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Basically a documentary about a man who built up the lefts view of the "other" America, but all fabricated as characters on a radio show, basically strawmen which flattered their views about their inferiors. Its telling that Henrie is ended up like Deniro, sputtering with TDS, the twitter is privated now, but what was archived shows what his true beliefs were, quite extreme, hardly reasonable, not insightful, and not funny at all. Satire and wit not found. It helps reveal the mean spirited motivations behind the fictions spread over the airwaves for so many years. That so many entertainment figures claim this as their influence reveals why they are unable to produce anything compelling or real anymore, as what they grew up on was second hand caricatures...from a very mean man.

I watched this to see if they had anything new to say about the subject, my skepticism wasn't disappointed. The idea that books are banned is a modern progressive piety when the boomer "banned books" reading list is required syllabus reading, and even that has under their influenced waned to the point where it is more likely a kid has read Harry Potter than 1984, never mind anything harder like Solzhenitsyn.

The books in the documentary are all found in big box stores, "my 2 gay penguin dads", they are so not banned they are corporate approved, we are long past the point where Tipper Gore was putting warnings on rap music in Walmarts. It boils down to this, they are not afraid that children won't be exposed to the distilled thoughts of great thinkers through the ages, they are afraid they won't be exposed to what is little more than dumbed down coomer self affirmation ideology, selfie culture grade affirmation literature of crass self obsession and nothing higher.

None of this is about teaching kids how to think, but its the idea of the kid who reads, the kid who repeats the correct opinions for the pleasure of their librarians or teachers.

It was too much to hope this would have some critical examination, at 26 minutes it just flips from quote to quote from their book selection like a chain of tiktoks no depth at all, a low bar for agitprop in 2023.

As the magic in the marvel world compounds the arbitrary power levels become a never ending Deus ex machina, the rules of power merely plot convenience, and the result is a cartoon.

Add the fact of the main character being unmanned at every level and the goatee should have been replaced with a Jack Murphy beard.

The TV show tie in character again, just bland charisma free insert attempt to add freshness in the most predictable way possible.

There have been too many dimensions and too many thin motivations to save the world.

These new films just prove one can have all the CG in the world, but none of it matters if the story doesn't make you care. In fact the action is now boring, characters waving their hands around as things happen, the mandatory set piece has become a monotonous chore.