Didn't look like it will be, and Drinker thought it was pretty good, so I have decided to sail for it. He noted that there were some woke shit in it, but not much, but there were several he did not mention.
The IRL male protag describes his earlier life as "failed dreams, desperation, and a mountain of college debt", which is declared by his non-white coworker as "horrible and boring and full of white privilege".
A female eyecandy NPC upon gaining some level of independence / sentience "wrote a memoir that's a searing indictment of gender roles, the patriarchy. It's a little preachy in parts but, over all, it's pretty good."
The main female protag: "The first time I kiss a non-toxic guy in, like, forever [...]" There is of course a lame basement-dwelling loser gamer featured, who also has a "special sock" he doesn't want his mom to touch.
When the game world is compared to the IRL one: "See a lot of gun violence in your world? - Actually, that's a big problem, Guy. It's a massive problem." --- you could give this one a pass as there definitely are problems with gun violence, but adding it up with the pacifist story this does come off as anti-gun.
There are other comments in the movie I felt were OK, since this is a GTA-style mayhem game, so it is not a surprise that people's behaviour ingame would be perceived as awful. ("Sometimes I forget not everyone you meet on here is a sociopathic man-child." or Eyecandy NPC: "- I don't have to be with any guy. - Right? Exactly. Most of them are awful. - They really are. - Terrible.")
All in all there was definitely fun to be had, with some genuinely hilarious moments, as well as some surprisingly heartfelt parts. The positive characters were all quite likeable, and the actors were well cast for them.
The movie is mostly entertaining, especially for someone into gaming, who can at least tolerate Ryan Reynolds doing what he always does.
Wasn't as good as I had hoped, and definitely not as free of wokeness.
At least the stronk wahman doing everything important and men being bumbling idiots that contribute nothing stuff wasn't present. Well, technically, it was, as a high level female player is shown to be excellent at the game, and a level 1 male NPC is shown to be a bumbling idiot in comparison, but considering the setting that makes sense. Also, after leveling up considerably, the male NPC became a badass.
If you have zero tolerance for wokeness, skip this. Otherwise, it's a decent watch for sure.
(Unrelated, but I have turned off and deleted Candyman after 15 minutes or so, that one was way too woke.)
Don't give them an inch.
There is no "gun violence" problem, there is a "shitty criminal culture" problem. That problem is entirely containing with a handful of cities that a have a high population % of non-whites and have been run exclusively by democrats decades.
I’ll never understand why if I stab someone to death it’s my fault. If I shoot someone it’s the guns fault
If you aren't white then its "racism's" fault.
If you are white then its your fault for being an oppressor. Also take away guns because rednecks like them.
I stand corrected.
Fair point.
Is it funded by Jewish pedophiles that wish to destroy my livelihood and culture?
Don't know about your livelihood, but it is a Hollywood movie, so the rest pretty much checks out.
replying again because this is all I do, but Free Guy SUCKED
It was like someone saw Lego Movie, watched one stream of COD mobile, and thought "lets combine these two"! Except without any of the attempts at subtlety with in-universe humor that kept Lego Movie enjoyable.
It had the classic "movie within a movie" problem of Last Action Hero where the audience has no reason to give a shit about the in-movie plot and not enough time and energy was spent making them care about the "real world" wrapper.
Lego Movie worked since the the fantasy world that was built was taken seriously by the characters because the writers wrote them playing it straight. You can't do that with a video game analogue because there cant be any stakes for the NPCs, the NPC has to come back the exact same as before for the game analogy to work.
The idea of an NPC having the same persistence of a PC means there is a break in the premise but that is never addressed (Oh I started leveling!)
Maybe I'm just too old or haven't played any of the genre of game that this movie is based on but I couldn't even begin to suspend enough disbelief to shut off my brain and "have fun" with this one. One of the few that I (barely) sat through and then immediately deleted of my PLEX server.
I get where you are coming from, but personally had little problem turning my brain off and just enjoy this movie enough to not want the time back that I have spent on it.
With how shit most of the stuff we get is these days it was somewhat of a fresh air for me.
The part that honestly bugged me the most (okay, besides the "being in massive debt" somehow being white privilege) was the beta males. Everyone was a beta except DUDE, who was incredibly stupid.
Best example, the main male character. He pines over this girl for the entire movie while she completely ignores him and only comes to him when she needs help, or to save her NPC boyfriend. Then at the end (spoilers) she blows him off when he asks her to coffee and the NPC tells her that the main character loves her. Then she rushes off to find him? Seriously?
Girls know if they like a guy as more than a friend within days, most times hours of meeting them. No, the reality is he would have continued to chase her and she would have continued to use him when it was convenient. And the whole thing was treated as "oh it was worth it, he gets the girl," so dumb.
You have a point, and it was very visible when Guy asked for permission to kiss the chick, while when the chick wanted to kiss him she just grabbed him and went for it.
But the way the story and the world was set up it didn't bother me as much as it probably bothered you. For example, Guy was essentially a virgin who have never kissed anyone before, and being an NPC he also didn't understand a lot about how human stuff works. Whereas when she kissed him she was trying to bring his memories back, and they knew that seeing her was what originally triggered him on his path.
The main male character was always shown to be an introvert coder, someone like him not being able to make a move is par for the course for someone like that. Also, the girl was always buried in the games, first the one they made, and then in Free City to find their code in it. Not paying much attention to the outside world, and the people around her felt believable, and was actually a point Guy himself made near the end. Not to mention that she came off as an introvert herself, so to me this was ultimately OK.
Also, call me a pussy, if you want, but I liked that they hooked up in the end. We need some positive shit in movies, a lot of them are depressing these days, even if unintentionally.
You actually made some really good points, makes the ending feel a little more natural.
What is Free Guy?
If this is a genuine question, Free Guy is a movie.
Okay. Never heard about it.
Re: Candyman being woke. I'm absolutely unsure how a slasher movie about a very scary-ass supernatural black man can possibly be "woke", but man, they sure must have gone out of their way to do it. Unless it's just hoodrats getting off on a black guy killing white chicks, but if it were the other way around it'd be "waaaayciiiiis".
Edit: I'm finding I'm not remembering the original too well, maybe, but I only saw it maybe once, and that through my fingers.
About a minute after the main black couple discusses how the womans gay black brother must like his gay white partner since he is really showing his ass to him. Then they talk about how "White people built the ghetto and then erased it, when they realized they built the ghetto."
And about five minutes later the main black couple are talking about white supremacy, and how "it creates these spaces of rampant neglect for communities of color, in particular, Black communities.". Also "One white woman dies in the hood, and the story lives on forever.".
That was the time when I have noped out.
Ugh.
No, white people built buildings and infrastructure. It's the inhabitants that turn it "ghetto".
What I figured. Jordan Peele can’t speak for two minutes without talking about race. I feel he could do a good job if he focused on the story. I loved Original TZ and 80s version. I had no desire to see his version.
Yeah, but Get Out also had a racial component to it, but I was still able to enjoy it.
I would’ve enjoyed Get Out 10 or 15 years ago but by the time I saw it I was already tired of racial narratives. I’m black and a lot of the cousins I grew up with push the “I’m oppressed” nonsense so I grew tired of it a while back. Get Out was ok to me when I saw it. I guess my main beef is that nowadays anytime there is racism in the storyline it doesn’t look at it from different views. Just the usual far left talking points.
With Get Out it didn't feel as much in your face as with this one. It felt more like a consequence of the setting and the story. With this it felt it is the setting and the story they want to start from.
Gotcha. I can see that.
Thankfully I didn't pay to watch a HD rip of the movie. I hate woke shit like this. It's like seeing a worm in your otherwise gourmet food.