Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. "Would it kill these studios to release a traditionally-animated film for once?" Depends if they fired that team.
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  2. Am I the only one who couldn't recognize more than maybe one of those "famous YouTubers" she was talking with?
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  3.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  I don't think that force-choking the TV is a sign that he "loves" the series.
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  4. "Technology that lasts years, or even decades, after it should have failed" Like the mechanical traps in thee tombs that work after centuries?
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  5. She's a Disney princess. All that was missing was a musical number or two.
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  6.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  We enjoy the hilarious reviews dunking on these shows. This is why The Critical Drinker's viewership frequently exceeds the viewership of the shows he's reviewing. =) You get the occasional downer like this one -- at a certain point, you have to have a moment of silence for a once-great franchise -- but for people who love a good laugh, this channel is a tremendous amount of fun. =)
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  7.  @worldofborriemoto2026  Someone needs to do a clip compilation of these, showing his evolution. =D
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  8. I bet originally David Thewlis' character was supposed to be Friedrich Alfred "Fritz" Krupp, sole proprietor of the Krupp Steelworks, the heart of the German military-industrial complex. Look at Fritz' picture from Wikipedia, and tell me that wasn't who Thewlis is supposed to look like. But, you couldn't have a homosexual as a villain in a modern Hollywood movie, that would go against The Message(TM).
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  9. "We may find ourselves in a world where there's nothing left to protect" Ironically, the pirates may save Western Civilization.
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  10. Batman would make an awesome strategist in some HQ in a major battle scene, especially the battles where the CG gets so muddy the commands he's shouting out are the only way anyone knows what's going on, and the ability to change his voice-overs in post-production could add a great deal of ... flexibility ... to a script that has to go through fifty or sixty rewrites before release. Putting him in the Batwing, just hanging back from the action, would make a lot of sense.
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  11. They've said "It's like that one movie Rashomon, " which means they're going to show that scene several more times from someone else's point of view, changing it up each time.
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  12. WWI vs. WWII is an interesting object lesson. No one who studied the Somme could doubt that the pacifists had a point; no one who has studied the Munich and Wannsee conferences could doubt that the pacifists were ultimately wrong.
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  13. I disagree, somewhat. The point of The Downfall of Numenor (the part of the Silmarillion the show is based on) is that part of Middle Earth turned into Game of Thrones. At which point G*d promptly drowned the lot. They're trying to play the whole thing (~25 pages) out over five seasons though, which will probably make it worse than The Hobbit movies.
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  14.  @ninadiamant8937  In a desert, that makes a certain amount of sense. You know, someone could poke at this trope by making the real danger, the way these traps fell apart in unexpected ways after parts of their mechanisms decayed.
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  15. Spoiler alert The Amazon series is based on a 25-30 page chunk of the Silmarillion called "Akallabeth", or "The Downfall of Numenor". Plot summary: Sauron, when he was younger and hotter, convinced the kings of basically-Atlantis to start behaving like they were from Game of Thrones, at which point G*d quite sensibly drowned the lot of them. Only "Remember me?" Elendil, his son "Ooh, shiny ring!" Isildur, and his other son "Sir-not-appearing-in-this-film" Anarion, survived the wreck and sailed to Middle-Earth in time to help Agent Smith defeat Power Armor Sauron -- which brings us up to the prologue to the Lord of the Rings movies.
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  16.  @happymaskedguy1943  Of course it's fiction. They mention natural human reproduction, which is as anti-woke as you can get.
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  17.  @pathfinderlight7084  Someone needs to do an "Evolution of the Critical Drinker" clip compilation, with the evolution of his sign-offs. =D
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  18. And then she dies in his arms, which was probably a highlight of Dame Judi Dench's remarkable career, if she's honest.
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  19. Finally, someone else who's actually read it! I think what he's complaining about actually makes sense, when you realize that the portion of the book they're using is The Downfall of Numenor. I don't really trust Amazon not to miss the point entirely, though.
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  20.  @zimriel  Yup, the Silmarillion is extremely dark, most of the time. Not much boinking, though.
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  21. Actually, I bet that originally Ares was written as Friedrich Alfred ("Fritz") Krupp, sole proprietor of the Krupp steelworks, the most infamous member of the "military-industrial complex". Look at the character design for Sir Patrick Morgan (David Thewlis) and a picture of Fritz on Wikipedia, and tell me you can't see the resemblance. (Only, including a homosexual as the villain would go against The Message, so he got Anglicized in a really weird way...)
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  22.  @TH3F4LC0Nx  Actually, the Akallabeth is basically a story of how (under Sauron's influence) the Sea Kings of Middle-Earth basically turned into Game of Thrones, at which point G*d drowned the lot of them. I kind of expect Amazon to change the ending but leave the rest.
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  23. "What happens when the pendulum swings back the other way?" We get a Madame Web sequel. Starring only Sydney Sweeney. In a costume designed by a guy with Anime credits. And it will make BANK.
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  24. So when John Favreau (long-time comics fan) makes himself a self-insert character into the MCU, his big fantasy is to .... date Aunt May? Dude is weird.
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  25. "We know that that will never happen" I'm OK with getting more movies with Jennifer Connelly, or similar. Have you seen where the Top Gun gross is these days? Studios are taking notice.
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  26. When Luke said to Kylo "see you around", I expected him to show up repeatedly as a force ghost to heckle Kylo at various points.
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  27. "He was exiled from his homeland, and could have ended up literally anywhere... How did he expect this messenger to find him?" Easy, he hired the Courier from Skyrim.
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  28. Nope, he was originally supposed to be Friedrich Alfred "Fritz" Krupp, sole proprietor of Krupp Steelworks, "The Reich's Armorer", and grand-daddy of the whole Military-Industrial Complex. (Seriously, look him up on Wikipedia. The picture fits Thewlis to a "T"). But, he was also homosexual, so according to The Message(TM) can't be the villain of a modern Hollywood movie.
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  29. "It's not about good and evil, it's about power and who gets to use it." Headland wants to be the new Harvey.
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  30.  @ToddKeck98  Yeah, now watch YouTube change their comment system to cover for her.
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  31. Logical coherence is the only thing that allows stories to explore anything (even Mauler's favorite thing, "themes") with any meaningful way. Lose that coherence, and all you're exploring is a lack of coherence, and that's a kind of narrow thing to spend so much time on.
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  32. "I consider the game to be the more gripping piece of storytelling" And with that, TV died.
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  33.  @GeorgeMonet  Only the royal line was half-elven. (Fun fact! Arwen is Aragorn's first cousin, a few dozen times removed.) The rest of them were just the humans that sided with the Valar in the war against Morgoth.
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  34. These audiences are so modern, they don't actually exist yet. Whoa!
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  35. She's a scavenger. Has she ever seen a spacegoing vessel that was actually *functional*? You could put in some tense suspense by having her simply replace parts that "looked broken" with parts that "didn't look broken". Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes BB8 has to fight her if she's doing something that would blow everyone up.
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  36. Just don't read the books, they're Woke sewage.
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  37. "What does [the existence of replicants who are very humanlike] actually say about what it means to be human?" It's worse than that. Reading one of his novels dealing with Replicants, the main character was neurodivergent, and seemed to feel that these replicants had a better handle on what it meant to be human (and a better claim on humanity) than HE did, despite his being born human. That's just the sort of uncomfortable person Phililp K Dick was. I couldn't actually get through the whole book.
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  38. Sleepless in Seattle was a remake of an old black and white movie. Return of the King was from one of the most iconic brands humanity has to offer, that had been disastrously adapted in previous (and subsequent) years. The Firm was based on a contemporary bestseller. Pirates of the Caribbean was a remake of a theme park ride for heaven's sake, in a genre that produced some of the biggest, most expensive flops of past decades. I guess the lesson here is, remaking or adapting something works, if you do it RIGHT. That is to say, faithfully to what made the brand successful in the first place.
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  39. Sound of Freedom - $15 Million
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  40. Hey Drinker! Could you get together with a bunch of other online critics and do a series on the Most Expensive Flops in Cinema History? You've done half of them already seemingly, but it would be fun if you did some serious analysis on what lessons were learned, and what lessons should have been learned. You, Chato and the Midnight's Edge team, the EFAP guys, and maybe some historians, what do you think? It could be a rich content-mine for when Hollywood winds down due to the Writer's Strike.
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  41. I'll bet that originally David Thewlis' character was supposed to be Friedrich Alfried "Fritz" Krupp, sole proprietor of the Krupp Steelworks, known as "the Reich's Armorer". But, in today's Hollywood you can't have a homosexual as a villain, so he got Anglicized.
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  42.  @Mikito456  If Feminism were simply "equality between the sexes", grievance hustlers wouldn't have much to talk about. Another confounding factor is that the sexes aren't equivalent in very important ways, that no one wants to talk about (especially the grievance hustlers).
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  43.  @Mikito456  Don't care how big the words are. Just use less of them. I just don't have the time.
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  44.  @Mikito456  I agree with equality of opportunity (and that should settle the matter, but....) I suspect where we disagree is I think Nature will have the final say as to what the outcomes are going to be. One aspect of Nature is that there is a very pronounced bimodal distribution in humanity because the vast majority of us either have an XX or XY chromosome pair, and that has a meaningful effect that will always frustrate any efforts to make all outcomes equal, no matter how much unhappiness we cause by forcing Nature to fit ideology. To bring it back to the original point, these differences are reflected in our stories and archetypes, and will persist despite any efforts of ideology.
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  45. Wouldn't it be hilarious if that were actually Daisy Ridley voicing the comments in this video?
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  46. Can fans do those sorts of special effects on their desktops, now?
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  47.  @schaefsky  I'm not convinced you ever read them. At one point they have a planet that actually produces antibodies to kill the human settlers like they were some kind of disease. At another point they have a completely pacifist system that destroys all kinetics. The narrative editorializing in the books -- thankfully absent in the show -- is as Woke as anything you'll ever read. PC as all get-out. BUT, they toned it down massively for the TV show, and it's being hailed as the best-kept secret in SciFi. Well, that's because the books never really took off with the SciFi crowd, because of their blatant political bias. If they'd maintained that tone in the TV show, the show would have gone the way of Star Trek Discovery.
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  48.  @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375  Remember when people made bad movies for cheap? Fun times...
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  49. They're talking about bringing a "multiple worlds" trope into the GFFA, to fix this mess. Not the most original thing to do, but to be honest, I'm up for anything that can save this s**tshow at this point, both as a fan and as a Disney stockholder.
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  50.  @joshuabarrios9738  I hate to think what the beard would've become, if the alien had infected it. Something that could have taken down Godzilla, probably.
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