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

  1. "Star Wars is gone and is never coming back" It is DEFINITELY coming back. Every time I stick one of the DVD's in the player.
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  2. Insulting your most ardent fans is not a viable long-term strategy...
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  3. "People for whom the idea of different view points is as terrifying as hard work and personal accountability." Best put-down of the week!
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  4. If her ideas were any good, she would have made her own movies instead of riding the bandwagon. It is something in her character, that she looks down on these geniuses and somehow thinks she is in the same league. Or probably that she is better than they are, and that only The Patriarchy kept her down. Sheer F@cking Hubris.
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  5. ​ @MariusWales  That is not what feminism is about. It has always been about women being better than men. Most women hate feminists as well, shows you how representative they are for the sex.
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  6. Everybody: "So, Drinker, what is your moral judgement of the situation?" Drinker: "What, did something happen then that I should have an opinion on?"
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  7. I get the impression modern writers affirm themselves by negative reviews. "People hate me, I must be doing something right".
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  8. The relationship you have with a character changes when that character changes. For example when the man who literally was the embodiment of A New Hope, suddenly becomes an angry, bitter recluse. It hurts.
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  9. Even worse than that, she doesn't even say there is a plan. She just tells him to trust her. Without having done anything to inspire trust. And the people were not scared without reason. They were being massacred. You can't tell people to just sit still and wait for redemption while every nerve in every body screams to either fight or fly.
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  10. 1:10 That simple line "It is way better than I predicted watching the trailer" has considerably raised my (already high) opinion of you, dear drinker. Panning stuff is easy. Giving praise where praise is due is a mark of greatness.
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  11. "Hurray, we have lived through it, the great war of 1914 to 1917"
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  12. I feel sorry for Chapek, though I did warn about half a year ago that his time was running out, because of what the stock was doing. His layoffs came about a year too late. It will be great to see Disney Woke its way into insolvency, and the individual franchises sold off.
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  13. I absolutely loved "Master and Commander". By far the most accurate historic film, and great entertainment. Such a shame there was no sequel.
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  14. I appreciate some actors for the reasons you mention, like Harrison Ford. However, most of them have fallen into the trap of thinking the adoration they get for making their bosses loads of money actually means something, or even worse, proves that they are better than the rest of us. Most have just been lucky.
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  15.  @laoaidan2400  No, they were written by people with an agenda, who were just looking for platform to preach that agenda to the unsuspecting audience. When I want to hear a sermon, I go to church. A church I trust and that appreciates me. I am not buying a cinema ticket to get preached at by Mrs Fury who hates men and thinks they are garbage. Go woke, go broke.
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  16. "It is the one thing you have total control over" Isn't the issue to people want total control, but not the responsibility that comes with it?
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  17. Kennedy has support from the higher-ups, most likely Iger himself. She has done everything according to his desires, and he can always use her as a sacrificial lamb. Like he used Chapek. No-way that someone like Kennedy can cost a company so much money without backup from the CEO / leader of the board.
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  18. They did some creative business as well to keep it within budget. For example the replica of that unique airplane was sold by them to a museum.
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  19. You chose -- poorly.
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  20. Right on. I sometimes dreamed of working in that industry. That quickly stopped when I learned they reserve term "talents" only for the main actors. Which means that this industry is extremely ungrateful & disrespectful to those thousands of other talented people who put in a LOT more talent, skill, time & effort into a movie than most actors do, who have had to hone their skills and expertise for years or even decades.
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  21. Egos and Hubris, following a period where the companies were flush with cash so financial restraints were relaxed. And it helps when two of the largest financial conglomerates in the world have your back as long as you produce propaganda they like.
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  22. Not to mention that a real stabbing victim wouldn't be so kind as to exert super-human strength to interrupt her own strike, holding the saber up at high guard. Sabine would definitely have finished her stroke, decapitating her assailant or cutting her in half.
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  23.  @carebear2025b  "Being a feminist means u want equality" No any more. From wikipedia: "Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unjustly within those societies." In the western world, females are treated much the same as males, with the remaining differences largely a result of biological or emotional differences, like a smaller inclination to negotiate a good salary, or the career interruption when kids arrive, or less inclination to play the power games men like to play. The modern feminist movement however still insists that women are treated unjustly, and thus actively antagonizes men. It also argues that women are better than men, as this movie does.
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  24. Trust me, it will soon change. No business can keep this up. Go woke, go broke!
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  25.  @Xehanort10  Yeah. It will never cease to amaze me how the epitome of a commercial enterprise suddenly got a "conscience", and starts to prefer expression and artistry over income. It won't last.
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  26. It is another pay check for them. Remember, this is their JOB. Just like I do things in my job that aren't exactly what I want.
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  27. The bigger they are, the bigger the splash. This is going to be exciting!
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  28. ​ @WallKenshiro  The movements you refer to are called, first, the suffrage movement, then the emancipation movement. Feminism proper has always been aggressively anti-men, as can be seen by how men are portrayed in feminist movies like this one. This movement isn't very old, by the way, starting in the seventies. Feminists do a lot of window dressing and gaslighting, and they try to take credit for the older pro-women movements, but at its core feminism is anti-men. I am all for equal rights and emancipation, but bashing men is not the answer to inequality.
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  29.  @sheadoherty7434  My point is that the feminists had a point 50 years ago, but not anymore. And that by denying that their goals have already been met, they have moved over to an extreme position where men are the enemy and are baaaad. What we need instead of feminism is a renewed appreciation for the differences between men and women. And I mean real differences, not those caused by habit or tradition. Because men and women are different, though of equal value. Current feminism doesn't acknowledge this simple fact. If you think I am misogynistic, you are wrong. The same qualities that make a woman good at managing a house hold, make her excellent at managing businesses. Some of the best managers I have known are women. I wish there were more female managers. The world would be a better place. But to become one, you need to engage in a constant pissing contest with other people that want that position, which is something even most men do not want. So a feminist would say that this pissing contest needs to stop. And that is happening in some companies. But because power is involved, this is just how it works at most places. You either play the game or you don't, your choice. But don't blame the game for not wanting to compete.
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  30. I spotted (some of) that too. A true weasel, can't trust a word he says.
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  31. So, can all the frustrated feminists who want their Mary Sue characters to be everything they are not, please find another job? That would do so much to improve modern entertainment...
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  32.  @directrulefromgamerchair3947  LOL
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  33. Forget the past. Kill it if you have to.
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  34. 0:10 Dour. That must be my favorite Scottish word. As in "What is the weather like? -- Dour"
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  35. I had never heard of most movies in the Oscars this year (or last), except for the one with Jon Batiste. Love that guy, he is a genuine article.
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  36.  @HerbaMachina  You have any idea how much money is spent on these projects? Hundreds of millions. And you can be certain that KK will make sure she gets "her" part of the pie.
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  37. ​ @jangounchained5279  I was quoting the Blackadder show. It is a good joke, go watch it. Season 4 finale. And it makes me very sad that even after the heroic effort in the movie (which I yet have to see), the madness continued for another year.
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  38.  TheOfficialPro  Change the world by pissing of your customer base? Good luck with that ;-)
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  39. Thank you for putting that "I like to make men uncomfortable" into context. The position of women in Pakistan (and most other Muslim countries) is definitely in need of improvement, and it sounds like she was a brave journalist doing important and dangerous work. However, when we hear her say that in a western context, against western interviewers, without the qualification " Pakistani men", I can also hear the 4th wave feminists cheering. The fight is not against flesh and blood, against actual people. The fight is against the ideas and morals where a woman is considered property or is considered worth less than a man. 4th wave feminists consider men worth less than women, which is just as evil.
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  40. Hollywood never let physics get in the way of a "good story"... I don't mind the over-powered females, the eighties movies were full of over-powered men after all. It is the bad writing that does these movies in.
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  41.  @ChristianIce  The interviews don't bring out the parody bit at all. It is all about women breaking out of stereotypes etc. I think I will side with the Drinker on this one.
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  42. @Professeur Râleur Disney is not at all pleased with the stunts KK pulled. She is on her way out. Disney is doing several things to salvage the brand, apart from KK. I think they will succeed, and they will have learned a lesson.
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  43. Haven't seen the show, but I am pretty sure the "toxic fans" bit is a dig at untalented writers blaming "toxic fans" who have the audacity to point out the objective shortcomings in their plots & dialogs. "That you call Rey a Mary Sue proves you are full of misogyny. I don't need to listen to you, toxic fan." That means the Drinker is also one of those toxic fans. He wears it like a badge of honour.
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  44. ​ @WallKenshiro  "feminists in the sense of how we're supposed to understand the term now" That is what I mean with the gaslighting / retconning going on in e.g. the wikipedia page on Feminism. Women who labeled themselves as feminists that I spoke with since the eighties, were invariably hostile to men. And women who fought for equal rights (or human rights in general) usually made a point to distance themselves from feminists, considering them too extreme.
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  45. Rey: the image of what KK secretly thinks she is. Holdo: the image of what KK actually is.
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  46. After your review of Picard 3 I wondered what had happened to you. But here you prove you still are the Drinker we know and love. (Not that I mind positive reviews, especially honest ones)
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  47. Themes say nothing about how good a story is. Themes can be brought point by point in a dry lecture or a sermon. Or they can be woven into a good story so subtlety that they are conveyed unconsciously, and one needs serious thought to recognise them. Yet a good story leaves you changed from the inside. The clearer the themes, the worse a story.
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  48. Hollywood has repented of white-washing like Taylor playing Cleopatra. But at the time it was a logical decision. Movies at the time were made for white people by white people. Because white people invented the medium and popularized it, and it took some time before it spread to other ethnicities. For that particular movie, they wanted a true STAR to play the leading character, and at the time there simply were no great stars of Macedonian ethnicity. Nor any other ethnicity than white Caucasian, with a few exceptions like Omar Sharif. But I don't think Omar would have been a great choice to play Cleopatra, even though he was actually Egyptian. An actress like Irene Papas, who was actually Greek, might have played her, but she was nowhere near the box-office draw that Taylor was. And at the time, whether a movie was a success or not was largely determined by who starred in it. So then it is an easy business decision to cast Taylor instead of Papas. Gina Lollobrigida was considered for the role, which might have been a better match to Cleopatra's ethnicity, but other matters than ethnicity were more important at the time. Like business interests.
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  49. Well done turning the tables on these frauds. They have been getting away with the "but the audience" narrative far too long. But as you say, it is their warped sense of the world that is at fault. Because sales figures have proven that their sense of what the audience wants / needs, is false.
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  50. Great analysis. Modern movies exalt raw emotions, whereas in reality the management of emotions is probably the most important skill a person should learn. Living off your emotions has led to many modern disasters, just look at the political scenes of the UK and the US. Because emotions can easily be manipulated...
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  51. "Others will get horribly corked and end up with the nauseating palate of wet dog mixed with barbecued road kill" Drinker, you out-did yourself.
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  52. Letting people return from the dead is the ultimate of human hubris. Pretending the basic facts of life no longer matter. By people who are scared of their own insignificance. Tolkien called death "the Gift of Ilúvatar" to mankind. That was for a reason. While death is final and terrible, it also means there is a limit to the suffering we need to endure, and makes change for the better easier. Writers should again learn to embrace death as a plot point. No-one does it better than JRR Martin, learn from him.
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  53. You also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
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  54. Soon the day will come when shows like this get less views than The Drinker pointing out its BS.
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  55. "Does a masculine archetype fit in our culture" YES, definitely 100% YES! I don't care what the sjw's think of it, they represent a tiny, tiny sliver of our culture. Not that I am against women rights or equal opportunities, but masculinity will always be part of our culture. Real masculinity is not toxic. It is just who we are. Fighting for a cause. Taking risks when risks need taking. Concepts like honour, duty and sportsmanship. Defending the weak. These are just as relevant today as they were 2000 years ago.
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  56. Some people state the movie is a parody of feminism. So instead of "the movie may not be saying what the film maker thinks it is saying", that may be totally intentional. But if that is true, that should come out in interviews with the makers. And if the parody is so hidden as not to be detected by The Drinker, it is far too deep for a kids movie. Making this movie totally inappropriate for kids.
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  57. "Fuck knows what else" That would be you, Drinker!
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  58. Great Rant! You wonder why the world pays so much attention to these feminist activists. They have never created anything, they just tear things down. Tearing down is much easier than creating. Instead of hitting on their betters, they should try create something better! And right there we have the main argument against feminism. It does not make the world a better place. It just stirs up strife, and takes the joy and love out of life. If you let them affect you, that is...
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  59. ​ @jangounchained5279  Yeah, they don't make 'm like that anymore. Pure TV brilliance. I should have made it clearer that I was quoting something, like, added quotation marks or something, sorry for that.
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  60. Comparing the prosecution of republican seditionists and traitors with the persecution of jews for their race was a VERY dumb and disrespectful thing to do. Insulting snowflakes is fine. But comparing a well-deserved backlash with the greatest tragedy and crime of the previous century is absurd and just plain sick. Even more so because there are clear historical parallels between what the GOP is doing and what the NSDAP did. Should not have been enough to get her fired, but then, she pulled the can of worms open herself.
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  61. Spot on, Drinker! I was quite excited to see TFA, but the first scene where I went "err, that is not right" was where Rey bullies someone and takes a droid he found (BB-8), because "he was going to sell you for scrap". So what, he was the first to take possession of the droid, and you just robbed him. She got away with it because "she was so special". Yeah, right, all thieves and robbers think "they are so special" and deserve some of those goodies they didn't work for.
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  62.  @j.ceasar  Having the right to spread opinions that hurt others is called Freedom of Speech. There is no right Not To Be Offended, it doesn't exist. People take offense at certain opinions, that is an active choice. THEIR choice. Now, if I dehumanize or demonize specific people groups, or incite hatred against them, that is NOT (or shouldn't be) covered under Freedom of Speech. Except in cases where a higher body has judged the situation, as in calling Trump a rapist or Hamas a terrorist group. Those are facts, established by courts of law / government bodies. But having an opinion that clashes with your opinion, that just means your opinion is wrong. Usually. Because I think my opinions through and am open to correction. But dehumanizing me for my opinion, that is actual hate speech -- which is done far too often by people who get offended by someone's opinion. So we have the weird situation where many people use actual hate speech because they accuse someone else, falsely, of using hate speech. That has a name, and it is HYPOCRISY. Case in point: J.K. Rowling. Those who rail against her often use hate speech, while I have NEVER caught her in uttering actual hate speech. She does pose questions, and points out where women are endangered by policies that promote rights of trans people. But that is healthy debate, NOT hate speech.
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  63.  @j.ceasar  I am fully aware that in the USA hate speech is allowed, and I am very much against that. But an opinion is never hate speech unless it is some generalization like "All <fill in people group> are stupid" or something like that. However, an opinion like "Unrestricted access to women toilets by self-identified trans women opens up these protected spaces to rapists" is pretty factual and can NEVER be hate speech. Though many would claim it is. If that hurts your feeling, too bad, your feelings are wrong. We should not let feelings rule us, instead we should let ratio & conscience moderate our feelings.
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  64.  @CaraesNaur  Turns out these people are worth their money! Conclusion: the USA needs to get used to industrial action, and not try to undercut it.
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  65. And the review will likely get more views! -- in a just world....
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  66. "You can only go broke so many times" Ne'er a truer word, drinker.
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  67. Oh, this has not been the first time. Definitely not. Why'd you think he turned to the drink in the first place?
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  68. Absolutely agree with your reasoning. And Sean Connery MUST be #1. The man had such charisma, even in his movies before Bond he stole the show whenever he was in frame. He is the definite man, chest hair and all.
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  69. I hate that trope in Hollywood where as soon as a person that a leader cares for is in the hands of evil, they surrender everything in an attempt to save that person. And it usually works out for them. In reality, when evil has what it wants, their normal response is to kill everybody they control as quickly as possible, to fix loose ends. Or go back on the deal in order to extract even more. That is why in the real world, you only negotiate with evil in order to postpone a confrontation, while trying to gain a favorable position from which you can launch a rescue operation, or are fairly certain that you can catch the bad guys afterwards.
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  70. "How easy it is to sh!t on somebody's hard work without doing any yourself" You've got to be joking, Drinker! I know for a fact that you yourself are an excellent writer who has earned the right to sh!t on mediocre writers, the hard way.
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  71.  @TheDalisama  YES! I Love it!
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  72. Companies can redeem themselves, you know. For example, I am sure we will see a different Star Wars after the KK contract expires. When they create worthy content, they can have my pennies.
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  73. ​ @nrnjn8547  > which they wont Indeed! Pissing of your best staffers is the stupidest thing you can do. She is probably right now starting her own company, and may well take several key developers with her. <edit>: Oops, I saw she left disobedient canine in 2014. So it turns out she did not start her own company, instead she started to work for competitors. DC was lucky there, her departure could have ripped the company apart...
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  74. Sweet... But I missed the "Go away now!"
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  75. Hollywood is currently fighting for survival due to competition from the streaming networks. It won't be long before they get the message "go woke, go broke". I think Disney already got the message out of the Star Wars fiasco. I am very curious what 2021 will bring, but I expect a lot less pandering to the SJW shills.
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  76. Yes, much better. Like an aspirin after a good night with m'pal Johnny.
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  77. Sean Connery was a legend. He is missed.
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  78. What is happening at Disney is so outrageous, I am starting to believe that this is exactly what its leaders want it to be. Next question is, WHY? I don't for a second believe it is because the higher-ups want The Message to permeate the world. That is what the underlings want, but not the higher-ups. Disney is controlled by some of the most wealthy individuals and organisations on this planet. And they are ONLY interested in money. So, they believe it will financially benefit them to drive Disney into insolvency by letting it make stuff nobody wants. That does not compute. EXCEPT if in doing so, they can protect their other assets. Which, I believe, would be by triggering an anti-woke, pro-fascist movement that is too distracted to vote for parties that would reform tax laws to make the ultra-rich pay their fair share. We will see what happens next. If for example Kennedy stays on, and this Headland creature, this conspiracy starts becoming more plausible.
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  79. ​ @archstanton9073  Fascism is the belief that a single man will save society from some imaginary evil, usually from a minority group, and restore the nation to it "rightful place". For example, MAGA is a fascist movement.
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  80.  @archstanton9073  Mussolini and Hitler were fascists before they came in power. Ergo fascism is NOT a form of government. Total control of people & economy is what any totalitarian state has, but is more closely associated with communism than fascism.. Your definitions are not helpful (nor correct).
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  81. Another stellar, franchise-killing review. I'd give you a kiss, but probably return the Glasgow variant. (You can tell I miss the Scottish jokes lately)
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  82. Another magnificent team let down by a terrible script. When is Holywood going to remember that a good movie begins with a good script? Well, thanks for the review, I'll avoid this movie now, whereas the trailers had me intrigued.
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  83. We have to see how the Disney board is with any course change. The fight is going to be monumental with the board on board, but if the board (& major shareholders) is actually pushing for these culture wars, it will be impossible to win by Iger. Now why would share holders push a message that is costing them lots and lots of money? Never for a second believe it is because the believe in "the message". Companies get that big & rich through one thing only: wanting MORE money. So somehow, they believe that stirring the culture war will earn them money in the long run. My bet is that they want anti-woke political groups to gain power, who also happen to be anti-taxation for the rich. The political equivalent of a false-flag operation. Same as how the ultra-right cause riots to accompany peaceful protests. The bottom line in the "culture wars" is that it doesn't affect most people very much. Far less than what the ultra-right want you to believe. Whereas the ultra-rich not paying their fair share in taxes is something that affects us all.
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  84. ​ @ErenYeager-ng3hi  Racists act like Hollywood white-washing was somehow anti-black people. It wasn't. It was a consequence of logical business decision. Black-washing, in contrast, is 100% racism.
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  85. Turning the most valuable IPs in the universe into money pits seems to be the Disney Specialty nowadays.
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  86. At some point you have to wonder why people make this stuff. Do they enjoy banging their head against a brick wall, or do they do it to stroke their Messiah Complex / Eternal Victimhood, so they can complain about the Patriarchy boycotting them?
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  87. Hollywood has forgotten how to write gripping and intelligent stories. But from what I hear, Edwards did make an effort. I think I will watch this one.
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  88. I saw Waterworld on the telly a few years after it ran, and I liked it. I was entertained and it even provoked a few thoughts.
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  89. As one who is also alive only because of the bravery of unknown people who protected my father, this review touched me deeply.
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  90. It has been a long time since we could berate a director for being overly ambitious in the scope of his project. Make that "absurdly ambitious". There were more world-changing events surrounding Napoleon's life than the total Game of Thrones.
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  91. I am fine with studios writing lousy characters. What I am not fine with is that when this is pointed out to them, they start name calling. That is extremely childish and will make us dislike not just the script writer and the director, but the studio as well. Calling your customers names is not good for business. We remember. For example, except for one or two massive shareholders buying up Disney stock whenever it comes near $90 on ideological grounds, that stock would have dropped way lower. The audiences are just fed up with Disney, and from now on I expect everything they make to lose money.
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  92. There was a time when Hollywood was a hard place to survive. When your movie bombed, you were done! Oh how I long for those days!
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  93. I wasn't going to subscribe to Amazon Prime anyway, and this gives me no reason to reconsider. Though I always wanted to see that scene where Türin finds Nienor. But oh no, that was the 1st age, whereas this show will focus on the dealings of the 2nd age. Yet another epic political power struggle with ambivalent characters. If I want to see that, I watch MSNBC or one of the dozens of channels analyzing the shite happening in the US or the UK.
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  94. Somehow I get the feeling that economics will catch up with the practice of fan-baiting.
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  95. Slowly, very slowly, Holywood is re-discovering its raison d'être ...
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  96. What never ceases to amaze me is how the Wokeistas love to beat up Western culture, while it is ONLY in western culture that women and Alphabet-people are treated more-or-less equal to men. With all the negativity against white males, I am almost tempted to take the example of African or Middle-Eastern culture. See how these so-called oppressed people like that.
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  97. Speechless... Wished I could Like this twice. Oh, wait, you already have almost twice the normal view/like ratio on this one.
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  98. I have been missing these "The Drinker Fixes"!
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  99. The kids of today will never have their minds blown like we had ours blown, in 2 hours of sitting in a darkened room. Harry Potter was a franchised that achieved it as well, but nothing has come close since then.
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  100. What a breath of fresh air. If only....
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  101. Weird that these movies glorify awesome levels of power. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you want good movies, fill it with (relatively) weak people like Gandalf, who needs to entrust the salvation of the earth to a hobbit of all things.
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  102. I think that part of the problem is the Ego game. Producers would rather produce a film with a 200M budget, than one with a 10M one, just because it makes them look good. Solution: bring simple accountability back. The more money a movie loses, the worse it should affect his/her career. It seems that nowadays failing at the box office is fine as long as you put in enough representation.
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  103. Scenario writers seem to have caught a weird virus or something that erased all possible ways of moving a plot forward except busywork. Tell me when it is over, then I'll start watching stuff again.
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  104. Rest in Peace, Rutger.
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  105. In the end, point 5 will be the most important. Holywood presumes to preach against us, but preaching a double standard does not end well. The ONLY phase 4 movie I watched was "no way home", and that was a decent movie. Still waiting for another one.
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  106. GO AWAY NOW! Indeed! If you don't like the lore of the Universe, invent your own universe. Invent a universe where all males are ritually unmanned to appease the gods, for all I care. But evil can not invent. It can only corrupt.
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  107. About halfway through your commentary I remembered I had actually watched this movie a few months ago....
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  108. Doing well, Drinker! At some point, Hollywood will listen to someone who is more popular than them.
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  109. I am getting old. It took me two seconds to catch on to the 2 reasons joke.
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  110. @razberrycuddles22 There is no cultural war. There are some deluded people who try to change our culture, but they are doomed to fail.
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  111. If find it morally wrong to take a character from the past and then change his/her attributes. To suddenly make a straight bloke a gay female, or to make a disabled person not disabled. It implies that there was something wrong with the previous version of the character, and that you have the ability to improve it. Which is arrogance on the level of a God- or Saviour Complex. By judging those who went before us, we judge ourselves. Like the Pharisees of Jesus' day who honoured the prophets of old and claimed they would never have murdered those prophets if they had been around back then. Jesus told them off, that they were no better than their fathers. They didn't like that, but then proved him right by having Jesus Himself murdered. It is the principle of Romans 2:1: "[...] at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things." If you disagree with some attributes of an historic character, create a new one. Don't claim or imply you are better than those who went before. Because you are not.
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  112. One point you overlooked: those road works are part of a huge scam to extort people. US cities are built for cars, not for people, after car producers convinced city councils that that is the future. In their wings, huge civil engineering companies got in on the scam to take huge amounts of money out of the public coffers. Money that should have been used to e.g. educate their youth. Instead, cities bankrupt themselves to build concrete jungles.
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  113. I though greed would take down the media industry. Now I am pining for the day these people go back to making money.
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  114. I am getting more and more convinced that Disney is overdoing the "progressive" thing on purpose, to discredit progressive movements that actually have a point. Like how corporate and individual greed is destroying everything, how corrupt many right wing politicians have become, how the standard of living for the poor is decreasing rapidly, etc, etc. Because Disney's behaviour does not make sense unless there is such a motive.
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  115. The world was a lot simpler when games were made by single young, white, males for single young, white males. Then, corporations happened...
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  116. Excellent points. If someone thinks they can improve on Tolkien's work, by all means, create your own world. Tolkien created Middle Earth, who do these people think they are to somehow "improve" it.
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  117. A bit more diversity in movies is definitely needed.
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  118. I wonder how these people can think "It is OK when we do it". That is the definition of hypocrisy, and for people who presume to lecture us about morality and justice, that is just perverse. Anyway, thanks for seeing this movie so we don't have to.
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  119. Oh, you masterful purveyor of Truth, thou hast hit the nail on the head with those one.
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  120. This rant is probably going to get more views that the last Acoshite episode. That is her true legacy: bringing channels like yours to the forefront, that don't shy away from telling truth to Hollywood royalty.
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  121. I actually liked the joke about Santa being believed in more than vaccines and the holocaust. But I guess you must have seen the rest.
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  122. The show may be sh!t, but it gave as the perfect rant from The Drinker!
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  123. Well put! Movies should appeal to our inner drives, if they want to sell. If women bemoan the dreaded 4-0, they should realise that mature women can be attractive as well, only not in the same way as when they were 21. Same with men, though their prime lasts a bit longer.
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  124. You'd think Holywoke would learn that if they want to make money, they need to make stuff people will actually pay for to watch.
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  125. Genres die when they stop telling interesting stories, with interesting characters and interesting plots. Unlike with burgers, the 10th time you are served the same story, it tastes stale and bland. That is why burger franchises keep growing but movie franchises peter out.
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  126. > no such thing as good feminist writing Feminism (defined as "women are superior to men"), is a very flawed concept. No good can come out of it. Luckily, in media, we have a choice to consume or not to consume. Go Woke, Go Broke.
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  127. Good analysis! I was indeed one of those that kinda liked the movie, but not sure why. Compared to similar movies of the time, it was OK, but a pale shadow of the original... I did like the cinematography, and they made a great Legos video game out of it ;-)
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  128. That was the most intense "go away now" yet. This show really got to Drinker.
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  129. Drinker, you should teach classes in script writing at University. But then, the students would probably sue you for hurting their feelings...
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  130. Another hate-driven movie I ain't gonna see. If these movie makers were genuinely interested in promoting women, they would take advantage of existing franchises with strong women leads, like Tombraider, or create some new amazing franchise. If, IF they are well written, I'll gladly spend money to see them.
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  131. If your politics don't allow real, relatable characters, you stand to loose a lot of money.
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  132. It is about time an animated movie gets the "Best Movie" Oscar. But then, I guess animators are not represented in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and those who are have an interest against an animated movie get the top award...
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  133. Imagine fighting an evil stereotype -- by creating another, even more evil stereotype. In the age of the original, women could be strong without putting others down and accepting, even celebrating the differences between people. Not in this age. Women who buy into the current ideology will be sorely disappointed with life by the time they reach 40. And blame it all on the "patriarchy" instead of their ridiculous attempts to subvert biology.
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  134. If the Drinker keeps it up, he will soon have more views, daily, than most of these "block busters" over their run time! Poetic Justice...
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  135. Better, much better. Especially the interactions between Rose and Finn make much more sense this way. Killing Rose off is of course debatable, but considering the use they gave her in RoS, she might as well be killed off.
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  136. I know the feeling. While it wasn't a bad movie (well, at least by todays standards) and did entertain me, it added nothing new. Just a rehash of Star Wars minus the hero's journey -- which happened to be the central core of Star Wars. The biggest question I was left with, was how the f@ck did the Republic fall to the "first order"? And that shall always remain a mystery.
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  137. People who think black characters need to be inserted to make the message more acceptable have not understood Tolkien's work. In case no-one noticed, the LOTR and Middle Earth are absolutely FULL of racial interactions, both good and bad. Anti-Racism is a big theme in the LOTR. Hell, the man even manages to make Orcs relatable and explains that their aggression was due to the force that drove them.
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  138. What are the odds of this movie will actually be made? Better than 10 to 1?
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  139. I like Magical Bullshit Devices. The Ring in TLoTR is one, so they must be good!
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  140. I am sick of Disney Star Wars. I'll stay far away from it until people like Drinker et al start to rave about it.
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  141. I feel your pain. It is enough to make anyone turn to the drink.
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  142. "Glasgow council estate" Drumchapel is not so bad -- once you get out of it.
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  143. Thank you, Drinker, for watching this show so we don't have to.
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  144. Excellent review. Take that, Disney! Painting some anti-KK graffiti on a shed does not undo nearly a decade of terrible choices.
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  145. All this demonstrates is that KK is still living her fantasies and forcing them upon us all. Bob Chapek has squandered his chance to still have a career. As the fall of Disney Stock resumes, we can expect him to be axed.
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  146. CGI is all about having control. Directors & Producers with little dicks wanting to create exactly their vision and nothing else, because they know best.
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  147. Teenage science prodigies are laughable. But worryingly, show a fatal disregard for the enormous effort beta scientists have to invest to just be able to access the results of other scientists. Science is HARD. That is why the beta fields are called HARD science. Being able to follow a YouTube tutorial and replicate an experiment may be exciting. But drawing the proper conclusions is a lot harder. And a lot harder still is to think of a new experiment to gain new knowledge.
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  148.  @sheadoherty7434  "I never said you are misogynistic" No worries, I did not get the impression you were, but I just wanted to make the point about women making good managers, and wanted to leave no doubt on the issue. But we disagree about the moniker "feminist". Feminism has served its purpose as a movement in the west. Many that now take that moniker are aggressively anti-men. That is not a good thing. But the concept that men and women are of equal value and need to be free to step in whatever role or function they fancy, even roles that used to be reserved for the opposite sex, I wholeheartedly agree with that, as long as they are willing to play the game that comes with that role. And I even think that for some roles, the rules of the game need to change because they have nasty side-effects, like narcissism or aggression being allowed in management. Management is not about who pisses the furthest (you may notice I do not have a high opinion of current management culture). Perhaps we need to come up with a new name for people who think that way about gender equivalence.
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  149. Sorry to hear this is a decent movie. I won't go watch it because of the turd. WB spat on every male in the world by leaving her in, while canceling JD.
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  150. Of course franchises can be redeemed. And the wokerazzi have shown us how: retcon them, using some of the many in-world or out-world gimmicks they used to retcon the straight people.
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  151. I remember the shock when I first saw that "The Force is Female" travesty. That was the point where I new Star Wars was a lost case. I had been wondering what the F@ck Lukasfilm was doing, but then I knew that it was purposefully destroying its legacy and insulting its fan base. Well, Disney, you let it happen. I hope you enjoy the feeling of writing off many billions of dollars.
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  152. @tk k It doesn't look like a healthy workplace, for now... But then, there are many ways to be an artist.
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  153. Amazing how well Tolkien's commentary on the creation of the Rings of Power mirrors the creation of the Rings of Power.
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  154. There is also QAnon bubbles vs. reality. I think both are bad and potentially dangerous. Nazi-ism isn't about left or right wing, it is about controlling the minds of gullible people who are not content with life.
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  155. I long for the time when movie makers thought us smart enough to handle the best they can do.
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  156. Zeggler confuses selfishness with strength. Humanity works best when being inter-dependent. Selfishness makes you weak.
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  157. I also like Kylo. But I kept thinking he was not the main villain in the movie, 'cause he was too weak. Then TLJ killed off all other (possible) villains. They didn't even have the guts to let Rey take over the First Order, as she should have.
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  158. It is a prime example of "projection". Accusing others of behaving like you, before they can attack you along that line. Very aggressive and immature.
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  159. I rarely cut one of your reviews short, but you are so positive, I want to have a clean slate when I go watch it myself in the theater. Sorry for the negative impact on "The Algorithm", but I am sure you'll be fine.
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  160. Wouldn't it be Bob Chapek who would do the axing? I thought he was CEO at Disney now. Also, letting KK go through with her pet project might be worse for Iger's political aspirations then axing it... The SJW's seem to be triggering a large counter-force of people being fed up with their pettiness and distorted world-view.
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  161.  @j.ceasar  I don't blame Disney for anything. Nor am I offended by anything they do. But I will not spend money on Disney either. And I roll my eyes when they blame their former fans for staying away from their movies. The problem with Disney is not their politics. It is that they are not telling interesting or engaging stories. Mary Sues are not interesting. And if you think people don't chose to be offended, you don't understand either people or emotions. I have seen many people take offense and make very stupid decisions as a result, decisions that destroyed their lives. People should listen to their emotions, be alert to what they are saying, but NEVER be controlled by emotions. Emotions are fickle, and can easily be manipulated. Which is for example why we see people protest in support of a literal terrorist group, right after those terrorists perpetrated a terrible massacre, even before their victim had time to retaliate. Don't tell me those people decided to do that with serene hearts after careful consideration.
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  162.  @j.ceasar  About gender equality, I am all for that. But not at the cost of women. I know there are far too many men who would love to have the right to be in women's toilets or showers or prisons. Not because they feel like they are women, but to take advantage of women. So when a man wants to identify as a women, there MUST be a safeguard to weed out the perverts from the real trans people. That is not me being anti-trans, that is me understanding human nature. There is a reason that femicide is a problem in the world, and it is because not all men can be trusted with women. We need safeguards. And allowing any man to self-identify as a woman is just asking for serious problems at the cost of women. Which, btw, includes (genuine) trans women. My personal opinion is that a person with a pen!s has no reason being in a women-only space.
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  163.  @j.ceasar  What is most destructive of people's lives are policies that are not thoroughly thought out. And a climate where one party is over-sensitive and escalates any counter-argument or warning of unwanted effects as "hate speech", is not conducive to well-though-out policies. Freedom of Debate is essential for good policies. Some people are mistrustful of science. But let me tell you, science is the search of Truth. It is a place where there is zero tolerance for emotions. Science is brutally honest. People who distrust science don't understand that level of honesty. Truth hurts, sometimes, but that doesn't mean truth ceases to be truth. Truth is unchanging, the very opposite of feelings. Even hurt feelings. (Note that I am talking about hard science: math, beta or medical sciences. People are very right to be mistrustful of soft sciences.)
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  164. Now lets see if her replacement will have the leeway to do to Kennedy what she did to Lucas: completely ignore everything she did, and get back to the (more or less) consistent Universe Lucas created.
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  165. You are so right in challenging the professionality of the people responsible for this. Let them have it!
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  166. Better, much better.
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  167. I love these specials. Can we have another "The Drinker Fixes", please?
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  168. By retconning past master pieces, the modern writers try to gaslight us. It is cultural vandalism but also psychological abuse of a whole generation. May these works be quickly forgotten as their studios discover that there is no money in tearing things down.
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  169. It must be nice to get more views panning a show, than what the actual show gets. And well deserved too!
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  170. Brilliant, as always. You wonder when Hollywood is going to notice that good scripts are worth the effort.
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  171. "Land with as much impact as a left hook from Stephen Hawkins" Considering he is dead, that left hook is going to be a bit mushy...
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  172. Movies like this happen when writers think that your character development is done when you have pulled their skin color and sexuality randomly out of a hat.
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  173. It is sad that in a time when the real battle between good and evil has become clearer than ever, you have these idiots trying to make the ultimate enemies "relatable". There is actual evil in this world. Hamas wanting to erase all the Jews. Israeli settlers forcing Palestinians in the West Bank from their homes. Putin trying to subjugate a free people by force. Trump trying to destroy the Rule of Law in the USA. People so entitled and insecure they will have you shamed, fired and your career destroyed for using the wrong word to address them. Musk buying a mass media platform and transforming it into an ultra-right indoctrination tool. Doctors refusing to treat a woman whose life is in danger out of fear of being prosecuted and jailed 10+ years. "Protesters" blocking students from entering their faculties in support of a terrorist organisation. And many, many more. Reality is weirder than fiction.
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  174. The world is fed up with arrogant bitches who are constantly being affirmed and pampered. Like they are some sort of god or king or something.
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  175. Disney has produced two SW movies I enjoyed watching: the Force Awakens and Rogue One. Though TFA already contained the seeds of the disaster that was to come. After TLJ I gave up on Star Wars. I watched TRoS out of morbid curiosity and because somebody had given me the DVD as a present, but I needed three attempts before I watched it through to the end (twice I fell asleep after about 1 hour). Boy that movie was bad.
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  176. Such a shame. Johanson has such talents.
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  177. The SJW's are trying to force us to think in the way they want us. There is no greater threat to freedom than that. Old, non-PC art is a window into the soul of its creators. It allows us to make up our own mind on the issues it brings up. Current entertainment has no soul.
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  178. I was waiting for this one as soon as I heard The Doctor was about to reincarnate again. You did not disappoint.
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  179. When I see the critics 83% certified fresh, and the public 14% rotten, something is going on. Either the critics or RT is corrupt. Or both.
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  180. Somehow, this managed to get some OK-ish reviews from the Dutch media. It is a sad world we live in.
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  181. Your commentaries go down like Scottish Single Malts, each with their own flavour, all good.
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  182. Disney is presiding over an excellent string of bombs. Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
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  183. This should be instructive to the feminists. They have their nice little echo chambers, but here their ideas are confronted with the real world. Should show them that their ideas are wrong, if they have any critical thinking ability.
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  184. Please get that woman fired already! I'm going out on a limb and predict that Indy V is going to loose Disney money. I have no interest in seeing an old man being taken advantage of, by girls or boys a quarter of his age.
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  185. 20 years from now, we will have completely erased everything that has been produced in Hollywoke these past 5 years and the coming 5 to 10 years from our memories. With some rare exceptions like the latest Joker.
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  186. That statement by Warner Bros, CW and Berlanti looks like a clear case of intended criminal discrimination based on sexual preference. A straight woman should audition for the role and litigate when rejected.
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  187. Because the leaders & financiers of Disney want this to happen.
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  188. Good of you to suffer through this garbage for us, Drinker! So we can go instead to some place nice, like the pub.
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  189. Insincere apologies never work well. Implicitly putting down the original art from which you got your reason to be, doesn't work either. And blaming fans for not liking your work only proves you have no understanding of how the real world works. Another gratuitous lesson from the University of Hard Knocks: humility gets better results than pride.
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  190. Great little point about the vast distance to other galaxies. Before we will be ready to colonize a planet around another star, we'd better first learn to spend several generations inside a metal container. Even the journey to Mars takes several years! All these fantasies to colonize other planets are just that: fantasies of rich people scared of humanity. Even if this planet becomes uninhabitable, it will be FAR easier to "terraform" than e.g. Mars. We'd better learn to take better care of our home, people!
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  191. They way you ruined your friend's night out was pure style. Evil, but stylish.
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  192. They are fine to remake Highlander. Just don't expect me to watch it.
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  193. Glory, glory, what a helluva way to d!e...
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  194. ​ @ArrosticiniVore  Mostly, though I do like Rogue One.
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  195.  @michaelxz1305  New Coke, the marketing blunder of the last century. At least CC had the good sense to revert their mistake. KK Star -- without the Wars -- may well be the biggest one of the 21st century.
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  196. ​ @gunslinger2566  As evidenced by the ratio of posthumous VC's vs. non-posthumous...
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  197. Entitlement. Never ever having heard NO, and always using your ethnicity as an excuse for bad behaviour.
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  198. Obviously, Andor has been produced under the patronage of Chapek. What are the odds that the next season will be to polar opposite: shallow characters, woke, confusing story, no consequences etc. etc?
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