I remember this gem back in the day, it absolutely slaps

I don’t watch G4TV (and probably don’t even have access to it) but when a big announced partnership of the relaunch was with Smosh, which have become a rather good improv Youtube channel of late but are long past their peak cultural relevancy, it doesn’t sound like things were being run well there.

Why didn’t this review mention that actress Maria Bello was one of the producers and has a story-by credit of this movie? She lives part of the year in a Narobi, Kenya suburb named....Karen (oh the irony) and said the following:

While a lot of historical and history-inspired stories focus on people doing laudable things who also did reprehensible things, this one is almost unique in that all of the laudable things were directly tied to the reprehensible things. Compared to 300, where a group of people from a brutal slaveowning society…

Cue “two things” meme’s good sir.

Biggest mistake wasn’t making it a porno. They’d have been just fine. 

“Of course, once you start digging into Zelda timelines, a migraine is never far away.”

That’s because the concept of unified Zelda multiverse is a silly retcon hack and it doesn’t really make sense.

Actually it sounds like a movie written by people who want to show how cool the women warriors of a historical culture were while whistling past the fact that a big part of their coolness involved conquering neighboring tribes and selling their enemies into slavery. Trying to many any connection to modern society is a…

either this person knew this would happen so they could get press from it or they’re somehow very naive about copyright law despite wanting to work in the entertainment industry

This sounds like a movie written by people like my dad who shut down any discussion about European colonial slave trade with “No, we bought the slaves from the AFRICANS. THEY enslaved people, not US” yet makes it look like a tale of female empowerment.

Unfortunately the history here is pretty bad. 1820s Dahomey were actually the baddies. King Ghezo usurped the throne from his brother with the help of the mentioned Portuguese slave traders; he also (contrary to what this review suggests is present in the film) did in fact sell his own people into slavery, and towards…

King Ghezo did, in fact, limit slave exports - after the British essentially forced him to. Which he then restarted later.

The movie itself sounds like it’s skillfully written, constructed and acted.

Eiji Aonuma was asked about the complex symbology in Zelda games and how he helped planned such an intricately linked amount of lore.

No. They did not fight the white slavers. The Agoje enslaved people en mass themselves and frequently used their slaves as human sacrifices. They were not nice people.

It feels so weird to see so many critics gushing about this whitewashing (pun not intended) movie about one of the worst slaver states in Africa. No, seriously, even compared with their contemporaries Dahomey was horrific. They also murdered hundreds of captives each year in human sacrifices. Look up the Annual…

The heroes in the trailer:

Let alone many Ted Lassos which would necessitate an entire rack.

Wait. They televised the Emmy’s on the Monday of opening weekend of the NFL and the ratings weren’t all that great? I mean, I get it, a lot of you aren’t into “sportsball” or whatever but, um, you are aware other people exist, right?  And they add to the numbers of people who watch things?