I feel like folks will say this movie isn't woke, but it is. People see a white guy in the lead and will claim a victory against DEI. First of all it's a mid tier Predator knockoff. It's not a great movie outside any political bent. Secondly there's a tiny chick that makes it through to the finals of the Ranger selection program. Outside of seeing her running, they didn't show her during training. Now fair play, supposedly one woman has completed the program in history, but nothing is known of her, so take the Army's Time's word for it. Thirdly, the only other survivor than the protagonist is a black guy, who spends half the movie in a stretcher. Fourthly, Alan Ritchson is a liberal tool.
You get the modern mix of varying browns and other females shown during the end when the battalion is shown in full. There's also a weird detail in that I don't recall seeing any officers in the movie. I don't know if that's a message or anything but it's odd.
In short - This movie isn't as much on our side as you might think. Buyer beware.
The woman passing rangers was an Obama psyop, the person that “passed” magically immediately disappeared and wasn’t paraded around or placed in any regiment despite that being the biggest military accomplishment any female has done physically in human history, to the point it’s never happened since.
Sorry, you guys are way off. 100 women had passed as of 2022. Ranger School was probably the SOF school that graduated the most women. The most successful at repulsing them was the Navy SEALs, who haven't graduated any.
There are lots of stories from men who went through the training with those women. None of those women passed the physical requirements. The higher ups were pressured by politicians to push those women through for DEI points. The men were forced to carry the women's packs. The women didn't have to do as many reps as the men. The women were often picked up by vehicles and driven to the end points of the hikes, matches, and runs. They were rubber stamped. They didn't pass, because they didn't meet the requirements, no matter what the politicians claim.
Yeah, it seemed like a dubious claim but since it's out there I mentioned it
I almost pirated this shit. But I realized its aptly timed military propaganda.
Now I see it is still woke, so I just saved 90 minutes of time.
Why are White Men still signing up for ZOG military?
No better prospects?
Can't beat 'em, join 'em ?
I'm sick of the glorification of USA ZOG military. Tomorrow i'm parking my vehicle in the "Veterans" Parking spot. Fuck you.
There was a documentary recently about how the Pentagon provides all sorts of assistance to movie-makers for free, in exchange for changes that glorify the military.
Havnt had much war movies glorifying the military these days. Like gungho, kick ass, woooo america. Mostly just those movies where its "oh, enemy has feelings too" like how orcs all of a sudden are gay hippie baristas in D&D and wow.
Movie was fucking bad, besides the points above, I found it stupid how aliens with interstellar travel tech can have such a fucking bad aim and also still use conventional weaponry, like puny explosive granades.
Also the lead, forgot his name, is a massive woketard.
For a second I thought you were talking about the 2017 film with Brad Pitt in it.
Hollywood really needs to be more creative with its names...
I am proud to say i don't know what you're talking about. This means I have isolated myself enough from TV and commercials and advertisements and used good pop up blockers and ad blockers that i have not seen any marketing about the gay movie you are warning people not to see.
Same here.
Recently saw it and yes that uggo "woman" didnt fit at all. But what I found hilarious that the black guy was injured through half the movie and the strong white guy has to literally carry him through mud and half the movie. I had to think of a certain meme about society there.
But that movie is so forgetable, they should have used a huge biological alien like end stage nemesis instead of stupid autonomous robot for some horror elements at least.
White male protagonists are in vogue again because hollywood as an industry was bleeding pretty bad. One has to evaluate the writing of the movie itself to judge if its woke.
They will probably go more woke for the sequel (and there is absolutely going to be a sequel given the way the first one ended).
I almost recommended this movie here but then I had all of these nagging criticisms about it that are identical to what Mpetey123 pointed out, and decided against it.
But he's absolutely right, this is literally modern day Predator fused with Lone Survivor... just cheaper.
If this film costs north of $40 mil to produce then they were obviously laundering majority of the money.
They filmed mostly in New Zealand and Canada, and the effects were relatively scaled back. The robot looked good, but the most costly effect it had was the scanners. Every time it fired its weapons they avoided showing projectiles to reduce the cost effect (i.e., not having to do superimposition or shadowing or lighting the plasma fire amongst the environment), and mostly just showed the impact of the shot, which was a generic explosive spark.
Some of the more costly effects were the dismemberment and gore, and definitely the ending sequence at the quarry. But if this costs $100 mil or more then it's pure clown-world financing.
Since the Ranger team also didn't have access to live-fire weapons throughout two-thirds of the film due to being on a training mission, the producers didn't have to worry about an armourer being on set or any sort of squibbing other than the cheap firework effects for the plasma cannons.
That being said, this movie comes very close to being worth recommending, because Alan Ritchson has to tough it out with his own wits and capabilities and training, identical to Arnold at the end of Predator, right down to building makeshift traps to overwhelm the mech. But all of the DEI issues really detract from this film in a very obvious and major way that cannot be ignored because of how forced into the film it is.
That being said, this is a Netflix movie, and we all know that the sequel is going to be chock full of the gays and girlbosses.
You guys still watch movies? Especially modern shit?