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Oppenheimer Movie Review
Andy Chee:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 09:10:57 am ---I wouldn't call that one woke by modern standards, just exaggerated period drama.
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You can bet that some Southerners (in USA) would definitely call it woke, exactly for the exaggeration of racial issues.
pickle9000:
I found "Hidden Figures" very enjoyable. A good movie is a good movie.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Andy Chee on December 27, 2023, 09:18:49 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 09:10:57 am ---I wouldn't call that one woke by modern standards, just exaggerated period drama.
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You can bet that some Southerners (in USA) would definitely call it woke, exactly for the exaggeration of racial issues.
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No doubt. To me it just didn't at the time have the whole "woke vibe" around it, and still doesn't.
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: lezginka_kabardinka on December 26, 2023, 05:51:56 am ---“Barbie” movie was absolute woke-signalling rubbish, but held at gunpoint and forced to choose, I’d take it over Oppenheimer.
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It must be pretty bad then! I thought the Barbie movie looked cute and I planned to watch it at some point but it was on cable TV yesterday and my wife and son both watched it and they both told me NOT to watch it and that I wouldn't like it! Oppenheimer has been on cable TV for about a month now and I haven't watched it and have no intention of watching it and NO ONE that I know has watched or plans to.
It's dumbfounding how Hollywood has managed to take so many good stories and turn them into absolute rubbish in the last 20 or so years.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on December 27, 2023, 03:06:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: lezginka_kabardinka on December 26, 2023, 05:51:56 am ---“Barbie” movie was absolute woke-signalling rubbish, but held at gunpoint and forced to choose, I’d take it over Oppenheimer.
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It must be pretty bad then! I thought the Barbie movie looked cute and I planned to watch it at some point but it was on cable TV yesterday and my wife and son both watched it and they both told me NOT to watch it and that I wouldn't like it! Oppenheimer has been on cable TV for about a month now and I haven't watched it and have no intention of watching it and NO ONE that I know has watched or plans to.
It's dumbfounding how Hollywood has managed to take so many good stories and turn them into absolute rubbish in the last 20 or so years.
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People complain about the woke movies driving audiences away, and they do, but that's only apart of Hollywood's problems. A Starsky and Hutch movie made so long after the TV series that the main movie audience (youngsters) wouldn't relate to it looked to most people like it would be the loser it turned out to be. That was an interesting early example of Hollywood so fearful of doing anything original they'd stick with a "proven" formula they showed no signs of understanding. This trend has just gotten worse and worse. Much of the race swapping and gender swapping of famous characters, rather than creating original characters for them, seems to have more to do with a fear of generating something original than anything else. The lack of demand for originality in turn seems to explain the rise of the talentless in the world of scriptwriting.
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