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

  1. Don't worry about spoiling any movie. You can't spoil a good movie, because a good movie doesn't depend on the surprises in it to be enjoyable.
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  2. The other difference is that Tolkien firmly believed that man has a spiritual component to his character, and that this is why things like courage and especially honor are important. Modern Hollywood, because of the choices that Hollywood's leaders have made for their lives, firmly believes that man is just a clever animal. There is no honor among animals, just the false notion of honor that makes people claw their way up the social order.
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  3. Star Trek: The Acolyte
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  4. The real crisis that a thirty-six-year-old Kirk should be facing is the growing question, "Is this it?" With every step up the ladder of success, he finds that the success isn't as fulfilling as he hoped it would be. This mostly strikes people who are at the pinnacle from which there is no further potential to rise.
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  5. When you were talking about how bland Pixar has become, you were showing clips from the John Lasseter era, when their stories were still good.
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  6. Is it even good MST3K fodder?
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  7. The thing is, we have a photo from before The Force Awakens, which shows KK and a bunch of other non-males wearing t-shirts that say, "The Force is Female." It foretold that good storytelling was going to take a back seat to promoting an agenda. It wasn't fan pressure that made Rey a Mary Sue; that was entirely on Disney. It wasn't fan pressure that made Rian Johnson treat the franchise the way Beavis and Butthead would have treated a class assignment; that was entirely on him.
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  8. Inexplicable stupidity is the very worst plot device of all.
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  9. The moment a story makes use of mind control, the story is over. What happens after that is simply a series of meaningless events.
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  10. If you want to know one thing about Adolph Hitler, know that he rejoiced at the outbreak of WWI.
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  11. If it leads to more women with nice figures dressing like @0:42, I can put up with just about anything. But good writing, acting, and directing do help.
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  12. It's all very simple. The Left's stock in trade is to seize control of things. It is the linch-pin of their approach to everything. It explains why economies, schools, and creative studios all become hollow shells of their former selves. Each has suffered seizure by the Left, who lacks any of the skills required to make them successful, and everything goes pear-shaped.
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  13. Back when their films were still good, there was a sign that hung in Pixar studios which read, "Story is King."
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  14. Everything not made by the original creator is fan fiction. It might be good fan fiction once in a while (some TNG, some DS9, Rogue One), but the chances of shoddy product are high.
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  15. The pastel coloring suggests that Army of the DEI would be a better title.
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  16. We need a program where the brains of intelligent people with terminal conditions can be transplanted into the bodies of good-looking woke activists. That way a perfectly good body doesn't go to waste supporting a malfunctioning brain.
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  17. Military veteran here. Nobody, and I mean nobody who engaged in fisticuffs on duty would be allowed into any part of the ship except the brig, let alone the bridge, let alone the captain's chair. TNG was pretty far removed from how a real military goes about doing things, but things got worse as they went along and with the new movies it's a complete mockery.
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  18. The things that happen can only matter if there are things that cannot happen.
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  19. The live-action Mulan is the Chinese Rey.
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  20. The only weak points in the film were where the film deviated from the book. That's how good the underlying story is.
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  21. The image of Kathleen Kennedy standing with the other women, all wearing shirts that say, "The Force is Female" should have resulted in her immediate termination. It was a clear signal that good storytelling was going to take a back seat to woke politics.
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  22. Brent Spiner has fallen farther than Bill Cosby.
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  23. Thanks to 3d printing and this thing we call the Internet, it would take very little time for a group of like-minded hobbyists to generate their own lore (set in a different legendarium) and downloadable models, make it freely licensed, and thereby open the market to a level of competition that GW could not withstand.
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  24. One lesson: If you're studio exec, you organize the production team so that in any given creative conflict, one of the two people butting heads can overrule the other.
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  25. "Mother box" has got to be the stupidest name for any techno-doodad, ever.
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  26. The moral compasses of Hollywood producers are pointed towards the last place they saw money.
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  27. It would really help if Harrison Ford had not been so cynical about his roles in the first place. He had no attachment to the roles he's played, no matter how beloved those characters are to the rest of us. If the check clears he's on board. Some selectivity would have forewarned us that this movie, or Star Wars sequel trilogy, was garbage to be avoided at all costs.
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  28. If someone would reboot the old Batman show, and keep it just as unserious as the original show with Adam West and Burt Ward, I'd start watching television again.
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  29. The NinjaKidz YouTube channel made their own parody of this which ends when the Mother Boxes are combined. Steppenwolf's mother comes out of it and scolds him, grabbing him by the ear and forcing him to go home. Much better, methinks.
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  30. Gaia forbid that the American film audience be encouraged to embrace an objective moral framework.
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  31. If you haven't done a "The Drinker Fixes: She-Hulk": a) She starts out as a successful lawyer but a very self-centered person. In the first episode she is walking out of her apartment and runs into her neighbor, who tells her that she is going to divorce her husband because she's found a new man. Pre-She-Hulk agrees with this course of action. b) After works, she goes out to dinner with her fiancé. Over dinner he breaks up with her. c) In her car ride with Cousin Bruce, she breaks down and asks, "Where are all the good men?" Bruce's response: "You ran past them chasing men who were fun." d) Being unable to handle criticism, she blows up at him, leading to the accident. Instead of blood mixing, she gets her powers because Bruce was carrying with him a lock box with a radioactive whizzo in it; it gets broken open and she gets exposed. e) Her new powers, combined with her self-centered nature, cause everyone in her circle to end their relationships with her. f) A superhero situation comes up. She totally hits her stride fighting the bad guys, feeling on top of the world. The bad guys flee, leaving some innocents in imminent danger. She gives chase, and after catching the villains she learns that the innocents she left in danger were killed. g) She walks home, feeling horrible, and as she crosses a bridge she sees a man about to jump off of it. It's her neighbor's soon-to-be-ex-husband. Let's say his name is Wesley. She persuades him to stop, and they go out for coffee. He bares his soul, utterly devastated, and she sees the immense harm caused by something that she approved of. h) It is then revealed that her ex-fiance is the new man that her neighbor has found. She starts throwing cars and other things that warrant a superhero intervention. Her cousin Bruce is only barely able to keep her from wrecking the city. i) The fight ends when Wesley talks her down. "The best revenge is a good life."
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