I think the big test is how is this all going to play out 5 or 10 years from now.
In general, movies that try to push an ideological/political agenda age badly.
Think in movies before and during WW2 that were trying to push the "
Germans are evil! Kill them!" message. Or think about Christian movies "
Christians are good! Non-believers are evil!". As a general rule, great movies are still praised (Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, for example), but anything less than that is dismissed. Same happens with books.
The million dollar question is "
which are the great woke movies?. Right now, we're in the middle of it, so it's hard to say. If you like woke movies, every woke movie and show will feel great since it panders to your faith. If you dislike woke movies and shows, you're probably gonna dislike all of them without exception. Most of them are likely to be garbage (last 007 is surely included here), but there must be a few great ones, if only because of simple statistics. But... which ones? Right now, I don't think anybody could say.
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Drooch (5333)
3 years ago
Woke movies are as cringe as Christian Rock.
There’s an argument to suggest that the original Matrix is a woke movie. If it is, I give it a pass for being highly original and it didn’t come out during a time of creepy and obvious social engineering through relentless woke movies/TV/adverts that we suffer now.
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AnubisRaydeen (7897)
3 years ago
I have no issue with your statements. But I have to challenge your assertion that Matrix was "highly original." The story was ripped off of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles and the directing is stolen nearly frame for frame from the original anime Ghost in the Shell. Watch the two back to back and you will be shocked.
Lots of very successful people have unapologetically plagiarized their work. Even some very famous civil rights activists and >cough< presidents have been busted for LOTS of it but it is of no consequence if you are on the correct side of the fence.
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