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Netflix is accused of suffering from a “woke mind virus,” which has caused viewership (and its stock price) to plummet.
After 60 years, Netflix released a politically correct remake of the film classic “Cleopatra.”
The film is receiving dismal ratings. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 2% audience rating.
Forbes reported that it is the lowest rating in history.
The original film in 1963 starred Elizabeth Taylor, who was widely considered the most beautiful actress in the world.
Film critics note that Taylor’s presence in the film wasn’t “politically correct.” Taylor didn’t look like an Egyptian queen with her white skin and blue eyes.
To fix this “problem,” Netflix released “Queen Cleopatra” with Adele James, a black actress, in the lead role.
Cleopatra also wasn’t black, but Macedonian-Greek.
Film critics only gave the remake a rating of 10%, according to the “average Tomatometer.”
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Here’s how bad that is: The worst film on the movie rating site, Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever,” in 2002 has a 0% rating on the Tomatometer, but a 20% favorable rating by the audience. Another stinker, “One Missed Call” from 2008, also has a 0% Tomatometer but a 20% audience score. And the Nicholas Cage bomb, “Left Behind,” from 2014 got 0% from the critics but 22% from the audience…
But hundreds of audience reviews say different.
“I’m a huge history buff and I love documentaries depicting the past lives of historical figures. That being said, I have no idea what this is. It’s not a documentary depicting the life of Cleopatra. It’s a race baiting Netflix show that tells its audience that if you can’t get on board with this retelling of how we see the history of Queen Cleopatra, then you’re racist. End of story,” one amateur reviewer wrote.
“A ‘documentary’ that has about as much historical accuracy as John Wayne playing Genghis Khan back in 1956. Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek. If you want her to be Black, fine create a historic fiction series. Queen Hatshepsut or Queen Nefertiti would have been a much better person to cover if you wanted to take the Black female empowerment narrative,” another wrote.
