Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!

...That love whining about how unoriginal Hollywood, they can whine about this. It's short and I enjoyed it. It's definitely tongue in cheek.

Switched it off before it ended. An unnecessary, uninspired and unfunny list of clichés that despite some (semi-)stars showing up is not better than random lists one can find on Youtube, trying to get your views with the lowest investment.

As clichéd as the tropes it wants to highlight, sprinkled with obvious woke remarks that frustrate rather than inspire or give insight.

The White Savior trope was discussed as a trope where a white person acts as a savior to black people. This is simply shameless and offensive appropriation, as that trope is strongly associated with native americans and other real or fictional cultures in movies such as Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, Dune, Pocahontas and Avatar.

They ignore all the premiere examples to focus on a movie like The Green Book, where the trope is so weak that it might not even be worth discussing, but they just had to make it all about black people, of course. Cringe and tone deaf.

Bland and uninspired show, that doesn't even discuss the BWAAARP sound Nolan uses in every trailer.

If you're a hardcore fan of films you probably already know all these clichés exist. Sure, I learned a bit of history, but I lost interest after about half an hour.

A lot of the talking heads also were irritating as they try to convince the audience that all of the problems in society, from racism to gay rights to women's fight for equality is all the fault of the film industry.

This Netflix special has a great sense of purpose, but it's not as focused as it could be if it was. It's a bit like a Spit -Take or Montage mode, and it's full of all the crazy facts that come from a fake scare called the Luton Bus, as well as the story of Willem's screams. It's not as thoughtful as it could be, but since it's only an hour, you can probably still watch it on your free weekends and pass it along to your cinema-loving friends. The problem is that it's not as funny as it should be, and it's not as irreverent as it could be. It's got the same lazy familiarity of the Hollywood movies it's trying to mock.

~ P. X.