MovieChat Forums > Candyman (2021) Discussion > A depressing, egotistical, too woke tale...

A depressing, egotistical, too woke tale about stuff that should be important.


The original movie was also some sort of depressing, but it had moments of soft camp for me and that together with the important message...made the movie for me.

But, this movie was depressing, had egotistical characters...
Don't get me wrong...I think woke stuff is needed in todays media...but this film went somewhat too far with it. And by doing that the important message became overshadowed by it.

I still gave it a 6, just because the soundtrack, the cinematography, some acting, make-up/sfx were good.

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Don't get me wrong...I think woke stuff is needed in todays media...


WTF? The absolute cancer that is woke should be cut out of society, burned and destroyed utterly, never to return.

It’s an evil, racist, sexist creed that exists only to divide people into arbitrary groups and pit them against each other.

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All things have good parts and bad parts...everything.

You can have "good" woke, if it's in good doses.

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maybe.

but it's not coming in doses. it's everywhere!

i just started to watch some doc on prime, and i turned it off after 2m because the opening lines were about how music creates a gender neutral, inclusive world.

you can't escape this stuff.

it's like the world is now designed to give me a stroke.

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Wokeness is just the new western religion, and religions cannibalize every aspect of life. Two centuries ago, music brought you to God. Nowadays, it brings you to neutral gender and inclusivity.

Music is just music. It can be great, or shitty, or anything in between, but it doesn't carry any message (lyrics aside), and it doesn't need to. Good luck explaining that to somebody carried by an enlightened religious rapture, though.

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i work for a religious homeless shelter, one that has many people in senior positions who are what you would think of as being standard religious conservatives with all the beliefs and world-views that implies.

As usual, you're jumping to your own conclusions and assigning them to me.

I haven't said that religious people are bad. Quite the contrary: they try to do what they think it's right. That includes Wokes, Christians and other religions. Even a Muslim guy who beheads the non-believer, he does it because he thinks it's the correct thing to do: it's better to behead one person than to let future generations burn in Hell for Eternity because they were not brought to True Faith.

They're usually portrayed in movies as evil guys that enjoy being evil, but it's the opposite: they're people who do what they do because they think it's the morally right thing to do.

we do not need constant reminders drilled into our heads of equity and diversity and acceptance.

Well, once you accept True Faith, it becomes The Most Important Thing in the World. And once you're found The Most Important Thing in the World, you actually need constant reminders. And don't get me wrong: it's for your own good, because everything else pales, everything else is secondary in comparison with The Most Important Thing in the World.

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the only people who think woke is "evil" are the people who wish minority voices would be silenced. so thanks for showing your colors, and the colors you hate.

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Now this is something you see every day, every hour, every minute. I mean, oooh… it said the W word. The W Boogeyman has been summoned! (It constantly is on these boards and in con safe spaces in general.) U know what that means? What a… what a big time reactionary snowflake! XD Yeah, sounds about altright. Too alwhite.

Zzz - the broken record reactionary propaganda and crying up in this mofo. That’s mostly all there is up in this projecting red pill joint for those who haven’t noticed. Yeah, so preaching to that “edgy” righty babybro choir you are, OP. But the entertainment industry, though it still has a long way to go actually, keeps making righties and bigots (one in the same in most cases, let’s be real) mad cuz they’re not keeping things “traditional” and dare to insult those faux news ideals by telling more and more maga-disapproved stories, lol. Stay mad, chuds.

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A member of the True Faith ☝🏻

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We must join Drac to summon the woke around the world and across the Galaxy!!! Muahahahahahaaa

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