows anything about mathematics, much less someone experienced in codes. Had they simply omitted that little nugget, then she wouldn't have seemed like a Mary Sue.
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  52.  @margarethmichelina5146  "they make her hot and makes everyone drool over her?" Not in a million years.
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  53.  @docsavage8640  Meanwhile, less and less people are watching them as Disney tries to represent groups that don't even care if they're represented.
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  54.  @Dunge0n  Not true, They ran out of brown paint that day, so they went with white. They were being paid by the portrait, not the hour. And like any good contractor, they went with the fastest way to get the job done.
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  55.  @alcarnor2506  They show a Maud'Dib constantly as a theme throughout the movie reminding you of what is to come.
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  56. Still... Zack Snyder's cut is pretty d*mned good.
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  57.  @blueberrydenim4807  Bullies are a fact of life at every age. The world is full of them, and high school is a great time to work out how you deal with bullies.
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  58.  @satchboogie5418 The original Captain James T Kirk really is what star trek is about. In just 3 seasons, it packs more interesting plots than the rest of the star trek universe combined. Until the latest round of awful series, the others were pleasant diversions, but kind of like copies of copies where everything ends of fuzzy and nothing like the original
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  59. Lawrence Fishburn looks like he ate the entire matrix.
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  60. Apparently this is the revenge of the homely women. Interestingly, when the gossip magazines show woman stars, all of them are quite ordinary. It's time to get attractive women back into the movies.
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  61. Nothing like an grossly overweight neurotic senior officer on the bridge to inspire a sense that the Federation is a top-notch organization.
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  62.  @xartyomxX  but maybe i have a life I agree. But can you share what your life is with us so we can review it to make recommendations to improve it?
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  63. It doesn't help that in 2020 Hollywood didn't produce one memorable movie.
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  64.  @Kpimpmaster  Sure, and pushing a woke/trans agenda is doing neither is it? The Woke crowd doesn't buy stuff, they only complain on twitter.
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  65.  @ninjaman0003  Let's say you wanted to test your theory with a romantic comedy about two gay men, with good writing etc, check the concept with the market you imagine it will work for (e.g. gay men, straight men, gay women, straight women) and then check your box office against who is actually spending money. If people SAY they will go to see gay movies, but don't spend money on it, you know you have virtue signalers not an actual market A warning about this, you don't go after tiny markets with big budgets. And with gay people being less than 5% of the population and trans people less than 1% of the population, you'd better hope that every last gay person on earth goes to see it or else it won't work. That's how business strategy works.
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  66.  @Kpimpmaster  Equity is a bad thing. Equality is the gold standard.
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  67. Demolition Man did the funny sci-fi thing much better, but I guess it wasn't good enough because it parodies woke culture.
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  68.  @Setep2k  I agree. The show and books are almost dead on with each other.
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  69. Why does Disney keep hiring actors who hate the roles they're playing? Why did Anthony Mackie take the roll if he just wanted to trash it to the press? Maybe Disney should hire professional actors in the future instead of activist with a grudge.
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  70.  @Mfscallmethedrink  Because most of those movies references were pretty awful. I thought maybe an adult would have a better list. Apparently not.
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  71. Did he turn into the Hulk? That might've been entertaining.
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  72.  @riffgroove  It was a knee-slapper when a TV hostess misheard what the crowd was chanting. Plus it got the crazies riled up, which made it good clean fun.
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  73.  @jrd33  On if there's a little somethin'-somethin' for the men at the end of the date.
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  74.  @skinnie2838  The expanse is good TV SciFi
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  75.  @skinnie2838  You've switched topics on me. We were talking about the Expanse. You were complaining about how bad the expanse was, and I just pointed out it was very true to the books. Back to Dune....Kynes being a woman, I don't see that as a huge change I get why they did it, but how did that impact plot or fundamentally change what the character did?
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  76. "We wuz kings" said the people who don't understand history. Plus, wasn't Cleopatra considered attractive? Besides, why didn't they talk about that African queen, Queen Nzinga, who rounded up and sold her own subjects to be slaves? Why wasn't that the documentary she wanted to make? Isn't that weird?
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  77. ​@@sickemrex287 Nice Troll.
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  78. You guys celebrated too soon. You've heard of Long COVID? Yeah, Disney has Long Kennedy. I was reminded of Kennedy when I watched the 2nd Indiana Jones movie and guess who was listed associate producer.... yeah, you probably guessed it. Anyway, the woman is over 70 years old. She's rich beyond what she can spend. Why she just doesn't step down and enjoy her life post ruining Disney. The shareholders would appreciate it, the public would appreciate it, and actually if she could go out by blaming it all on Iger, that would be a bonus for humanity.
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  79. Thanks for the tip on the extension.
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  80.  @anonymousyoutube7259  Yes, but. He's the freakin' CEO, so ultimately he had accountability to point out to the owners that their mission goals and objectives are in conflict with his primary goal of creating shareholder value.
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  81. Perhaps DC will buy Disney...
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  82. Is it fair to say that Kathleen Kennedy has proven over the course of billions of dollars strategically incinerated that The Force is most assuredly not female?
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  83. Hollywood could save money by just doing a digital cleanup of old movies and re-releasing them in the theater. They could even shorten Helen Hunt's fivehead ;)
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  84.  4Freedom4All  Yeah, they lack the balls to try anything interesting like that. Anyway, they can try gender swaps all they want, it will sink like Star Wars. In fact, they've stopped making star wars because they're watching their $5B franchise slip away. Albert Broccoli is rolling over in his grave.
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  85.  @ewjiml  Since a new film comes out every two years, do you consider sleeping with a different women every two years as "womanizing"?
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  86.  @commandercaptain4664  If you took all the people who wanted to see a female James Bond, they would fill a Volkswagen Golf.
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  87.  @PeloquinDavid  The other alternative is to offer a BluRay version that is unrated.
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  88. I watched it over the weekend and my review is: Remember how silly and yet charming the original Road House was? Remember how hot Kelly Lynch was when she got out of bed? Yeah, well this film is the opposite of it in every way possible. It's freaking dumb with a terrible cast. I have to call out Jessica Williams as perhaps the worst actor in a major motion picture I've ever seen. The plot is not even a plot it's just a vehicle to put characters into a set piece. If I had paid to see it I might've asked for my money back. It doesn't even rate going straight to video, or watching free late night on cable.
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  89.  Alicia Jade 🅥  It's a link to a terrible song.
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  90.  @cyryc  So you're saying they choose white because black or brown pigments weren't available for the painting despite the fact that they used black for the hair? And let's not forget her features are not African, they are European.
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  91. Sorry, I'm not convinced that Zendaya is a good choice for MJ in Spiderman. Or any movie for that matter. That said, the Blade trilogy is very good, although it gets worse each iteration. It hit it's low point when (you guessed it) Ryan Reynolds gets involved.
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  92. Maybe it's easier to become a scientist in the UK these days than it used to be.
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  93. I'd rather go to see Top Gun Maverick a 2nd time. Especially at the theater with the lounge chairs, and beer. An extra $5, but worth every penny.
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  94. I just watched it last night and frankly, it's a muddled mess. If I describe the plot, it sounds like it might be interesting, but execution-wise, it feels a lot like a bunch of set pieces strung together as an alternative history of WW I. In that way, it feels a little bit like the first Austin Powers movie. The difference is the set pieces in Austin Powers were funny enough that you remember them decades later. This one goes from slapstick comedy to the hero's son being shot in the head. I don't know how that all fits together into a coherent movie. I'm not even getting into clear but persistent woke messaging throughout the movie, which only rose to the "slightly annoying" level.
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  95.  @flameshana9  There are clear differences between men and women, men are on average more aggressive than women, they are more interesting in things, women are more interested in people. This holds true in every culture, from african nations to Sweden. It's why most of the criminals in society are men, it's why engineers are mostly men, and nursing is mainly women. Trying to deny there are differences is actually anti-science.
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  96.  @blackskyirregular9876  I'm already there, and I keep trim and fit. If my business was being in movies and looking good, I'd work out 4 hours a day, and have a personal chef and trainer to ensure I was ripped and in fighting shape.
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  97. Alan Ritchson has now lost half his audience. Are all actors these days that dumb?
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  98. Why does her shirt stay on when she turns into hulk? Bruce Bannon's shirt flies off first thing when he changes. If her shirt would rip off, it would be worth watching an episode.
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  99. The best part of this was Uhura doing her bootie dance. Sure, 30 years too late, but still.... Anyway, the one after this one was equally bad (the one with Malcolm McDonnell )
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  100. Better at this point for Disney to fail so a rational company can pick it up, fire Iger, and put competent leadership in place. Count me out of anything they produce.
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  101. The only SJW thing was replacing the planet ecologist with a woman. But that's pretty minor. In the book he has a dinner scene (a staple in books and film) where things are revealed about he nature of Dune and the Freemen, but overall the look was just beautiful, and it moved quickly. Paul is a little spindly for the role, but it works here.
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  102. They were and are some of the few movies that you could describe as "epic" in a real sense.
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  103. Did anybody think this would be worth watching before they went to it? And if your answer is "yes", please explain your reasoning. McCarthy looks like Baron Harkonnen from Dune.
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  104.  @moonlambo5229  Good worry. I'll wait until it's free on the internet. Sounds like it will be in time for Christmas.
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  105.  @arkangelgaming35  If "The Empire Strikes Back" is the the height of Star Wars cinema everything from Kathleen Kennedy's studio are snuff films.
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  106. When Kirsten Dunst played MJ it was obvious she was not made for movies, despite the best make-up lighting, she brought nothing to the screen, and I thought they couldn't make a worse choice. The producers of the latest one must've heard me and decided to prove me wrong.
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  107. you've got 232 social justice warriors who didn't enjoy your video.
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  108. I avoided watching this until I watched the movie, and having seen it, I have to disagree with The Drinker. This movie is disjointed, make no sense on any level, and they never actually had a tournament. The characters are less endearing than the original as well. I'm not saying the original was great, but it was self-aware enough to not take itself seriously. This one is just.... bad.
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  109. Evil Dalmatians.... have the writers actually been around Dalmatians?
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  110. The Blade Trilogy is always enjoyable, and I've watched them several times, but each one is worse than the last. That said, I still like all of them, and it's certainly better anything that Disney has produced in the Marvel universe. Plus there's no actor who can do Blade better than Wesley Snipes.
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  111. It is one of my favorites. The backstory was written by Heinlein, the action scenes are fun, Denise Richards is, well, Denise Richards, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. I'll always watch it if I see it on late night TV.
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  112.  @piotrd.4850  Yes of course. But the backstory is Heinlein's. And it's still a good movie for the reason that TCD discusses. You can't make a film out of Heinlein's book because it's a treatise on the responsibilities of being a citizen in a free country, lightly disguised as a set of letters and events.
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  113. It is a known fact that the northern countries were populated by traveling bands of Africans and Asians.
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  114. Part of the problem is Kit Harrington isn't really a very good actor (watch him in MI5 to get a sense of his range). That will rub people the wrong way, but the writers have to work within the boundary of what the actor can make believable on screen.
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  115.  @lilgingy75  Actually he did. He gave Kathleen Kennedy the contract extension after she screwed up the Star Wars series.
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  116.  @Lawrence_Talbot  Do people watch stuff they know will be crap?
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  117. One is filled with dread and loathing every time you see Brie Larson in Nissan commercials or in feature movies. After watching the video, she's the anti-Tom Cruise.
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  118. When we saw a picture of Kennedy, we suddenly understood her anger. I also want to say that that is the most diverse writing cast I've ever seen. It's too bad they're incompetent.
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  119.  @raiderrodavis6357  The only bond film by Roger Moor that I enjoyed was "The Man with the Golden Gun", because the villain was played expertly by Christopher Lee who might've been the most ruthless of the villains. The women were beautiful, and none of the mugging for the camera and comedy that detracted from most of Moore's Bonds.
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  120. Too much talking, too little action. It's more like a soap opera than a prequel to GOT.
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  121. Section 31 could have any vaguely science fiction title on it and it would fit. It could have been called, Ruthless Rangers from Outer Space , Crazy Space Beings Who Make Little Sense , or even Older Asian Woman in Space . Every one of them would fit this nonsense.
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  122.  @slevinchannel7589  "debunked myth Colleges are Leftist-Controlled" Actually the humanities are marxist controlled. And if you're not getting a STEM degree or a business/accounting degree, you are wasting your money. Especially if you take out a loan to get a sociology or psychology degree
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  123. I'm not sure I agree with that, but they should get rid of Miller because he's just unappealing in the role
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  124. @entertainingblackmanvideos7691 I'm sure you believe that's true, but it seems much more likely that they've invested so much money in the film that they're holding their nose and just releasing the film. Based on what I've read elsewhere, this film is his swan song.
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  125. @entertainingblackmanvideos7691 Yeah, definitely the "Batman-In-Retirement" thing. Maybe they'll get a body double for him
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  126. @entertainingblackmanvideos7691 John Wick 4 is coming out in March. THAT will be the spring blockbuster. Mission Impossible and Oppenheimer come out in July. The Flash movie comes out in June, and it will have two good weekends and then melt under the onslaught of John Wick and MI.
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  127.  @bujharvard9313  sad but true.
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  128.  @talonvoidgeist2386  It would be illegal to regulate videogames anyway.
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  129. Disney will just conclude their audience is stupid and double-down until people just accept it. Maybe the Zack Snyder cut can fix it.
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  130.  @termitreter6545  Who needs to eat less and work out more.
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  131. One wonders if Disney thinks they can bully people into watching a sub-par product...
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  132. Is that a tattoo of Scotland on Phobe's forehead?
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  133.  @nobodybroda3826  In that case if you have a message you want to get out, your "artistic vision" as it were, write something original and see how it sells. Using an an existing IP to tell fans how little you think of them isn't really an "artistic vision", either. It's just hectoring the audience, and who would pay for that?
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  134.  @mulletmann6558  "movies arent meant to make money " Actually, they are. That's why they were invented, to sell tickets.
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  135. The real issue here is that there are no adults providing guidance and oversight to the writers and show runners.
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  136. I'm going to ask a series question of author and film/media critic "The Critical Drinker"; and yes, this is a serious question: Based on the premise, how could this not be utter trash?
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  137.  @waynecanning4122  likely because it's unintentionally funny, like a Tommy Wiseau film
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  138.  @henrythegreatamerican8136  He is an entitled brat killing America Which is a great trick considering he isn't in charge of anything
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  139. In the words of that great philosopher Rachael Zegler, the Acolyte is "Weird Weird. Weird-Weird"
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  140. In other words, writers make men in movies pretty much like women in real life... (182 downvotes? Seriously?)
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  141.  @bluerobin2982  the guy is trying to get likes for a video of bad music. if you follow the link, just hit the thumbs down.
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  142.  @LuvThyMind29  They have paintings of her, and the written record from this time.
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  143.  @Kpimpmaster  Are you giving us permission to go to hell? They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Is that the best place to find the on ramp to hell?
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  144.  @ninjaman0003  Well of course, but they weren't trying to push an unpopular narrative either. Trying to push woke messaging at a time when woke is pretty hated by audiences is sure death for any show. Amazon just p*ssed away $1B on a Tolkien adaptation pushing "the message" and it bombed. Do you know how hard it is to fail with the built-in fan base that comes with Tolkien? But that's the box-office poison that is woke messaging.
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  145.  @Kpimpmaster  You realize Beauty and the Beast is based on a 500 year old fairy tale? It's hardly a new message that a person's outside doesn't reflect their insides.
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  146. Has it occurred to anybody that Bob Iger is trying to destroy Disney?
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  147.  @oXRaptorzXo  And we might discover there really was a flying saucer at Area 51
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  148.  @ploppyploppy  Hans Christian Andersen always imagined the little mermaid to be darkly complected.
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  149.  @SlavaTaras  If you do link over, give the video a thumbs down.
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  150.  @calmbbaer  "whose cast and setting would have you believe that racism - let alone segregation - was completely absent from New Orleans in the 1910s" Read the history of New Orleans. You might very well be surprised.
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  151.  @calmbbaer  Sure, but most of those laws in the 20th century were the result of the Roosevelt administration. They invented redlining. As usual, the federal government makes things worse for the people they pretend to be helping.
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  152.  @oXRaptorzXo  Nah. I'll wait until it's free on the internet. With a movie like this, it will spend one week in the theater and then goes straight to video.
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  153. Read a history of New Orleans. You'll see it was the federal government that encouraged segregation.
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  154. This will at least match Disney's Strange World for audience acceptance.
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  155. Jessica Chastain's best feature film was "Jolene", and for obvious reasons. And I've personally witnessed a bad-ass female with martial arts training trying to beat up an average man who knew how to block a punch and throw a punch. It was not pretty.
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  156.  @byronsenior6499  And has unmatched powers of body positivity.
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  157.  @JohnSmith-pn2ts  A very underrated show. Best villain was the crab man from the first episode.
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  158. My favorite line from the movie (and I use it all the time) is "What's your boggle, citizen?". And yeah. Snipes is amazing in the movie.
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  159. Won't even be worth watching for free.
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  160. The "girlboss" is a mythical figure, only seen in movies made by children.
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  161. Strange World was so over the top with "The Message" that it doesn't matter what the rest of the movie was like, particularly something you'd take your kids to.
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  162. I haven't watched the video yet, but don't tell me.... let me guess.... Her superpower is Body Positivity and she fights the patriarchy. EDIT: Now I've watched it. Her powers aren't even that interesting. But I feel bad for the character with that name. It marks them as third rate, which sounds appropriate.
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  163. The BBC should just hand it off to a 3rd party (not Disney) who understands the whole Doctor Who thing. Many many years ago when I working at IBM there was a women who had every Dr. Who episode from the beginning of time which I watched. She was a fairly typical Dr. Who person, and it's a shame the BBC trashed the whole thing in the name of DEI; if she's still around, no doubt she's gutted by what they did with Dr. Who DEI is dead in the US. It's a shame the same isn't true in the UK
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  164. I see the crazies from the consulting firms have given over 1000 downvotes. This one struck a nerve.
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  165. There's something unnerving about the woman playing the witch and Ariana Grande when they're doing chats/interviews. Something just doesn't look right.
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  166. lol to the almost 500 people who downvoted this. Probably most of the Disney staff writers.
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  167. If picard is now a robot, why does he get more wrinkly and feeble every year? Oh and no matter what the role, Scott Bacula is never the answer.
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  168. In the old days any movie with Mickey Rourke was going to suck.
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  169.  @andreastory800  Can you list which "good movies" Ruffalo has been in? I have no opinion on him either way, but other than playing "The Hulk", has he done anything that would give him a status where you'd go see a movie because he was in it?
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  170. It occurs to me Disney's mindset is still in the Herbie The Love Bug mode. For those who don't know it was a story about a VW Beetle that came alive and had a personality all it's own. And as dumb as the concept was, it was a hit, and they produced several of the movies about Herbie the Love Bug and they all made money. They didn't worry about anything other than the VW, and contrived, silly action scenes with decent acting (Kurt Russel, anyone?). And when it's run was done, they moved on. The idea of a story arc over 10 years is something that is beyond Disney management's comprehension, and so they hire hacks like Kennedy thinking they have the magic juju to make everything like it was under Lucas, and they genuinely are confused why it doesn't work.
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  171. Just pre-oredred your book. Looking forward to it!
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  172. Even Star Trek figured out to put Jeri Ryan into the show to perk it up. She's available.
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  173.  @JohnS-il1dr  Without any good parts to make his decent into obscurity worthwhile.
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  174. Disney would've been better staying with the original concept for Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, but change the name to Snow White and the 7 Ding-Dongs Anyway, what is it about Disney that they pick girls with eyes that are about 9 inches apart?
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  175. Leslie Jones isn't funny. Not even a little. Never has been. No sense of comedic timing, no quick wit, nothing.
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  176. What I liked about Rebel Moon pt 1? When you watch it, if feels like it's about 18 hours long.
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  177. I said roughly the same thing above. This is nothing new from Disney; they've created similar stories for the Disney channels on cable (before they moved it to a pay channel)
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  178. Of course she's in MIT, and of course, she's a genius, but not enough of a genius to come up with her own technology. But I have something for Disney that will make this waaay better. Make it the Ironhart/She-Hulk comedy show.
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  179. This was the year where actors and celebrities became irrelevant to politics. Plus they all lied. Many of them said they would leave the country if Trump won. Only a few made good on their promises, primarily the ones who were allegedly good friends with Diddy or Epstein. P.S. That commercial was beyond cringe. There are no words to describe it.
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  180. Perhaps the current generation of actresses, actors and writers haven't quite become an adult. Nor have they learned the subtle art of saying nothing . To put it more plainly, Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
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  181. Zeglar is neither accomplished enough as an actor has hasn't proven record of being in hit movies to not just shut up. Gal Gadot has no excuses either, unless she's doing her best to distance herself from Disney.
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  182.  @Acolyte47  While that's true, The best star wars movies were the ones where George gave other directors his idea for the story and he backed off. His dialog is so awful that to this day, it makes you laugh to hear it.
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  183.  @superjlk_9538  Do you really like lines like: "I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth." ?
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  184. This is exactly like the character Zenon that Disney had 20 years ago. They need to create content for Disney+ so parents will send money to them
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  185.  @skinnie2838  They followed the books exactly, so it's a source material problem. Plus I didn't think it was run amok with Woke. And I'm very sensitive to that.
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  186. It was a movie that you knew what you were going to get before you watched it. It's like going to McDonald's for a meal. You know what you're going to get, something that looks better than it tastes, isn't too objectionable, and the price is right.
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  187. Here's another spoiler.... "Get Out" was worse than this mess.
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  188. The issue with the show is that inside the writers rooms, they believe they're writing solid gold for a new era. And when the critics tell them it's utter crap, they tend to disbelieve it. They're so inbred, reality become hate speech.
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  189.  @justsomeguywithoutamustang6436  She accidentally backed into an oscar, but the money didn't really come her way after that. Perhaps more nudity in films would help her career.
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  190. Iron Fist was....eh. I watched the first season, but only because I started.
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  191. Nothing more enticing than nude hobbits. Humping like dogs.
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  192. Adam West as the first batman had flabbier arms than my grandmother. And the paunch on George Reeves (the first Superman) was so visible they made him suck in his stomach in the tights. Oh and the planet of the apes trilogy was utter s***.
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  193. I cannot criticize this movie, as I loved the movie Battleship. Yeah, I get it, it makes no sense on any level, but when it's on cable I'll watch it every time.
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  194. Now that Season 5 of Star Trek Discovery has come and gone, it has the dubious honor of being the only star trek that got worse with each succeeding season. Season 5 has spent so much on special effects that apparently they can't hire competent actors nor script writers.
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  195. The goal isn't to create a compelling story. Apparently the aim of the MCU is to make TV movies that they can churn inexpensively and create shows that appeal to tweeners, have female/minority positive storylines and keep mom & mom (or whatever) paying the subscription fees to Disney. It really is just that cynical, and no different than the Disney channel has been doing for decades before they invented their own pay channel.
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  196.  @imsentinelprime9279  If only there were some sort of way to search for thing on all the world's knowledge and information.
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  197. The first of the trilogy is very good. It's tight, balances action with lighthearted comedy, and has a solid cast to round it out.
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  198. I stopped about 90 minutes in. It's a muddled mess. Okay, I accepted that a skinny woman could beat 10 soldiers each three times as strong as her, but then it goes on some weird quest about spiders... and.... stuff. Meanwhile, everything increasingly makes no sense, and at a certain point, you want to bail and you're thankful you didn't pay money to watch it. Probably the worst was instead of showing us why people are doing things through their actions, the protagonist constantly explains it to us in a voice over. It's a disaster.
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  199. Rachel Zegler was in that horrible 2nd Shazaam movie. Not a great resume, and she apparently has never watched Snow White, because she said "It was all about Snow White trying to find true love". Rachey, baby, no, it wasn't. Would it be too much to ask to have you watch the film you criticized?
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  200. Warner Brothers must've got 5.6K of their remaining employees to give this a thumbs down.
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  201. All the bad publicity beforehand was to set expectations so low that anything that made sense would be considered a triumph.
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  202. Too many angry women in the show, too many angry women writing the show, and too many angry women in charge of the show.
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  203.  @floydlooney6837  Disney's star wars had no stars in the movie once they killed off the only interesting characters.
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  204. The irony of Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers saying "I don't have to prove anything", is that she hasn't proven anything and never did in that movie, either the character or the actress. If she was an employee in the real world, her end-of-year review would be "You seem to have a lot of hubris for someone who's never actually done anything"
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  205.  @TheVillagePeoplepod  Weasel words. The Kathleen Kennedy contingent has yet to produce anything that rises to the level of mediocre.
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  206.  @TheVillagePeoplepod  Actually the hallmark of the Kathleen Kennedy era of Stars Wars is bad writing, storylines that don't make sense, making princess lea fly through space, toxic women leaders etc etc. Solo... I had to turn off after 30 minutes. It was pure drek.
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  207.  @thelonespacemarine5211  There's a dozen guys who could have done a great job with Indiana Jones. So they put in an odd actress who has never had a hit in her life and make it a wretched plot that humiliates Indiana Jones. Same way with Snow White... guaranteed hit as long as you can stay true to he story and have an actress who knows how to shut her mouth and speak platitudes about the movie.
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  208. Lovely picture of an amazingly talented movie executive at the end of that video (10:49)
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  209.  @williamjenkins4913  Just out of curiousity, do you have sex with a woman more than a couple times every two years?
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  210.  @ewjiml  Soldiers kill people all the time. Is that sociopathic? And when you say "womanizer", it makes you seem like you're 140 years old from the era of Queen Victoria.
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  211. The whole thing died to me when I was watching Solo and I wandered off about 30 minutes into it to pay some bills, check my email, and put the dishes into the dishwasher. And by then, mercifully the movie ended.
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  212. I recommend you watch the video with the title "Why Hollywoke hates Captain Kirk". An ex-TV executive who actually understands why Millenial script writers are so terrible.
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  213. Is the movie really that bad? I never saw it when it was in the theaters because of the bad publicity.
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  214. ...not to mention... .Charlize Theron is not an action hero. She's a perfume model.
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  215. This one is almost certainly aimed at the Chinese market.
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  216.  @michaelsmith5769  Exactly. CIS just means "Normal".
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  217.  @shan4680  We get it Sam.... they won't give me free money, they must be villians.
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  218. You can tell you're spot on with the dislikes. Maybe Kurtzman downvoted you 2,000 times. And you know the studio knows they've created a mess; they're aggressively knocking down copies online in a way you don't typically see. They realize if you get to see a copy without paying for it, there's no way you'll subscribe.
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  219.  @custos3249  Sounds like you're having a nice temper tantrum in front of the computer. Get some sleep.
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  220.  @custos3249  Here's your binky, time for your nap.
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  221. ".....Wizard Needs Food.....Badly...."
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  222. When you've put out about $2B worth of movie, and you've lost money, you tend to get pretty desperate.
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  223. Why would you spend money on overpaid washed-up old stars? Get good young actors that fit the game, and spend the money on better writing, and better special effects. Is it really that hard to put together the pieces that would make a successful movie? Or are the people doing it just clueless financial guys who have no idea what they're doing?
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  224. the 350 down votes are from Iger and his staff voting repeatedly.
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  225. It's weird that Disney would start making enemies of their customers to support a tiny fraction of potential customers.
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  226. Ironclad contract.
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  227. Doctor Who Is Finally Dead - Let It Rest in Peace Same for: Star Wars Star Trek Indiana Jones Snow White The entire Marvel Universe
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  228. @Jesus is king 👑 Not back thousands of years ago. No.
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  229. Star Trek Discovery had to be satire. Certainly "Strange New Worlds" is unintended satire.
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  230. They should've paid her an extra $50M to get rid of her starting the beginning of 2025. She can still do a lot of damage to Disney in a year.
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  231.  @Scripture-Man  This one wins.
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  232.  @tommaguzzi1723  The books were written, I believe, with the intent of turning them into a TV series. That's why each book neatly fits into roughly a dozen episodes.
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  233. @jeffrey wyshynski I thought the Expanse did a good thing advertising in movie theaters. The trouble was SciFi larded the thing with so many commercials you couldn't watch it unless you Tivo'd it and then zoomed through them. Then the SciFi channel realized they'd make just as much money playing old movies and TV shows. If not for Amazon Prime, it would have ended two seasons ago. Hopefully, the Bezos crew will keep paying for more seasons.
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  234. I have no particular liking for Brie Larson, but the woman did win the academy award, so the talent is there. Seems like she took this gig because it was fun and paid a lot of money, and now it's just a drag and something she wants to finish her contract and leave.
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  235. I gave up after the 2nd season. It was exactly the same story as the first season.
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  236. I'm in season 4 of this stinker, just finishing it to complete my multi-year viewing of everything Trek. It feels like I'm drinking poison. Bad writing, bad acting.... not sure how it lasted 5 years. It's the most LGBTQ+ show ever created, and I mean that in a bad way. Michael Burnam has all the presence of Yeoman Rand (from TOS), but less believable. And the actor playing her has two modes, tilting head and looking sad, and whispering. They hug everything out, tiny women beat up MME fighters. I have no idea, but this has to be written by women for women.
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  237. I always say, if you're going to make sure your movie fails, aim it at satisfying 1% of the population.
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  238.  @zachtwilightwindwaker596  I was asking him to give me his credit card number.
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  239.  @gangstagamegangstagame4467  Of course. But I always ask them to send me their credit card and bank account/routing number. Sure, they likely won't answer, but there's going to be that one that does...
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  240. I finally got to watch this film. Just....nonsensical. Ten minutes in, lots of action, but the plot was just inconsequential. It was not clear there were any good guys or bad guys, and frankly, you didn't care who won, lost, died, survived.
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  241. Lucas was offered a lot of shares of Disney in exchange for his support of Bob Iger in the recent proxy fight. As to how bad this t*rd is, it can't be any worse than Season 5 of Star Trek Discovery.
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