Netflix https://worthitorwoke.com If it ain't woke don't miss it Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:22:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/worthitorwoke.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-wiow-worth-it-or-woke-cirlce-logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Netflix https://worthitorwoke.com 32 32 212468727 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio https://worthitorwoke.com/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:52:56 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=22805 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a far more melancholy spin on the old tale than the 1940 Disney version. Is that good or bad?

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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F https://worthitorwoke.com/beverly-hills-cop-axel-f/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beverly-hills-cop-axel-f Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:05:50 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=22026 Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F doesn't belong in lockup

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Ultraman: Rising https://worthitorwoke.com/ultraman-rising/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ultraman-rising Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:54:48 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=21247 With a surprising level of complexity for a show with giants & monsters, Ultraman: Rising may be the best family film in years

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory https://worthitorwoke.com/jurassic-world-chaos-theory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jurassic-world-chaos-theory Mon, 10 Jun 2024 01:50:25 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=18475 Jurassic World: Chaos Theory doubles down on everything the franchise got wrong in Camp Cretaceous.

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Hit Man https://worthitorwoke.com/hit-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hit-man Sat, 08 Jun 2024 01:56:58 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=19188 Underdeveloped and a little redundant, Hit Man is the best Netflix and Chill that they've made in a while.

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Atlas https://worthitorwoke.com/atlas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=atlas Mon, 27 May 2024 06:39:31 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=18327 The history of science fiction films is fascinating and spans several decades. The genre emerged during the silent film era, with early attempts like Georges Méliès’ groundbreaking 1902 film “A Trip to the Moon.” This short film depicted a spacecraft launched to the moon in a large cannon, drawing inspiration from Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Over time, science fiction films evolved, incorporating special effects technology and social commentary. Notably, Fritz Lang’s 1927 film...

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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous https://worthitorwoke.com/jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous Mon, 20 May 2024 21:20:44 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=18269 The history of dinosaurs in film began in 1914 with “Gertie the Dinosaur,” an early example of animation that captivated audiences. This was followed by the 1925 silent film “The Lost World,” which amazed viewers with its groundbreaking stop-motion animation. The genre reached new heights in 1993 with Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” utilizing advanced CGI to bring dinosaurs to life in stunning realism. Continuing this legacy, the animated series “Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous,” launched in...

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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver https://worthitorwoke.com/rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver https://worthitorwoke.com/rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:52:22 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=17719 Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver is The Room of space operas. I did not use the Force. I did not. Oh, hi Mark.

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Die Hard” stands as a prime example of a film that emerged from rejected scripts meant for other projects. Originally conceived as a sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle “Commando,” the script underwent significant revisions, transforming into the iconic action thriller starring Bruce Willis. Likewise, the scripts for Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scaregiver and its prequel “A Child of Fire” were that of a rejected Star Wars trilogy. As to their potential iconicity…

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

Picking up immediately after the events of Part One, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver begins as Kora and her ragtag band of hand-to-hand combatants prepare the farm-tool-wielding agrarian Viking Space Amish for war against spaceships and automatic laser rifles. However, Fortune’s favor is left to question as they quickly learn that the resurrected Atticus Noble and his armada will arrive in just five days’ time.

Will Kora and her group of forgettable strangers be able to come together as a team and lead her newest adoptive family and Discount Bradley Cooper to victory against the vastly superior forces of the evil Space Soviets before they steal their cereal? What do you think?

 

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver Review

If you thought that Rebel Moon – Part One’s video-game cut-screen-team-builder-Kings-Landing-Bowl-of-Brown-of-sci-fi-and-fantasy-grab-bag-slow-mo-done-better-by-everyone-else-less-fun-than-a-burnt-taint-of-a-what-the-hell-did-I-just-watch was something special, get ready to shave your wookie and French kiss Rian Johnson because holy crap The Scargiver gives new meaning to meaninglessness.

Rebel Moon – Part One was just unwatchably bad, but The Scargiver has traversed the waters of that Rubicon and reached the shores of So Bad It’s Good. Without a single redeemable quality, from its overbearing and melodramatic score to the absolutely mortifying stupidity of its premise and everything in between, Rebel Moon – Part Two should make everyone involved reexamine their lives.

Cinema Sins, The Critical Drinker, Pitch Meeting, and Honest Trailers may actually melt down trying to limit their jibes and observations to fit their normal runtimes. Every scintilla of dialogue would embarrass a middle-aged virgin Dungeons & Dragons fan-fiction writer, and each performance is a masterclass in over-acting. Even the one thing that Zack Snyder can be counted on to deliver cool, slow-motion shots is a disaster. The Scargiver represents the worst use of slow motion since Georges Méliès first invented it for his 1902 “A Trip to the Moon”

What’s more, the film is a continuous stream of logical inconsistencies and a rushed hybrid of brutishly exposited backstories and character arcs that read like a glitching AI-authored wiki visually slapped together by drunken blind monks who’ve only read of movies. Why can’t the Space Soviets find grain literally anywhere else? How is it possible that a small village of sickle-waving farmers could ever produce enough grain to feed an entire planet? Why do the farmers use hand sickles and hover-carts? If they don’t have a problem using hover carts and spaceships, why, in the name of transvestite alien parasite hookers (that’s a thing in the first one), don’t they use tractors and other mechanized farm equipment? The list could go on for pages!

But I say screw it. Rebel Moon – Part Two is laugh-out-loud bad and Worth it, but only if you are with friends, have in your possession copious amounts of alcohol, and take full advantage of the following drinking game:

 

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver Drinking Game

Take a drink:
  • When grain is referenced or said.
  • Every time someone survives something unsurvivable.
  • When you forget a character’s name.
  • Every time grain is shown in slow motion (DO NOT DRINK EVERY TIME THAT SLOW MOTION IS USED. YOU’LL GO BLIND).
Take two drinks:
  • When someone you don’t care about dies (not an extra – they have to have spoken at least a line).
  • Every battle cry (celebratory or otherwise).
Take a shot:
  • When the farmers spend time doing something that they absolutely don’t have time for as they prepare for certain annihilation (e.g., going to bed, having a party, or sewing banners).
  • When the farmers accomplish something in a day, that would take days or months to accomplish.
  • When someone gives an inspirational speech.
Bonus Rounds (optional):
  • Take a shot every time RoboAnthony Hopkins shows up on screen for no reason.
  • Take a shot for every deux ex machina (i.e., every time something conveniently and nearly miraculously saves the day).
  • Take a drink every time that you say to yourself, “How did this get made, or how did this cost $166 million.”

 

WOKE ELEMENTS

They Had Extra Bowls
  • Both Kora and secondhand Furiosa adopt or already have androgynous Women’s March haircuts.
    • I concede that that’s a super nitpick, but there weren’t really many other instances.
When Is A Girl Boss Not
  • Technically, Kora and Cosplay Furiosa are girl bosses, but even that is handled with incompetence.
    • Both get pretty wrecked but both spindly armed waifs also deal out 80s roided-out action hero amounts of damage.

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3 Body Problem https://worthitorwoke.com/3-body-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-body-problem https://worthitorwoke.com/3-body-problem/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:33:43 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=16459 Mao Zedong’s rule in China, particularly during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, resulted in immense devastation. The Great Leap Forward, aimed at rapid industrialization and collectivization, led to widespread famine, estimated to have caused tens of millions of deaths. The Cultural Revolution brought about widespread chaos, persecution of intellectuals, destruction of cultural heritage, and social upheaval, leaving a deep scar on Chinese society and economy that reverberates even today. Mao’s policies caused...

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Bad Dinosaurs https://worthitorwoke.com/bad-dinosaurs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bad-dinosaurs Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:04:00 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=16417 Netflix Jr. is Netflix’s children-oriented division. Originally developed as a suite of apps and a YouTube channel in 2012 focused on music and learning, it has evolved to include a host of Netflix-exclusive content, including popular shows like CoComelon, Gabby’s Dollhouse, and the new Bad Dinosaurs. Bad Dinosaurs Bad Dinosaurs follows the escapades of a mischievous Tyrannosaurus Rex family as they navigate their colorful prehistoric world. Amidst slapstick hijinx, they encounter a cast of silly dinosaurs...

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