This is just the newest example of the way Elon Musk is an incredible power-fulcrum.
Why will Hollywood be anything “next”? Let it shrink into its own self-congratulatory cess pit. Whatever’s coming doesn’t require us to fix Hollywood- building from scratch is the only way. Trying to change that sick, incestuous, bizarro world is wasted energy - energy that could be directed towards building something new.
Amen. I don't think it can be fixed. A distant cousin lived there (a couple of celebrities/celebrity children went to her high school in the San Fernando Valley) and in the early 80's (a couple of years after graduation), it was fairly routine for the "old gang" to get together for parties and sometimes at those parties, they had orgies. Hollyweird has been lost for over 40 years. In fact, those who know, know that the movie "Babylon" (which goes back much farther than 40 years) isn't that far off the mark.
I watched in on Amazon Prime Video for $6.00 Canadian Dollars. It was OK as a movie at best; but the fact that anything like this was made at all made it great.
The dam the extremism of the Left has constructed against truth and just plain common sense is going to burst and it will be ugly for a while. But it’s just a matter of time. Movies like this represent the first cracks in that dam.
Once again, Elon comes through in support of free speech. My hope is Germans will be able to watch it as will others worldwide. Truth cannot be hidden when free speech is in action.
Todd Gilchrist of Variety described the film as "astonishingly bad" and "a violent, incoherent, morally bankrupt slice of exploitation", with Hammer's character being as "xenophobic and entitled as the broadest American stereotype" who delivers "self-righteous monologues". He wrote that Hammer displayed "little of that spark" of his earlier charisma, and Boll's script as giving the character "prejudiced screeds".
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere described the film as a "furious anti-immigration" parable, before adding "I feel so badly for Armie as the film is so blunt and crude and more or less brimming with hate against 'the immigrant other', and lacking in setting up a believable context and a social realism backdrop...lacking even in terms of basic screenwriting craft and rudimentary filmmaking chops."
Thing is "Our Betters" Don't get how truly pissed (frightened?) we the great unwashed are.
Anyone who can still see straight is certainly not as frightened as “our Betters” who run the wars to wreck countries and drive migrants out to Western nations, paying and paving their way into their new roles as destroyers in demographic warfare.
The “Betters” at the top of the world (AKA bottom of Hell) are the Most frightened. The Occultocracy: Not much among us but certainly against us. Less that there’s nothing they wouldn’t do, rather that their addiction is to transgression. They want to do what most of us would not want to even imagine.
Oh boy, I saw your post when you (briefly) cross posted it here and I’m sorry for jumping into the fray. I think I will skip the rest of today’s comments though. lol
You’re a brave woman and I applaud you.❤️
Edited to add: Ewe Boll’s link has already been restricted as “adult content” but Elon’s link still works.
It has been ok for years to portray the death of "rednecks" as a good thing in the movies. ie: Zed’s torture and execution in Pulp Fiction, Dwight Yoakam's murder in Slingblade, etc. Nobody raised a fuss about such scenes ever because they were villians, and you know it's just a movie. But now when the bad guys aren't white? Oh the critics want to shut it down.
I’ve never seen Pulp Fiction, but Dwight Yoakam’s character wasn’t killed because he was a redneck. We cheered because he was a brutal man who hurt others for his own pleasure. Very few characters, good and bad, in that movie were not rednecks.
He was a brutal man because that's the way the script was written. He was the villain, and he was mean to gays and mentally challenged. But people have big problems when any minority group is portrayed as hurting people for their own pleasure.
Saw the movie and some of the pearl clutching reviews. This is what happens when DEI, multiculturalism, illegal aliens prioritized over citizens gets repeatedly crammed down our throats. The idiocrats better wake up. Some of the leaders of countries need to abdicate and apply for asylum before they end up with their heads on pikes.
Sasha, thanks for posting this. I watched it. And it took me back to the Billie Jack/Bufford Pusser-Walking Tall days. That genre had legs in the 70s with Dirty Harry and friends. Hope more get made.
I downloaded the film before those 48 hours and saw it later. The film is not a masterpiece and bot something new, it have some a weak segment involving prostitutes, but otherwise is a very strong film that will make a dent with a lot of people.
This is just the newest example of the way Elon Musk is an incredible power-fulcrum.
Why will Hollywood be anything “next”? Let it shrink into its own self-congratulatory cess pit. Whatever’s coming doesn’t require us to fix Hollywood- building from scratch is the only way. Trying to change that sick, incestuous, bizarro world is wasted energy - energy that could be directed towards building something new.
Amen. I don't think it can be fixed. A distant cousin lived there (a couple of celebrities/celebrity children went to her high school in the San Fernando Valley) and in the early 80's (a couple of years after graduation), it was fairly routine for the "old gang" to get together for parties and sometimes at those parties, they had orgies. Hollyweird has been lost for over 40 years. In fact, those who know, know that the movie "Babylon" (which goes back much farther than 40 years) isn't that far off the mark.
I watched in on Amazon Prime Video for $6.00 Canadian Dollars. It was OK as a movie at best; but the fact that anything like this was made at all made it great.
Now I want to see the origin story as the sequel!
Agreed, not the best production but as you said, that it was made at all is great.
The dam the extremism of the Left has constructed against truth and just plain common sense is going to burst and it will be ugly for a while. But it’s just a matter of time. Movies like this represent the first cracks in that dam.
Once again, Elon comes through in support of free speech. My hope is Germans will be able to watch it as will others worldwide. Truth cannot be hidden when free speech is in action.
Congratulations to Uwe!
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Reception
Todd Gilchrist of Variety described the film as "astonishingly bad" and "a violent, incoherent, morally bankrupt slice of exploitation", with Hammer's character being as "xenophobic and entitled as the broadest American stereotype" who delivers "self-righteous monologues". He wrote that Hammer displayed "little of that spark" of his earlier charisma, and Boll's script as giving the character "prejudiced screeds".
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere described the film as a "furious anti-immigration" parable, before adding "I feel so badly for Armie as the film is so blunt and crude and more or less brimming with hate against 'the immigrant other', and lacking in setting up a believable context and a social realism backdrop...lacking even in terms of basic screenwriting craft and rudimentary filmmaking chops."
Thing is "Our Betters" Don't get how truly pissed (frightened?) we the great unwashed are.
Anyone who can still see straight is certainly not as frightened as “our Betters” who run the wars to wreck countries and drive migrants out to Western nations, paying and paving their way into their new roles as destroyers in demographic warfare.
The “Betters” at the top of the world (AKA bottom of Hell) are the Most frightened. The Occultocracy: Not much among us but certainly against us. Less that there’s nothing they wouldn’t do, rather that their addiction is to transgression. They want to do what most of us would not want to even imagine.
Oh boy, I saw your post when you (briefly) cross posted it here and I’m sorry for jumping into the fray. I think I will skip the rest of today’s comments though. lol
You’re a brave woman and I applaud you.❤️
Edited to add: Ewe Boll’s link has already been restricted as “adult content” but Elon’s link still works.
It has been ok for years to portray the death of "rednecks" as a good thing in the movies. ie: Zed’s torture and execution in Pulp Fiction, Dwight Yoakam's murder in Slingblade, etc. Nobody raised a fuss about such scenes ever because they were villians, and you know it's just a movie. But now when the bad guys aren't white? Oh the critics want to shut it down.
I’ve never seen Pulp Fiction, but Dwight Yoakam’s character wasn’t killed because he was a redneck. We cheered because he was a brutal man who hurt others for his own pleasure. Very few characters, good and bad, in that movie were not rednecks.
He was a brutal man because that's the way the script was written. He was the villain, and he was mean to gays and mentally challenged. But people have big problems when any minority group is portrayed as hurting people for their own pleasure.
Watched it. Wow, just wow.
Thanks for the link Sasha! It's like a modern version of Death Wish, or Taxi Driver...
Saw the movie and some of the pearl clutching reviews. This is what happens when DEI, multiculturalism, illegal aliens prioritized over citizens gets repeatedly crammed down our throats. The idiocrats better wake up. Some of the leaders of countries need to abdicate and apply for asylum before they end up with their heads on pikes.
Sasha, thanks for posting this. I watched it. And it took me back to the Billie Jack/Bufford Pusser-Walking Tall days. That genre had legs in the 70s with Dirty Harry and friends. Hope more get made.
Best movie since the film V for vendetta.
Thank you Sasha - I’ll watch it.
My article in the same topic :
https://ghazibenahmed.substack.com/p/citizen-vigilante-or-the-anger-no?r=4ukxmm&utm_medium=ios
I downloaded the film before those 48 hours and saw it later. The film is not a masterpiece and bot something new, it have some a weak segment involving prostitutes, but otherwise is a very strong film that will make a dent with a lot of people.
Many of us don’t use any social media. Elizabeth Nickson unlocked the movie on Absurdistan