A total insult to the original, Hollywood movies feel more like political papers than actual movies these days. Everything must fit the diversity quote and highlight the mandatory political (gender, sexuality, race) talking points. It is obnoxious and nobody is honestly asking for it.
shareHaven't seen it but is anyone surprised? I think I saw an online news article saying production was made up entirely of women. If the crew were all men the crazies would lose their minds. True female privilege if you ask me.
shareTo be fair, no one is asking you to complain about it either. Like we haven’t heard exactly the same argument on the page of every film that isn’t straight down the line traditional fair and includes diverse characters or themes.
Your point had been made. A bazillion fucking times.
Got anything else?
Got anything else?
Yes, wokeness aside, the movie sucks.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
Care to elaborate on why? You know, perhaps discuss the script, performances, cinematography, direction.. like film lovers used to do before they replaced that with crying every time they see a sign of diversity in a movie?
Or do you just want to leave it at “woke” and “sucks”?
Actually, it's enough to leave it at 'it's woke, it sucks'. Woke movies are bad because the main goal is to indoctrinate the viewer in their faith (wokeness), or to reinforce that faith in those people who believe.
You don't need to analyze each and every one of them independently. They're bad for the same reasons, which are similar reasons why Christian movies are bad.
This is a great video about the topic. It's about Christian movies, but it can be applied to Woke ones, you only need to translate the differences between both faiths (White males in woke movies take the place of Atheists in Christian ones, for example).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9DVPoohilY
and other one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_3J6Go5Ng
So this film is trying to indoctrinate the audience into witchcraft?
shareIt's possible. You know someone behind the scenes may be into it.
I remember Fairuza Balk was supposedly really into Wicca and that's partially why she was involved with the first film.
Its trying to indoctrinate the audience into critical race theory.
shareThe main problem is that the characters feel contrived because the sole purpose is to make them fit into the political woke ideology. The dialogue feels forced and the casting stereotypical.
shareAbsolutely shocking that you would chime in to support the abandonment of critical thought and analysis of the finer points of film making in favour of writing off everything with a single word. Who ever would have guessed?
I still have no idea what what this film is even about, let alone a true critique of why it’s a badly made film. All I know from you and your OP chum is that it’s woke. Move over Leonard Maltin 🙄
If you want to look for reviews then go to IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4685762/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
Nobody cares that you don't find people not liking woke garbage a "satisfactory" review.
Perhaps, but you think they are all waiting in anticipation to hear you call a movie woke? Again? And again? And again?
Yeah, that’s super compelling.
Again see the reviews poping up...movie is horrible...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnYI8MJ474
Knew you'd be here to join the woke/sucks train. Do you scan specifically for "woke"?It's sad and you might consider other outlets to sublimate your frustration with a changing world? Woke won't stop because people complain about it.
shareThe writing was bad. The story made little sense, especially the latter part of the film. They glossed over the discovery of the power that was very important in the original to display that only one of them actually had power and the others just believed they had it. The editing is atrociuos, for example the day-night transition when they arrive at the fathers house.
I also think portraying the main cast like some ghetto trash instead of outcasts with complex backgrounds like in the original was a bad decision.
The original was ahead of its time. Not the best but certainly different at the time. Plus who doesn’t love that weird chic it’s the huge mouf.
shareYeah, yeah. You're not contributing anything novel here. Same complaint, different poster.
shareI liked the original so I will be checking this out. Woke hysteria won't put me off watching it, if it did I wouldn't be able to watch any new movies these days. So sick of people crying woke.
shareCareful davo, that sounded awfully close to a complaint. I know how you feel about complaints.
My advice would be to shut up and put up with with people crying woke. Lest your comment be considered whiny.
🙌
It's honestly pretty bad. I'm gonna paste some stuff I wrote over on r/horror:
"There was a lot of plot threads missing, or dropped. Also, the entire 3rd act lasted about 5 minutes between when the bad guy was revealed, and then killed.
And while I'm ranting: the characters barely had any characterization. The first half of the film had no stakes or much conflict. And, when they finally do present some, it's immediately dropped so they can wrap it up with the aforementioned 5-minute 3rd act that was in no way built up. We also never learn about the motivations of the villain or his group beyond some vaguery.
I'll give it a 2/10, just because it was shot in focus and I didn't see any boom mics in frame. Also, the main girl seemed promising and could have done more with better material."
"I'll give it a 2/10, just because it was shot in focus and I didn't see any boom mics in frame."
LOL yes, gotta give credit for at least getting the technicals right.
I thought like that too, but then i watched the movie. It really is an exercise in all the things you shouldnt do.
shareThe original was probably more woke than this film.
shareHuh? No it wasn't.
shareThe Craft was overtly feminist and openly denounced classism, racism and sexism. Legacy isn't doing most of that, and what it is doing, it's not doing as loudly or as defiantly. As for diversity quota, it's not much different to the original. You can say you don't like this film - personally, I have my own issues with it - but it's "wokeness" only mimics the original.
shareSeriously? One of the girls suggested casting a spell on Timmy to make him 'woke'.
shareThey cast a spell on him to be more open minded. That's not more woke than what they did to Chris, where they basically enslaved him and then murdered him. The film also shows a much more progressive version of the typical evil white male in Timmy. Yeah, maybe he could be called woke, but at least it's not going the route of showing that all white men are evil.
sharehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt13375784/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
shareThis made me chuckle.
shareThis film jumped around. The first film--even though it was geared towards teen girls was easy to figure out in a minute.
New girl moves in, hooks up in a catholic (lol) school with the 'odd' girls who want to be witches...but she is the only real witch and one goes bonkers bc she cannot handle it.
I tried here and could not get through it. I could have fanficed a better script.
That's a fair assessment. I agree that this movie has a lot of problems, but considering the first one, I just don't think being woke is one of them.
shareWhat year is it? 2020.
That makes sense.