Woke as hell! Ugh.


It had some funny moments, and overall it was entertaining enough, but it was basically a bunch of D-list critics and actors (except for Andie MacDowell, Robert England, Andrew Garfield, and a few others) talking about movie clichés that offend them.

“The villain being disfigured and presented as evil is insensitive to people who have those disfigurements” type of statements were all through this. I wanted to facepalm several times while watching this, listening to some of these morons speak.

They were offended by the “white savior” cliché, and they were offended by “the magical negro” cliché…I mean what do these people want in a movie in regards to race? They don’t want black people helping white people, and they don’t want white people helping black people. They seem confused.

The documentary is at its best when it talks about the standard clichés like the “jump scare”, or the “car that won’t start”…that stuff was fun.

This is a perfect documentary to describe how people are in 2021. That’s the main takeaway I have after watching this…that so many people now are just complete woke snobs that are hard to even listen to with their constant lectures and perpetual ability to be offended by damn near anything.

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It was woke and boring. Anyone who watches movies is well aware if these common clichés.

They could have at least tried to find more obscure clichés that make you go "holy shit I had never noticed that!".

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Saw a trailer for it a while back. Looked really interesting. And I love Rob Lowe. Finally checked it out & it was disappointing as hell.

For me, It was definitely ruined by the "experts" they got for this. Seemed like they weren't even interested in discussing the clichés, just busy being offended by almost every topic they covered

Couldn't even make it to 15 minutes. I just kept rolling my eyes

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It’s a fun doc. Worth a watch.

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