13 min ago https://flix.mouflix.us/movie/547016/the-old-guard.html AS Film Live Steaming }} I wasn't going to write my thoughts after i saw this film, as i usually don't bother to do that. But now it has been a couple of days, and this movie has been eating at me for a little bit, so i felt i had to say what needed to be said.
Listen, there is so much woke talk going around these days, woke is the new PC (Political correctness), and i do not immediately draw conclusions just because a movie has a female leading role. Some of the best movies i have ever seen has leading females. For example Alien, Aliens, Terminator 2 and Kill Bill. And, i also really liked Mad Max Fury road, in which Charlize was the leading role, and made Hardy look like a movie extra.
I love great movies, with a great story, with a great script, great direction, great acting, great cinematography, great music, great cgi. I love movies that can deliver greatness. This is why my top ten movies and tv series of all time is 12 Angry men, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Alien, Das Boot, Apocalypse now, Band of Brothers, Breaking Bad and The Wire.
I have seen over 3000 movies in my life, and i have even worked as a movie critic. But of course, my opinion is just subjective like anyone else's, I'm just mentioning this, because i do have some experience with this.
Anyways, to try and keep all my points short. This movie has lots of bad acting in it, which is quite shocking when you look at some of the cast. The villain is dull and the story is a mess. And on the flip side we have a carefully balanced cast of white, black, middle eastern and Asian actors, and also two male characters that just happens to be gay.
Listen.. I have seen brokeback mountain, it's a really good film. I grew up watching Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee movies which i love to this day, i am not homophobe, or a racist, or a sexist. All i want, is great movies.
What defines a great movie? Well that is of course up to anyone to find out for themselves. But when a movie is so obviously designed around political correctness, the movie as a whole will suffer. Why? Because when your goal is to include as much LGBQT as possible, the story itself comes second. And if the movie isn't founded in cement, everything else will fall apart.
What i think is weird, is how high this movie is rated, it is only 5 points behind Terminator 2. Just NO! It is 1 point ahead of Kill Bill.. NO! This movie is not even in spitting distance of those two films. Yet still, critics seem to love it.
This is evidence of woke, i am so sorry, but it is. There is just no other way of describing it. I have seen this movie, i went in with an open heart as always, and I'm just left with this empty feeling inside of what did i just watch. Bad directing, bad acting, bad script, forced LGBQT story, absolutely horribly bad villain. I shake my head in disbelief, and it is higher rated than kill bill.... ok then.. And another examp