I don’t care about the characters. You have a jaded war correspondent. And another jaded war correspondent. And a third jaded war correspondent. And a fourth war correspondent who’s young and isn’t quite jaded yet but who gets jaded at the end. That’s not interesting, and that’s not what I’m trying to buy when I throw down nearly 20 bucks for a ticket to a movie called “Civil War.”
$20 for a ticket? I wish.
I actually remember when $20 was enough for two, and a single snack.
I remember when the “chocolate” bars had chocolate in them. ~:D
When I was young in the previous millennium, Saturdays at the Strand theatre in Montreal bought you for 75 cents continuous running of two movies, a newsreel, a travelogue, a cartoon a big drink and popcorn with refills plus you could stay and watch them a second time if you wanted. Usually one movie was good the other not so good so you timed it so you see the good one twice. That’s when movies were worth attending.
There’s lots of non-Woke stuff happening now. Maybe not based stuff in particular but definitely non-Woke.
The new Ghostbusters for example.
And the new Dune especially.
Good things are happening.
Is the new Ghostbusters actually watchable?
I went with my GF to the all female disaster a few years ago. Last movie I saw in a theater. Painfully stupid. We walked out halfway through. Another remake that ruined a classic.
Ghostbusters Afterlife with Paul Rudd is faithful to the storyline and worth watching. I don’t know about the latest yet.
Yes it was fun. And non-Woke.
It’s effectively Ghostbusters 4 (sequel not Woke reboot with the female cast).
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson are all in it.
I have to respectfully disagree…
We saw both DUNE AND AFTERLIFE at the only remaining drive-in in the area, if not the state… For differing reasons, both were disappointments to me.
I don’t have a lot of skin in the game re either genre, but I felt DUNE was too crammed and rushed; they could have made a third movie and thereby ideally make all three movies better, and add more detail and depth to them. As for AFTERLIFE, well, I indeed found it woke, and poorly written enough that it effectively killed the revamped movie series and new characters for me; a shame, because I rather liked the first new movie, and had some hope for the second.
Ah well… You obtain perfection only in Heaven…
Are you talking about Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? The one that came out in March?
I am hyper sensitive to wokeness and was especially watching for it.
From the moment the Ghostbusters car is mowing down eco-bikes in the opening scene I figured it was going to be okay.
Paul Rudd literally being told he needs to man up and be an asshole in order to be the father figure he aspires to be (and then becomes).
Phoebe developing a friendship with a girl ghost and the LGTBQ+ crowd so badly wanting it to be lesbian and the movie denying it.
No racial awareness despite a diverse cast.
The big bad is basically creating an ice age when the environmental angle would obviously be global warming.
Ghostbusters thwarting the government and breaking rules at every turn they get.
Even an appearance by Patton Oswald was neutral.
It’s not based but I didnt hear it preach Woke.
Ooops! I meant FROZEN EMPIRE. Apologies!
I liked the ‘hero’ girl Phoebe, Jeff, but she went damned near full lesbian in it – I guess that’s compulsory nowadays – and none of the other new characters did it for me, so to speak. Why even hint at a relationship attempt at all? I mean, do we really greatly care about the relationship backgrounds of people being chased (and often eaten) by monsters?!
Maybe, in these my declining years, I’m getting harder to please!
I’m pretty much in agreement with you on both films. Dune is simply too big a story to fit in even two movies. The SyFy Channel miniseries does a pretty good job of it but the low budget is painfully obvious.
As for Ghostbusters – like Star wars, its obvious that neither the franchise owners nor the fans in general have any idea what made the original so appealing. It’s three lazy, unemployable slackers who get kicked out of their cushy university jobs and have to start their own dirty, exhausting, physically demanding pest control business just to eat. They succeed beyond their wildest dreams and at the climax realize that serving something greater than themselves is important. It’s a very American Dream, scrappy underdog, man’s man kind of film.
Every movie since, and especially the most recent two, has been aimed not at the traditionally male SNL audience of the first one, but the children and mothers of the children who bought the toys based on the cartoon released between I and II.
Personally, I detest the term “woke.” I don’t subscribe to using the past tense of “wake” as an adjective. In essence, it was just another example of the left bastardizing the language because the previous terminology started receiving ridicule (politically correct). Currently, the same thing is happening to this term. So, expect a hybrid to occur in the not too distant future. Also, expect said term to be used incorrectly.
+++Orson
Kate: Why am I being banned from commenting? All of my posts are getting dumped. Do I have a virus or something?
Nah, just bad breath and body odor.
I must need a vaccination or something, eh?
find out why a certain word means ‘add strength’ gets snagged;
cant get past the filter and that will be a clue to the rest of it
try it. that word, one word in the post and uhuh down the rabbit hole
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All I did was review a truly useless film tiled Stillwater … as in Stillwater, OK. But I did type the word les be ann … maybe that was the offending word … but it is essential to describe the plot and all the silly leftist diatribes.
Lesbian
or maybe after all this time and 10s 1000s posts and publicity and outrage and scandal and politics and offense mebbe a superhacker is watching sda
and playing tricks.
mayhbe its me
Probably because you are a moron.
I would think Kenji would be your intellectual superior.
“It’s a movie about a civil war. You can’t take politics out of it.”
Pretty hard to argue that.
The movie The Hunt was good because it was A) super violent B) took sides C) made liberals evil and Deplorables the Good Guys D) and the Hero was a rocking hot chick.
““It’s a movie about a civil war. You can’t take politics out of it.”
Pretty hard to argue that.”
And yet early ‘reviewers’ have tried to spread the message that it is NOT a movie about Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Yeah, suuuure it’s not…I believe you, really…
Sad to say four of us went to see that idiotic movie.
It was indeed boring. We kept waiting for some information about what was happening and why .. who was who and what side etc as the reviewer pointed out … nada … there was some dopey melodrama interrupted by extremely loud ordinance fire …. That impressive sound track of the explosions was the highlight of the movie as I see it … all the rest was tripe.
That was my take away from the trailer. Boring and stupid, with great special effects. Like everything else from Hollywood since 2010, except Marvel Studios who produced comic books.
Just reflect on that, for a second. The only watchable thing out of a whole fricking industry for fourteen years has been stories from kid’s comic books. Comics from the 1980s, to be precise. And now they’ve managed to f- that up as well.
There’s lots of terrific stuff out there but much like music you have to hunt it out. There’s an avalanche of trash in the way.
I don’t have the time, the inclination, nor the energy to sift that much chaff from the wheat.
Fug ’em. Fug ’em all.
Then don’t watch movies or listen to music then.
I do not remember ticket price last time I went to a movie. My date wanted to see the movie Gandhi.
Maybe on our 40th we will go and see a movie.
i watch most of my movies on airplanes. a captive audience
that being said . I went to Civil War in full sound laser projection . enjoyed it after the very slow first half.
had a surprise ending for me and one i liked. never picked up on it being anything to do with Trump
And, once again, I am seized by the sudden feeling that I should be grateful I gave up on Hollywood in favor of watching anime a long, long time ago! 🙂
Anime is mostly isekai trash, but we love it.
Highly recommend Kaiju #8 this season, it is a blast.