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Altered Carbon (2018)
S1 is awesome, don't ruin it with S2.
Season 1: WOW! I was completely hooked like a good movie trilogy and enjoyed every minute of the offspring to Blade Runner&Jupiter Ascending. A thought provoking and immersive series that brought out its audience's interest and heart. Season 2 is a bad soap opera that you put on in the background while doing house chores.
America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
Learning stopped after about 10 minutes.
This film is another failed attempt to explain how the world is, how it's run, and America's current standing on the world leader board.
Physical battles for resources being worse than economic wars for resources/services, making the economy great and battles acceptable because everyone did/does it.
Laws made through acceptable exceptions with a 'agree to disagree' temporary compromise mentality which will continue to be argued, modified, and added to, while ignoring the goal to find agreements no one wants to argue against.
It would be refreshing to hear the truth for once.
The Green Prince (2014)
Good Start if you know nothing about the conflict.
This movie actually does a really good job of introducing a subject to the American general public to at least remember that Israel and Palestine exist. That the conflict is not just a forgettable world news story you hear in the background on television while getting something to eat and ignoring the information. It's not the movie version of a book or a non-biased documentary, but it's entertaining enough to keep unaware viewers watching and hopefully remembering, if not researching further. I think a huge key to the success of keeping people's attention was the wondering if it's a mockumentary or documentary aspect.
I will say the 100 minutes of movie gave me a better overview of how this conflict was related to myself versus the countless hours of world news I did watch, while living in San Diego, that was difficult to discern bickering opinion from what was actually happening and why it should be important to me.
For all of you disappointed academics out there, just remember, baby steps; getting people to remember is the first step to future awareness.
God's Not Dead (2014)
Offensive if you take this silly after school special seriously
This movie made me wonder more about the conception of the script. I would assume it all started with a preteen's diary entry based on a first visit to a Christian youth summer camp.
Although this movie makes every attempt to convey that Christianity is the only real choice, most men are bad unless they're lovable Christian goofs, and everyone else is an idiot or a violent idiot.; it really oversimplifies and reduces Christian ideals into an underdeveloped fiction of a hero that has missed the message he's desperately trying to explain to others.
I quickly transitioned from interested, to offended by&for Christians, to laughing at how ridiculous this movie was. Luckily the movie showed how unintelligent it was quick enough that I was set up to laugh AT it before it became too offensive. Similar to watching a horror film that isn't supposed to be taken seriously or a unwitty and unintelligent version of a South Park cartoon, but certainly not as entertaining as either of those.