Posted on 05/04/2026 8:53:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Director Andy Serkis took the anti-communist classic Animal Farm and turned it into an anti-capitalist children’s movie complete with fart jokes. The result? Well, God bless America, it was humiliated at the box office with a catastrophic $3.4 million debut weekend, even though it opened on 2,600 screens.
Woke fails again.
Not even an all-star voice cast could save it. Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, and Kathleen Turner all contributed to this $35 million humiliation, and that doesn’t include promotion costs.
Serkis attended the Animal Farm premiere, attacking President Trump with a red hat that read, “Make Animal Farm Fiction Again.”
How about a hat that reads, “Make Animal Farm Animal Farm Again?”
Leftists cannot create anything. All they can do, whether it’s Star Wars or Lord of the Rings or Animal Farm, is deconstruct and destroy greatness. The result is always something less, if not total garbage — even those who went to see Animal Farm hated it with a C- Cinemascore.
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I just re-read Animal Farm a few weeks ago, for the first time since High School..........
“What’s truth, precious?” — Sméagol (Pilate) Serkis, probably.
I don’t think you have to be woke to criticize how Michael studiously ignores the fact that he was a pedophile. You just have to be aware.
From what I have read, the film basically covers his early years and the Thriller era...............
What’s next an OJ Simpson movie that just covers his NFL Career and Naked Gun movie appearances?
“Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. “
One bowl of water won’t be nearly enough to wash those Smeagol hands after he ate that nice fishhhhhhh.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
We’ve seen this many times, it doesn’t make money but it got made and will now be available for decades for schools and educating the young.
A lot of such remakes aren’t counting on an immediate payoff.
A surprise (to me, at least) was that Angel Studios has the distribution rights. Not their usual fare, IMHO.
‘Michael’ Still Defying Woke Critics
I won’t read past that.
Michael Jackson was a pederast. What does being repulsed by him have to do with “wokeness”??
I figured “woke” people would have been the ones defending the Michael movie.
Just a coincidence I’m sure they cut off right before things start going public. Mind at least one of the suits involved behavior in that era.
If you can’t be bothered to put in words I can’t be bothered to click.
One can see the original online for free!
Anti-Capitalist ‘Animal Farm’
Which is basically Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album.
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