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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Gotham by Gaslight; might as well be Gotham #metoo
The Good
Decent animation, even though it is on the shortcut-minimalist movement style. Colors are okay, gives a good old-timey gloom feel. Audio is fairly good, the voices clear and the actor doing Bruce is adequately convincing, music is subtle and adds to the mood but not memorable. The atmosphere is well developed. These account for 3 of the stars I gave the film.
Now the bad
The underlying morality and ethics of the movie are outright plain evil. Every scene is practically anti-male militant feminist gynocentrist. Every man who opens his mouth either adheres to the feminist stereotype, is a male-feminist or purposefully refrains from opinionating as if afraid of being #metoo-ed. The story is heavily on the 'women can do no wrong and shouldn't be held responsible-protected-worshiped' mentality. The women make bad decisions and even though suffer undeserved (even for their actions) fates, the film goes out of its way to suggest it is entirely "society's" (in feminist speak:white male) fault. Scene after scene after scene of scoffing, insults, and mockery towards men - and we're only 24minutes in. The second fight was at first refreshingly realistic and believable enough but ends with the female ignoring everything that just happened and angrily and hysterically berating batman for saving her from what was obviously her coming death.
In the end, the film is outright filled to the brim with bigotry. Unless you're brainless or just plain hate men, you're going to find this movie leaves you with a bad taste in the back of your mouth.
Justice League: War (2014)
The leftist indoctrination is strong with this one.
The film is so generic it's almost impossible to discuss it without spoilage. So take that as a warning.
If I were to sum the film up in one sentence: The leftist indoctrination is strong with this one.
Let's count shall we: Conservatives painted as stupid via an obvious strawman. Conservatives insulted, suggesting they are actually closet perverts instead of actually believing in their scruples. Leftist activities (i.e. violent protests and, "hanging effigies") projected upon conservatives. Conservatives insulted via inference of impotence by the crowd's "tiny size". Transgenderism, after being used to facilitate misandric attack upon masculinity, is then championed as, "powerful," via a social idiot (suggesting stupidity equals morality or truth).
And that's just one 20 second scene. It get's, "better. The typical tropes we've come to expect from terrible leftist programming are seeped into the film. The, "boys are bad," and, "successful people are assholes," are thrown in fairly early. Three windows get blown out on the 20th floor of a building in front of a 7 year old boy and the parents, literally in the next room come running and exclaim angrily, "what have you done," instead of, "are you okay." I don't know of any wealthy successful family both callous enough to be unconcerned with their child's safety OR be so patently STUPID as to actually be unable to discern three large windows on smashing all at once could not have been the fault of a 7 year old boy.
That's not so bad, you say? Well how about right before those examples the audience is spoon-fed both the female entitlement, "strong independent woman," and possibly even, "rape-culture," insinuations as a woman just saved from a 100ft fall from the arms of a slavering demon monster asks the Green Lantern, "what's it going to cost me." To the writers' credit the Green Lantern snubs her insolence and leaves her up on the roof.
Speaking of, "strong independent women," we have the social idiot, Wonder Woman, going full Mary Sue for most of the movie. Remember those slavering monsters? They put Batman, Green Lantern, and even Superman through their paces, where they are either struggling or at least getting smacked once or twice by the monsters. Yet Wonder Woman, who is nowhere near as powerful as Superman or Green Lantern, nor anywhere as skilled as Batman, simply wades through scores of the baddies like they are standing still (because for the most part, they were). To add insult to injury, SHE has to jump out of Air Force One to save the MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH. Here's a hint SJWs, we are more than happy to accept a superheroine saving men... as long as the rest of their portrayal is even remotely believable. You stick a Mary Sue in our faces, and we're going to scoff at literally everything she does. The only thing ever landing a hit on her was a black character who responded to the white woman's aggression instinctually and the ultimate big bad. No I'm not making this up.
Cut out the WW get's the strongest man who then white knights for her for word count.
Captain Marvel is an ungrateful foster child who goes out gate crashing and stealing jerseys... Great message DC.
Then we have the, dysfunctional family issue. Oh how child self esteem is SOOOO important. Even more important than figuring out what one of many alien devices, planted around the globe by the aforementioned slavering monster baddies, function is. Well evidently it's just super important, as the quarterback teenager barges into a TOP SECRET secure technology lab where all alien technology recovered by the government is kept just to get into a heated argument with your dad, whose portrayed like an arse (even though his argument isn't exactly a bad one), while he's at a critical stage of analysis.
We don't even get to avoid the racism bit. When the Green Lantern and Batman find a device of alien origin which they cannot identify, lacking any other ideas they decide to ask the only alien they know of if he has any clue. Cue, "we're not all the same," ungulate excrement. As if there was a sign or guidebook Bats and Hal could have used to find the, "right," aliens.
Unfortunately, even if you were to cleanse the film of all the leftist insanity it would still fall short in many places. The voice actors for one. Both Batman and the big bad Darkseid have terrible voice actors. Droning and monotonous without any inflection at all. I honestly believe Microsoft Sam would have done a better job for many of their lines. The big bad's henchmen feels and pontificates just like a bad guy ripped right out of 1980's Voltron, yes even with the poor English overdub and animation.
The story was at least effectively cogent. Plot wise, it makes sense; even if the whole story is pathetically simplistic and formulaic. Bad guy comes to Earth to eat/brainwash humans for his army, captures top good guy to be, "bad champion," good guys save their friend then make bad guy go back to where he came from. The only coincidental events, considering the DC universe back stories, is Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel's inclusion. As for the battle scenes... Meh. Some of the earlier ones were okay, especially when dealing with Batman. When WW get's on the scene, it's just her dancing around static unmoving baddies, and later scenes there's not much going on but straight line punches/lunges/batarang/bolts/twisty-air shots at the big bad.
Bottom line, the movie is just plain bad. Not bad enough to walk out of or turn off; but the constant leftist dogma tears away at the quality and suspension of disbelief (yes, even with "super"heroes like Superman and Batman) of the film. Whatever you do, don't spend money on this movie.
Longmire: Four Arrows (2015)
It's not looking up
More leftist indoctrination. This time 20 minutes in. "They're happy to let people die in order to makemoney." BULL, it costs more money to train new employees than to keep the old ones around and/or alive. Add in the high skill level of said workers, the employers demand for their skill combined with the inherently dangerous work, means they are very valuable employees and to a man command very good pay for their services. Then there is the almost assured contractual life insurance payout if they died on the rig. Plus the cost of body transport, investigation, risk of lawsuit. And if 20 people had died on a rig in a year (not as a result of the thing exploding, itself a near impossible feat with all the safety redundancies in place) EVERYONE would know about it. It WOULD be a big deal. This claim is absolute stupidity.
Only the fact the episode doesn't focus on this angle, saves it; even from the obvious derisive attitude approach to the woman-can-do-no-wrong situation which should have been handled in at best a neutral manner.