The demand for black female actors FAR outstrips the supply of good ones.
There just aren't many great black female actors, while they're being shoved into everything. With every film and ad and show requiring at least one, they're hiring from the bottom of the barrel.
A diverse cast just tells you all you need to know about how much the production cares about merit or talent. Nine times out of ten it means it's safe to skip.
Another plague on modern cinema are ugly actresses which is becoming increasingly more common. How much more enjoyable would Guardians of the Galaxy have been if the lead actress had pleasant facial features? No escapism for you! Yet somehow the actors haven't gotten uglified, and women get to keep their eye candy. Strange that.
As always; don't pay to support anything that would please a SJW, for whatever reason, be it a woke script or diverse casting.
None of this is an accident. They've coded these characters in terms of likeability based on progressive criteria, such as gender, race, age, sexuality, etc. Or at least, they've tried to do so. The interracial couple was also propaganda and if the Asian is really the only criminal who is competent, then that is also racial coding.
Top critics at RT give it 55% fresh and 5.5 in terms of quality.
I won't dispute any of the above, but I would like to point out that the violence is the focus and it isn't really touched upon above. I went into the theater expecting over the top campy violence with Christmas themed one liners, and that is exactly what I got. Bad guys murdered with candy canes, snow blowers, ice skates, light strings, you name it.
Further, the only 'unequivocally good' adult character, the black wife referenced above, assists Santa with a captured rifle that she knows how to use because she went hunting with her dad as a kid, which was to me a pro-second amendment message coming from the character I least expected.
This was my first theater trip since the scamdemic, and I not only had no regrets, but I went back again and watched it with a second group of friends and family. And I enjoyed it just as much the second time, despite the complete lack of surprise.
This movie will be joining Sharknado in my guilty pleasure rewatch list.
Has David Harbour ever made an action movie that didn’t suck?
Ty for heads up, was close to checking it out but now I wont!
I don't mind interracial couples when the man is white. Then it is colonization.
For a decent "Santa kicks butt" movie check out Fatman with the mighty Mel Gibson.
The demand for black female actors FAR outstrips the supply of good ones.
There just aren't many great black female actors, while they're being shoved into everything. With every film and ad and show requiring at least one, they're hiring from the bottom of the barrel.
A diverse cast just tells you all you need to know about how much the production cares about merit or talent. Nine times out of ten it means it's safe to skip.
Another plague on modern cinema are ugly actresses which is becoming increasingly more common. How much more enjoyable would Guardians of the Galaxy have been if the lead actress had pleasant facial features? No escapism for you! Yet somehow the actors haven't gotten uglified, and women get to keep their eye candy. Strange that.
As always; don't pay to support anything that would please a SJW, for whatever reason, be it a woke script or diverse casting.
There's demand?
where Santa married a black woman. blegh
None of this is an accident. They've coded these characters in terms of likeability based on progressive criteria, such as gender, race, age, sexuality, etc. Or at least, they've tried to do so. The interracial couple was also propaganda and if the Asian is really the only criminal who is competent, then that is also racial coding.
Top critics at RT give it 55% fresh and 5.5 in terms of quality.
I have enough Christmas movies to choose from so I'm good.
Let's see got muppets Christmas Carol, the grinch, it's a wonderful life, Elf, the Santa clause, home alone, Die hard...
I won't dispute any of the above, but I would like to point out that the violence is the focus and it isn't really touched upon above. I went into the theater expecting over the top campy violence with Christmas themed one liners, and that is exactly what I got. Bad guys murdered with candy canes, snow blowers, ice skates, light strings, you name it.
Further, the only 'unequivocally good' adult character, the black wife referenced above, assists Santa with a captured rifle that she knows how to use because she went hunting with her dad as a kid, which was to me a pro-second amendment message coming from the character I least expected.
This was my first theater trip since the scamdemic, and I not only had no regrets, but I went back again and watched it with a second group of friends and family. And I enjoyed it just as much the second time, despite the complete lack of surprise.
This movie will be joining Sharknado in my guilty pleasure rewatch list.
I too found the movie to be an enjoyable romp and for me the action was just good fun. The violence really was in good spirits a a pun.
Santa being a Viking with skull crusher was just good fun for me
Sure I agree with some of the op statements but it actually fit the purpose of a movie. I was entertained
Interesting. Is it worth a watch when it’s on streaming? Sounds pretty much in line with current day Hollywood
Gotcha. Thanks. That’s another casualty of this obsession with identity politics. So easy to predict how characters will be.