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I agree completely. It was dull. Critics made a lot of fuss of the show but audiences weren't interested. It was identity politics above all else.
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They have race-swapped Cameron Cook to black. I suppose it's a fairly restrained effort.
I think it is a bad era. I also suspect that we simply find movies less entertaining and satisfying nowadays regardless of quality. It's easy to look back to some successful cheesy crap from the 80s (e.g. Look Who's Talking, Three Men and a Baby, Twins) and identify all of its shortcomings, but audiences back then left cinemas feeling satisfied and even uplifted in a way they don't today. In the past movies provided audiences with what they wanted to a greater degree than they do today. Also, every member of a family could get something from the same movie, whereas now it seems that movies are laser-focused on a much smaller demographic. There's also a growing feeling of deja vu. Maybe I'm getting old and I've seen too many films, or the content really is becoming more similar, with too many franchises and reboots, and too few genres being covered. There's just no magic nowadays, only hype.
His point is that it's racist to dwell on the sins of one group of people while ignoring the same sins committed by other groups. I don't know that it's racist per se, but slavery and the actions of some white Americans certainly seem to have weaponised against modern white Americans more generally, which is neither fair nor productive. I think he's correct about the Native American land grabs and their other behaviour. It's beyond me why people present Stone Age tribes - whether they were Maori or Comanche - as noble and responsible when they practised genocide, mass rape, slavery and cannibalism as a matter of course. They were no better than the European colonisers who unseated them, just less developed.
I would say it's the new goth or emo - something to mark yourself out as different and irritate your parents. The non-binary stuff is definitely a fad. It's easy to claim the status without changing your behaviour or making permanent changes.
The next instalment will feature a five-year-old girl killing predators with a crayon. The sooner the girlboss trend dies out, the better.
This gender-swapping stuff only goes in one direction though. There seem to be fewer and fewer positive male protagonists with every passing year. If Hollywood still wants male viewers, it's an issue.
I also liked it less and less as it went on. By the end it was just ridiculous. The comparisons to the British kids' TV show Ghostwatch are apt, as it was about as subtle (though actually much less scary).
I wish it could have gone in a different direction, as the film-makers clearly put a lot of effort into creating the 70s setting. It felt wasted.
Their... music... is... so... slow.
It's the musical equivalent of Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle.
Sounds very similar to Special Circumstances in Iain Banks' Culture novels
Agreed. It's really well written compared to the vast majority of today's shows. Nothing groundbreaking, it's true, but the dialogue's sharp and the characters are interesting. It has an easygoing vibe that reminds me of Lodge 49 and the first season of Hap and Leonard. Cutting the Dragon Queen's story out would have tightened it up considerably, but that's my only complaint.
It is. It's a Scooby-Doo mystery for grown-up thickos. The central question isn't interesting because the main characters aren't. Who cares if it's murder or not? Nothing changes.
It's impossible to care. What a dull film.
Wow. Having watched the trailer, it just seems so unoriginal, like it's made up of parts of other movies. Post-apocalypse, friendly robots, a road trip, an eccentric older man, the inevitable action sequences... If someone told me ChatGPT came up with the plot I would believe them.
Ah, so black men who don't want to vote for Harris are misogynists? Perhaps they have other reasons for voting another way?
What if - heaven forbid - people voted for the policies they wanted instead?
Would anyone DARE to tell women - of any colour - the same?
You must have hated the 90s!
Will Ferrell (except for Elf)
Anne Hathaway
Vin Diesel
Timotee Chamalamalamlay (or whatever it's called)
She was a disaster for the UK and we're still feeling the effects of her recklessness today. Her supply-side boost was weak and unrepeatable, while she did lasting damage to the housing market, industrial strategy and the labour market. She gave us privatisation, neoliberalism and deregulation. Her policies tore up communities and the social compact between people and the state. She destroyed the mining communities and offered no support or retraining. Hers was a selfish, short-termist and destructive ideology that benefited the rich at the expense of the poor. Once again, she was a disaster for the UK.
Also, if your metric for the worth of a political leader is the number of elections won, I imagine you're similarly enamoured of Tony Blair, given that he also won three general elections.