Critical Drinker - Is Hollywood Past Peak-Woke?

No, wokeness is a path not a destination. It never ends until it collapses in on it self.

Movies are made for escapism. To get away from the real life for a couple of hours, not being constantly reminded of the real world when you watch them. Its the same when youre watching cartoons as a kid. Pure escapism. I really dont get when some people say that its important to see yourself on screen so it will be easier to relate to whats going on. If its about ethnicity or skin color or whatever. I have autism. Im NEVER asking for a character in a movie or show that has some degree of autism. I dont need to see someone that reminds me of myself in that regard. I just want to entertained and engaged in the story. Rush Hour is a great example of where you have an asian and a black guy in the lead of a movie where it feels organic. Its not like you have to be black or asian to enjoy those movies

You know what’s a shame? Because they turned all the historically male heroes into women, now the boys don’t have toys to play with. They don’t want a girl action figure. Instead, he plays all with all my GI Joes from when I was a kid.

The thing is even most women want to see Dwayne Johnson, Jason Momoa, Henry Cavill, etc... They like seeing strong male characters more than weak emasculated ones with women always putting them down.

"It's not about money, it's about sending a message." *Joker*

Get woke, go broke was never going to be a sustainable business model.

Ya know...as an African American female, I'm not gonna spend hard earned money on a movie that sucks simply because it has characters that look like me, which is what Hollywood is banking on, and why they'll eventually go broke if they don't start making talent more important than race, gender, and sexuality. In the early 90's the majority of my friends were gay dudes who had gay movie nights where it was like we were watching some pretty horrible movies just to support the movement when all of the movies we watched went straight to video for a reason 🤔.

Hello you beauties. Watch the full episode with Critical Drinker here - https://youtu.be/UF24n487FrA

I think it was fantastic of Critical Drinker to take time away from his preparations to take on his new role as First Minister of Scotland to sit down and have a chat with you Chris. Always great to listen to the both of you share your insight and opinions about the movies and their effect on our culture for good and bad. Keep up the awesome work!

Once you lose an audience it takes a long, long time to get them back. Once you lose trust, you never get it back.