[rlmorel]

And besides being right most of the time (in my personal opinion) and being anti-woke, he is highly entertaining, too.

But the thing that really nailed him for me on the first try, was when I watched the animated feature “Puss in Boots”.

I did not have high expectations for the feature, or any expectations to speak of. My wife wanted to watch it, and since our tastes in movies diverge to a large degree these days after many years of marriage, whenever she asks, I usually comply unless I know for certain it is something woke I won’t like.

So, I watched the movie, and...with no expectations, I loved it. Thought it was great-very little to no wokeness, fun, good and interesting animation, and it included some themes I perceived as definitely conservative.

But it was such a frivolous movie, I wondered if it was just me-I was curious to see if anyone else saw the movie the same way I did.

And I stumbled across The Critical Drinker (had never heard of him) and he had a review of the movie. I was gratified to see that he saw it nearly exactly the same way I did. So, I began checking out his reviews, and I noticed that he liked and hated many of the same things in movies that I did. Not 100%...but I would say 80-90% of the time, I agree with his assessments of movies.

Now, when I wonder if I should watch a movie, I always go to his website first to see if he has a review...to save me time...:)

And I love his trademark: “That’s all I’ve got for today. Go away now.”

[Chickensoup]

I saw puss in boots with my younger teens back in 2011.

I have never seen Shrek and did not know it was the backstory to that film.

I went on the recommendation of the film critics for WORLD magazine. They always had good film reviews. Not the usual dreck.

[Chickensoup]

Critical drinker sounds lovely. However he is a video guy. Video is too slow for me for information gathering. .... I prefer the written word.

Sounds like he has a cool edge though.

[rlmorel]

And, if like me, you think Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is one of the greatest Westerns ever made (for me, it ranks up there with "The Searchers", "True Grit", and "Open Range") The Critical Drinker just did a phenomenal breakdown of "Unforgiven":

LINK: Unforgiven - Analysing The Greatest Western Ever Made

I don't have the ability to break down one of my favorite movies as he did here, but I have felt for years, exactly what he said, in my heart.