Yeah, I didn't know any of this and I watched it a few days ago. I had half seen the trailer and it just looked like a "cranky old man complains at everyone" comedy.
What a bait and switch. I knew I should have turned it off the second the trans character got introduced but I decided to give it a chance to get better...maybe one day I'll learn that will never happen.
he hated people who wouldn't drivy Chevys but he just instantly accepts a trans person
Haven’t seen it but this is so on par with Hollywood’s magical thinking. Literally no one has any negative thoughts about genderspecials unless they are clearly the villain. I like art portraying itself as realistic to actually reflect reality, even if it’s uncomfortable for people who are always one day without validation away from suicide.
Thats such a Hollywood view of “normal people” the avg middle class blue collar American has brand loyalty to a car brand and hates people who doesn’t also have that same brand loyalty. My immediate family has had very unfortunate luck with Chrysler/jeep/dodge vehicles and the Ford we owned was a pain to work on… so it’s Chevy and foreign made cars as our preference just because of our negative experience with the other 2 major US brands. We harbor no ill will to other people who purchase other brands. In college me and a friend had some light ribbing over her preference of Ford trucks and mine towards Chevy but neither one of us legitimately thought less of the other for it. It was just something to joke about.
But the avg middle class person is definitely cool with whatever social degeneracy Hollywood is in favor of in x year. As long as that person drives the same kind of car as them
Every white person is portrayed as extremely incapable and stupid, or as shady assholes. Except "Malcom" who is a trans man.
That’s the vast majority of movies and TV these days. My wife insisted we watch something together last night, so I sat down to the insanity of hoping for something different from the same bullshit sources. The first scene? A creepy dude tries to proposition a threesome to break the ice. And the one dimensional idiot creeper gets put in his place by the clever, morally complex women. Of course he does.
I told my wife to pay attention to the characteristics of the characters that were written in a way she could relate to, as well as the ones that were designed to be hated. All the disgusting, depthless shitheels were straight and white, of course. They always are. And all the complex, morally relatable characters were some variation of minority, either a darker shade on the progressive color palette of virtue or an upstanding member of the alphabet mafia.
When I walked away near the end of the first episode, she said “you’re gonna cancel prime now too, aren’t you?” Yes, I am.
I appreciate the warning about A Man Called Otto, in any case. I’d already lost any faith in Tom Hanks not being a lefty hack, but he’s still a good actor, and the trailer looked decent. I won’t bother now.
Remember in the joker movie where 3 rich white dudes tried to mug him, which was a twist off of Death Wish where 3 poor black dudes tried to mug him, which was a reference to an actual event that took place in NYC?
It's based on a Swedish movie that was in turn based on a Swedish book.
A friend watched the Swedish version and told me the tranny was not in there.
It actually seemed like a standard "lonely old man finds new life by engaging with his community" Hollywood trope until the tranny showed up. The character was completely out of place (as was Otto, who was intolerant of everything, immediately accepting the tranny) and clearly tacked on to hammer home The Message.
The Swedish movie is good. Ove (appears) to hate everyone. A gay Middle-Eastern guy is brought round to his house by a friend. Gay dude has been kicked out of home and needs a place to stay.
The Swedish have been cool with gay people for more than 60 years. Ove won't turn his back on a young guy in a jam, even if they are very different.
It turns out that they both have more in common than they first thought. Ove apricates good cooking (his wife was a wonderful cook); Middle-Eastern guy has a family tradition of good food.
It wasn't a huge part of the movie. It was a turning point for Ove, the character, because he had to choose between being grumpy and hurting someone. Whatever Ove has done has never really hurt anyone. He is just angry to be without his wife, and he has pushed everyone away.
People should give the original Swedish movie a chance. It has a certain (low budget) charm as a character study. It is interesting to see this view of small town Swedish life.
Not surprised. The way he squirmed when Ricky Gervais was calling out all the Hollywood pedophiles, "progressive" racists and environmental hypocrites tells you all you need to know about Tom Hanks.
I almost saw this at the theater, but I (luckily) decided to read Plugged In Online's review just to make sure it had no gay shit. After I saw that I decided not to go. A shame too, as despite being a giant liberal, Hanks is a great actor, and I always have enjoyed watching him.
It's a conjugation that every other romantic language has, as well as the southern USA. It's less syllables than saying "you all" or "you guys", yet every english speaker understands the word just fine.
He dies for foreigners and leaves his wealth to them instead of his real family. He's a cuck supreme, and Gran Torino is subversive, anti-white propaganda.
Only kinda. I can see why you took it that way, but you failed to recognize the base problem.
As a spiteful bastard, he failed to raise his family into a community, so they abandoned him. They also abandoned his community along with everyone else. There is no white community left to save in the first place, they've all either gone or moved on. Even the predominantly white church is a husk of itself with a no-nothing pastor. The only people left are goof-balls that have nowhere to go and nothing else to do.
Honestly, that's not a surprise. A lot of decimated white communities look like that as the demographic collapses or the white flight kicks in, and there becomes no community left to save. What he dies for is the only thing he can see worth saving in the shithole he lives in: a good-hearted kid trying to do the right thing, that's trying to learn how to be a bit strong.
Wow thanks for this heads-up. I actually recently added this to my watchlist because it seemed like it might have been up my alley. But I'm glad I saw your post first. Definitely going to be removing it from the watchlist now.
I’m assuming you watched this on a streaming service?
We don’t… Have those here, yet, in any other arena (any form of linear TV, cinema, etc), except for when there’s dead Abos (because of their weird spiritual beliefs around dead ancestors)…
But yeah, that sort of “trigger warning” (ironic)… Isn’t a thing in Aus yet, thank fuck… Outside of Shitflix and the like.
I went to the car racing today (you know the one). It was mostly refreshingly “unwoke”…
Though it really, really misses having the Grid Girls/“promo models” there.
I know, I know, but that was a key part of the appeal of the “backstage” parts of the whole show…
Without it, “The Paddock” is just a bit shit. So is “merchandise alley”.
But ironically the same thots are just working promo for the race teams, plus the organizers, and selling the merch, anyway…
Like, in no way has it removed those girls, and their sluttiness. They’ve just moved sideways. Which makes the cries by feminists and moral busybodies to get rid of them all the more stupid…
Literally no drag whatsoever (though I did see some faggy “enbies”), yet, though, thank fuck…
But yeah, fuck, the grid girls want to be there, and every straight male in the industry also wants them there…
Fuck the absolute idiots (feminists et al) who ruined that.
I too have seen this pop up on Netflix. I refuse to watch it. If Tom Hanks is in it, I will not watch it.
The look on his face when Ricky Gervaise was roasting the audience at the Golden Globes a few years ago spoke volumes. I am NOT accusing Hanks of anything - but he knows.
So the movie is about a savage mayo, stuck in his pre-historic ways, until he comes to the light of civilization with cultural enrichment. I was thinking that's what it could have been, but at least we know now.
Yeah, I didn't know any of this and I watched it a few days ago. I had half seen the trailer and it just looked like a "cranky old man complains at everyone" comedy.
What a bait and switch. I knew I should have turned it off the second the trans character got introduced but I decided to give it a chance to get better...maybe one day I'll learn that will never happen.
Haven’t seen it but this is so on par with Hollywood’s magical thinking. Literally no one has any negative thoughts about genderspecials unless they are clearly the villain. I like art portraying itself as realistic to actually reflect reality, even if it’s uncomfortable for people who are always one day without validation away from suicide.
It must be fucking Volvos and SAABS in the Swedish original then, I’m guessing..?
Groan…
Edit: It is. Like, literally, it is.
hol'up...old man Hanks may have a point there...
Alright, Hanks may be questionable, but George Strait aint.
Take a little note
Thats such a Hollywood view of “normal people” the avg middle class blue collar American has brand loyalty to a car brand and hates people who doesn’t also have that same brand loyalty. My immediate family has had very unfortunate luck with Chrysler/jeep/dodge vehicles and the Ford we owned was a pain to work on… so it’s Chevy and foreign made cars as our preference just because of our negative experience with the other 2 major US brands. We harbor no ill will to other people who purchase other brands. In college me and a friend had some light ribbing over her preference of Ford trucks and mine towards Chevy but neither one of us legitimately thought less of the other for it. It was just something to joke about.
But the avg middle class person is definitely cool with whatever social degeneracy Hollywood is in favor of in x year. As long as that person drives the same kind of car as them
That’s the vast majority of movies and TV these days. My wife insisted we watch something together last night, so I sat down to the insanity of hoping for something different from the same bullshit sources. The first scene? A creepy dude tries to proposition a threesome to break the ice. And the one dimensional idiot creeper gets put in his place by the clever, morally complex women. Of course he does.
I told my wife to pay attention to the characteristics of the characters that were written in a way she could relate to, as well as the ones that were designed to be hated. All the disgusting, depthless shitheels were straight and white, of course. They always are. And all the complex, morally relatable characters were some variation of minority, either a darker shade on the progressive color palette of virtue or an upstanding member of the alphabet mafia.
When I walked away near the end of the first episode, she said “you’re gonna cancel prime now too, aren’t you?” Yes, I am.
I appreciate the warning about A Man Called Otto, in any case. I’d already lost any faith in Tom Hanks not being a lefty hack, but he’s still a good actor, and the trailer looked decent. I won’t bother now.
Philadelphia, while obviously about faggots and AIDS, is actually extremely good, as a movie…
Like, propaganda in a sense aside (and the fact that his character is sort of… Morally grey), it’s just very fucking good.
He definitely deserved the gong for that one, imho.
If you haven’t seen it yet.
Skip Philadelphia and go straight to Joe vs the Volcano.
A 1990 film that is somewhat of a remake of a classic Japanese film, Ikiru.
Actually just watch Ikiru. It is far, far better than anything Hanks has done in his career.
I.... looooove Joe vs the Volcano. That and the original 48 Hours are two of some of my absolute favourite films.
I could watch those and the Three Amigos over and over again and never get bored of them.
Remember in the joker movie where 3 rich white dudes tried to mug him, which was a twist off of Death Wish where 3 poor black dudes tried to mug him, which was a reference to an actual event that took place in NYC?
Sounds like a propaganda movie to engender transtrender sympathies amongst the retirement-age demographic.
If you want a nice, apolitical Tom Hanks film, watch Greyhound. It was good.
or Road to Perdition
Fun fact: the kid in that film is Superman now.
And he was a werewolf in an MTV show that started out great, then turned nonsense. :D
On a scale of baby with a sharpie to "telling the wife twice" how much guyliner was he wearing in all his scenes?
None. Though they did the thing where you can see the guy is hairy, but they waxed the shit out of his chest.
Apollo 13
There are no non-political Tom Hanks films, because Tom Hanks was a frequent visitor at Little St James, and has the personal politics to match.
Is there anywhere to watch it other than Apple TV? Or better yet, a way to own a physical copy?
It's based on a Swedish movie that was in turn based on a Swedish book.
A friend watched the Swedish version and told me the tranny was not in there.
It actually seemed like a standard "lonely old man finds new life by engaging with his community" Hollywood trope until the tranny showed up. The character was completely out of place (as was Otto, who was intolerant of everything, immediately accepting the tranny) and clearly tacked on to hammer home The Message.
The Swedish movie is good. Ove (appears) to hate everyone. A gay Middle-Eastern guy is brought round to his house by a friend. Gay dude has been kicked out of home and needs a place to stay.
The Swedish have been cool with gay people for more than 60 years. Ove won't turn his back on a young guy in a jam, even if they are very different.
It turns out that they both have more in common than they first thought. Ove apricates good cooking (his wife was a wonderful cook); Middle-Eastern guy has a family tradition of good food.
It wasn't a huge part of the movie. It was a turning point for Ove, the character, because he had to choose between being grumpy and hurting someone. Whatever Ove has done has never really hurt anyone. He is just angry to be without his wife, and he has pushed everyone away.
People should give the original Swedish movie a chance. It has a certain (low budget) charm as a character study. It is interesting to see this view of small town Swedish life.
no wai
It's like characters were intentionally interjected for the sole purposes of pushing an agenda and narrative.
That's because "be part of your local community to find fulfillment" is an arch-conservative perspective that needs to be subverted by Leftism.
No need to apologize. Thanks. I remember someone saying it has pointless lgbt plots. But the way you describe it, it sounds pretty standard for today
Watch the original. This is a bad remake, the original is much better.
Not great, but a lot better than this shit.
A Man Called Ove..? 🤔
Yep, that is the one. Not a fantastic film but much, much better than the remake.
Re “As It Is In Heaven” - only the last three minutes are on YouTube, but…
I think it’s probably one of the most powerful music-related clips I’ve seen. It’s just awesome.
A very Swedish movie, though.
But it’s one of the best “foreign” films I’ve ever seen.
I read the plot, it just made me fucking sad…
I’ve met women on trains, had great conversations, and then never seen them again. More than once…
But yeah. Fuck, I feel like a lonely failure right now, hot damn.
Anyway, on topic, yes, it sounded that way.
Watch “As It Is In Heaven”. It’s Swedish, and it’s glorious.
I actually think it is all based on a book, but I've never read hte book.
Yep, Wikipedia confirms that…
I think the book is Swedish, though. European, anyway. Came out not long before the Svenska film did.
But yeah, I haven’t read it either.
Not surprised. The way he squirmed when Ricky Gervais was calling out all the Hollywood pedophiles, "progressive" racists and environmental hypocrites tells you all you need to know about Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks is a lefty idiot. He's just less in your face about it.
He's also an Epstein Client
Jesus christ, please don't link to Now This if you can avoid it. First thing I got was an ad about the dangers of AR-15's.
I almost saw this at the theater, but I (luckily) decided to read Plugged In Online's review just to make sure it had no gay shit. After I saw that I decided not to go. A shame too, as despite being a giant liberal, Hanks is a great actor, and I always have enjoyed watching him.
It's safer to assume all media in current year is filled to the brim with tranny jizz.
"Y'ALL".
It's a conjugation that every other romantic language has, as well as the southern USA. It's less syllables than saying "you all" or "you guys", yet every english speaker understands the word just fine.
Yeah, a “yawl” is a boat.
You want to see a good, honest movie about immigrants? Check out the Danish film Shorta/Enforcement from 2020.
It's pretty much a modern day version of The Warriors but from the perspective of the police.
You could sum it up as "This is why stereotypes about immigrants exist: The Movie".
He dies for foreigners and leaves his wealth to them instead of his real family. He's a cuck supreme, and Gran Torino is subversive, anti-white propaganda.
Only kinda. I can see why you took it that way, but you failed to recognize the base problem.
As a spiteful bastard, he failed to raise his family into a community, so they abandoned him. They also abandoned his community along with everyone else. There is no white community left to save in the first place, they've all either gone or moved on. Even the predominantly white church is a husk of itself with a no-nothing pastor. The only people left are goof-balls that have nowhere to go and nothing else to do.
Honestly, that's not a surprise. A lot of decimated white communities look like that as the demographic collapses or the white flight kicks in, and there becomes no community left to save. What he dies for is the only thing he can see worth saving in the shithole he lives in: a good-hearted kid trying to do the right thing, that's trying to learn how to be a bit strong.
That's how these work. They write it so the story justifies the decision.
No disagreement here.
I've been building a plex server and just buying up old DVDs/BluRays to rip to it rather than watch the newer garbage.
Yeah it was fucking awful, saw it due to my dad wanting to go and saying fuck it.
Read a bit of the synopsis - just sounds like something that would make me both sad and angry, lol…
The Grinch (Jim Carey version), but human and less humorous. Fun times…
I also notice that Ove (Swedish) is working class, while Otto (this version) is very clearly not…
That’s extremely important here, I think…
Read the differences between the two films. It says a lot about respective target audiences, among other things…
The Swedish one also doesn’t have the the tranny, I believe…
Funny that.
The original novel is only like ten years old so… of course it didn’t have a tranny. It wasn’t trendy yet!
I can't wait to see what exciting new trends fresh from the Chaos Realm the next ten years bring us.
Wow thanks for this heads-up. I actually recently added this to my watchlist because it seemed like it might have been up my alley. But I'm glad I saw your post first. Definitely going to be removing it from the watchlist now.
Ah, trigger warnings…
I’m assuming you watched this on a streaming service?
We don’t… Have those here, yet, in any other arena (any form of linear TV, cinema, etc), except for when there’s dead Abos (because of their weird spiritual beliefs around dead ancestors)…
But yeah, that sort of “trigger warning” (ironic)… Isn’t a thing in Aus yet, thank fuck… Outside of Shitflix and the like.
Last night's AFL game had a huge Abo trigger warning
Yeah, I deliberately didn’t watch either of the two “main” codes last night, for this reason…
Watched a little bit of the soccer (awful, if you didn’t see it, lol), and then movies n sheeit, instead…
Fuck racebaiting round, for both. 👎
I just watch the Welcome to Country for the Ballarat game. The "aborigine" was whiter than me
Yes, I’ve noticed this too, with the “activist” type ones…
Almost every urban Abo I know is whiter than me, though, lol…
Which is bemusing…
But yeah, the ones in Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania? Well, let’s just say, the grift is strong, with this mob…
I went to the car racing today (you know the one). It was mostly refreshingly “unwoke”…
Though it really, really misses having the Grid Girls/“promo models” there.
I know, I know, but that was a key part of the appeal of the “backstage” parts of the whole show…
Without it, “The Paddock” is just a bit shit. So is “merchandise alley”.
But ironically the same thots are just working promo for the race teams, plus the organizers, and selling the merch, anyway…
Like, in no way has it removed those girls, and their sluttiness. They’ve just moved sideways. Which makes the cries by feminists and moral busybodies to get rid of them all the more stupid…
Literally no drag whatsoever (though I did see some faggy “enbies”), yet, though, thank fuck…
But yeah, fuck, the grid girls want to be there, and every straight male in the industry also wants them there…
Fuck the absolute idiots (feminists et al) who ruined that.
I love that they think that helps people. I really do…
What an utterly wack world we live in where someone thinks that putting that before a movie like this would somehow help…
Like, ffs…
I literally went to a play about suicide last weekend. The only “trigger warning” was a small note on the door.
I like that this is not so much of a thing here, yet…
I wish I read this before I wasted 30 mins of my life.
I searched for "OTTO" to see if anyone had already experienced righteous indignation.
Looks like his son (near my age, coincidentally) plays the younger him, in that movie…
Just as an interesting tidbit.
But yeah, just watch the Swedish original. As usual, it is better.
Much like with Millennium, and Intouchables (French), and really most Euro cinema…
British remakes of Euro films sometimes work. American ones usually don’t. For whatever reason…
He must have executive produced it then, by the sounds (or one of them must have), for it to be that dominated by their family…
Like, surely…
I too have seen this pop up on Netflix. I refuse to watch it. If Tom Hanks is in it, I will not watch it.
The look on his face when Ricky Gervaise was roasting the audience at the Golden Globes a few years ago spoke volumes. I am NOT accusing Hanks of anything - but he knows.
He definitely knows. And he always did.
So the movie is about a savage mayo, stuck in his pre-historic ways, until he comes to the light of civilization with cultural enrichment. I was thinking that's what it could have been, but at least we know now.