I just saw this on streaming. I don't get why it is getting such high praise. It is exactly as was advertised by the woke marketing. It's female led boring trash. The main character was carried the entire movie, primary the butt of jokes and is generally useless. In fact other than a few specific scenes, nearly all the male characters are useless.
Sam Rigel's Scanlan was a way better character than this crap.
The plot was so lame, especially with the intended victims easily running out of the area of effect at the end.
This deserved to bomb at the cinema.
Congratulations, you've learned what astroturfing is.
Some people take a little longer than others to figure it out
It's because our Monkey Brain's really aren't equipped to rationalize something like that on such a wide scale. The masses are easily swayed not because of propaganda per say but because of group action, monkey see monkey do.
Those of us that have that more "Zoomed out" viewpoint can call it like it is but you get labeled a <Leftie insult> for calling it as it is.
It gets high praise because it was marketed 'correctly.' The critic apparatus is just an automatic endorsement for insiders. I knew something was badly wrong when I saw they managed to make a Tiefling look frumpy. Then the director opened his big fat mouth.
Everyone was expecting it to be a completely unwatchable dumpster fire filled with massive woke propaganda. But then it it turned out to be "only" mediocre and its woke propaganda was "only" subtle, so critics heaped high praise on it for surpassing their abysmal expectations. In other words: just more celebration of mediocrity.
Was the woke subtle or it just threw a bone to the male characters?
I haven't seen it, so I can't tell you myself. I'm just going off what the critics say, which is that the female characters are universally more competent than the males, with the lead being a useless idiot bard who fights with his instrument and doesn't cast spells (which goes against what bards can do at least in 5e).
Nobody posting here is part of the target audience for D&D anymore.
Chris Pine has a bad habit of being a useless male in his movies. He's in charge, but everyone else is better... always.
I've never understood why he was popular- other than being eye candy for the ladies. I first saw him in the 2009 Star Trek movie and hated it and him. I can't think of a film I've seen him in that I care for.
He was good in Into the Spiderverse
He was in that for all of 7.5 minutes then died to make way for the new Spider-poc. The other older Spider-Man, who is a burnout, is voiced by Jake Johnson, one of the guys from New Girl with Zoey Deschanel.
And for 7.5 minutes he wasn't a terrible character.
In Wonder Woman he was even the 'eye candy'.
Very true
It's already on streaming? rofl
No
Already on public trackers
Rip quality?
That is good to know.
Anyways, the other guy was saying "already on streaming" meaning legal services.
says 2160 hdr 5.1 for the biggest one
Who gave it high praise? All the red pill review guys I have seen on YouTube rated it as more feminist crap.
People like Critical Drinker was saying it was not bad. Just another point I disagree with him on I guess.
I guess he wants to like stuff. His recommendations are not that great but he does make good movies describing why woke movies are bad.
It was OK.
My barometer for wokeness is would this be out of place in the late 90s/early 2000s, and it didn't seem particularly bad based off of that.
Yes there were no strong white men but overall it didn't feel explicitly anti-white or anti-male.
Mainly it was just petty dull. iMO the plot did an decent job of replicating the kind of action that would not be unexpected in a tabletop campaign, the fat dragon stood out in particular for that.
Damn my man I am watching that now. 1080p. I dunno where they get these files.