'Barbie' was awful on every level and once the Cult Programming wears off it will sink and become a strange relic of the early 21st Century Era of Mass Psychosis.
Except the students who went to THIS high school are a bunch of trust fund kids and nepotism hires who have never experience hardship in their lives. They've never had to fight in a war, struggle with serious illness or be forced to decide between paying utilities or buying food.
@leyenda6149 are you sure you want to know? A mate in the car 4 days ago actually told me about this reference. Can't beleive it came up so quickly. It references a porno called "2 girls 1 Cup"...they eat everything out of this cup that can come out of a human female, every hole.....
Pyramids weren't built by slaves, but competent, well paid construction teams. All modern archaeological evidence proves it.@@tonytandtherevengeofthecru9108
@@hermitcard4494I unfortunately agree. This is war and they’re not done yet and, if all of things I hear for the future do come true, they’re the ones who win.
It’s simple, you can’t make customers purchase your “entertainment” against their will. You either give them what they want or they will leave. No way around it.
@@natpalazzo8833 Anyone who gets effectively guilt-tripped into watching a mediocre multi-hundred-million dollar movie under the pretense that not doing so will actively kill marginalized groups or that you'll become a social pariah for it, deserves to get scammed.
You are correct. There is an "ebb & flow" to social engineering... the "woke" stuff got pushed really hard over the last few years... the backlash to it is appropriate... but attention spans are short and so much of it has already been normalized. After a little while they will come full circle from yin back to yang
Change is good, especially when it veers towards sanity. Though, for me, it's too late, my enthusiasm for Hollywood movies/shows/games has evaporated completely over these past five years - the withdrawal symptoms came and went and I'm now free of pop-culture. The last remains of my interest is watching, and listening to people like you, E. Chamberlain - who analyse the world of pop-culture andd skew a bit philosophical and who are playful in their use of language.
It's time we collectively grew up anyway. Liking entertainment is one thing, there's nothing wrong with that, but too many are addicted consumerists whose entire identities have become nothing but a corporate product. Grown men and women whose entire lives are dedicated to some movie, game or TV franchise, it's pathetic.
Hopefully you have a nice collection of Blu Rays and Dvds circa prior to 2020 to keep you entertained. That's what keeps me going. Watching the good stuff and forgetting the last 4 years has produced anything at all.
That's the one good thing that came out of the woke era. The fact that it made me snap out of being a consumer. I do like the nostalgic stuff, but I only dabble in it now and then, so now I have a lot of free time and I use that to focus it on non-pop culture stuff, and my life is much better for it.
@@robertbarga3694having tangible copies of tv and film is essential, since these streaming platforms are deleting scenes deemed politically incorrect. Both Netflix and Prime completely butchered Tropic Thunder for example.
Correction: "pussy" referring to a coward or weak person has nothing to do with the vagina, it's actually a shortened version of pusillanimous. Which is itself a derivation from late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis
@@jonathananderson5990 Etymology: The noun pussy meaning "cat" comes from the Modern English word puss, a conventional name or term of address for a pet cat. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) says that cognates are common to several Germanic languages, including Dutch poes and Middle Low German pūse, which are also used to call a cat.
@@SevereMkII Fascinating stuff. I was thinking "pussycat" and "scaredy cat" may have had some vague connection to pusillanimous, or something along those lines. But ah well. English!😂 😂 Thanks man.
@@jonathananderson5990English is a fascinating language, mostly because there's no rhyme or reason for how any of it works unless you are deep into etymology.
@@SevereMkII It's fascinating that this particular theme is mirrored in the German language. "Muschi" is a word that was once used for house cats. Over time it has become synonymous for vagina and as a consequence it was/is used to insult a man for his weakness/cowardice.
I'm very skeptical if this stuff is actually going to go away. These same people are known for doubling down every time they take an L. It might become unfeasible for business since it turns away so many people, but even after that, it will persistently cling onto what power it still has.
It's not a matter of what they do, but what those with the financial power and decision making capability do. These 'people' have been around for many decades, but because no one with money or decision making authority listened to them, they caused no significant harm. It's only because of the push by financiers that we've seen this disgusting result.
@@Sorain1 Yes, it did come from the top down rather than a legit grassroots movement, which does make it easier to get rid of, but at the same time the money and power these people hold now is just unfathomable. If they are that deranged to keep going even when they're 100% in the wrong, then these fanatics aren't going anywhere.
@@Sorain1they’ve been around for a lot longer. Try centuries? Not to mention the 112 countries they’ve been expelled them due to this degeneracy and immortality.
Hollywood lost me twice: First, the so-called Me Too movement, which seems to have mostly been an excuse to move established talents out of Hollywood (e.g., Joss Whedon, John Lasseter) for "saying mean things" and "hugging" -- them replacing them with untalented, inexperienced show runners (in the words of Cartman, "put a woman in it and make her gay"). Second, when the untalented show runners, etc. started blaming the audiences for their lousy products.
Not mention the overt politics jammed into everything 2016 on …which I include as Orange Man Bad, George Floyd Worship, White Men bad, America bad, anti fa are heroes)
I think some of the earliest cases MIGHT have had some legitimacy but once it was discovered that the accused would just be fired without evidence or a hearing and special interest groups got involved it became a way to get men out of jobs and sliding in women, and not just women, but women who were part of their special interest groups giving them more power.
Was Harvey Weinstein a friend of yours? If Me Too had only been about sexual harassment, we could have lived with it. The rise in the tide of Wokism probably had more to do with Black Lives Matter. Hmmm, can you remember why all the Gay and Transexual Crap became so hyper-important. Was there some controversy I had forgotten? yeah, maybe, you're right, that EVERYTHING rode on the Back of Me Too and the Woman's March on Washington, because the Organizers were all devout Marxist Post Modernists and simply recruited all those angry women for the next step from their Revolutionary Playbook. .
The problem is Hollywood uses their "diversity" AS their personality now. They don't have motivations, angles, or goals. They're little more than re-plastered stereotypes, that studios have gaslit people into believing is a positive thing, It's the modern day version of The King's new clothes.
I'm not entirely convinced. Barbie made a pile of money, and in the midst of the girlie fest, there was the woke whiny message. I could see them changing the delivery system (the narrative, the story, whatever) but still sneak in their propaganda. They're just going to be more manipulative about it.
The deceitful marketing as well as the movie being made in a way women actually like helped, but the fact remains that Barbie is an anomaly. Almost all woke films aren't well made because any and all talent and professionalism are either held back or removed and whoever is left comes up with mediocre content at best. Edit: Let's not forget Ryan Gosling😅
It shows all the more that their goals are based on agenda's and propaganda. They aren't making entertainment to create entertainment and generate income. The horrendous losses the have made only serve to damage society as it is. We are seeing an entire generation of post-modernist brainwashed indoctrinated conditioned youths and millennials who suffer from mental depressions, financial poverty and physical degenerations. This is exactly what they want. To destroy the future by destroying the younger generations one step at a time, one movie at a time. The terrible thing about it, is that those damage peoples are protecting their own destroyers. Meaning that they are psychologically warped into utter oblivion. We are dealing with actually war crimes here, yet people are not aware of it yet. They think this is still political.
I disagree, It isn't over until they repeal identity quotas. List your top 10 favorite films; could they be greenlit today? Would a story like the ones in your list be altered for DEI? What would a modern sensitivity reader do with them? Until the answer to that question is "those jobs no longer exist", it's not even close to over. And while theaters are empty, the accolades from the bubble of legacy media and social media still exist. No, it's not over. The bean counters may have finally started grumbling, but they are still not as loud as the chants of "put a chick in it, make it gay and lame!"
Then its time to start watching dubbed Japanese, Russian, south korean movies. Heck, who knows how many undiscovered hidden gems are out there. Surely there are countries that pump out movies without the ESG DEI stuff.
We aren't out of this. Saw second Dune. They turned Chani into, quite nearly, the lead. She is literally leading in front of the main character (Paul) on the poster. She spends the entire movie showing how much smarter and more capable she is than any other character, how she sees through the work of the Bene Gesserit, and how she can perceive things way beyond her culture and time, etc. She is OP as hell, going from barely a mention to being the main supporting actor. In the book, her main role was one of lover and bearer of child. Now, she is a whiny, super-fighting, transcendent, and manish leader of the main character. The movie was, beyond being a fantastic film at a technical level, an anti-colonial and gynocentric film.
To give credit to the movie, it has a LOT else going for it, including the worms. Again, the technical filming was great. I don't meant to ruin it for you. There is so much they did well for a book that was not well suited for film. Frankly, so much of the book is descriptions of thoughts and strategies and histories, there is really not a lot of action and dialogue for its length. It is descriptions of thoughts of visions of perceptions on centuries of strategy, you know. You can't easily convey that with a movie. They just did to Chani what they did to so many other female characters - made them greater at the expense of other characters by having her show them how to do things they would already know or having her realize things she could not possibly realize (like the entire culture of her planet was planned and the prophecies of her faith were a setup). There are several scenes where she and her other young female friends outwardly mock the religion upon which the entire society of the Freman is based - which is both ridiculous (how would she think to do this?) and deadly (the other Freman would kill her for blasphemy). It is continuous throughout the film. It was enough to make my eyes twitch during so many scenes of an otherwise decent adaptation. @@HenryLeslieGraham
It wouldn't matter to me if Hollywood realized their error and issued a groveling apology. No amount of damage control is going to make me forget who these people are, what their true agendas are, and who they despise. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's done.
At least this point, I'd be good with going back to just "fun". Maybe asking for quality narrative and character development is too much. I would settle for 80s action fun in a heartbeat
There is something wrong with all of it and the people are responding. It's sad that it took for them to go after kids for people to "Wake" up and notice. Down with the Blue Rainbows!!!
Never before in my 18 Years of watching RU-vid has the first Sentence of a Video catched me so off Guard and made me flinch in utter Confusion. I guess I sould congratulate you.
Wow, great take. Enjoyed that one. Reason - with a capital R - really is like fresh air when you encounter it. Fortunately, we seem to be finding more green shoots of the stuff, even with films like Damsel and Madam Web still polluting the air like a fart in an elevator. It'll still take time for the air to truly clear, as you rightly observed.
Jesus Christ Almighty! Sometimes yt's algo gives a real treasure in form of this channel. After an enormous amount of laughter in only first 30 seconds of the video, I barely scraped myself from the floor to continue watching this masterpiece of an exercise in sarcastic cynicism.
Men, let’s stick together and find a way benefit from modern stupidity. Personally I sit back, watch, learn and invest wisely. Pick my battles and come out on top. Like always.
Not sure 2024 will make it feel like it’s past peak, and why has it taken so long before it feels like things might change. Is Hollywood religious about identity politics or stupid, or maybe both.
Entertaining video, thank you for sharing. I would like to think that you are correct about Hollywood being in a post-woke era. However, until I see Kevin Feige & Kathleen Kennedy and their acolytes fired/retired then woke is alive and well. It is just a bit quieter, just a step back from being loud and proud an inch from your face. These people are true believers with no regrets about what they tried. They are just realizing that their approach was commercially inept. They will reassess, recalibrate, and reevaluate. They will never change their ideology, but hopefully adjust their heavy-handed approach so that their product at least is entertaining to a mass audience instead of being either offensive or just boring.
Very well said, and also very entertaining. Due credits mentionned for both sides of the matter, but without pulling your punches on the faults. Loved it.
Wokeism is just another fad, and it will pass like every other fad.There have been so many in my life that I can’t even remember them all. From the bra-burning feminists of the 1960s(even Gloria Steinem ended up getting married), the free-love hippies(an excuse to hook up), disco (another excuse to hook up) The conspicuous consumption of the 80s, all of these are just fads that have all faded away in time. They say this, too, shall pass. But what they don’t tell you is that sometimes it passes like a kidney stone, painfully with screaming and meds.
Diversity inflation is something that really throws me, especially in fantasy. Case in point: The Dragon Prince, which I generally liked for the first few seasons, but I started noticing it as things when on. For example, you had the Commander who was 1. Deaf, 2. Commander of the Army despite being a woman and deaf, and 3. later you find out she is a lesbian, because she gets engaged to her elf rival. You then find 2 other gay couples throughout the story, 1. The lesbian Queens of one of the other countries (which doesn't work in the slightest given how royal succession and bloodlines work), and 2. Rayla's commander is gay as well. At this point I was looking at this and thinking, "The odds that we would have 3 gay couples that are all important to the plot in a fantasy setting is so outside the realm of possibility that this just takes me out of the experience". It really just feels like they were just trying to cram in as much representation as possible (but making sure to do it with side characters to get normal people to follow the story). They are trying just a little too hard.
I'm not sold on the "end is near" prognostications. Even Dune 2 couldn't help steering Chani away from her fate of being a concubine, which is canon. I don't think woke is going anywhere, they're just going to try and disguise it better, which is not a real solution.
Bill Mahar had made a lot of quotes that are either hit or miss. The following one is definitely a hit; "No matter how ‘woke’ you think you are, you are tolerating things right now that will make you cringe in 25 years."
Not even close. People keep thinking "duh they lost lots of money we're winning" when the Karl cult objective was to *pull down the cultural statues* to make way for the glorious revolution. Luke, Indy, Bond, Hulk, Mad Max, Peter Pan, John Connor, Boba Fett, Witcher, Thor, everyone. If it was about money they would have changed course 50 movies ago. It's obviously social engineering at any cost. If you deviate from the cult's dogma even slightly you don't work in the town again. They thought they could keep it up until the glorious revolution eliminated choice, that's all. Now they are forced to make it less obvious, but nothing else will change.
We shall see. Yes, more Hollywood people are cluing in to the fact that their recent (within the past, say, 5 +/- years ) projects are failures, but that doesn't mean that they are any less committed to "The Message". And the biggest problem of all, is that those people have ruined all, or nearly all, of the major traditional entertainment franchises. There is just no un-ringing that bell. Time will tell if they change.
I think that the people running Hollywood won't give up on woke until they have completely burnt everything to the ground. What we need is alternatives to Hollywood.
The one good thing that came out of this whole woke nonsense is that it made me snap out of being a consumer and a pop culture fan. It made me realize that it was time for me to grow up anyway, so now I spend more time on non-pop culture stuff. Don't get me wrong, I dig all the nostalgic stuff, but I only dabble in it every now and then, like when I have some free time I would watch a movie like UNCLE BUCK, or a Hitchcock thriller, or read some classic Lee/Romita Spider-man back issues, but other than that, I have now realised I have more important things to do with my life than be infatuated with pop culture.
Well said Sir. Money made Hollywood what it is today. Wealth in such quantity made them so guilty, that they needed a way to purge the sins from all those cars, airplanes, boats and houses. And through such acts, thought themselves above the rest of us. One is reminded of the "smug cloud" in Southpark. In reality, they were far below the average American- but no one will tell you that when you have money. Now all that money is flying away. Here's a stat for you. In 1998, video game sales surpassed ticket sales- and no one in Hollywood even noticed. The need for profit is suddenly becoming clear in Hollywood- and many a mea culpa is being performed... Personally, I think it too late for Hollywood. I think independent creators will slowly surpass them via the web. There will be the occasionally pony found in a mountain of horse excrement- but that will be most rare. "Put a chick in it! Make her gay! Make it lame!" still has quite the hold. I think it a stranglehold.
And I disagree with you. _Barbie_ succeeded because it strategically tapped into the unfulfilled nostalgia of women who grew up loving their dolls. Then the bandwagon effect of the "Barbenheimer" meme kicked it into overdrive. Sure, the bait-and-switch was there, but they absolutely did not need it to fill the theaters.
