Comments by "" (@MarvinPowell1) on "The Critical Drinker"
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I didn't think this was a bad mini-movie for an amateur, but my own review is: The audio mixing is horrible, the beginning torture scene with Anya is redundant because we see it later at the end and it has a better impact there, the first half had too much talking and nothing important was really said besides the pre-mission brief, the first half's pacing was also too slow and boring, the main antagonist either can't act or has a horrible accent, and the protagonist is a bit too generic. Good points for the cinematography, most of the actors, and the action scenes. Anya seemed like the most engaging character because she was mysterious but also seemed to have the most training, while Keira and her non-stop cursing was the most annoying character. This was a decent effort, but some tighter editing and sound mixing is definitely needed.
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Making fun of corporate DEI and directly comparing all conservatives to white trash and 'Neo-Not-sees' is not "making fun of both sides" and I'm so sick of this bullshit strawman argument. Especially since this is from Amazon Prime, a corporation that has its own DEI mandates that have been publicly shown in its contracts and sees Disney as its biggest competitor. "Making fun of both sides" would be showing their in-world versions of Progressives, Starlighters, as being just as violent and morally wrong as their in-world Conservatives, the Hometeamers. But they go out of their way to paint Progressives as the "good people" despite them in real life, being the worst people with the most intolerance, who commit the most violence, out of everyone. (And no, I'm not even a conservative saying that.)
Mocking Disney DEI and calling all conservatives trailer trash and inbred rednecks, is not "mocking both sides" and destroying several years of character buildup between Frenchie and Kimiko to throw in a gay pandering storyline out of the blue, it is 100% woke.
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Literally only one type of person has been defending this awful, awful season of television. The same type of people who support Vaush and Hassan Piker, think Joe Biden is "doing a great job as president," and always go "Why do you call everything woke?" after watching crap like THIS. And Drinker's comments section on this one video are filled with these types of people, making stupid arguments defending this propaganda pile of crap.
Well, I've watched five episodes of this season, and the first four episodes are so blatantly hate-filled with their "Orange Man Supporters Bad" message, that Homelander might as well have punched The Message into you. The Frenchie subplot where he suddenly decides to abandon Kimiko to become a gay DEI checkbox was horrible in every single way and people trying to use the more PC term for gay, "bi," is the best defense they have (they're the same exact thing; he sleeps with men; that's literally gay!) That DEI pandering storyline they forced in there because their previous lesbian, Queen Maeve, left the show, is so on-the-nose with forced representation, it's even worse than the mean-spirited attacks on the right that went from being light jabs here and there to literally the entire plot of the show now. (And no, they never "made fun of both sides" when the best they used to mock the left over, was ironically corporate mandated DEI, as was the case of Vought exploiting Maeve and A-Train's identity, even though Amazon is literally now doing that on-camera with The Frenchie being a gay Pander Stone.)
I'm not even defending Drinker's video as much as his detractors have the flimsiest excuses in the world. "How can you know something that looks bad and is filled with propaganda in its trailers and bad word-of-mouth is actually bad? You have to financially support it first before you're allowed to say whether you'd like it or not! Reeee!" Had he watched every single episode of season four, what exactly would be different about his video? The defenders of this show are the same exact type of men like Todd, except they're more accurate being leftist soyboys, as opposed to a right-leaning Homelander soyboy. I've not seen a single masculine man or non-feminist defend this season.
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In the movie, they do say the the Justice Society is newly formed and that this is their first real mission as a team. It's implied they all knew each other before now as loose contacts, except for Hawkman and Dr. Fate being long-time allies (but not partners), but this is said to be their first mission as a team bankrolled by Dr. Fate, who brought them together.
Honestly though, they all seem really weak, even Hawkman, who I know from the DC Animated Universe (with Hawkgirl), and it seems like they wanted Black Adam to be the powerhouse member of the Justice Society, possibly setting a movie down the line, post-Shazam 3.
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The sound work could be much better, as the music is often too loud compared to the dialogue.
One issue with the plot is that we're thrown right into an action scene in a parking lot before knowing who these people are, thus have no reason to care about who gets hurt or not. We don't know these people yet; why would we care if the chick fails her mission, or who the soft-spoken Russian is? A tighter pace would make this scene better, since we're not going to be invested in anyone right now, so you don't need to waste too much time on this one section.
The beginning prison torture scene with Anya isn't needed. We can figure out what happened to Anya from the ending flashbacks and it'd better explain why she was on a sniper mission, so the opening scenes are redundant and ruin audience investment in her. Let her remain a little more mysterious if we're not going to get to know her name before the end. Currently, you show too much of her torture scenes, but it's not enough for us to care about her, so in this case, Less Is More.
By the 13 minute mark, there's way too much dialogue and exposition dumps. It gets boring. Not every scene needs to be action, but if something isn't moving the plot along, audiences will get bored easily. In other words, way too many talking scenes!
The main extraction scene is fine, but some tighter editing could've been used, and far less cliché one-liners. Just cut those out. The bad guy also talks too damn much.
Overall, I'd say this was a B- effort. Not too bad, but a slow start and very boring for the first 15 minutes. The cinematography is excellent and the acting is good from most, except the bad guy. The characters are mostly fine, except for Kiera, who's excessive cursing is annoying. I wanted to know more about Anya as she seemed like the most engaging character, but if we're not going to get flashback dialogue of her to get to know her like with Ryan and Kiera's scenes, the next best thing is to just let he be mysterious. The audio mixing is terrible in this and too many scenes had the music drowning out the dialogue completely especially that climax scene where you could barely hear the bad guy speak. Some tighter editing, better pacing for the first act, and improved audio mixing would make this a much better piece overall, but the end had me hooked better than the first half. A decent effort.
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But remember guys; the first movie "legitimately made a billion dollars" without any help from Disney buying out movie theaters and having sold out empty screenings or anything, right? Face of the MCU and the girlboss everyone loves; assaults and steals from normal everyday human bikers who tell her "to smile," loved by everyone, teams up with her fangirl Mary Sue character created to please a rich brat with Democratic family connections, Sana Amanat, who literally no one has ever liked who has had six comic book cancellations, who ALSO teams up with her slightly better black counterpart who supports Scarlet Witch enslaving and torturing an entire town "who'll never know what she sacrificed" for them... This dream movie of dream movie with the perfect flawless girlboss, character that sunk an entire Square Enix game, and character who supports literal villany, surely won't be a massive flop of a movie during a public revolt against the Disney corporation and Progressive propaganda in entertainment, right?
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Even if this movie came out a year ago or around the time of Ant Man 3, it still would've flopped due to them keeping Amber Heard in it, and by extension, giving a giant middle finger to the audience. It just would've flopped at $55-60 million instead of $35 million like it did. And if WB wanted to show good faith towards their audiences, they would've cut Heard out and that at least, would've doubled its weekend box office numbers, even if this is a creative dead-end of a failed cinematic universe in a dying movie genre. But with Amber in it, this movie probably won't even be streamed by a large number of people. They better hope international non-English audiences don't have "superhero fatigue" as much as the West supposedly does (despite Invincible, The Boys, Across The Spiderverse, PS5 Spider-Man 2, etc.)
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