Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. "Too female to be fired" Can't be overstated.
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  2. The 1980's: Video Killed The Radio Star 2022: Internet Killed the Movie Star
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  3. That scene when they catch Bennings with his arm mutated out in the snow, and Bennings let out that otherworldly scream... Hands down, the most haunting scene in the entire film. I remember thinking that his face looks deceptively human, but whatever is lurking behind his eyes is something else entirely.
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  4. I always interpreted Ruby Rhod as a kind of stinging social satire. How women will fawn over basically the strangest things so long as the thing has celebrity status.
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  5. This makes me think of John McLane from the early Die Hard movies. Now Bruce Willis knows how to be stoic, but John ended up being a both likeable and relatable character. Because while he is stoic when he's calm, he definitely express a lot of emotion when being backed into a corner by the bad guys (the office shootout scene in Die Hard 1) or when he has to do something absolutely terrifying to make it out of a situation alive (jumping off the exploding Nakatomi Tower rooftop exploding with only a jury rigged firehose preventing him from falling to his death). So while he does a lot of alpha male, badass stuff, he also comes across as human and very vulnerable giving the situations he finds himself in.
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  6. I find it funny that, in the original films, Neo was sort of the Mary-Sue character due to his unique powers as "The One". Whereas Trinity was the person with hard earned skills who has to get by with being a normal human, yet kept pace with Neo in many ways, even as he was awakening to his true potential. I mean she even yeeted an agent with the "Dodge this" move in the first film, even though Morpheus explained in no uncertain terms that every single Matrix hacker that has gone up against an agent in the past has died as a result. So ironically, by shoehorning Trinity into being "The One... Of Two", they take AWAY from the characters strengths and abilities rather than adding to them. She's a Mary-Sue now. Alongside with Mary-Sue Neo. In a perverted and cringe Mary-Sue "Maryage"
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  7. Holy shit.. In every film i've seen Ed Harris, he's always been a convincing hardass. It's hard to imagine the man turn into a sobbing wreck. :S
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  8. I'm happy that Jada Pinkett Smith's boyfriend gave Will permission to play in a other Bad Boys film again.
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  9. The military autist in me feels it's necessary to point out: C-4 doesn't detonate when exposed to open flame. It's a very stable explosive compound. A high explosive detonator charge is required to cause C-4 to explode.
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  10. The good thing is that real spooks look like Bob Oodenkirk. People think intelligence operatives look like James Bond or some sort of Predator-esque special forces types. In reality, the intelligence agencies of the world want their personel to be very bland and unassuming. Grey Men who can blend in anywhere basically.
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  11. Instead of Ben just walking away from Vader, couldn't they at least have written a scene where their duel gets interrupted by, perhaps a platoon if storm troopers showing up or something like that? Forcing Ben to retreat before delivering a killing blow to Vader? Sure it would've been a convenient explanation as to why Vader lived to the later films in the chronology, but at least it would've been a bit more believable than Ben just leaving Vader alive a second time.
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  12. "I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to." -Bruce Willis
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  13. Ellen Ripley was a strong character. But not because of stoicism. She gave us a wide array of emotions of fear, terror, maternal instincts, being dutiful. She had admirable qualities, but was also demonstrably human. She was terrified a lot, but gritted her teeth and braved the xenomorph menace regardless. And that's why we like her and what contemporary hollywood writers just don't seem to get.
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  14. "An idea is only as good as it's execution" Good luck convincing socialists of that. 😂
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  15. One instance of defence where CGI work really worked for me: the giant bugs scene in Peter Jackson's Kong. Those damn flukeworms that devoured Andy Serkis' character alive really looked nightmare inducingly realistic. So CGI has some rare moments of sheer brilliance, but they are used too much as a crutch that end up making them look bad.
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  16. I mean, a female character, devoid of good looks but still being an interesting character would still be just that. The problem is that pretty women have always ended up being rather low effort in the personality department. They can get away with things, and avoid stuff that men can't because it's simple for them to get men interested in them anyway, purely based on their good looks.
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  17. I'm not a man of colour. And I'd like them to make more stuff on Netflix about african historical figures of colour. Not really because I care all that much about inclusivity or representation but simply because it would be new and fresh to me. I daresay a lot of people would feel the same way.
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  18. I'll be honest, new film with Alex Skarsgård did not excite me as a prospect. Since I know about him and I know about the current state of film making. But if the Drinker gives this a positive review, i'm definitely giving it a chance. The Drinker has not failed me so far.
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  19. Anakin was compassionate. That was his problem. Granted, the Jedi philosophy is a bit inconsistent. But if you scrape the surface, it becomes pretty clear: Jedi has to be very unemotional in order to function. That includes forsaking feelings of compassion. Of course it's very inconsistent with how many Jedi protagonists behave. And I for one think Star Wars would've been much more interesting if the Jedi religion emphasized the logical behaviours required to truly become a Jedi master (basically a selfless, unemotional and nearly lobotomized person). It's pretty clear though that Anakin turned to the dark side because he couldn't control his compassion towards the people in his life that got hurt or killed.
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  20. Batwoman gets a second season... But Firefly got shitcanned after it's first.
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  21. The best stuff always gets a reputation through word of mouth. Trailers and media hype is usually a sign of blandness and mediocrity.
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  22. "Isolation and Desolation" Describe Finland in three words 😂
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  23. To this day I still ask myself: why oh why, couldn't they just make a movie about a SWAT team getting stranded in the forest, forced to seek refuge in a creepy, deserted mansion in order to escape bloodthirsty zombie dogs?
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  24. I can't overstate how much I appreciate how the makers of this film chose to move away from the "comic book aesthetics" of the former adaptation, and instead chose to make the set pieces, scenery and costumes look as gritty and realistic as possible. Really draws you in and makes the brutality of the action scenes more impactful compared to seeing Sly flying around on some crappy looking jetbike in a "mega city" looking like something out of the 80's.
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  25.  @PaolaRL  Thank you for acknowledging it. Your profile hints that you're a woman. And it must be tempting to play along with the feminist rhetoric to acquire privilige wherever possible. It takes strength of character to recognize unjust privilige based on sex, even when dismissing it would be appealing to ones rational self interest. And I respect that a lot.
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  26. Hands down, this is my favourite movie of all time. I like many other classics, but this is at the top of my DVD shelf.
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  27.  @Garrus1995  Sadly, spywork in itself is kinda boring. It's not late night stakeouts or sneaking into military bases. It's more like working as a janitor or an office clerk at embassies and the like, stealing documents intended for a shredder. I think Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the movie that got the closest to represent real world spy work in some respects.
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  28. I'm having a hard time determining which is more cancerous: Star Trek Discovery or Star Trek Picard.
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  29. ​ @LuvThyMind29  You mean the historians who confirms that Cleopatra was greek?
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  30. Smaug's representation was the only thing I liked about the film. Having strange motives like that made the giant monster into something I found reminiscent of a Lovecraftian diety. Which I think proper dragons should be. They're not just big beasts. They're galaxy-brained and ancient things that don't bother with novelties like human morality, and their motives are understood only by them.
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  31. And now you know why Warhammer fans were not too happy about the transition from Warhammer Fantasy Battles to Age of Sigmar.
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  32. I heard that the actor that played Kurt Russels Beard.. Also played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films.
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  33. To be fair... Bill Murray has to interact with Hollywood-people... That'll give anyone a shitty attitude after a couple of years..
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  34. In a better world, diverse characters may have been judged by their own merit. The problem is that woke activists in entertainment media has so viciously poisoned the well to the point where any diverse inclusion feels contrived and arbitrary. They made their bed with this. So I can't really fault people for dismissing their efforts as being woke.
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  35. I wasn't very interested in the Furiosa character back in Fury Road. So I have a hard time caring about a story about her portrayed by an even worse actress.
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  36. The Critical Drinker: So when will you be doing Fight Club? A "The Drinker Recommends" perhaps?
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  37. I'm alright with a fight between a tribe of Comanches and The Predator. They were taught since birth to become hunters and survivalists after all. But having a small girl being the main protagonist just feels shoehorned for the sake of "the message".
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  38. He's absolutely right. Strong opinions from fans means that they care. As a creator, one shouldn't dismiss it or complain about it. One should step up and feel energized that fans care so deeply.
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  39.  Artuurs Z.  Detonation is initiated by shockwave. If an electrical spark manage to generate a shockwave of sufficient velocity then maybe.
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  40. This is why I've collected all the animated disney films on DVD's. With the "problematic" scenes of some older films intact. So I don't have to rely on shitty streaming services to act as custodians of childhood memories of mine.
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  41.  @LiamArdo89  Nobody gives a crap about Furiosa
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  42. Call me strange but... Even as a kid, I thought comic book super heroes were mostly cringe. I can distinctly remember the few I thought were interesting: Todd McFarlanes Spawn and The Punisher.
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  43.  @LA-qv1ir  You may note that pretty much every single so called "democratic socialist" country... Is still fundamentally capitalist, permitting stuff like free trade, private property and the right to EXPLOIT workers labour for your own profit. Why it's almost as if capitalism is the driving force to create wealth and thus improve people's way of life in general? :P Whatever gains "democratic socialist" countries make, they have capitalism to thank for it in the end.
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  44. "No one really grows or learns anything over the course of the story" So basically Disney Star Wars has become Seinfeld 😄
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  45. I'd rather have films INSPIRED by Star Wars and Jurassic Park, who may wear their inspiration on their sleeve, but still being their own stories than having remakes or "soft reboots" of Star Wars and Jurassic Park. Western culture simply can't evolve and move forwards if every cultural project just ends yp being a re-hash of an older one..
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  46. In all fairness, the Soviet Union wasn't as repressive towards culture as reputation have it cracked up to be. If you ask people who lived in it, they'll tell you that they were very familiar with culture and fiction from the "capitalist west". Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Spaghetti Westerns. All of them were read and viewed by a Soviet audience, with the blessings of the state. The reason for this is that despite the state socialism, the soviets mostly respected culture and saw exposure to it as an integral part to education, and they did implement statewide education quite successfully, turning a country of mostly illiterate farmers into a country where almost everyone was literate, and higher education produced engineers and scientists that made them win the space race. Their censors looked more to repressing works that directly and overtly contradicted the state or tried to spread dissent. So outright political texts would end up being censored, while storytelling and fiction were mostly left alone. There are more prominent examples of cultural censorship in other socialist states though, like China, Cambodia and North Korea. Their officials were among the first to think that stories from the capitalist west might inspire sedition among the population, which is why they censored more harshly.
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  47. Reminds me of Kathleen Kennedy and Star Wars 😁
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  48. Thank you Drinker, for turning all the bad and disappointing films coming out of Hollywood into entertaining and scathing review videos! You really know how to make lemonade out of those lemons 😆
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  49. @Dr. Freeman Just so. Hard to achieve that effect in a scene. You have to get in that sense of "the alien and the unknown". Works wonders for horror if you can pull it off, but not many can.
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  50.  @AndragonLea  Exactly. Every time it fails, it wasn't "real socialism". And it doesn't matter if an infinite amount of do-overs is required. The socialists will never concede that their ideology is a bad idea that simply doesn't work in practice.
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