Review: Hulu Christmas Carol Movie

[iamwhatiseem]

I wanted to like the film, it was exactly what I wanted a production company do - take the classic story of The Christmas Carol and delve deeper into Scrooge. And - it did that quite well. Why was Scrooge such a bastard? The film does that part well.
But then there are problems. Once again "Hollywood" can't help themselves but get ridiculously politically correct. Making Bob Crachet's wife black is pure nonsense. Blacks in 1800's England were only slightly better off than blacks in America. They were not downright field slaves, but were overwhelmingly 3rd class citizens primarily in servitude to wealthy whites. An above average man would not have been accepted to have a black wife.
As well as making every female character in the movie superior both morally and mentally than the males in the movie. Hollywood does this almost every movie they make anymore.
And finally they also couldn't help themselves but present an OBVIOUS bow to socialism and collectivism as the answer to mankind's problems. And all other means of production are pure evil.

It could have been a very good movie. Really good. But once again Hollywood ruins it.

 

[mudwhistle]

I wanted to like the film, it was exactly what I wanted a production company do - take the classic story of The Christmas Carol and delve deeper into Scrooge. And - it did that quite well. Why was Scrooge such a bastard? The film does that part well.
But then there are problems. Once again "Hollywood" can't help themselves but get ridiculously politically correct. Making Bob Crachet's wife black is pure nonsense. Blacks in 1800's England were only slightly better off than blacks in America. They were not downright field slaves, but were overwhelmingly 3rd class citizens primarily in servitude to wealthy whites. An above average man would not have been accepted to have a black wife.
As well as making every female character in the movie superior both morally and mentally than the males in the movie. Hollywood does this almost every movie they make anymore.
And finally they also couldn't help themselves but present an OBVIOUS bow to socialism and collectivism as the answer to mankind's problems. And all other means of production are pure evil.

It could have been a very good movie. Really good. But once again Hollywood ruins it.

Hollywood is going to go broke if they don't stop lecturing us on diversity and other social justice issues.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I wanted to like the film, it was exactly what I wanted a production company do - take the classic story of The Christmas Carol and delve deeper into Scrooge. And - it did that quite well. Why was Scrooge such a bastard? The film does that part well.
But then there are problems. Once again "Hollywood" can't help themselves but get ridiculously politically correct. Making Bob Crachet's wife black is pure nonsense. Blacks in 1800's England were only slightly better off than blacks in America. They were not downright field slaves, but were overwhelmingly 3rd class citizens primarily in servitude to wealthy whites. An above average man would not have been accepted to have a black wife.
As well as making every female character in the movie superior both morally and mentally than the males in the movie. Hollywood does this almost every movie they make anymore.
And finally they also couldn't help themselves but present an OBVIOUS bow to socialism and collectivism as the answer to mankind's problems. And all other means of production are pure evil.

It could have been a very good movie. Really good. But once again Hollywood ruins it.

Hollywood is going to go broke if they don't stop lecturing us on diversity and other social justice issues.

It is upsetting because we watch movies to escape reality, not to be lectured on it.
As well as history revisionist. It simply isn't true. I wanted this movie to be good, and it could have been if not for the obvious socialism motto and sexist "women are better than men" mantra.
Ugh

 

[BULLDOG]

I agree. How wrong of them to introduce such unrealistic ideas into an otherwise honest story about supernatural spirits, time travel, and communication with the dead.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I agree. How wrong of them to introduce such unrealistic ideas into an otherwise honest story about supernatural spirits, time travel, and communication with the dead.

Strawman much?

 

[BULLDOG]

I agree. How wrong of them to introduce such unrealistic ideas into an otherwise honest story about supernatural spirits, time travel, and communication with the dead.

Strawman much?

You don't really get how the straw man thing works. do you?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

You don't really get how the straw man thing works. do you?

Very much... by definition, you attempted to provide one.
You took my point, misrepresented it to form a fallacy point in which you could show I was wrong without, in any way, debating the actual point. A perfect example of a strawman.