JOIN our Locals community to hear *the Drinker* answer audience questions. CLICK the link: triggernometry.locals.com/ CHAPTERS👇 00:00 Introduction 01:16 Is Hollywood Getting More or Less Woke? 02:09 Have Superhero Movies Run their Course? 04:58 Barbie & Oppenheimer 06:27 Barbie's Successful Marketing Campaign 08:22 Critical Drinker’s Opinion of the Barbie Movie 10:36 Wokeness in Barbie 12:38 Barbie's Oscar Nominations 15:09 Sponsor Message: Galaxy Projectors 16:35 Discussing Oppenheimer 20:16 A Universal Theme Devoid of Politics? 22:23 Are the Oscars Irrelevant? 26:06 Everyone in LA is Living in a Bubble 38:32 Diversity in Hollywood 31:43 The Daily Wire’s 'Terror on the Pairie' Movie 32:30 Sponsor Message: Manscaped 34:56 'Lady Ballers' & Its Political Message 37:33 Do Creatives Just Want Artistic Freedom? 40:09 Is Tom Cruise a Powerful Force in Hollywood? 43:34 Death of the Bad Boy Movie Star 46:10 The Cultural Impact of TV 48:38 What's the One Thing We're Not Talking About?
The whole point of Barbie was that her world mirrored the real world but in an opposite fashion. So in the end when the Kens were saying “Can we do this job? Or this job?” The Barbies saying “Oh heavens no, not yet!” Was a direct comment on girls being allowed to do any job in our world but not just yet. The mirror opposite is that women should aim to be as prevalent as men in leadership positions but that they OBVIOUSLY aren’t ready to do so yet after centuries of not doing so. So many folks have missed this very, very, very obvious snd very cool statement! Barbie even ends up going to a gynaecologist to see about having a baby! So dudes, excuse me but you’ve earned “a-DURRRRRRR!”😁
One of the biggest issues with Hollywood is they are hiring writers with no life experience. They come straight out of university and the go into the industry. How can they possibly write about anything but their own narrow view of the world if they haven’t experienced anything else?
As someone who wants to be a professional writer coming out of Uni, I don’t like to think that lacking life experiences is something that would be a negative. What I think the problem really is, is simply the fact that nobody is telling any new, original or frankly good stories. There’s nothing new to be excited about, something to challenge or something to inspire
@@ajward9112- You were all raised in the 'woke', 'politically correct', 'safe space' and 'participation trophy' generation, not to mention all of this trans nonsense (boring, so fg boring), so how are you suoposed to write anything interesting or about adversity when you've never had to face any? Been allowed to face any?
Not sure where "life experience" comes into writing superhero movies. A lot of these modern movies involve storylines that are pure escapist fantasy, with no basis in real life.
The fact that Godzilla Minus One is only nominated for best visual effects while probably being the best movie to hit the big screen this year shows what a joke that whole ceremony is.
Even with it only being subtitles in English, I found it to be an excellent movie! And who would’ve guessed; with another Godzilla movie. 😮 It should have gotten much more of an award!
G-1 set a high water mark for character drama. This movie is exactly what I was hoping for from the director of the Always: Sunset On Third Street trilogy which was...a character drama. Yamazaki should have been nominated for Best Director for pulling off this feat.
The Drinker -- one of the most important cultural critics alive today. Truly. He has been fiercely and hilariously mocking ''the Message'' for years now, and deserves all of the success he's getting.
Not just mocking, he often provides such constructive criticism that it could be a roadmap to Hollywood saving itself (…if they weren’t so deadset on continuing course over a cliff)
When you consider the in depth and reasoned, as well as scathing & hilarious (when needed) film reviews, verses the Identity Politics of Mark Kermode ("I wanted to like it more [wtf???]), you can see that film reviews, like most media, is much superior away from the mainstream.
He's the most intelligent reviewer out there now who wraps it in snide comedy that really resonates with many people. He pulls no punches, but does it with humor and we're all the better for it.
They lost me too, i never liked superhero movies so I kinda lost interest in Hollywood. And the movies are just to "American" not a real surprise there ofcourse but I'm getting tired of the glitter and glamour and overproduction of everything. Like the Scandinavian or British production on netflix/prime. Hollywood is a passed station for me right now.
I’m a 62 year old woman and my 17 year old nephew said to me last week “I’m the lowest of the low….a straight white male”. It broke my heart. 💔 This ridiculousness needs to stop. We are irreparably damaging our young men.
Not to be presumptuous or rude or glib, because I can't imagine being in that situation, but, I'd do my best to convey the idea that civilizations were built by those who were bullied, dumped upon, and scorned. They took all the slings and arrows with a hardened grace and moved forward despite. Older generations that gave us the gifts that we spoil today were given a gift of hardship, of adversity. That isn't something easily explained and there are no easy answers. But it is true; those who take on the weight of the world and persevere make the next age in which future generations will flourish. Tell him to be strong, be smart, and tell him there is always room for heroes.
Tell your nephew to stop believing everything he hears because people lie all the time and many people that don't even know him don't have his best interest at heart. Especially if there's politics in the message. Human beings are all equal (and are human beings BEFORE being white or black or eskimo) so he should throw this inferiority feeling in the trash. This diversity agenda is meant to brainwash kids, not adults. He needs to be aware of this.
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@@raspvidy Pro gay and pro diversity shoved in your faces, by which they mean in practice that they want to expose people to degeneracy and promote having less white people. You know, the ones who literally build up western civilizations.
Saying you HAVE to hire a lesbian trans woman is the same thing as saying you CANT hire a straight man/woman. It discrimination under the guise of "Inclusion".
@@davidantonacci9525 has nothing to do with "grow up". When HR says so, they act so. This means you don't get the job. It has real influence on life. Grow up yourself
There was WISDOM in the saying, "Never meet your heroes." but with social media, that is almost impossible now. And HALF the time, you don't meet them but THINK that you do, because many have "staff" that post for them...
@@TheSuperappelflap I would agree with you, but social media has now bled into the NEWS, so you still hear the inflammatory reactions to celebrity/influencer comments even when you just want to know how the weather is going to be... Not to mention office debate/character assassinations even when you ask to be excluded from gossip.
Politicians also. There's no way mumblin' stumblin' bumblin' Biden is writing his own social media posts. He probably doesn't know how to log on, much less how to compose and send posts, but he absolutely cannot communicate in real life using the language he supposedly uses on-line.
I work in visual effects and I can tell you exactly why visual effects have gotten worse on so many movies and TV shows. It's because we as VFX artists are given absolutely ridiculous deadlines and spread so thinly across multiple projects, yet the studios still want the same high quality of work. It's not possible. So many artists suffer from burnout and even leave the industry altogether.
Not to over simplify but it seems to be all about quantity over quality now. Professionals that would have helped sculpt great work are hammered to rush out shoddy, creatively and visually half-finished products. Eye candy over narrative, it’s lazy storytelling.
So the same as Japanese animators. And animators. And I suppose classic animators too. Was there ever a time when artists were not choked by insane deadlines?
@@kevlark3184 you can't even begin to understand how close minded your statement is. " I only watch things that are in my own language''. For my entire life I've read subtitles because english is my second language and once I reached 3rd grade I was able to read the entire sub before the characters finished their lines on screen. Plus with subtitles you can learn other languages and indulge in films and shows from the minds of creators raised in a completely different culture. Subs RULE
just fyi I don't think most feminists hate men ( some clearly do, but not most). What you see is that most of them don't understand the struggles of men and are antagonistic because of that, but there are some men who are like that as well in reverse... I'm not sure whether this particular director is the hateful type or not
@@justsomenobody889maybe, but when it comes to the woke mob I'm gonna hold em to their own standard. You don't agree with the position of group X? You hate group X! Ok. Fine. Your terms are acceptable.
I'm not going to the movie theater to be lectured to. I'm going there to be entertained. And when studios prioritize one over the other, they can shove it.
Yes, there's a difference between a movie that gives you insight to something you don't think about often and being lectured to. Hollywood today is too dumb to know the difference.
My family owned a local "Family Video" in the 80s & 90s so I was a movie buff from almost birth. I've largely stopped watching movies in in the last decade because aside from a few exceptions it's pure propaganda and it's always from the extreme left which has clearly devolved into a cult that's possessed by an evil ideology.
Love seeing the Critical Drinker in these more formal formats with other different people with other mood for a more different general audience, very well done sir 👏
On influential actors that have a unique draw, I nominate Henry Cavil. He doesn't put up with lazy writing (his respectful withdrawal from The Wither is case in point) gives him so much credibility.
They gave an award to a bloke after violently hit someone in front of the whole world rather than having him removed. I haven’t watched a Hollywood film since. They have zero credibility after that (if they had any before).
@@aldunlop4622 He should’ve been removed the moment he hit someone. I can’t believe he just calmly sat back down, no security? This offered zero protection for Chris Rock, it was madness and true contempt.
TH-cam actually cut into the ad read with an advertisement, I'm so sick of being bludgeoned over the head to purchase things I have absolutely no interest in!
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@@rainbowpheanix I seem to not be able to get anything through. But if you're "Brave" enough to know, then like Mario, go down that "Pipe" that is "New", and you'll get at least some idea.
Too late to see in theaters now but I would recommend John Wick 4 and Godzilla Minus One to see action spectacle and no current day bullcrap. Oppenheimer if you like drama.
I did 2-3 a month for a long time. I stopped 10 years ago as I saw this creeping in and kept getting upset in little ways I felt were unfair. I am an early adopter of anti-woke. I’m a native San Franciscan.
I watched many movies like new Godzilla Minus One and e.g. few old Ghibli movies which had theater versions playing. But I knew previous Japanese Godzilla movie (Shin Godzilla) was also great so there was expectations that this could be too (compared to western versions). John Wick 4 was disappointed but I kind of expected it to be, but now I know. It's gone way over parody horizon at this point and become boring superhero movie. Like Die Hard 4 back in the day. No amount of damage on screen can do anything to characters until script say now they have to die. First is still the golden which least made it look like it has any stakes.
I'm from New York, but I have close friends from Dixie, Florida, Texas, and the midwest who just don't watch Hollywood products anymore because they got tired of their homes constantly being insulted and shown unfairly
Thank god we dont have to make art that entirely glazes your point of view and instead challenges it with new perspectives and ideas. Freedom and liberty, please...
So let me get this straight.. The films must nowadays meet a certain "underrepresentation" standard to be eligible for the Oscars?? So if you have no members of "underrepresented groups" in your movie, you're out of luck?? Isn't Oscars supposed to be about THE BEST films and not representation? That is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while. Screw Hollywood and their idiotic political agendas. It's no wonder that movies and games are just getting worse and worse.
Don't confuse the left with poor writing and co. I'm far, far left and hate these imbicillic movies, the same as all my lefty friends. I love LOTR, but hate Rings of Power.
@@cpm1003sounds like you raised a good one so grats. I was just venting about what I see from kids/parents dynamic as a teacher. There's too many parents that can't see the forest through the trees. They're just too close to it. You're probably right tho, but it's food for thought
The Oscars/Globes are a *fantastic* way of saying who's approval is most valuable of gatekeeping the status quo. It is a machine that generates and maintains its own validity. Handing out awards is a great way to decide who gets the _power,_ the _position_ and the _authority_ of handing out awards.
No it doesn't / it isn't. It isn't merit based and that's become even more self apparent with the lack of decorum in recent years. These are fools handing out trophies for being better fools.
@@charlesmcgovern2395That's exactly right. The recognition of merit, (even when/if it ever was that) was always *secondary* to the primary purpose of generating and cementing its own authority.
So an actor refused to act and he got fired? What a shocker! Also, this is obviously false. There have been a tonne of actors who famously refused to do scenes, Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in 7se7en, Chris Evans in Avengers 2, John Krazinsky in the office, Brad Silverman in I Am Sam etc. He’s just a deeply untalented and unlikeable guy who stopped getting roles because he’s shit, but he lives in denial and has to come up with some conspiracy about it.
Wrong. James Woods is a dick and a terrible actor, Caviezel was on a hit show for years and McDonough doesn't make the best choices when it comes to accepting roles.
Having been born from a post-Soviet country, I could see through the commentary of Nolan's movie. It can be mirrored against what is going on today, people being persecuted just for associating themselves with certain other people. But also, communism as an ideology is bleeding through our culture in the West. I think Nolan wanted to say this in a way that's veiled and palatable enough without being persecuted himself.
We are living in a late stage capitalist corporate kleptocracy and people are complaining about communism lol. Brainwashed by American propaganda. We could use a bit more public ownership of the means of production.
Let's be honest, movie award shows were ALWAYS delusional, self congratulatory nauseating, cringe worthy love fests, completely divorced from reality. I think the only thing that has changed is the publics tolerance of, and interest in, these vainglorious sociopathic narcissists, has disappeared.
@@TheSpecialJ11true. People can't write movies anymore. Because everyone doing so has literal no life experience. They've never faced any challenge in life other than maybe they didn't have the car they wanted or were bullied. They have no wisdom, and grew up with social media..that's why everything out of their tiny minds is utter garbage
Well, that was kind of the point in years past. You saw them in their beautiful clothing, knew they lived a life completely inaccessible. Then again, they didn’t try to stick their noses in your life either. They weren’t lecturing you on some woke nonsense, or climate change before flying off on the private jet, or on what political candidate you ought to support.
Agree with you in spirit but disagree in fact. Go back and watch Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, or Charlton Heston accepting awards. They were without doubt more humble, more self aware, and less narcissistic than today's celebrities. Sure, they may have been faking humility; but at least it's apparent that it was a culturally valued virtue! Today, most honestly don't even know the meaning of the word, to the point that you will hear some, in all seriousness, bragging about how humble they are!
I love how the quota standards for an Oscar lists every ethnicity they can possibly think of that's not white, instead of just saying what they mean - not white.
Which makes time piece non fiction films completely nonsensical, since they’re forced to insert a bunch of checkbox characters. Why Dunkirk lost out to some film with human on swamp thing sex scenes. 😂
I see The Critical Drinker and I immediately click the video. He's played a major role in my writing aspirations with his videos helping me craft my novel, and his own novels are awesome as well. Any friend of the Drinker is a friend of mine. I'll check out your videos too! Great stuff!
I came across a review a few days back that praised the Drinker's reviews but was heavily critical of his novels. Haven't read them but if the examples he provided are correct there's a lot to correct in them.
@@davidmartyn5044 _"Men are still conventional, and like to wear dark grey, black and dark green."_ Many men do. One reason could be most could be bothered to care about 'fashion' and such things so they go with what works because that is easy low energy option in topic they are not bothered about. Same reason why e.g. many men living alone can live quite ascetically having only things they personally need to survive. Couple basic plates and minimum cutleries etc. But if you go to their personal hobbies they are interested you usually start to see all kinds of extra decorations and such. If someone e.g. likes cars they probably have to of various car related stuff even if they do not have 12 different colored shirts.
@@davidmartyn5044 Every part of you is programmed by your surroundings. You have free thought from our engineered media, education and institutions? I think not. You are told what opinions to have in a narrow spectrum.
That blockbuster image gut punched me. I used to work there through my years at Uni and, genuinely, it was a great place to work. While I don’t miss the pay, I do miss the teams, culture and spending time discussing film with all the patrons.
I really like the Critical Drinker’s channel, vids and comedy style. Plus his honesty about the politics being in movies is awesome and I agree! KEEP ROCKING 🤟😝
Hell yes! I love the Drinker! I actually recently watched Benny Johnson's interview with Drinker and Nerdrotic, which was really cool. So I'm super excited to see you guys interview Drinker again!
Watched it as well. Personally I'd love them to get Gary (Nerdrotic) on- I know he's not everyones cup of tea but he's certainly had an interesting life.
That was a great episode and I love watching Friday Night Tights! There are some great people on there! The Drinker is one of my favourite channels on TH-cam!
@@origami83 I think that TCD does disagree with some aspects but he doesn't offer a rebuttal because he wants to appear agreeable amongst his peers. Just an observation.
Excellent discussion! This is a superb example of how independent small content creators are humiliating the efforts of the big production operations and providing higher quality content. The “old guard” is indeed dead. 👍🏼👍🏼
I long for days of a "fun" show. Something I can hang out with my 13 year old on the couch or at the theater and not have to explain all the high strangeness that is junking up good entertainment. Honestly, Hollywood has "dehumanized the movie industry". I don't relate to ANYTHING I stream or see at the movies. I've literally gone back to just reading books. So much richer of an experience.
One thing my wife pointed out about the Barbie movie to me when she came back from the cinema with her mum and cousins, she never understood why Ken was supposed to be shocked in the real world that women were doctors. According to her, and based on reviews from the likes of Drinker, Reaper et al, only women had those kinds of positions in Barbie world. They were the leaders, doctors, supreme court judges, city councilwomen and pretty much everything else. Why would Ken be surprised if a woman was a doctor?
Well, little known fact, Ken was educated at Rugby school under Dr Arnold, he would regard it as shocking and against the natural laws of modesty for women to be in what God intended to be a male profession, thereby protecting the fairer sex, from the harsh and messy realities of life.
She misremembered the scene, Ken at no point is surprised about female doctors in the real world. During the sequence where Ken learns and becomes engrossed by the concept of patriarchy he is seen taking to a lady in green scrubs and when she tells him that she is in fact a Doctor he ignores her and asks for a pen and the heads towards a man he presumed to be a Doctor.
Well the idea is as follows: Ken came from a matriarchy and was told (by woke people and feminists) that the real world was patriarchy and therefore he expected everything to be flipped. Interestingly enough he then finds out that the real world is in fact not like that. I don't know whether the movie was intentionally criticizing modern feminism or on accident, but they did.
Great interview. Critical Drinker is the best movie critic of our generation. His crass impolite delivery is the gimmick (and it's great fun) but it's the quality of his insights that makes him relevant.
Oppenheimer is about Oppenheimer. Everyone forgets that. The film focuses on the events of his life, so it lays out what he experienced, emotions, education, intellectual, political. I think the balance of all of those elements was extremely well done.
Human extinction: the exact thing they’re trying to do. It’s the overarching theme to EVERY ONE OF THEIR BELIEFS. People are bad (specifically white people).
i went from a movie obsessed Kid/Teen/Adult to somebody who doesnt even watch Movies/TV anymore AT all! what a Journey hehe (and no theres no coming back, i lost complete interest in the medium of Film/Series)
Fine content, but also: great form: a room for discussion without any fancy deco distractions, just two cameras with sharp, crisp lighting. Stay with that, guys. You three in ONE room: some of my very YT-faves put together. YES.
What rarely gets mentioned about these superhero films is that the comic book characters these films were based on were written for a target audience of 10 year olds. Isn't this just the societal infantilism that Carl Sagan warned us about in the 1990s?
Wasn't big into comics but a couple of the ones I had seen in the mid eighties plus were not appropriate for 10 year olds. When I was 12 some buddy showed me the comic the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was based on years before the cartoon came out. If I remember correctly, a panel showed one of the turtle's wood pole weapon coming out of a punk's mouth but didn't show low enough so you could see where the pole had apparently entered.
This is kinda neglecting that children age faster, as it were, emotionally in modern times. These days a 14/15 year old is in to very adult things but back then they were not. They weren't made for 10 year olds, they were made for kids and young people and they were enjoyed by around 12-20 year olds. Characters like Batman and the other Detective Comics had slightly older audiences. There's a reason the American military thought it would be a good idea to make comics for their 18+ G.I.s with similar characters and it's because people that age were reading those kind of comics.
Normal people saying normal stuff... this is what we are craving for and will watch almost an hour on TH-cam for! (That's like half the length of these £200mil movies!)
Imagine being such an impressionable loser that you’ll deny yourself watching Oppenheimer, Anatomy of a fall, Poor things and Past Lives because the Oscar’s nominated it! Lol, what a bitch Also, was gonna put “zone of interest” in there, but conservatives loathe that movie for obvious other reasons
Well, I saw this comment from an astronaut that is going to the moon that says how important it is for the crew to have a black astronaut and a female astronaut, so no - I dont think anything has peaked yet. This crap is going to space and beyond!
Being a film historian, I can confirm that the Academy Awards have ALWAYS been about Hollywood "kissing its own arse"... As far as politics are concerned, The Holdovers seemed to have been above all of it. It's a little gem.
Yes and no. Some of the awards given out were clearly about belonging to the "insiders club" but others really weren't. The most interesting award for those who don't like the system was something like BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR because you could see people who may have literally ZERO big credits to their name vie for this award while the award for BEST ACTOR was just the opposite level of exclusivity.
Yep, and it’s always been rigged. Most of the “winners” have been boring shit nobody’s even seen, whilst obviously better films and performances have been overlooked because “they don’t like that kind of movie”, such as sci-fi and fantasy.
@@davestang5454 There is no "no". Hollywood has been an oligopoly since the 1910s and the AW were created by studio moguls in 1927 to get some respectability in the eyes of the (then) Puritan majority. Take some film history books (not web sites), read and look beyond American cinema, see who won in the past and, more importantly, who hasn't won (ex. for "best director": Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, etc.) and then comment about it. In a knowledgeable way...
We are on the verge of Peak Woke. Madame Web covers Marvel , the Accolyte will sacrifice StarWars at the altar of Woke and at that point there will be nothing left to ruin and Peak Woke will be attained.
We are nowhere near peak woke. Entertainment is just the tip of the iceberg. The woke are in everything. Our schools, our media, and our government, and the general public seem none the wiser about them indoctrinating the masses, especially the children. The people who think woke is nearly over are the kind of people who bury their heads in sand when it comes to politics.
Watched Barbie on HBO and honestly can’t remember much of it…the visuals of it were somewhat interesting. I knew the message was going to be “women are oppressed and men are the oppressors” and “down with the patriarchy.” Not “best picture” worthy. Also, the Academy Awards are no longer relevant and we really don’t have “movie stars” in this day and age. Social media has “lifted the veil” on actors and they’re no longer held in high regard
I know I’m late to the party but this is hands down the absolute best way to get an audience to watch an ad. I always skip them but putting a challenge into it the way you did was masterful. Seriously.
Its crazy that a film like 'All Quite On The Western Front' could never win best film because of these guideline. What a film that was with a real message for every age, gender and race.
What a time to be alive 10 years ago. I was an avid comic book enthusiast. I used to take a 2-hour bus ride into the city (Boston) to pick up my monthly issues. At the same time, we had the best superhero films like The Dark Knight Rises, Kick-Ass, and Marvel's Cinimatic universe hitting a new height with The Avengers. But then the comic book shops were either becoming woke or closing down. I visited the city recently for a convention, and there's practically nothing left. Moral of this comment is that things inevitably die at some point at the cost of us growing up and becoming more mature.
I've heard the reason CGI has gotten worse and not better is that there is so many movies being made that they are spread thin in skilled CGI artists and rushed.
Great point at the end about special effects getting worse now rather than better. The big thing that's bugged me is how the various "new Trek" productions went with this high-contrast metallic look that has no sense of verisimilitude - they've given up on PHOTOREALISM in favor of it being slipshod pseudo-"artsy". Probably the peak was 1999's Galaxy Quest.
Love that Konstantin makes the McCarthyism point like it's some massive revelation - it was pretty fucking obvious, I think the word communist and derivates thereof were probably the most frequently used words in the script except "bomb".
It’s part of it however, with the amount of consistent flops, it seems that money is no issue for these mega studios like Disney and WB? There was a time when there were a half dozen of good movie studios who put out a good product, until the big two bought them out.
The crazy thing is that The Drinker would make a pretty kick-ass Bond villain. He is a brilliant man with a hint of goofiness and a strong helping of camp.
Clueless Drinker consistenly shills fo wankers who may as well hunt bigfot, like Valuetainment or the Daily-Wireeee. Guys ridiculed in 'Are Men ok??' and 'Are Rich People Ok?' by TH-camr Some More News. God, someone give the poor Man some access to free education
I haven't been going to movies for years. I don't find joy in watching movies where men are continuously insulted and even a superhero can only succeed by submitting to feminism. Surprise: I won't spend money to be offended. The feminist film director at Disney openly admits it: Men are supposed to feel uncomfortable. Well, good luck with that strategy to sell a product.
Well heck, it's been a while since it happened, like maybe with LotR, but I used to love being made uncomfortable. Tenseness in the pit of my stomach, racing heart, shallow breathing, sweaty palms. But I want that from off the screen, like watching Spielberg's "Duel", "Jaws" not from being told I'm untermensch.
Adopting the DEI agenda means that a lot of narrow minded ideologues, along with incompetents get hired, and that shows in the quality or declining quality of today's movies.
I think a main reason ‘barbenheimer’ happened was because ‘Sound of Freedom’ was being released around the same time. I remember seeing social media posts telling people to unite Barbie and Oppenheimer as a united front to stop people from seeing Sound of Freedom. Remember that the MSM and SM was telling people not to see SoF. If SoF wasn’t around at the same time I doubt barbenheimer would’ve happened.
Got a free movie ticket from my friend. Went to see nothing, because there was nothing interesting at the theaters and the ticket expired before Oppenheimer.
The question of whether or not Hollywood has reached "peak woke" is akin to asking if a pile of shit has reached maximum elevation. Answer this question: Has Hollywood outlived itself and become obsolete.
No failed cultural icons generally do not repent and turn in the right direction. It's usually only when they completely get replaced they wonder what went wrong.
I watch anti woke critics before I watch new movies for the last five years now. If movie producers want me to subsidize their hobbies, they'll have to make stuff that I like.
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CHAPTERS👇
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Is Hollywood Getting More or Less Woke?
02:09 Have Superhero Movies Run their Course?
04:58 Barbie & Oppenheimer
06:27 Barbie's Successful Marketing Campaign
08:22 Critical Drinker’s Opinion of the Barbie Movie
10:36 Wokeness in Barbie
12:38 Barbie's Oscar Nominations
15:09 Sponsor Message: Galaxy Projectors
16:35 Discussing Oppenheimer
20:16 A Universal Theme Devoid of Politics?
22:23 Are the Oscars Irrelevant?
26:06 Everyone in LA is Living in a Bubble
38:32 Diversity in Hollywood
31:43 The Daily Wire’s 'Terror on the Pairie' Movie
32:30 Sponsor Message: Manscaped
34:56 'Lady Ballers' & Its Political Message
37:33 Do Creatives Just Want Artistic Freedom?
40:09 Is Tom Cruise a Powerful Force in Hollywood?
43:34 Death of the Bad Boy Movie Star
46:10 The Cultural Impact of TV
48:38 What's the One Thing We're Not Talking About?
Why you keep entertaining this absolute moron? Will Jordan is a waste of space with nothing to say other than ‘something something woke’.
It's also because of studios like WB alienating their fans by not giving them what they want to see in live action DC movies too.
The whole point of Barbie was that her world mirrored the real world but in an opposite fashion.
So in the end when the Kens were saying “Can we do this job? Or this job?”
The Barbies saying “Oh heavens no, not yet!”
Was a direct comment on girls being allowed to do any job in our world but not just yet.
The mirror opposite is that women should aim to be as prevalent as men in leadership positions but that they OBVIOUSLY aren’t ready to do so yet after centuries of not doing so.
So many folks have missed this very, very, very obvious snd very cool statement!
Barbie even ends up going to a gynaecologist to see about having a baby!
So dudes, excuse me but you’ve earned “a-DURRRRRRR!”😁
So funny that fragile men like this guy got so offended by Barbie. Snowflakes.
when are you boys gonna grow out some facial hair?
One of the biggest issues with Hollywood is they are hiring writers with no life experience. They come straight out of university and the go into the industry. How can they possibly write about anything but their own narrow view of the world if they haven’t experienced anything else?
As someone who wants to be a professional writer coming out of Uni, I don’t like to think that lacking life experiences is something that would be a negative. What I think the problem really is, is simply the fact that nobody is telling any new, original or frankly good stories. There’s nothing new to be excited about, something to challenge or something to inspire
Not defending them but how do you gain experience? Maybe they just need to be mentored by an older Gen.
Agreed.
@@ajward9112- You were all raised in the 'woke', 'politically correct', 'safe space' and 'participation trophy' generation, not to mention all of this trans nonsense (boring, so fg boring), so how are you suoposed to write anything interesting or about adversity when you've never had to face any? Been allowed to face any?
Not sure where "life experience" comes into writing superhero movies. A lot of these modern movies involve storylines that are pure escapist fantasy, with no basis in real life.
The fact that Godzilla Minus One is only nominated for best visual effects while probably being the best movie to hit the big screen this year shows what a joke that whole ceremony is.
At the very least, G-1 should have been nominated for best international film.
I’ve got to see this movie!
Even with it only being subtitles in English, I found it to be an excellent movie! And who would’ve guessed; with another Godzilla movie. 😮
It should have gotten much more of an award!
G-1 set a high water mark for character drama. This movie is exactly what I was hoping for from the director of the Always: Sunset On Third Street trilogy which was...a character drama. Yamazaki should have been nominated for Best Director for pulling off this feat.
This is the first I’m hearing about it. The film industry is a joke lmao
The fact the male lead was the only one nominated for an award in a feminist movie is hilarious 😂
"The fact the male lead won the only award in a feminist movie is hilarious 😂"
Do you mean Ryan Gosling in Barbie? He didn't win any Academy Awards.
@@redlightmax my mistake, it was just a nomination
@@redlightmaxthe fact he was nominated was a W
Supremely ironic that he was the only likeable and human character in the movie.
Cis male? Taking their men and awards. Harsh.
The Drinker -- one of the most important cultural critics alive today. Truly. He has been fiercely and hilariously mocking ''the Message'' for years now, and deserves all of the success he's getting.
Not just mocking, he often provides such constructive criticism that it could be a roadmap to Hollywood saving itself (…if they weren’t so deadset on continuing course over a cliff)
Believe that!
When you consider the in depth and reasoned, as well as scathing & hilarious (when needed) film reviews, verses the Identity Politics of Mark Kermode ("I wanted to like it more [wtf???]), you can see that film reviews, like most media, is much superior away from the mainstream.
@@patkawasaki771 Kermode lost my trust in recent years, no question.
He's the most intelligent reviewer out there now who wraps it in snide comedy that really resonates with many people. He pulls no punches, but does it with humor and we're all the better for it.
12 years ago I watched EVERYTHING that came out. Now I watch almost NOTHING.
They lost me too, i never liked superhero movies so I kinda lost interest in Hollywood.
And the movies are just to "American" not a real surprise there ofcourse but I'm getting tired of the glitter and glamour and overproduction of everything. Like the Scandinavian or British production on netflix/prime.
Hollywood is a passed station for me right now.
Same....
Go watch the first two hours of Oppenheimer.
Oh, also: American Fiction.
@@RussellNelson are you actually going to say something or can't you get any further then meaningless oneliners?
I’m a 62 year old woman and my 17 year old nephew said to me last week “I’m the lowest of the low….a straight white male”. It broke my heart. 💔 This ridiculousness needs to stop. We are irreparably damaging our young men.
Not to be presumptuous or rude or glib, because I can't imagine being in that situation, but, I'd do my best to convey the idea that civilizations were built by those who were bullied, dumped upon, and scorned. They took all the slings and arrows with a hardened grace and moved forward despite.
Older generations that gave us the gifts that we spoil today were given a gift of hardship, of adversity. That isn't something easily explained and there are no easy answers. But it is true; those who take on the weight of the world and persevere make the next age in which future generations will flourish. Tell him to be strong, be smart, and tell him there is always room for heroes.
Tell your nephew to stop believing everything he hears because people lie all the time and many people that don't even know him don't have his best interest at heart. Especially if there's politics in the message. Human beings are all equal (and are human beings BEFORE being white or black or eskimo) so he should throw this inferiority feeling in the trash.
This diversity agenda is meant to brainwash kids, not adults. He needs to be aware of this.
Tell him to get his head out his and be a man
@@mudageki 👍🏾💜
" “I’m the lowest of the low….a straight white male”." suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure
Hollywood hasn't got sick of trying to push the message, but audiences have gotten sick of watching it.
Absolutely.
What message?
The message is the agenda
@@raspvidy Pro gay and pro diversity shoved in your faces, by which they mean in practice that they want to expose people to degeneracy and promote having less white people. You know, the ones who literally build up western civilizations.
@@raspvidy Woke crap
Saying you HAVE to hire a lesbian trans woman is the same thing as saying you CANT hire a straight man/woman. It discrimination under the guise of "Inclusion".
@allenja Who is saying you HAVE to hire a lesbian trans woman ?
Isn't a lesbian trans woman just a dude who likes banging chicks? Let's be honest here.
@@davidantonacci9525 HR says it, bc they hire along their DIE ideology
@@raiklaub975 Grow up.
@@davidantonacci9525 has nothing to do with "grow up". When HR says so, they act so. This means you don't get the job. It has real influence on life. Grow up yourself
There was WISDOM in the saying, "Never meet your heroes." but with social media, that is almost impossible now. And HALF the time, you don't meet them but THINK that you do, because many have "staff" that post for them...
Its not impossible? Just dont have social media. Problem solved. Delete your facebook, your twitter, etc.
@@TheSuperappelflap I would agree with you, but social media has now bled into the NEWS, so you still hear the inflammatory reactions to celebrity/influencer comments even when you just want to know how the weather is going to be... Not to mention office debate/character assassinations even when you ask to be excluded from gossip.
Politicians also. There's no way mumblin' stumblin' bumblin' Biden is writing his own social media posts. He probably doesn't know how to log on, much less how to compose and send posts, but he absolutely cannot communicate in real life using the language he supposedly uses on-line.
For most, yeah...don't meet them. Some...it depends on who you ask.
I work in visual effects and I can tell you exactly why visual effects have gotten worse on so many movies and TV shows. It's because we as VFX artists are given absolutely ridiculous deadlines and spread so thinly across multiple projects, yet the studios still want the same high quality of work.
It's not possible.
So many artists suffer from burnout and even leave the industry altogether.
Now I know why things look worse now than 10 years ago!
Not to over simplify but it seems to be all about quantity over quality now. Professionals that would have helped sculpt great work are hammered to rush out shoddy, creatively and visually half-finished products. Eye candy over narrative, it’s lazy storytelling.
truth
So the same as Japanese animators. And animators. And I suppose classic animators too.
Was there ever a time when artists were not choked by insane deadlines?
This sounds like every company. Everyone gets burn-out.
"The Message" is why Asian Cinema is finally taking off in the West.
And even some Bollywood flicks, well yeah (south east asian).
😃
South Korea produces some amazing films
@@firesb7791they always have but subtitles suck
@@kevlark3184 you can't even begin to understand how close minded your statement is. " I only watch things that are in my own language''. For my entire life I've read subtitles because english is my second language and once I reached 3rd grade I was able to read the entire sub before the characters finished their lines on screen. Plus with subtitles you can learn other languages and indulge in films and shows from the minds of creators raised in a completely different culture.
Subs RULE
@robertavadani5946 dude I was joking. What's up with everyone nowadays trying to be parents? Hella self righteous.
Hollywood needs to stop looking at twitter for feedback and thinking that twitter is the majority’s view on the world…
Most of us aren’t on Twitter
What’s Twitter?
I’m not going to support people that hate me with my money or viewership.
This shouldnt be controversial. It's a healthy mindset.
just fyi I don't think most feminists hate men ( some clearly do, but not most). What you see is that most of them don't understand the struggles of men and are antagonistic because of that, but there are some men who are like that as well in reverse... I'm not sure whether this particular director is the hateful type or not
@@justsomenobody889 I used to think the same way but now i think modern feminists hate men and its a fight of dominance, not equality.
@@justsomenobody889maybe, but when it comes to the woke mob I'm gonna hold em to their own standard.
You don't agree with the position of group X? You hate group X!
Ok. Fine. Your terms are acceptable.
Well said.
I'm not going to the movie theater to be lectured to. I'm going there to be entertained. And when studios prioritize one over the other, they can shove it.
Yes, there's a difference between a movie that gives you insight to something you don't think about often and being lectured to. Hollywood today is too dumb to know the difference.
@@MrAkaacer Women + Twitter = ...
I agree with you 100%, they can shove it in their arse.
My family owned a local "Family Video" in the 80s & 90s so I was a movie buff from almost birth. I've largely stopped watching movies in in the last decade because aside from a few exceptions it's pure propaganda and it's always from the extreme left which has clearly devolved into a cult that's possessed by an evil ideology.
Really? I love being lectured on how bad capitalism is by actors & directors earning more for one film than I will in my whole lifetime! 🤦♂
Love seeing the Critical Drinker in these more formal formats with other different people with other mood for a more different general audience, very well done sir 👏
On influential actors that have a unique draw, I nominate Henry Cavil.
He doesn't put up with lazy writing (his respectful withdrawal from The Wither is case in point) gives him so much credibility.
Go watch Argylle
@@FichtenFinOh, yeah, that.
If he wasnt okay with lazy writing he wouldnt have done season 1 or 2 of the witcher either. That show was baaaaaaaaaaaad.
I know it was probably a typo, but calling Witcher "Wither" is so appropriate considering what's happened to that show. Lol
Omg I first saw him on Tudors & he was a very attractive man who was good at acting in different parts.
They gave an award to a bloke after violently hit someone in front of the whole world rather than having him removed. I haven’t watched a Hollywood film since. They have zero credibility after that (if they had any before).
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Yeah he got zero punishment. They should’ve taken his award back, and barred him from contention for life. What an asshole.
@@aldunlop4622 He should’ve been removed the moment he hit someone. I can’t believe he just calmly sat back down, no security? This offered zero protection for Chris Rock, it was madness and true contempt.
Okay, it was a slap. Let's not get crazy and stupid now. More people in the world should get slapped.
I can't stand Hollywood, but I have a bit of sympathy for this. I think everyone was just so shocked that they just didn't know what to do.
TH-cam actually cut into the ad read with an advertisement, I'm so sick of being bludgeoned over the head to purchase things I have absolutely no interest in!
Although YT is fighting hard against them, there are still ways to avoid ads if you look for them.
what anti-ad - addons you have installed?
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@@rainbowpheanix I seem to not be able to get anything through. But if you're "Brave" enough to know, then like Mario, go down that "Pipe" that is "New", and you'll get at least some idea.
In a world where profit is put above all, expect to be inundated with advertising.
23:30 that Ricky gervais monologue was legendary! “Come up get your little award thank your god and your agent and f**k off!”😂
That seemed to directed at a highly acclaimed actor(gender neutral word)
Excellent 👍🏻
I used to see 4-6 movies in the theatre each year, 2023 = zero
Too late to see in theaters now but I would recommend John Wick 4 and Godzilla Minus One to see action spectacle and no current day bullcrap. Oppenheimer if you like drama.
Yeah, I think I saw two movies in 2023, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Oppenheimer”
when I used to see them once a month.
The last film I went to the cinema for was Lord of the Rings - Return of the King. I almost went for Morbius... I'm so glad I was ill that day.
I did 2-3 a month for a long time. I stopped 10 years ago as I saw this creeping in and kept getting upset in little ways I felt were unfair.
I am an early adopter of anti-woke. I’m a native San Franciscan.
I watched many movies like new Godzilla Minus One and e.g. few old Ghibli movies which had theater versions playing. But I knew previous Japanese Godzilla movie (Shin Godzilla) was also great so there was expectations that this could be too (compared to western versions).
John Wick 4 was disappointed but I kind of expected it to be, but now I know. It's gone way over parody horizon at this point and become boring superhero movie. Like Die Hard 4 back in the day. No amount of damage on screen can do anything to characters until script say now they have to die. First is still the golden which least made it look like it has any stakes.
I'm from New York, but I have close friends from Dixie, Florida, Texas, and the midwest who just don't watch Hollywood products anymore because they got tired of their homes constantly being insulted and shown unfairly
Live in the south and you are correct
Didn't Rachel Ziegler get an award recently for _Best Action Star?_
The awards haven't meant anything for a long time...
Against Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise no less
Yeah, that was Weird. Weird.
Best action star! 😆😂🤣
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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What was she in? (To win that award)
in the 70s bionic woman is more of action figer then ziegler
"There's a huge audience out there that's just had it with this woke garbage."
--David Mamet
Love David. Watch his interview with Klavan (no E in Klavan).
Thank god we dont have to make art that entirely glazes your point of view and instead challenges it with new perspectives and ideas.
Freedom and liberty, please...
@@nathanmitchell7961boo hoo for you snowvlak
@@jamesdellaneve9005That is a great interview, just watched it.
I also think its sort of a generation shift.
The milenials grewing out of the cinema age when thr gen Z alreddy seen the woke garbage in school
So let me get this straight.. The films must nowadays meet a certain "underrepresentation" standard to be eligible for the Oscars?? So if you have no members of "underrepresented groups" in your movie, you're out of luck?? Isn't Oscars supposed to be about THE BEST films and not representation? That is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while. Screw Hollywood and their idiotic political agendas. It's no wonder that movies and games are just getting worse and worse.
Dude it's the oscars. Only Hollywood cares about that self serving bullshit😂😂😂😂
The world realized what was going on when "Divorce Barbie" sold for twice the price of regular Barbie because it also included all of Ken's stuff.
You do realize that was a joke, right?
Ken didn't see it that way@@carynfisher9463
it's not a joke for the men that get divorced for real @@carynfisher9463
😂😂🤣
My 13 year old daughter did not like the Barbie movie, due to the way Ken was treated. The Left is repellent.
Don't confuse the left with poor writing and co. I'm far, far left and hate these imbicillic movies, the same as all my lefty friends. I love LOTR, but hate Rings of Power.
Your kid might be trying to pander to her pa 😂
@@Brian-uq4wu Well, she sure doesn't hold back on other subjects. She's not a woke extremist though, and can think for herself.
@@cpm1003sounds like you raised a good one so grats. I was just venting about what I see from kids/parents dynamic as a teacher. There's too many parents that can't see the forest through the trees. They're just too close to it. You're probably right tho, but it's food for thought
I'd rather have blue-haired lesbians in movies that live under a fascist. As shit as the left is the right is just wrong on every level.
Thanks!
The Oscars/Globes are a *fantastic* way of saying who's approval is most valuable of gatekeeping the status quo. It is a machine that generates and maintains its own validity. Handing out awards is a great way to decide who gets the _power,_ the _position_ and the _authority_ of handing out awards.
No it doesn't / it isn't. It isn't merit based and that's become even more self apparent with the lack of decorum in recent years. These are fools handing out trophies for being better fools.
@@charlesmcgovern2395That's exactly right. The recognition of merit, (even when/if it ever was that) was always *secondary* to the primary purpose of generating and cementing its own authority.
Ricky Gervais kept telling the audience this , multiple times at the golden globes.In other words of course, but the point was the same.
Hollywood banned James Woods for politics , Jim Caviezel for religion and Neal McDonough refusing a sex scene.
So an actor refused to act and he got fired? What a shocker!
Also, this is obviously false. There have been a tonne of actors who famously refused to do scenes, Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in 7se7en, Chris Evans in Avengers 2, John Krazinsky in the office, Brad Silverman in I Am Sam etc.
He’s just a deeply untalented and unlikeable guy who stopped getting roles because he’s shit, but he lives in denial and has to come up with some conspiracy about it.
Wrong. James Woods is a dick and a terrible actor, Caviezel was on a hit show for years and McDonough doesn't make the best choices when it comes to accepting roles.
they r now doing it to henry cavill.
@@rahulas8653 yes... all the most cancelled actors are in big action movies currently in cinemas.... genius.
Critical Drinker is getting some critical acclaim now and becoming pretty respected in the film industry.
Having been born from a post-Soviet country, I could see through the commentary of Nolan's movie. It can be mirrored against what is going on today, people being persecuted just for associating themselves with certain other people. But also, communism as an ideology is bleeding through our culture in the West. I think Nolan wanted to say this in a way that's veiled and palatable enough without being persecuted himself.
We are living in a late stage capitalist corporate kleptocracy and people are complaining about communism lol. Brainwashed by American propaganda. We could use a bit more public ownership of the means of production.
Let's be honest, movie award shows were ALWAYS delusional, self congratulatory nauseating, cringe worthy love fests, completely divorced from reality. I think the only thing that has changed is the publics tolerance of, and interest in, these vainglorious sociopathic narcissists, has disappeared.
It was easier to tolerate when they were still making good movies.
@@TheSpecialJ11true. People can't write movies anymore. Because everyone doing so has literal no life experience. They've never faced any challenge in life other than maybe they didn't have the car they wanted or were bullied. They have no wisdom, and grew up with social media..that's why everything out of their tiny minds is utter garbage
Well, that was kind of the point in years past. You saw them in their beautiful clothing, knew they lived a life completely inaccessible. Then again, they didn’t try to stick their noses in your life either. They weren’t lecturing you on some woke nonsense, or climate change before flying off on the private jet, or on what political candidate you ought to support.
So well put and said. I completely agree
Agree with you in spirit but disagree in fact. Go back and watch Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, or Charlton Heston accepting awards. They were without doubt more humble, more self aware, and less narcissistic than today's celebrities. Sure, they may have been faking humility; but at least it's apparent that it was a culturally valued virtue!
Today, most honestly don't even know the meaning of the word, to the point that you will hear some, in all seriousness, bragging about how humble they are!
I love the Critical Drinker!!
Thanks for having him on!
Awesome interview!!
In Barbie.... Barbie was mainly looking for status and Ken was looking for meaning.... which is why his story was more interesting.
I love how the quota standards for an Oscar lists every ethnicity they can possibly think of that's not white, instead of just saying what they mean - not white.
For choosing identity politics over merit you have to look at ESG.
Which makes time piece non fiction films completely nonsensical, since they’re forced to insert a bunch of checkbox characters. Why Dunkirk lost out to some film with human on swamp thing sex scenes. 😂
We will never stop being disappointed in how they ended Game of Thrones.
_The North remembers_ 🎯🎯🎯🎯
It still haunts me how that played out. Almost as bad as how Joker played out with that god awful sequel?
I see The Critical Drinker and I immediately click the video. He's played a major role in my writing aspirations with his videos helping me craft my novel, and his own novels are awesome as well. Any friend of the Drinker is a friend of mine. I'll check out your videos too! Great stuff!
Get a brain!
I came across a review a few days back that praised the Drinker's reviews but was heavily critical of his novels. Haven't read them but if the examples he provided are correct there's a lot to correct in them.
Love The Critical Drinker, consistently funny, insightful and spot on!
Just repeats the same script time and time again. Men are still conventional, and like to wear dark grey, black and dark green.
@@davidmartyn5044 _"Men are still conventional, and like to wear dark grey, black and dark green."_
Many men do. One reason could be most could be bothered to care about 'fashion' and such things so they go with what works because that is easy low energy option in topic they are not bothered about. Same reason why e.g. many men living alone can live quite ascetically having only things they personally need to survive. Couple basic plates and minimum cutleries etc.
But if you go to their personal hobbies they are interested you usually start to see all kinds of extra decorations and such. If someone e.g. likes cars they probably have to of various car related stuff even if they do not have 12 different colored shirts.
@@davidmartyn5044 Every part of you is programmed by your surroundings. You have free thought from our engineered media, education and institutions? I think not. You are told what opinions to have in a narrow spectrum.
it's great to see that mr. drinker is getting the recognition he deserves. hard work eventually pays off, this is yet another example of exactly that.
That blockbuster image gut punched me. I used to work there through my years at Uni and, genuinely, it was a great place to work. While I don’t miss the pay, I do miss the teams, culture and spending time discussing film with all the patrons.
I really like the Critical Drinker’s channel, vids and comedy style. Plus his honesty about the politics being in movies is awesome and I agree! KEEP ROCKING 🤟😝
He's an uneducated jerk with lots of money and no media literacy
I like that The Critical Drinker is speaking normally in this; I like his channel, too but it's refreshing.
Hell yes! I love the Drinker! I actually recently watched Benny Johnson's interview with Drinker and Nerdrotic, which was really cool. So I'm super excited to see you guys interview Drinker again!
Watched it as well. Personally I'd love them to get Gary (Nerdrotic) on- I know he's not everyones cup of tea but he's certainly had an interesting life.
@@donmongoose Yeah, that would also be cool. Gary is great!
That was a great episode and I love watching Friday Night Tights! There are some great people on there! The Drinker is one of my favourite channels on TH-cam!
@loulou69star I love Friday Night Tights too! Such a fun podcast. Saturday Night Hypnosis is another great podcast!
@FUKAOKEVERSE You are Wh*te and m*le, please keep your words to yourself. 🥱
Great discussion gentlemen. It's so nice to see a mature genuine discussion without someone getting offended when they think they smell shite.
there is no discussion when everyone agrees with each other.
@@origami83 I think that TCD does disagree with some aspects but he doesn't offer a rebuttal because he wants to appear agreeable amongst his peers. Just an observation.
@@NicLoch2708 Fair enough.
@@origami83 There is a discussion. What there isn't, is a debate.
Insecure White Men love playing the victim.
Excellent discussion! This is a superb example of how independent small content creators are humiliating the efforts of the big production operations and providing higher quality content. The “old guard” is indeed dead. 👍🏼👍🏼
I long for days of a "fun" show. Something I can hang out with my 13 year old on the couch or at the theater and not have to explain all the high strangeness that is junking up good entertainment. Honestly, Hollywood has "dehumanized the movie industry". I don't relate to ANYTHING I stream or see at the movies. I've literally gone back to just reading books. So much richer of an experience.
One thing my wife pointed out about the Barbie movie to me when she came back from the cinema with her mum and cousins, she never understood why Ken was supposed to be shocked in the real world that women were doctors.
According to her, and based on reviews from the likes of Drinker, Reaper et al, only women had those kinds of positions in Barbie world. They were the leaders, doctors, supreme court judges, city councilwomen and pretty much everything else.
Why would Ken be surprised if a woman was a doctor?
Well, little known fact, Ken was educated at Rugby school under Dr Arnold, he would regard it as shocking and against the natural laws of modesty for women to be in what God intended to be a male profession, thereby protecting the fairer sex, from the harsh and messy realities of life.
Barbie = 💩💩💩💩
She misremembered the scene, Ken at no point is surprised about female doctors in the real world. During the sequence where Ken learns and becomes engrossed by the concept of patriarchy he is seen taking to a lady in green scrubs and when she tells him that she is in fact a Doctor he ignores her and asks for a pen and the heads towards a man he presumed to be a Doctor.
Imagine having a wife that watches misandrist movies
Well the idea is as follows:
Ken came from a matriarchy and was told (by woke people and feminists) that the real world was patriarchy and therefore he expected everything to be flipped.
Interestingly enough he then finds out that the real world is in fact not like that. I don't know whether the movie was intentionally criticizing modern feminism or on accident, but they did.
Great interview. Critical Drinker is the best movie critic of our generation. His crass impolite delivery is the gimmick (and it's great fun) but it's the quality of his insights that makes him relevant.
Oppenheimer is about Oppenheimer. Everyone forgets that. The film focuses on the events of his life, so it lays out what he experienced, emotions, education, intellectual, political. I think the balance of all of those elements was extremely well done.
Since woke can never go too far, there can never be peak woke, unless you include human extinction.
Did you mean never?
@@MamaMOB Thanks! Corrected it.
@@mustang607no problem 👍😁
A good point though, despite the typo.
Human extinction: the exact thing they’re trying to do. It’s the overarching theme to EVERY ONE OF THEIR BELIEFS. People are bad (specifically white people).
i went from a movie obsessed Kid/Teen/Adult to somebody who doesnt even watch Movies/TV anymore AT all! what a Journey hehe (and no theres no coming back, i lost complete interest in the medium of Film/Series)
Ditto
I’d rather watch Graham Hancock on YT or an documentary on medieval Europe than go see a movie
Fine content, but also: great form: a room for discussion without any fancy deco distractions, just two cameras with sharp, crisp lighting. Stay with that, guys. You three in ONE room: some of my very YT-faves put together. YES.
Nice table as well
@@TheSuperappelflap Aye but where were the coasters!
@@blisterfingers8169 thats true, need some coasters on a nice old table like that
What rarely gets mentioned about these superhero films is that the comic book characters these films were based on were written for a target audience of 10 year olds.
Isn't this just the societal infantilism that Carl Sagan warned us about in the 1990s?
Never ever became a fan of superheroes. When I was 10 back in 1971, my superheroes were the Montreal Canadiens.
Wasn't big into comics but a couple of the ones I had seen in the mid eighties plus were not appropriate for 10 year olds. When I was 12 some buddy showed me the comic the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was based on years before the cartoon came out. If I remember correctly, a panel showed one of the turtle's wood pole weapon coming out of a punk's mouth but didn't show low enough so you could see where the pole had apparently entered.
@@stvitalkid7981 same here, the only superhero movies i really liked where Nolan's Batman, OG Superman and the Watchmen , Dredd if you count that
This is kinda neglecting that children age faster, as it were, emotionally in modern times. These days a 14/15 year old is in to very adult things but back then they were not. They weren't made for 10 year olds, they were made for kids and young people and they were enjoyed by around 12-20 year olds. Characters like Batman and the other Detective Comics had slightly older audiences. There's a reason the American military thought it would be a good idea to make comics for their 18+ G.I.s with similar characters and it's because people that age were reading those kind of comics.
Normal people saying normal stuff... this is what we are craving for and will watch almost an hour on TH-cam for!
(That's like half the length of these £200mil movies!)
The Oscurs doesn't judge films, just political incorrectness & their top movies are a guide nowadays of what not to watch.
Imagine being such an impressionable loser that you’ll deny yourself watching Oppenheimer, Anatomy of a fall, Poor things and Past Lives because the Oscar’s nominated it! Lol, what a bitch
Also, was gonna put “zone of interest” in there, but conservatives loathe that movie for obvious other reasons
I love films but rarely go to the cinema - I love the Critical Drinker! Saved me pounds.....and he's f****** hilarious to boot !
Superhero fatigue does not exist, it’s actually just shit movie fatigue
Well, I saw this comment from an astronaut that is going to the moon that says how important it is for the crew to have a black astronaut and a female astronaut, so no - I dont think anything has peaked yet. This crap is going to space and beyond!
A bunch of millionaires in a room together giving themselves golden statues. Nothing occult about that at all.
It's not an occult, it's just pretension.
Lets all give a standing ovation to Ricky Gervais.
Being a film historian, I can confirm that the Academy Awards have ALWAYS been about Hollywood "kissing its own arse"... As far as politics are concerned, The Holdovers seemed to have been above all of it. It's a little gem.
Yes and no. Some of the awards given out were clearly about belonging to the "insiders club" but others really weren't. The most interesting award for those who don't like the system was something like BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR because you could see people who may have literally ZERO big credits to their name vie for this award while the award for BEST ACTOR was just the opposite level of exclusivity.
Yep, and it’s always been rigged. Most of the “winners” have been boring shit nobody’s even seen, whilst obviously better films and performances have been overlooked because “they don’t like that kind of movie”, such as sci-fi and fantasy.
@@davestang5454 There is no "no". Hollywood has been an oligopoly since the 1910s and the AW were created by studio moguls in 1927 to get some respectability in the eyes of the (then) Puritan majority. Take some film history books (not web sites), read and look beyond American cinema, see who won in the past and, more importantly, who hasn't won (ex. for "best director": Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, etc.) and then comment about it. In a knowledgeable way...
There are no boundaries to their depravity and hubris.
Thorough, solid discussion with many valid points. I enjoyed hearing your UK perspective on this topic.
We are on the verge of Peak Woke. Madame Web covers Marvel , the Accolyte will sacrifice StarWars at the altar of Woke and at that point there will be nothing left to ruin and Peak Woke will be attained.
We are nowhere near peak woke. Entertainment is just the tip of the iceberg. The woke are in everything. Our schools, our media, and our government, and the general public seem none the wiser about them indoctrinating the masses, especially the children. The people who think woke is nearly over are the kind of people who bury their heads in sand when it comes to politics.
Watched Barbie on HBO and honestly can’t remember much of it…the visuals of it were somewhat interesting. I knew the message was going to be “women are oppressed and men are the oppressors” and “down with the patriarchy.” Not “best picture” worthy. Also, the Academy Awards are no longer relevant and we really don’t have “movie stars” in this day and age. Social media has “lifted the veil” on actors and they’re no longer held in high regard
"The bubble that those people operate in." Best sound bite from this video. Well done.
Disney's woke movies had HUGE SUCCESS among woke crowd!
Sadly, that crowd is TOO SMALL for financial success. Disney, you put own bed.
Critical Drinker is the best critic out there. I enjoy his presentations and find his point of view dead on when it comes to "THE MESSAGE!"
I know I’m late to the party but this is hands down the absolute best way to get an audience to watch an ad. I always skip them but putting a challenge into it the way you did was masterful. Seriously.
What's the one thing we're not talking about that we should be? The complete disconnect between sound designers and the actual laws of physics.
Its crazy that a film like 'All Quite On The Western Front' could never win best film because of these guideline. What a film that was with a real message for every age, gender and race.
What a time to be alive 10 years ago. I was an avid comic book enthusiast. I used to take a 2-hour bus ride into the city (Boston) to pick up my monthly issues. At the same time, we had the best superhero films like The Dark Knight Rises, Kick-Ass, and Marvel's Cinimatic universe hitting a new height with The Avengers.
But then the comic book shops were either becoming woke or closing down. I visited the city recently for a convention, and there's practically nothing left.
Moral of this comment is that things inevitably die at some point at the cost of us growing up and becoming more mature.
I love the way British people pronounce "Controversy"
That's just correct English. You Americans say it wrong.
Different
@@dcmastermindfirst9418most of the English population can’t speak English properly…..let alone Americans
I've heard the reason CGI has gotten worse and not better is that there is so many movies being made that they are spread thin in skilled CGI artists and rushed.
Great show, guys! Thanks for putting the finger where it actually hurts… Damn, do I miss the 90’s! 😢
That's an excellent point regarding Oppenheimer and McCarthyism.
Great discussion. Always good to hear the Drinker.
Enjoy Critical Drinker's output. Insightful and entertaining. The sort of company I'd enjoy in a bar, or in a lounge with friends.
“ If you’re doing a zombie movie do you have to cast actual corpses in it?”
“ Oh ya you could cast Biden!”
BAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂
Great point at the end about special effects getting worse now rather than better. The big thing that's bugged me is how the various "new Trek" productions went with this high-contrast metallic look that has no sense of verisimilitude - they've given up on PHOTOREALISM in favor of it being slipshod pseudo-"artsy". Probably the peak was 1999's Galaxy Quest.
The Critical Drinker is well spoken and very smart. He could be in a movie himself.
Love that Konstantin makes the McCarthyism point like it's some massive revelation - it was pretty fucking obvious, I think the word communist and derivates thereof were probably the most frequently used words in the script except "bomb".
it's kind of like saying the Imitation game (Turing) is about Gay persecution
I dont even watch most movies anymore, I just watch reviews from guys like Critical Drinker.
Greed has destroyed creativity. It’s supposed to be entertainment not a fat paycheck guarantee.
It’s part of it however, with the amount of consistent flops, it seems that money is no issue for these mega studios like Disney and WB?
There was a time when there were a half dozen of good movie studios who put out a good product, until the big two bought them out.
Drinker and Pitch Room are two of the best cinema critics around right now, both hilarious and accurate.
Don't you mean, "Pitch Meeting"? The show that stars Ryan George as both Screenwriter and Producer?
The thing that they're forgetting about Oppenheimer is that it's a Christopher Nolan film
The crazy thing is that The Drinker would make a pretty kick-ass Bond villain. He is a brilliant man with a hint of goofiness and a strong helping of camp.
Clueless Drinker consistenly shills fo wankers who may as well hunt bigfot, like Valuetainment or the Daily-Wireeee. Guys ridiculed in 'Are Men ok??' and 'Are Rich People Ok?' by TH-camr Some More News. God, someone give the poor Man some access to free education
@@slevinchannel7589someone needs a cookie 😂
I haven't been going to movies for years. I don't find joy in watching movies where men are continuously insulted and even a superhero can only succeed by submitting to feminism. Surprise: I won't spend money to be offended. The feminist film director at Disney openly admits it: Men are supposed to feel uncomfortable. Well, good luck with that strategy to sell a product.
Well heck, it's been a while since it happened, like maybe with LotR, but I used to love being made uncomfortable. Tenseness in the pit of my stomach, racing heart, shallow breathing, sweaty palms. But I want that from off the screen, like watching Spielberg's "Duel", "Jaws" not from being told I'm untermensch.
Adopting the DEI agenda means that a lot of narrow minded ideologues, along with incompetents get hired, and that shows in the quality or declining quality of today's movies.
Dang that sounds like the US government under biden.
Critical Drinker is not the hero we deserve but the hero we NEED
Pretty good talks through almost fifty minutes (minus ad) 🙂 I watched this in two parts. 9/10 rating for sure 🙂
I think a main reason ‘barbenheimer’ happened was because ‘Sound of Freedom’ was being released around the same time. I remember seeing social media posts telling people to unite Barbie and Oppenheimer as a united front to stop people from seeing Sound of Freedom. Remember that the MSM and SM was telling people not to see SoF. If SoF wasn’t around at the same time I doubt barbenheimer would’ve happened.
Got a free movie ticket from my friend. Went to see nothing, because there was nothing interesting at the theaters and the ticket expired before Oppenheimer.
The question of whether or not Hollywood has reached "peak woke" is akin to asking if a pile of shit has reached maximum elevation. Answer this question: Has Hollywood outlived itself and become obsolete.
No failed cultural icons generally do not repent and turn in the right direction. It's usually only when they completely get replaced they wonder what went wrong.
I watch anti woke critics before I watch new movies for the last five years now. If movie producers want me to subsidize their hobbies, they'll have to make stuff that I like.
Well done.
Im not fond of movies that are trying message me, to somehow change my outlook on life etc. If i want that, I'll attend church on Sunday.😉
Until we are rid of the last shred of wokeness in this world, we are living in peak woke times.
The CD has the voice for radio and critical mind to match. Love him.