Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Rogue One: The Ritual Continues

"This isn't a Star Wars movie," - my 5 year old son one hour into Rogue One.

I finally got around to watching Rogue One. Plenty of ink wasted on this film. MPC has ripped it to shreds via various posters reviews. It's a script that would have been better as simply a 'terrorism' or modern warfare film, not Star Wars. A military heist film is always fun. Strip the film of the goofy sci-fi stuff, and this would be a nice film about using a third party or mercenary group to pull off something that ol' Uncle Sam doesn't want his fingerprints on for blame. Here are ten observations:

1. Hard to like any of the protagonists. Ip Man (Donnie Yen) is pretty interesting as the blind kung fu guy, but there is no one to really root for in the film. Hollywood should greenlight an "American cop goes to Shanghai and is a fish out of water" film with Donne Yen as his Chinese police liaison. With all the Chinese kleptocrat immigrants coming to America, this would be an easy script to write and have the CCP approve production of "Shanghai Surprise". 
2. The girl power action lead casting has to stop. I know this is a directive from up on high to destroy toxic masculinity and empower women, but it is laughable. Akinokure has a point on the trans nature of it all, but all this does is force young boys to search for a different favorite character to identify with, and as they diversity cast the protagonists, white kids will seek the bad guys. At least this female in Rogue One was cute and less androgynous than "Rey, the boy with tits" in Force Awakens but at the average female height, the idea of her being an action tough guy is already weak. It crumbles in the shot where she wears the Imperial pilot gear and is standing next to the muddled accent Spanishy guy and robot, and you see that she is a head shorter than the guy. She looks like a kid yet we had an older character commend her how as a teen she was already a great warrior. She is a wee woman. Stop this insanity. 
3. There are CGI versions of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher. They also spliced in video of original A New Hope rebel pilots. They look good enough that one could see how they reboot things in the future. Why use actors anyway? Could they remake the originals of films but with prog approved changes? Sure. Can 'live' events be faked? Sure. I found this more frightening than cool.
4. Forest Whitaker plays some too rough for the Rebels type of rebel leader. It's cartoonish. His voice throws it over the top though as it sounds like he is the bad guy (Baron Silas Greenback) from "Danger Mouse". I had to suppress laughter when he was onscreen. Fortunately, that is not for long.
5. Here's the genius to going after State Farm interracial pedo ads, attacking academics that wish for White Genocide and going after Star Wars diversity casting or all white bad guys framing: it forces the issue in the open. Had the Star Wars writer NEVER said that he had made the film to be a strong woman leading a diverse group over evil white males, a lot of normies would have just taken the imagery in and had their minds massaged to equate white as bad and diverse as good. The Disney employee idiotically mentioned it. He should have stayed silent. Trump's win triggered these fools that hard. By the AltRight reacting to it, it made people see the unspoken message. it couldn't be covert or subconscious anymore. By pointing it out too, just like the State Farm ad, it makes the people aware but unsure of things suddenly realize that many others see it and dislike it. This now means normies will see the same "diversity vs white group" set up and know the messaging, not just suspect that it is on purpose. Isn't the easier political analogy due to desert setting, jihad rebellion and fascism Israel vs Palestinians?
6. There is a comical bit to all of these Star Wars films where we have to pretend that the magical energy or power weapons of the prequel trilogy somehow do not exist in these newer movies. If they have access to exotic aliens, why didn't they call up some aliens to design interesting weapons for them. They still have to transfer data plans on a floppy disk? Come on Disney, they can transmit plans through space from giant towers but need a goddamn floppy disk, and the plans can fit on a disk?
7. The gritty imagery combined with illogical plot and story bits means we have a movie designed for adults that don't want any consistency or thinking... a film for liberal adults. Star Wars isn't a kiddie or teen escape anymore; it's gritty, man, like real, man. This also makes the completely cliché "rebellions are built on hope" garbage seem so forced. To match the gritty take, an angry, vengeful rebel would have pitched the 'steal the plans' mission far differently.
8. The Rebellion isn't pitched as the idealistic good guys fighting the evil Empire anymore. Nope, the ol' Buck Rogers stark contrast stuff is gone. This is the age of the anti-hero after all, and the age of authenticity. There outfits are all dingy and dirty. The original films portrayed a "used universe" not a 3rd world humans walking around in shitty clothes in a used universe. They can fly through space, I'm sure they can have clean clothes and faces. This is about us. Even our fictional galactic space wars need to be grey (again, this would be a great modern warfare flick). How am I going to like a protagonist when he shoots his informant/spy dead in the first 3 minutes like the guy was meaningless? Notice that the gritty and grey Rebel thing would NOT be the old, black edgy rebel turning on the female lead like some false opposition figures do. Think back to Total Recall; they had Bennie the black mutant turn on Arnold at the end. Would never happen today unless Bennie was white.
9. Star Wars and Star Trek have been put into the hands of directors who can't build simple life or death tension so they have characters dangle from ledges often. It's like having Helen Hunt run in the rain to have a wet t-shirt when talking to Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets" because she couldn't generate any sexual tension normally. You know what would have been a tense scene without the need for dangling over bottomless chasms? Have Vader be 1-on-1 searching for the female lead through a space station, ship or building. A rip off of sorts of the Terminator or Jurassic Park "hunt scenes", but imagine it with a Vader taunting her like a perverse, winner take all hide 'n' seek. 
10. Darth Vader shows up, and since they did reshoot over a third of the film after test audiences panned it, I wonder if his scenes were added in. Vader's dark hallway killing spree was pretty intense. It conveys the horror of his power and capabilities. There was no stopping him. If Disney wanted to make a billion profit, not box office, pure profit, it would make a "Vader Kills Everything" movie. Set up: Vader and the Empire goons go to a planet to investigate some lost squad. Their planetary guide betrays them, and Vader couldn't Force-feel it since it was a droid guide. The squad is killed and Vader is basically left alone on the planet to fight his way off. It'd be like the old Conan stories where Conan would have his back to the wall and would have to kill 200 men. Just have Vader kill beasts, aliens, men, droids, ships, etc. as he made his way off the planet. I'd pay $10 to see it.


My son did not care for it. These are not even kids' movies anymore. I was a bit bored with it as well. Star Wars movies have made the same transition that comic books did. They are no longer for kids but for the guys who never grew up. Disney gotta print them dollars though!.... Hey look a trailer for the new fast + Furious film where the diverse group is betrayed by Vin Diesel because the evil, white, blonde haired and blue eyed Charlize Theron seduced him!!!!

Monday, January 02, 2017

Trollumentaries

This Guardian confessional essay turned out to be the work of the legendary troll Godfrey Elfwick. Poe's Law has arrived for the Left. The Left's elite and donors have let the far left foot soldiers, repeating the same old communist shibboleths and some new ones, run too wild and too long without any pushback or even just slowing down. This is what makes trolling effective. It also opens doors for wider troll jobs.

Creating an astroturf black separatist political party is a troll. Jill Stein is right now scamming naïve lefties out of millions for her never going to happen recount. She has raised over $6 million, which is more than her entire campaign raised! There are tons of Music Man style, legal but unethical scams one could run on progs to milk them like cows. There are smaller investment troll jobs out there, and one ripe for the picking area is the world of documentaries. Documentaries are incredibly easy to produce with limited equipment and funding. One can boost funding by the proper marketing to leftist donors and foot soldiers.

Imagine marketing on GoFundMe or kickstarter a documentary on any progressive pet subject. Marketing could be simply "examining the causes of the achievement gap" with standard issue SWPL progressive video pitch for cash. One would have to create an online persona with a progressive trail. This would not be hard to pitch to the funders of all of those documentaries on Netflix with standard issue prog messaging. People fund what they want to see.

Now take the money, create a documentary, but not the prog documentary. Lampoon the Left's extreme wing now for excuses and causes for things as cover. Fill it with redpill facts non-stop. It would be easy to make sunshine, cheery graphics and animations of dissident points, graphs, charts, etc. If the delivery was straight faced, progressive lunacy, how could someone deny releasing it, watching it or commenting on it. Imagine someone simply reading the statistics off of blackboysreport.org to a camera in a tearful manner.

Ali G on steroids. Make trollumentaries on several specific issues before everyone wises up to the game... but if one were so good at mimicking the Left's loons, then they may never wise up.

Sunday, January 01, 2017

Social Matter - Somalis In Snow

New essay at Social Matter. With the recent sleeper cell activated Somalian in Ohio, why exactly are Somalians of all nationalities in America? Of course, it has to do with America picking a side in an itnernational conflict it had no need of getting into a generation ago. As usual, America supported the losing side.

Friday, December 30, 2016

Problem of Prog Control + SM Review-Preview 71

AnomalyUk tweets occasionally the phrase "All News Is Fake News". It's brilliant. The problem with our media is it is all prog PR. It is a regime press. This hides a lot of problems, but it creates a big one purely in its form. Because there is no opposing side, an insane story can runaway and place us in great danger.

Look at the Russian Hacking insanity. Walk through the steps of this story, but start at the appropriate time, not November.

1. Trump and Putin have a bromance. The media plays this up as bad. It's a talking point straight from DNC emails that leaked. Hey wait, how the hell did these emails get out?
2. Podesta had his emails leak and they were published by Wikileaks, which has an association >denied by Wikileaks< with Russia.
3. Russians hacked Podesta's emails!
4. Clinton lost.
5. Russia hacked the election, even the CIA says so! >no proof<
6. Russia hacked the votes! >no proof<
7. Sanctions, diplomat expulsion and "retaliation".

Because the media is a hive mind, there is no one pushing back on this. The ones pushing back are small timers and outsiders. Who on a major news outlet is saying, "This is bullshit". What oped writer will push back? This is wretched. Even the nominal right falls into the framework here and will not call out the hysteria. The best refutation of this hysteria was Andrea O'Sullivan's essay in Reason.

This also lays the groundwork for the Establishment to attempt to prevent any kind of friendship or detente with Russia in a Trump administration. With this Muh Russian Hacking story, it makes any move to align with Russia look like Trump paying off the favor Russia performed. It becomes treasonous and a quid pro quo... which would be the meme pushed nonstop by the same media hive mind in place today.

The media must be destroyed.

I'd neglect my duties if I did not tip the hat to Spandrell for his Gnon Theology post from Tuesday. Great work, probably his best in a long time, and great tone.

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Last week I wrote a little Christmas themed essay. Stop playing the martyr Christians and stiffen those spines. We have many friends adrift in the secular sea; guide them home. Weimerica Weekly was a year in review. The Current Year deserved one.

Next week I am writing about how Somalians came to America. How the hell did these African Muslims from the Horn of Africa get to Minnesota and Maine?

Thursday, December 29, 2016

WW1 Rail Guns

This is a French 400mm railway gun. It is being loaded and fitted to fight at the Marne.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Social Matter - Weimerica Weekly Episode 53

Weimerica Weekly is up and it is a wrap up of 2016. The Current Year review is a 50 minute podcast. It is definitely crazier out there, and there is definitely pushback on the cultural tastemakers.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

My Best at Social Matter

I did a complete listing for my SM posts of 2015 last year. This year, I am going to switch it up. Since I started up the podcast, Weimerica Weekly, I'll split this year's best of Social Matter into a top 10: Top 10 essays and Top 10 podcasts. This is mostly feedback from you all, and a little bit of editorial selection.

Social Matter Essays

10. The Ticking Nigerian Time Bomb - Review of how the migrants pouring into the EU are 25% from sub-Sahara Africa. Nigeria is on the verge of war or unraveling and will send millions if it goes down.

9. Unmentionable Nations - I wrote on Venezuela and other horror nations that must be censored or else the media will show the failures of prog ideology and USG blue empire foreign policy.

8. Hidden History: The Black Mutinies of World War II - Self-explanatory but I cover the wide ground of black mutinies in WW2. The cover ups by the system that we see today of crimes that are against the Narrative were also already in place in the 1940s.

7. This Is What Decline Will Look Like On Virtual Reality - How could the near future be managed with VR as well as the quicker applications of VR.

6. Trump Is A Flashlight - Trump isn't a savior but he does illuminate the disgusting, hidden elements of our system.

5. Meaning, Globalism and Death - The forces all pushing back on globalism reveal people seeking meaning in the bland McWorld.

4. Social Media Is A Tool Of The State - How social media turned everyone into a stasi officer if they were on the Faceborg, but that we should have expected it to keep us in good progressive line. I also point to the peak of social media and when it all started to decline.

3. A Trump Rally Revival - I attended a Trump rally and convey the emotion and what was going on in that movement. It is like a big tent revival for the Church of America.

2. Amerikanskiy Zones - This was my first essay of the year and I kicked it off with a sledgehammer. This is a possible exit, and would be a gigantic PR coup if the Russians did pull this off.

1. Driving Through Dying Blue Towns - A dozen readers guessed the town. All wrong. This is how widespread the devastation of the small towns has been from the forces we are fighting not just in the Rust Belt but into deep blue states. It comes from driving around New England in the summer and seeing the emptiness, hearing stories and even reading local papers. I also went home. My hometown escaped physical decay but the lack of children and spiritual decay was apparent. My wife's hometown was not so lucky. It is heartbreaking.

Weimerica Weekly Podcasts

10. Muslims In Paris - One listener said the analysis of the multiple waves of Jewish immigration into America was Straussian. Others liked the tie of immigration with security with the different generations of immigration even within one group being wildly different.

9. Interview With Kevin MacDonald - My interview with KMac. I let him ramble on instead of jumping all over him. We even discussed the physiognomy of Bernie vs Trump rally attendees.

8. The Ferguson Effect - Hipster Cop and I discuss the Ferguson Effect. Not Harvard's fake "distrust the cops and crime spikes" effect but the gun-shy cops and emboldened crooks effect.

7. The Musician Is The Message - How musicians are now the medium through which the message spreads. Why is the character arc of teen pop stars the same?

6. Wedding Pageants - What made weddings into the pageants that they are today.

5. Hamilton The Musical - Monologue on why Hamilton is a phenomenon because it is a minstrel show for white liberals.

4. Heroin In New England - Covering heroin's spread and why it was so easy for heroin dealers to infiltrate New England.

3. Gender Dysphoria - A few listeners said "This is like NPR for the AltRight", and that is when the audience grew. This is the tale of one murder in my hometown. I discuss the sick progressive ideology that nudged the killer along, and I tell you about the victim, who was the mom of dear childhood friends of mine.

2. Goodbye Election '16 - A recap of all the weird, wild and wonderful characters in this odd election.

1. Three Comrades  - Review of a Weimar era book that explains Weimar at the ground level in fiction as well as shows the similarities to our Weimerica.


Thank you all for reading my essays, posts and even the tweets. I was purged from twitter as SOBL1 and had to be reborn 28shermanSOBL1. Weird year. I will keep trying to improve on my writing and podcasts. I will try to help everyone look at our crazy world and crack a smile.