'Barbie' was awful on every level and once the Cult Programming wears off it will sink and become a strange relic of the early 21st Century Era of Mass Psychosis.
Except the students who went to THIS high school are a bunch of trust fund kids and nepotism hires who have never experience hardship in their lives. They've never had to fight in a war, struggle with serious illness or be forced to decide between paying utilities or buying food.
Pyramids weren't built by slaves, but competent, well paid construction teams. All modern archaeological evidence proves it.@@tonytandtherevengeofthecru9108
@leyenda6149 are you sure you want to know? A mate in the car 4 days ago actually told me about this reference. Can't beleive it came up so quickly. It references a porno called "2 girls 1 Cup"...they eat everything out of this cup that can come out of a human female, every hole.....
It’s simple, you can’t make customers purchase your “entertainment” against their will. You either give them what they want or they will leave. No way around it.
@@atTheHop Anyone who gets effectively guilt-tripped into watching a mediocre multi-hundred-million dollar movie under the pretense that not doing so will actively kill marginalized groups or that you'll become a social pariah for it, deserves to get scammed.
@@hermitcard4494I unfortunately agree. This is war and they’re not done yet and, if all of things I hear for the future do come true, they’re the ones who win.
You are correct. There is an "ebb & flow" to social engineering... the "woke" stuff got pushed really hard over the last few years... the backlash to it is appropriate... but attention spans are short and so much of it has already been normalized. After a little while they will come full circle from yin back to yang
The problem is Hollywood uses their "diversity" AS their personality now. They don't have motivations, angles, or goals. They're little more than re-plastered stereotypes, that studios have gaslit people into believing is a positive thing, It's the modern day version of The King's new clothes.
Correction: "pussy" referring to a coward or weak person has nothing to do with the vagina, it's actually a shortened version of pusillanimous. Which is itself a derivation from late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis
@@jonathananderson5990 Etymology: The noun pussy meaning "cat" comes from the Modern English word puss, a conventional name or term of address for a pet cat. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) says that cognates are common to several Germanic languages, including Dutch poes and Middle Low German pūse, which are also used to call a cat.
@@SevereMkII Fascinating stuff. I was thinking "pussycat" and "scaredy cat" may have had some vague connection to pusillanimous, or something along those lines. But ah well. English!😂 😂 Thanks man.
@@jonathananderson5990English is a fascinating language, mostly because there's no rhyme or reason for how any of it works unless you are deep into etymology.
@@SevereMkII It's fascinating that this particular theme is mirrored in the German language. "Muschi" is a word that was once used for house cats. Over time it has become synonymous for vagina and as a consequence it was/is used to insult a man for his weakness/cowardice.
Change is good, especially when it veers towards sanity. Though, for me, it's too late, my enthusiasm for Hollywood movies/shows/games has evaporated completely over these past five years - the withdrawal symptoms came and went and I'm now free of pop-culture. The last remains of my interest is watching, and listening to people like you, E. Chamberlain - who analyse the world of pop-culture andd skew a bit philosophical and who are playful in their use of language.
It's time we collectively grew up anyway. Liking entertainment is one thing, there's nothing wrong with that, but too many are addicted consumerists whose entire identities have become nothing but a corporate product. Grown men and women whose entire lives are dedicated to some movie, game or TV franchise, it's pathetic.
Hopefully you have a nice collection of Blu Rays and Dvds circa prior to 2020 to keep you entertained. That's what keeps me going. Watching the good stuff and forgetting the last 4 years has produced anything at all.
That's the one good thing that came out of the woke era. The fact that it made me snap out of being a consumer. I do like the nostalgic stuff, but I only dabble in it now and then, so now I have a lot of free time and I use that to focus it on non-pop culture stuff, and my life is much better for it.
@@robertbarga3694having tangible copies of tv and film is essential, since these streaming platforms are deleting scenes deemed politically incorrect. Both Netflix and Prime completely butchered Tropic Thunder for example.
Hollywood lost me twice: First, the so-called Me Too movement, which seems to have mostly been an excuse to move established talents out of Hollywood (e.g., Joss Whedon, John Lasseter) for "saying mean things" and "hugging" -- them replacing them with untalented, inexperienced show runners (in the words of Cartman, "put a woman in it and make her gay"). Second, when the untalented show runners, etc. started blaming the audiences for their lousy products.
Not mention the overt politics jammed into everything 2016 on …which I include as Orange Man Bad, George Floyd Worship, White Men bad, America bad, anti fa are heroes)
I think some of the earliest cases MIGHT have had some legitimacy but once it was discovered that the accused would just be fired without evidence or a hearing and special interest groups got involved it became a way to get men out of jobs and sliding in women, and not just women, but women who were part of their special interest groups giving them more power.
Was Harvey Weinstein a friend of yours? If Me Too had only been about sexual harassment, we could have lived with it. The rise in the tide of Wokism probably had more to do with Black Lives Matter. Hmmm, can you remember why all the Gay and Transexual Crap became so hyper-important. Was there some controversy I had forgotten? yeah, maybe, you're right, that EVERYTHING rode on the Back of Me Too and the Woman's March on Washington, because the Organizers were all devout Marxist Post Modernists and simply recruited all those angry women for the next step from their Revolutionary Playbook. .
They fooled many women and men into believing that gender roles and all around behaving the way their body naturally wants them to behave (masculine or feminine, depending on the gender) is “conformity“. Like it’s not a natural result of the gender you’ve had since birth. If anything, it’s conformity to try behaving in a way opposite of your gender, because it’s biologically unnatural and forced. Our bodies, minds, and behavioral patterns have been evolving for millennia, but to drop that because someone on the internet told you to believe the opposite is insane.
I disagree, It isn't over until they repeal identity quotas. List your top 10 favorite films; could they be greenlit today? Would a story like the ones in your list be altered for DEI? What would a modern sensitivity reader do with them? Until the answer to that question is "those jobs no longer exist", it's not even close to over. And while theaters are empty, the accolades from the bubble of legacy media and social media still exist. No, it's not over. The bean counters may have finally started grumbling, but they are still not as loud as the chants of "put a chick in it, make it gay and lame!"
Then its time to start watching dubbed Japanese, Russian, south korean movies. Heck, who knows how many undiscovered hidden gems are out there. Surely there are countries that pump out movies without the ESG DEI stuff.
I'm very skeptical if this stuff is actually going to go away. These same people are known for doubling down every time they take an L. It might become unfeasible for business since it turns away so many people, but even after that, it will persistently cling onto what power it still has.
It's not a matter of what they do, but what those with the financial power and decision making capability do. These 'people' have been around for many decades, but because no one with money or decision making authority listened to them, they caused no significant harm. It's only because of the push by financiers that we've seen this disgusting result.
@@Sorain1 Yes, it did come from the top down rather than a legit grassroots movement, which does make it easier to get rid of, but at the same time the money and power these people hold now is just unfathomable. If they are that deranged to keep going even when they're 100% in the wrong, then these fanatics aren't going anywhere.
@@Sorain1they’ve been around for a lot longer. Try centuries? Not to mention the 112 countries they’ve been expelled them due to this degeneracy and immortality.
They did their job perfectly. It was all intentional. Of course they knew no one would want it. They can't keep it going forever, so they are now back-tracking, but the damage is done and they were successful in what they endeavored to do. Please try to understand how the world really works....
Never before in my 18 Years of watching RUclips has the first Sentence of a Video catched me so off Guard and made me flinch in utter Confusion. I guess I sould congratulate you.
I'm not sold on the "end is near" prognostications. Even Dune 2 couldn't help steering Chani away from her fate of being a concubine, which is canon. I don't think woke is going anywhere, they're just going to try and disguise it better, which is not a real solution.
There is something wrong with all of it and the people are responding. It's sad that it took for them to go after kids for people to "Wake" up and notice. Down with the Blue Rainbows!!!
We aren't out of this. Saw second Dune. They turned Chani into, quite nearly, the lead. She is literally leading in front of the main character (Paul) on the poster. She spends the entire movie showing how much smarter and more capable she is than any other character, how she sees through the work of the Bene Gesserit, and how she can perceive things way beyond her culture and time, etc. She is OP as hell, going from barely a mention to being the main supporting actor. In the book, her main role was one of lover and bearer of child. Now, she is a whiny, super-fighting, transcendent, and manish leader of the main character. The movie was, beyond being a fantastic film at a technical level, an anti-colonial and gynocentric film.
To give credit to the movie, it has a LOT else going for it, including the worms. Again, the technical filming was great. I don't meant to ruin it for you. There is so much they did well for a book that was not well suited for film. Frankly, so much of the book is descriptions of thoughts and strategies and histories, there is really not a lot of action and dialogue for its length. It is descriptions of thoughts of visions of perceptions on centuries of strategy, you know. You can't easily convey that with a movie. They just did to Chani what they did to so many other female characters - made them greater at the expense of other characters by having her show them how to do things they would already know or having her realize things she could not possibly realize (like the entire culture of her planet was planned and the prophecies of her faith were a setup). There are several scenes where she and her other young female friends outwardly mock the religion upon which the entire society of the Freman is based - which is both ridiculous (how would she think to do this?) and deadly (the other Freman would kill her for blasphemy). It is continuous throughout the film. It was enough to make my eyes twitch during so many scenes of an otherwise decent adaptation. @@HenryLeslieGraham
Not even close. People keep thinking "duh they lost lots of money we're winning" when the Karl cult objective was to *pull down the cultural statues* to make way for the glorious revolution. Luke, Indy, Bond, Hulk, Mad Max, Peter Pan, John Connor, Boba Fett, Witcher, Thor, everyone. If it was about money they would have changed course 50 movies ago. It's obviously social engineering at any cost. If you deviate from the cult's dogma even slightly you don't work in the town again. They thought they could keep it up until the glorious revolution eliminated choice, that's all. Now they are forced to make it less obvious, but nothing else will change.
It wouldn't matter to me if Hollywood realized their error and issued a groveling apology. No amount of damage control is going to make me forget who these people are, what their true agendas are, and who they despise. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's done.
Entertaining video, thank you for sharing. I would like to think that you are correct about Hollywood being in a post-woke era. However, until I see Kevin Feige & Kathleen Kennedy and their acolytes fired/retired then woke is alive and well. It is just a bit quieter, just a step back from being loud and proud an inch from your face. These people are true believers with no regrets about what they tried. They are just realizing that their approach was commercially inept. They will reassess, recalibrate, and reevaluate. They will never change their ideology, but hopefully adjust their heavy-handed approach so that their product at least is entertaining to a mass audience instead of being either offensive or just boring.
Jesus Christ Almighty! Sometimes yt's algo gives a real treasure in form of this channel. After an enormous amount of laughter in only first 30 seconds of the video, I barely scraped myself from the floor to continue watching this masterpiece of an exercise in sarcastic cynicism.
And I disagree with you. _Barbie_ succeeded because it strategically tapped into the unfulfilled nostalgia of women who grew up loving their dolls. Then the bandwagon effect of the "Barbenheimer" meme kicked it into overdrive. Sure, the bait-and-switch was there, but they absolutely did not need it to fill the theaters.
Men, let’s stick together and find a way benefit from modern stupidity. Personally I sit back, watch, learn and invest wisely. Pick my battles and come out on top. Like always.
Diversity inflation is something that really throws me, especially in fantasy. Case in point: The Dragon Prince, which I generally liked for the first few seasons, but I started noticing it as things when on. For example, you had the Commander who was 1. Deaf, 2. Commander of the Army despite being a woman and deaf, and 3. later you find out she is a lesbian, because she gets engaged to her elf rival. You then find 2 other gay couples throughout the story, 1. The lesbian Queens of one of the other countries (which doesn't work in the slightest given how royal succession and bloodlines work), and 2. Rayla's commander is gay as well. At this point I was looking at this and thinking, "The odds that we would have 3 gay couples that are all important to the plot in a fantasy setting is so outside the realm of possibility that this just takes me out of the experience". It really just feels like they were just trying to cram in as much representation as possible (but making sure to do it with side characters to get normal people to follow the story). They are trying just a little too hard.
Wow, great take. Enjoyed that one. Reason - with a capital R - really is like fresh air when you encounter it. Fortunately, we seem to be finding more green shoots of the stuff, even with films like Damsel and Madam Web still polluting the air like a fart in an elevator. It'll still take time for the air to truly clear, as you rightly observed.
At least this point, I'd be good with going back to just "fun". Maybe asking for quality narrative and character development is too much. I would settle for 80s action fun in a heartbeat
Very well said, and also very entertaining. Due credits mentionned for both sides of the matter, but without pulling your punches on the faults. Loved it.
I wish I could be optimistic that this woke era is coming to an end. But the SUPER woke, intersectional feminist, man-hating, LGBT-coded, critical theory-infused Barbie movie made a billion and a half dollars last year. What is that going to teach Hollywood? That they should double and triple down on all this modern woke garbage, but wrap it up in a pretty pink package, tie it into women's childhood nostalgia, and completely ignore the male audience. I'm afraid that things are going to get WAY worse before they get better.
You are right sir, this video puts together all the complains people have since years ago with the current state of media, not just hollywood, games, comics,books, ads and all sort of instaces, people see the pattern and just want this out of the paradigm, merit is the ideal to persue imo. Thanks for this, you add a lot to the discussion, if their side wants to evolve their ideas in constructive ways they are welcome, but imposition and antagonization is just enough to shut it down, much love from Colombia (yes, where that snow white girl is from smh)
I had never realized that "Hollywood is basically High School with Money" but I recognized that is true, by now. It's the only assumption that can be made. As someone who never quite fit-in at my HS (long, long ago) I understood the "cancelling" as what happens when High schoolers interact. I can't imagine being in HS an entire lifetime and putting up with that level of immaturity from most everyone around me. I hope you are right, and the tide is already turning. I have no doubt that the pendulum does swing, I've seen it swing too often, not to, but I suspected I'd die before it swung back to normality, again.
It's just so refreshing to see someone still remembers that the origin of it wall was the structuralist methodology hammered down into every humanity's student brain during the last several decades. Liked and subscribe just for that. [Oh, the "two cups" reference was not bad neither...]
Wokeism is just another fad, and it will pass like every other fad.There have been so many in my life that I can’t even remember them all. From the bra-burning feminists of the 1960s(even Gloria Steinem ended up getting married), the free-love hippies(an excuse to hook up), disco (another excuse to hook up) The conspicuous consumption of the 80s, all of these are just fads that have all faded away in time. They say this, too, shall pass. But what they don’t tell you is that sometimes it passes like a kidney stone, painfully with screaming and meds.
So, you feel that having a black Capt. America was a good healthy move by Disney? Destroying the lore, because a White male cannot be Capt. America? (besides the fact that Anthony Mackie is a terrible actor). And before you wokesters go off, Blade IS black. It fits the lore. And the original was fantastic, because it had one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood, Wesley Snipes.
Really? i really wish it's true, but what i've seen wokeness insanity in general media and in streets, in every college campus i check, is getting worse and THAT is what make Hollywood executives keep ''the message'' being the heart of ALL new flicks but cinema theaters are dying too!
We shall see. Yes, more Hollywood people are cluing in to the fact that their recent (within the past, say, 5 +/- years ) projects are failures, but that doesn't mean that they are any less committed to "The Message". And the biggest problem of all, is that those people have ruined all, or nearly all, of the major traditional entertainment franchises. There is just no un-ringing that bell. Time will tell if they change.
Well said Sir. Money made Hollywood what it is today. Wealth in such quantity made them so guilty, that they needed a way to purge the sins from all those cars, airplanes, boats and houses. And through such acts, thought themselves above the rest of us. One is reminded of the "smug cloud" in Southpark. In reality, they were far below the average American- but no one will tell you that when you have money. Now all that money is flying away. Here's a stat for you. In 1998, video game sales surpassed ticket sales- and no one in Hollywood even noticed. The need for profit is suddenly becoming clear in Hollywood- and many a mea culpa is being performed... Personally, I think it too late for Hollywood. I think independent creators will slowly surpass them via the web. There will be the occasionally pony found in a mountain of horse excrement- but that will be most rare. "Put a chick in it! Make her gay! Make it lame!" still has quite the hold. I think it a stranglehold.
I always liked adventure and action movies but got tired of watching 5 foot tall 105 pound women beating up 230 pound, 6 foot 5 inch men. It was stupidly unrealistic. It just got worse. I don’t think Hollywood will survive this because theaters are in trouble. The movies are driving people away. The Rings of Doctor Evil at Amazon is so bad it’s projectile vomit inducing. It makes me want the Orcs to win. I would recommend everyone go see the movie Ordinary Angels. It shows what good writing, great acting and strong directing can do without demonizing any group.
Bill Mahar had made a lot of quotes that are either hit or miss. The following one is definitely a hit; "No matter how ‘woke’ you think you are, you are tolerating things right now that will make you cringe in 25 years."
the end had me rolling on the aisles with my head off
'Barbie' was awful on every level and once the Cult Programming wears off it will sink and become a strange relic of the early 21st Century Era of Mass Psychosis.
"Hollywood is basically high school with money."
I never thought about it like that, but it makes a lot of sense.
Credit where it's due: Martin Mull coined that phrase during an interview with David Letterman in the '90s.
Lately it became a college "diversity" class with money.
More like an inverted high school where those who didn't go to the prom run the show.
Kathleen Kennedy runs her studio with the mentality of a 14 year old mean girl.
Except the students who went to THIS high school are a bunch of trust fund kids and nepotism hires who have never experience hardship in their lives. They've never had to fight in a war, struggle with serious illness or be forced to decide between paying utilities or buying food.
"Nothing built by weaklings lasts."
Exactly
Lego if you don't push it sideways :)
Pyramids. Some may say slaves are weak. As they submitted to slavery.
Pyramids weren't built by slaves, but competent, well paid construction teams. All modern archaeological evidence proves it.@@tonytandtherevengeofthecru9108
@@tonytandtherevengeofthecru9108If you're referring to the Egyptian pyramids, they're weren't built by slaves but a paid work force.
"...when the two girls commit to their adventure with one cup." 😂😂😂
This would be funny even writen down. But to say it with a british accent. Chef's Kiss.
The juxtaposition of this with the next comment in the thread... 😂
@@pedrocorrea6870 uh, you mean a New Zealand accent I think 😉
Ok someone clue me on cuz that reference went over my head
@leyenda6149 are you sure you want to know? A mate in the car 4 days ago actually told me about this reference. Can't beleive it came up so quickly. It references a porno called "2 girls 1 Cup"...they eat everything out of this cup that can come out of a human female, every hole.....
"The queef smog of Hollywood"
Easily one of my new favorite RUclipsrs
It's better than that. "Fetid queef smog of Hollywood." The man's a wordsmith.
Right? Echo is absolutely full of quotable nuggets.
It’s simple, you can’t make customers purchase your “entertainment” against their will. You either give them what they want or they will leave. No way around it.
True. Bu they keep trying to force us to buy their "entertainment" by guilting us into submission.
@@atTheHop Anyone who gets effectively guilt-tripped into watching a mediocre multi-hundred-million dollar movie under the pretense that not doing so will actively kill marginalized groups or that you'll become a social pariah for it, deserves to get scammed.
This also applies to 35+ yo women trying to scale The Wall.
@JRRodriguez-nu7po
It's a form of simping to give wome n knowledge of The Wall for free.
@@atTheHopI'd only feel guilty if I was buying it.
Correction. Woke has lost. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Wrong. Youre underestimating something that is not over yet. Underestimating an opponent is how you deny they can still fight.
Correction, it never won, it was just there to piss of 95% of normal people and wrecked entertainment from the start 😉
@@hermitcard4494I unfortunately agree. This is war and they’re not done yet and, if all of things I hear for the future do come true, they’re the ones who win.
@@hermitcard4494 An animal is most dangerous when cornered.
They'll keep fighting. They are in denial. Stay the course and Vote with your wallets!
No they haven't. Don't get comfortable. They're preparing to double down.
They may double or triple down...the audience still will not go...the left push but eventually it'll equalise out always has..
You are correct.
There is an "ebb & flow" to social engineering... the "woke" stuff got pushed really hard over the last few years... the backlash to it is appropriate... but attention spans are short and so much of it has already been normalized.
After a little while they will come full circle from yin back to yang
Yup, this message pops up every very few years. The big shift! Then it just gets worse.
The message is worth more than money , always remember that.
HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS DOUBLEDOWN DOUBLEDOWN DOUBLEDOWN.
Double down and keep flopping
I like how "Two Girls One Cup" was slipped into the list of adventures.
The problem is Hollywood uses their "diversity" AS their personality now. They don't have motivations, angles, or goals. They're little more than re-plastered stereotypes, that studios have gaslit people into believing is a positive thing, It's the modern day version of The King's new clothes.
Correction: "pussy" referring to a coward or weak person has nothing to do with the vagina, it's actually a shortened version of pusillanimous. Which is itself a derivation from late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis
Interesting. I wonder how this ties to the previous common usage of "pussy" for housecat.
@@jonathananderson5990 Etymology: The noun pussy meaning "cat" comes from the Modern English word puss, a conventional name or term of address for a pet cat. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) says that cognates are common to several Germanic languages, including Dutch poes and Middle Low German pūse, which are also used to call a cat.
@@SevereMkII Fascinating stuff. I was thinking "pussycat" and "scaredy cat" may have had some vague connection to pusillanimous, or something along those lines. But ah well. English!😂 😂 Thanks man.
@@jonathananderson5990English is a fascinating language, mostly because there's no rhyme or reason for how any of it works unless you are deep into etymology.
@@SevereMkII It's fascinating that this particular theme is mirrored in the German language. "Muschi" is a word that was once used for house cats. Over time it has become synonymous for vagina and as a consequence it was/is used to insult a man for his weakness/cowardice.
The style in which you deliver your narrative is fantastic. Another excellent vid.
Change is good, especially when it veers towards sanity. Though, for me, it's too late, my enthusiasm for Hollywood movies/shows/games has evaporated completely over these past five years - the withdrawal symptoms came and went and I'm now free of pop-culture. The last remains of my interest is watching, and listening to people like you, E. Chamberlain - who analyse the world of pop-culture andd skew a bit philosophical and who are playful in their use of language.
It's time we collectively grew up anyway. Liking entertainment is one thing, there's nothing wrong with that, but too many are addicted consumerists whose entire identities have become nothing but a corporate product.
Grown men and women whose entire lives are dedicated to some movie, game or TV franchise, it's pathetic.
Hopefully you have a nice collection of Blu Rays and Dvds circa prior to 2020 to keep you entertained. That's what keeps me going. Watching the good stuff and forgetting the last 4 years has produced anything at all.
That's the one good thing that came out of the woke era. The fact that it made me snap out of being a consumer. I do like the nostalgic stuff, but I only dabble in it now and then, so now I have a lot of free time and I use that to focus it on non-pop culture stuff, and my life is much better for it.
@@robertbarga3694having tangible copies of tv and film is essential, since these streaming platforms are deleting scenes deemed politically incorrect. Both Netflix and Prime completely butchered Tropic Thunder for example.
I am the same, just fishing and antique restoration videos on you tube now. Have no stepped into a theater in years.
Holy shit. This is a veritable smorgasbord of apex poetry. "Fettered queef smog." "The ... snatch has been snatched back." Simply brilliant.
Hollywood lost me twice: First, the so-called Me Too movement, which seems to have mostly been an excuse to move established talents out of Hollywood (e.g., Joss Whedon, John Lasseter) for "saying mean things" and "hugging" -- them replacing them with untalented, inexperienced show runners (in the words of Cartman, "put a woman in it and make her gay"). Second, when the untalented show runners, etc. started blaming the audiences for their lousy products.
-nods sagely - Right along with you
Not mention the overt politics jammed into everything 2016 on …which I include as Orange Man Bad, George Floyd Worship, White Men bad, America bad, anti fa are heroes)
Have to love the directors blamings the audience for not liking their awful, pandering, identity politics-driven garbage.
I think some of the earliest cases MIGHT have had some legitimacy but once it was discovered that the accused would just be fired without evidence or a hearing and special interest groups got involved it became a way to get men out of jobs and sliding in women, and not just women, but women who were part of their special interest groups giving them more power.
Was Harvey Weinstein a friend of yours? If Me Too had only been about sexual harassment, we could have lived with it. The rise in the tide of Wokism probably had more to do with Black Lives Matter. Hmmm, can you remember why all the Gay and Transexual Crap became so hyper-important. Was there some controversy I had forgotten? yeah, maybe, you're right, that EVERYTHING rode on the Back of Me Too and the Woman's March on Washington, because the Organizers were all devout Marxist Post Modernists and simply recruited all those angry women for the next step from their Revolutionary Playbook. .
diversity inflation is a great term. well done sir
Also Identify Junkie!!
Identity Junkie...
Always great to start the morning off with some fresh coffee and a few good chuckles. Your word play always gets me. Cheers.
Everything turns to shit - Tony Soprano.
Who ate the gabagol? -Tony Soprano, 2001
Well, considering that he added to that problem, that doesnt mean anyuthing coming from him.
Fetid queef-smog…I wasn’t ready for that 😂
I don't know how you got away with this video. But I love it!
25 seconds in and this is my favorite video…. Like the gentleman said, “not a bad thing to say about them”
nice
When the 2 girls commit to their adventure with 1 cup 😂😂😂😂
I don't think we're there yet.
Peak won't occur until after November, at the earliest.
They fooled many women and men into believing that gender roles and all around behaving the way their body naturally wants them to behave (masculine or feminine, depending on the gender) is “conformity“. Like it’s not a natural result of the gender you’ve had since birth.
If anything, it’s conformity to try behaving in a way opposite of your gender, because it’s biologically unnatural and forced. Our bodies, minds, and behavioral patterns have been evolving for millennia, but to drop that because someone on the internet told you to believe the opposite is insane.
I disagree, It isn't over until they repeal identity quotas. List your top 10 favorite films; could they be greenlit today? Would a story like the ones in your list be altered for DEI? What would a modern sensitivity reader do with them? Until the answer to that question is "those jobs no longer exist", it's not even close to over. And while theaters are empty, the accolades from the bubble of legacy media and social media still exist. No, it's not over. The bean counters may have finally started grumbling, but they are still not as loud as the chants of "put a chick in it, make it gay and lame!"
Then its time to start watching dubbed Japanese, Russian, south korean movies. Heck, who knows how many undiscovered hidden gems are out there. Surely there are countries that pump out movies without the ESG DEI stuff.
Watch Korean content instead
Do you even know what "past the peak" means?
Thanks!
I'm very skeptical if this stuff is actually going to go away. These same people are known for doubling down every time they take an L. It might become unfeasible for business since it turns away so many people, but even after that, it will persistently cling onto what power it still has.
It's not a matter of what they do, but what those with the financial power and decision making capability do. These 'people' have been around for many decades, but because no one with money or decision making authority listened to them, they caused no significant harm. It's only because of the push by financiers that we've seen this disgusting result.
@@Sorain1 Yes, it did come from the top down rather than a legit grassroots movement, which does make it easier to get rid of, but at the same time the money and power these people hold now is just unfathomable. If they are that deranged to keep going even when they're 100% in the wrong, then these fanatics aren't going anywhere.
@@Sorain1they’ve been around for a lot longer. Try centuries? Not to mention the 112 countries they’ve been expelled them due to this degeneracy and immortality.
They did their job perfectly. It was all intentional. Of course they knew no one would want it. They can't keep it going forever, so they are now back-tracking, but the damage is done and they were successful in what they endeavored to do. Please try to understand how the world really works....
Dear sweet mother of Mercy, please end woke nonsense.
"when the two girls commit to their adventure with one cup" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This isn't going to stop until studios start going out of business.
Can’t wait for that day
Wokeness also turns protagonists into antagonists - I've never hated leading actors more.
Never before in my 18 Years of watching RUclips has the first Sentence of a Video catched me so off Guard and made me flinch in utter Confusion. I guess I sould congratulate you.
God bless you and your work sir Echo. Respect from Croatia 💙💙💙
Brother the intro to this video is SOOOOO GOOD!! Thanks, from a Yank (but from the midwest)
I'm not sold on the "end is near" prognostications. Even Dune 2 couldn't help steering Chani away from her fate of being a concubine, which is canon. I don't think woke is going anywhere, they're just going to try and disguise it better, which is not a real solution.
I'm double Woke
Woke in 2015 about injustice in society
Woke in 2023 about why Hollywood is making such utter trash nobody wants
sad in 2024
There is something wrong with all of it and the people are responding. It's sad that it took for them to go after kids for people to "Wake" up and notice. Down with the Blue Rainbows!!!
We aren't out of this.
Saw second Dune. They turned Chani into, quite nearly, the lead. She is literally leading in front of the main character (Paul) on the poster. She spends the entire movie showing how much smarter and more capable she is than any other character, how she sees through the work of the Bene Gesserit, and how she can perceive things way beyond her culture and time, etc. She is OP as hell, going from barely a mention to being the main supporting actor. In the book, her main role was one of lover and bearer of child. Now, she is a whiny, super-fighting, transcendent, and manish leader of the main character.
The movie was, beyond being a fantastic film at a technical level, an anti-colonial and gynocentric film.
Most of the movies that are coming out now went into the pipeline three years ago, when wokeness was at its peak.
sheeeeet and i hoped it would be as good as the first. with exxxxtra sandworm riding. but alas denis went woke broke when he smoke the pugh
To give credit to the movie, it has a LOT else going for it, including the worms. Again, the technical filming was great. I don't meant to ruin it for you. There is so much they did well for a book that was not well suited for film. Frankly, so much of the book is descriptions of thoughts and strategies and histories, there is really not a lot of action and dialogue for its length. It is descriptions of thoughts of visions of perceptions on centuries of strategy, you know. You can't easily convey that with a movie.
They just did to Chani what they did to so many other female characters - made them greater at the expense of other characters by having her show them how to do things they would already know or having her realize things she could not possibly realize (like the entire culture of her planet was planned and the prophecies of her faith were a setup). There are several scenes where she and her other young female friends outwardly mock the religion upon which the entire society of the Freman is based - which is both ridiculous (how would she think to do this?) and deadly (the other Freman would kill her for blasphemy). It is continuous throughout the film. It was enough to make my eyes twitch during so many scenes of an otherwise decent adaptation. @@HenryLeslieGraham
"Things are going to get worse before they get better." - Biden
Actually, his speechwriters. He can't string comparisons together.
“Who pooped my pants?”
~Sniffy Joe
things are going to get worse before they get worser - Brandon
"Sashomoop wotch hunt arglebargle fwioaif grrssh" - Dementia J. Trump, sundowning again
'Things are gonna get worse before they get better.....for my son and his court case' ~ Sleepy/Poopy Joe
I don't hear jokes on youtube that I keep chuckling about hours later, but that 'two girls and one cup' line is the best joke I've heard in ages.
'Echo Chamberlain' would get on really well with 'The Critical Drinker' !
I do!
Not even close. People keep thinking "duh they lost lots of money we're winning" when the Karl cult objective was to *pull down the cultural statues* to make way for the glorious revolution. Luke, Indy, Bond, Hulk, Mad Max, Peter Pan, John Connor, Boba Fett, Witcher, Thor, everyone. If it was about money they would have changed course 50 movies ago. It's obviously social engineering at any cost. If you deviate from the cult's dogma even slightly you don't work in the town again.
They thought they could keep it up until the glorious revolution eliminated choice, that's all. Now they are forced to make it less obvious, but nothing else will change.
I have stopped going to cinema entirely. They need to work extra hard to make me go back again
I couldn't stop laughing, utter brilliance and insightful. I am bloody jealous I didn't write it.
If they wanted to make profit they would.
😂 what a intro, 15 seconds in and I already #smashed the like button
excellent analysis. thank you very much.
It wouldn't matter to me if Hollywood realized their error and issued a groveling apology. No amount of damage control is going to make me forget who these people are, what their true agendas are, and who they despise. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's done.
You can put it back but who wants to use re-tubed toothpaste.😂😂
Entertaining video, thank you for sharing. I would like to think that you are correct about Hollywood being in a post-woke era. However, until I see Kevin Feige & Kathleen Kennedy and their acolytes fired/retired then woke is alive and well. It is just a bit quieter, just a step back from being loud and proud an inch from your face. These people are true believers with no regrets about what they tried. They are just realizing that their approach was commercially inept. They will reassess, recalibrate, and reevaluate. They will never change their ideology, but hopefully adjust their heavy-handed approach so that their product at least is entertaining to a mass audience instead of being either offensive or just boring.
Jesus Christ Almighty! Sometimes yt's algo gives a real treasure in form of this channel. After an enormous amount of laughter in only first 30 seconds of the video, I barely scraped myself from the floor to continue watching this masterpiece of an exercise in sarcastic cynicism.
"Queef smog" just gained you a new loyal follower. 😂😂
You have to be one of the most eloquent essayists ive ever come across. Well done sir 🤣🤣. Sheer genius
Loving your content.
Well. THAT was an introduction! You and Thorius should be giving academic courses on how to write opening paragraphs to RUclipsrs everywhere.
This is an excellent thesis on why woke Hollywood isnt working as a storytelling format
Loved your video but I have one disagreement- barbie only succeeded coz it lied to everyone in its marketing that it wasn’t a feminist lecture.
And I disagree with you. _Barbie_ succeeded because it strategically tapped into the unfulfilled nostalgia of women who grew up loving their dolls. Then the bandwagon effect of the "Barbenheimer" meme kicked it into overdrive.
Sure, the bait-and-switch was there, but they absolutely did not need it to fill the theaters.
Very well said, Thanbk You
Always great content, this man deserves an award. Need a tubey award show or something
Men, let’s stick together and find a way benefit from modern stupidity. Personally I sit back, watch, learn and invest wisely. Pick my battles and come out on top. Like always.
Diversity inflation is something that really throws me, especially in fantasy. Case in point: The Dragon Prince, which I generally liked for the first few seasons, but I started noticing it as things when on. For example, you had the Commander who was 1. Deaf, 2. Commander of the Army despite being a woman and deaf, and 3. later you find out she is a lesbian, because she gets engaged to her elf rival. You then find 2 other gay couples throughout the story, 1. The lesbian Queens of one of the other countries (which doesn't work in the slightest given how royal succession and bloodlines work), and 2. Rayla's commander is gay as well. At this point I was looking at this and thinking, "The odds that we would have 3 gay couples that are all important to the plot in a fantasy setting is so outside the realm of possibility that this just takes me out of the experience". It really just feels like they were just trying to cram in as much representation as possible (but making sure to do it with side characters to get normal people to follow the story). They are trying just a little too hard.
Wow, great take. Enjoyed that one. Reason - with a capital R - really is like fresh air when you encounter it. Fortunately, we seem to be finding more green shoots of the stuff, even with films like Damsel and Madam Web still polluting the air like a fart in an elevator. It'll still take time for the air to truly clear, as you rightly observed.
Very articulate and entertaining. And the fire hose of cliches at the end! Gee I wish we had the British school system here.
At least this point, I'd be good with going back to just "fun". Maybe asking for quality narrative and character development is too much. I would settle for 80s action fun in a heartbeat
"Get back in your f***in hole Davey"!
Jk btw, I dig your channel. Been subbed for a while!
We've also seemed to have reached past Wokeness in games now too.
Here we find Echo Chamberlain’s IQ towering to Mars & Beyond again.
Very well said, and also very entertaining. Due credits mentionned for both sides of the matter, but without pulling your punches on the faults. Loved it.
Fantastic prose, I literally went to sub for that alone, but I was already subbed...
I'll give you three words that explain why this identity obsession was doomed to fail:
"QUEERS FOR PALESTINE!"
Brilliant, from concept to execution. Echo Chamberlain is a shining beacon of truth in a world gone mad.
Pussification is a noun.
Pussify is the verb.
I will also accept "pussificated", if applied to the PNW as the perfect tense.
Yr welcome.
'Everything woke turns to shit' so satisfying everytime Trump is right.
I wish I could be optimistic that this woke era is coming to an end. But the SUPER woke, intersectional feminist, man-hating, LGBT-coded, critical theory-infused Barbie movie made a billion and a half dollars last year. What is that going to teach Hollywood? That they should double and triple down on all this modern woke garbage, but wrap it up in a pretty pink package, tie it into women's childhood nostalgia, and completely ignore the male audience. I'm afraid that things are going to get WAY worse before they get better.
You are right sir, this video puts together all the complains people have since years ago with the current state of media, not just hollywood, games, comics,books, ads and all sort of instaces, people see the pattern and just want this out of the paradigm, merit is the ideal to persue imo. Thanks for this, you add a lot to the discussion, if their side wants to evolve their ideas in constructive ways they are welcome, but imposition and antagonization is just enough to shut it down, much love from Colombia (yes, where that snow white girl is from smh)
“When the two girls commit to their adventure with one cup”🤣😭😂
Who cares anymore. Hollywood is dead...and gaming is sick and dying.
Play old games they’re better anyway
Best opening to a video.
I had never realized that "Hollywood is basically High School with Money" but I recognized that is true, by now. It's the only assumption that can be made. As someone who never quite fit-in at my HS (long, long ago) I understood the "cancelling" as what happens when High schoolers interact.
I can't imagine being in HS an entire lifetime and putting up with that level of immaturity from most everyone around me.
I hope you are right, and the tide is already turning. I have no doubt that the pendulum does swing, I've seen it swing too often, not to, but I suspected I'd die before it swung back to normality, again.
When 2 girls embark on their adventure with 1 cup…… hahahaha oh….. you win… damn you for making me remember that again though….😂
It's just so refreshing to see someone still remembers that the origin of it wall was the structuralist methodology hammered down into every humanity's student brain during the last several decades. Liked and subscribe just for that. [Oh, the "two cups" reference was not bad neither...]
Wokeism is just another fad, and it will pass like every other fad.There have been so many in my life that I can’t even remember them all. From the bra-burning feminists of the 1960s(even Gloria Steinem ended up getting married), the free-love hippies(an excuse to hook up), disco (another excuse to hook up) The conspicuous consumption of the 80s, all of these are just fads that have all faded away in time. They say this, too, shall pass. But what they don’t tell you is that sometimes it passes like a kidney stone, painfully with screaming and meds.
This video by "a random RUclipsr" had better writing
than all of Hollyweird's movies over the past 15 years combined .
As somwonw out here in Hollywood Im not sure we are at peak woke just yet.
Oh my gawd ive never heard it put so well together like this😂😂 amazing work
Hollywood might has passed peake woke, but it doesn't have passed peak bad due to upcoming cheap use of AI.
So, you feel that having a black Capt. America was a good healthy move by Disney? Destroying the lore, because a White male cannot be Capt. America? (besides the fact that Anthony Mackie is a terrible actor). And before you wokesters go off, Blade IS black. It fits the lore. And the original was fantastic, because it had one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood, Wesley Snipes.
Amen brother Echo.
We hope you’re accurate in your assessment.
OMG brother. Very well spoken.
💯💯💯. Yep
Really? i really wish it's true, but what i've seen wokeness insanity in general media and in streets, in every college campus i check, is getting worse and THAT is what make Hollywood executives keep ''the message'' being the heart of ALL new flicks but cinema theaters are dying too!
"Fetid queef smog" is genius.
"fetid queef smog of Hollywood" is an amazing and accurate description LoL
We shall see. Yes, more Hollywood people are cluing in to the fact that their recent (within the past, say, 5 +/- years ) projects are failures, but that doesn't mean that they are any less committed to "The Message".
And the biggest problem of all, is that those people have ruined all, or nearly all, of the major traditional entertainment franchises. There is just no un-ringing that bell.
Time will tell if they change.
Well said Sir.
Money made Hollywood what it is today. Wealth in such quantity made them so guilty, that they needed a way to purge the sins from all those cars, airplanes, boats and houses. And through such acts, thought themselves above the rest of us. One is reminded of the "smug cloud" in Southpark. In reality, they were far below the average American- but no one will tell you that when you have money. Now all that money is flying away. Here's a stat for you. In 1998, video game sales surpassed ticket sales- and no one in Hollywood even noticed. The need for profit is suddenly becoming clear in Hollywood- and many a mea culpa is being performed...
Personally, I think it too late for Hollywood. I think independent creators will slowly surpass them via the web. There will be the occasionally pony found in a mountain of horse excrement- but that will be most rare. "Put a chick in it! Make her gay! Make it lame!" still has quite the hold. I think it a stranglehold.
Woke as theme etc in media might be in retreat due to financial losses for media companies but the cultural damage has been done.
I always liked adventure and action movies but got tired of watching 5 foot tall 105 pound women beating up 230 pound, 6 foot 5 inch men. It was stupidly unrealistic. It just got worse. I don’t think Hollywood will survive this because theaters are in trouble. The movies are driving people away. The Rings of Doctor Evil at Amazon is so bad it’s projectile vomit inducing. It makes me want the Orcs to win. I would recommend everyone go see the movie Ordinary Angels. It shows what good writing, great acting and strong directing can do without demonizing any group.
Critique of woke "art" is more fun than the "art"
i cant stop laughing about your rhetoriksledgehammers. awesome like always
For a second I thought I was hearing the Critical Thinker
"discovering their role" in the adventure, seems like s key insight.
Bill Mahar had made a lot of quotes that are either hit or miss. The following one is definitely a hit;
"No matter how ‘woke’ you think you are, you are tolerating things right now that will make you cringe in 25 years."