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Wokeness Abound: Every female is more masculine than the men

posted 3 years ago by cyguration (3944)
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1. There are literally only TWO masculine men in the film, Dave Bautista and Omari Hardwick. Every other male (especially the white males) are either weak, stupid, or evil.

2. While Hardwick looks like a bona fide badass in the movie, the major problem is that he doesn't do anything badass in the movie at all. In fact, he's probably one of the most under-utilized characters in the film, especially after teasing him with his saw all throughout the intro sequence (he doesn't even use it when you most expect him to!)

3. Bautista, meanwhile, plays the troubled but resolute Scott Ward quite well. Some part of me thinks this role was originally written for The Rock but he turned it down. I think a large part this role wasn't suited for The Rock is due to the fact that this is not a Commando/Predator type role, and while Bautista plays it really well, he spends more time being sensitive/broken than a masculine action hero. In fact, Bautista only has two real action-oriented scenes (I don't count that awful helicopter fight as a real action scene), and neither are memorable.

4. All the women act like masculine lesbians.

5. The only really cool action scene is given to the one Mexican chick who gets betrayed by the obvious company man.

6. Why are all these veteran survivalists wearing t-shirts and not armor? This annoyed the crap out of me. Why not wear leather or cover up with protective gear? It just makes no sense. It's like they were inviting the zombies to bite them.

7. All the women turn out to be the real heroes (e.g., helicopter pilot, coyote, Bautista's daughter)

8. This movie had so much potential but then decided to throw it all away on woke stupidity. Not to mention that Bautista's daughter was horribly annoying and I hoped she would die instead of him.

9. Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead was way better; better effects, better action sequences, and even though the characters were average people they had BETTER action scenes than supposed hardened zombie-surviving veterans. Ridiculous.

10. I regret having watched this film. Stick with the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake, which ironically is from the same director as this.

[–] alx9 (72) 3 years ago

Unfortunately the left has become a monolithic block of idiots so blinded by their their ideology they cannot tell the difference between having strong female leads and pushing a political agenda. There are many great movies with strong female leads, there are zero great movies that push political or ideological agendas. The key word is "push".

[–] cyguration (3944) 3 years ago

This succinctly sums up the point wonderfully.

there are zero great movies that push political or ideological agendas. The key word is "push".

Absolutely this. When you can litrerally see the propaganda unfolding as you watch the film, it turns it from an entertaining experience into a bludgeoning over the head with the zeitgeist's political agitprop.