Cris Radu

Hopefully this is the last death cry or knell of the Woke Era of diversity-enforced, girl boss movies written by activists that stray from source material to satisfy some gender or race exceptionalism fever dream. I swear our country has lost its mind, gone insane between say 2014 and 2025 but the rejection is starting to work. Maybe scripts will be written well and movies can focus on storytelling with less militant and contemptuous activism. This was an awful movie bordering on the ridiculous. I think Ziegler is done as an actress while Gadot has suffered a bit of a blow as she’s unsuited to the role to play an over the top villain.

Glad I continued watching after first episode where you have White White White plastered across screen and Black Black Black…not that it isn’t necessarily true but just that post 2020 I am saturated and exhausted by the race obsession. The show is amazing!! It reminds me of the shock I felt as a little kid learning Magic had AIDS; to me he was a golden god! Btw I immigrated in 1991 to Los Angeles with my family and as poor immigrants from Eastern Europe we watched Lakers on tv ever night and among these larger than life stars was Divac, our own mortal guy. Anyways the show’s casting is phenomenal and pace is entertaining. Kareem feels like the real man, and Magic has the smile and energy down. Buss steals the show and Jeannie well let’s just say was a playmate when I was about 13-14…amazing casting and storytelling make this much needed reprieve from bad writing gripping our times. I think too much is made of the obsessive compulsive behaviors of these basketball legends like West and Riley.

So a movie about manly men who are white, and heterosexual, probably Christian-leaning too. That ought to almost be illegal nowadays, how could the SJW Thought Police allow this? Inclusivity and Diversity is strength, thankfully it’s not all white saviors so farce is allowed to continue; never mind that reality is contrarian. While awaiting the all-female remake of Saving Private Ryan, I was stuck watching this explosion-fest. The real story is more special than what could be captured on screen, biggest question being, how can you tell this story? Definitely not the way they did, repetitive call for fire missions. Hemsworth’s innate arrogance fills the screen, though not unheard of, some of these operators are quiet professionals, others are still d-bags despite years of training, though that’s more common to Seals than Army. The Afghan general was excellently portrayed, contradictions and all. Loved the scene where Taliban executed mother in front of daughters for having educated them- though there’s no women’s marches against the merciless cruelty enacted upon women in large parts of the world, this needs to be reminded to our comfortable hypocrites at home. It was 5/10, could have added a scene or two on families and wives back home, as they pay a heavy price for the fun Soldiers get to have, let’s be honest.