Posted On: Monday - November 9th 2026 7:28PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Movies Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics
We're trying to find a happy medium as far as our movie reviews here at Peak Stupidity. I tend to go on long and tell the whole story at times (maybe more in the book reviews), but then we've got our very short reviews. They are really short because I get pissed off seeing that the movie I got started watching is politically correct and has an agenda to follow.
Our first post of this type was Tried to watch a movie - here's 3 reviews in one!, written in the Summer of '18. (The 3rd movie, made in the 1960s, took.) We've had more abort-reviews than I'd recalled - others of ours were Nine Days to Patton - movie non-review, Peak Rockford Files, Pride goeth before the eject button, and Goodbye to 1923.
As with the movie Nine Days (see 2nd link), the new ('25) movie Eternity, is also about reincarnation. This was one of the choices of movies and shows available on the seat back TV on a long flight recently. I was really looking forward to it. I'd like to be able to tell our readers about it.
I can only provide a review of the first 10 minutes. Since the plot was about reincarnation, one of the main actors dies near the movie's beginning. In this one, we can't say he's gone to Heaven, as in my favorite and non-agendized reincarnation movie titled, you guessed it, Made in Heaven. In Eternity, the old man who'd died arrives in the form of his younger self, maybe in his 20s, to some huge way station of sorts, a cross between a train station and a trade show. The deal is, as advertised in the blurbs, that he had to make a decision on where and how to spend his eternity.
I figured that'd be a great story. It might HAVE been, I mean, it might BE, but I don't know. Thing is, early on as our propagandist is disoriented, wondering where he is, what's the plan, who are these "AC"s, etc., a black woman bigger than Whoopie Goldberg turns up as his Afterlife Coordinator. I take that back - I haven't seen Whoopi Goldberg lately, so she might have been skinnier than Whoopi Goldberg. "Ahhh, here we go!", I figured, and I was right. Within a minute, sick of and impatient with this man's confused questions, she slaps the living out of him. That's when I reached to click [X] for EXIT. I just don't need this sort of thing.
Why do they have to do this?! Put in the token black character, sure. In Made in Heaven, one of the characters up there, who later turned up down here, was a smiling black guy you HAD to like. The scene in question here made me think that'd I'd better start eating a lot healthier, as I don't want to run into a nasty Whoopi Goldberg look-alike* in the afterlife. That's not what I've been signing up for.
BTW, I hesitated on the way to clicking off, and I noted that our black woman told the new arrival to the afterlife that she had no idea about God or any such thing. So, it was gonna be like that, too. I watched 5 episodes of The Office instead. Go figure ... ;-}
I'll add something new to this abort-review, because I'm sure hearing the same complaint can get tedious. I watched (a tiny part of) this on an airline flight. These airlines like to collect data. They also claim to offer the best of all kinds of experiences, in this case "my seat back experience". You can save your choices, unfinished movies, etc. for another flight. That's data saved to enhance the passenger's experience.
I'm pretty sure data is also collected for use by those choosing the in-flight entertainment, as in, which movies might stay up for longer and what to ditch quickly. Would the users of this data even keep up with how long people stick with one "piece of content"? I know they can easily enough. Wouldn't it be neat to be on the combination IT/Marketing team tasked with figuring out WHY movies were abandoned at... hey, the same spot every time, and only when the passenger has a non-black sounding name. What could this mean?
The director of Eternity could really use that kind of feedback. Until he gets the report from the Marketing/IT team, this is the feedback.
* Per IMDB, she is one Meg Roe.
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