The never-ending battle against woke Hollywood and SJW infused entertainment media [trigger warning]

How many announced Star Wars projects have died in pre-production?

This isn't even worth mocking. It's not going to happen.

 

I don't believe so. Note I don't really care either way, Star Wars is not going to be salvaged. Disney is not going to collapse a company anytime soon, and Kathleen Kennedy is not going to be punished worse than the aforementioned mockery Steven Spielberg inflicted on her which is far less than she deserved.

I do like being right, so we can make a gentleman's bet if you want.

 

what a great idea, surprisingly original...

completely unrelated question: beating a dead horse, is considered cruelty toward animals?

 

and he said this in 2021.
we were already in full storm, and things got even more radical

 

Speaking of this, I find this quote truer than ever.

 

there was really any doubt?

 

I won't say I let you win this one. While I am big fan of Critical Drinker, I am not a big fan of Indiana Jones.

The original three Indiana Jones, I don't dislike them. I did enjoy the movies, but I am hardly a superfan. Crystal Skull killed what little fandom I had.

Anyway, I know is thread is mostly about short gotcha videos or memes, and this video might be a bit long, but I found it interesting, and the last few minutes ended with a positive outlook on the future of the War on Woke with some useful tips on how to be effective and ethical culture warriors.

 

Look up "Elon Musk AND Taiwan" in an internet search engine. I didn't pull that joke out of nowhere.

 

In another interview he basically said that Taiwan should capitulate to the CCP to avoid bloodshed and he said they could get a one country two-systems policy and the Taiwanese would get more leniency than mainland Chinese. He said this after all the oppression went down in Hong Kong and he said the CCP would probably not be that harsh in Taiwan.

Basically, the CCP has him over a barrel because they control his supply of batteries for Teslas.

 

I don't judge you for liking it. I don't think it was trash. A combination of little things marred my enjoyment of the film. I own it. Long ago, when my town had a Blockbuster my dad and I would hit up the previewed video section twice a month and buy discounted DVDs. I watched Crystal Skull once and don't regret it. Unlike the previous three Indiana Jones movie. I do not wish to watch it a second time.

1) I thought that that Harrison Ford was a bit old to be doing an action movie.

2) Karen Allen/Marian Ravenwood was old to be the center of a romantic B-plot. Maybe I'm shallow but I don't generally like seeing old people romance unless Jack Nicholson is involved. I liked Something's Gotta Give and the The Bucket List (it's a bromance, but he does play wingman to his buddies struggling marriage) and I really liked As Good as it Gets.

3) I didn't think aliens meshed well with the pre-existing mythos of the franchise. It might have worked but I think it could have been handled well.

4) I don't think Shia LaBeouf is a bad person, but don't think is a good actor.

5) The first three movies used the Nazis as the institutional bad guys, but they couldn't really do that in a movie set in the 1950s. The Soviet Union was a natural stand-in and it could have worked but I don't think it was handled well by the writers because they frequently put in anti-capitalist barbs while still having Communists as the villains. Imagine if the first three Indiana Jones had characters periodically bringing up the upsides of fascist government systems?

Really the ancient Crystal Skull aliens would have not been conceptually if Nazis were trying to find them in the 1930s or if Soviets were trying to find them in the 1950s or black ops Americans were trying to find them in the 2000s. If you are going to use alien technology, it should have been worked into the Cold War and/or Space Race better to reinforce the setting/villains.

6. A lot of the best and the worst movies mix genres. The first Indiana Jones reflected George Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's love of the adventure serials when they were kids. Crystal Skull tried to work in GL's love of 1950s B-horror movies and it was an awkward fit here.

7. Like just about every old franchise that was dusted off and repurposed in the 21st century, this movie had interfering committees had a "Too Many Cooks problem".

8. The original Indiana Jones movies had a lot of gritty 1980s style violence. This movie was tamer and it's not what I expected or wanted to see.