Awesome / Musical Hell

• During her review of Titanic: The Legend Goes On, she sets the record straight that the First Officer the movie based off of wasn't remotely as bad as his movie counterpart. He was in fact a Nice Guy and a hero who saved some of the Titanic passengers. She calls out the creators on turning him into a detestable jerk for the sake of their get-rich-quick scheme that is their movie.
• Diva's mini-rant at the end of her review of The Music Man:
  Diva: Do you wanna know why I do this job?
  Bailiff: [unintelligible gibberish]?
  Diva: Besides being forced into it after being exiled from nearly every other circle in the Inferno, I mean. This is why I do this job. Because musicals have a hard enough time earning respect without mistakes like this clogging up the works. I love music theatre. It's such a versatile and diverse form. Yet it's still treated like the redheaded stepchild of the film industry. Something only taken seriously only by children, lonely cat ladies, and gay stereotypes. It can be, and is, so much more than that. And both the genre and the people who love it deserve better than this. And I might not be able to stop you from making terrible musicals, but I can sure as here enjoy taking the piss out of the result.
• Diva's song at the end of her Tentacolino review. Girl's got quite a voice!
• Her ruthless attack on how badly Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018) mangles its moral lesson with a false equivalence between the heroes' and villains' plans against each other.
  "Right here is where this movie goes from everyday bad to infuriatingly bad. Pulling the whole 'If you do this, you'll be no better than they are' card on Eliza is insulting, because she is very obviously better than they are! She sees that things are unfair, she calls them out, and she's doing what she can to force people to acknowledge the problem. And unlike Bucky, I'm willing to bet her act of sabotage wasn't going to actively endanger people. But this is the message Z-O-M-B-I-E-S has in the face of prejudice: 'It's okay to stand up to injustice, as long as you don't block traffic, or disrupt business, or defy social norms, or do anything that will make people uncomfortable in any way. The best thing to do is sit around and be a model minority until a combination of privileged people taking pity on you and random circumstance happens to solve everything.'"
• The fact that Diva, a demon of Hell, calls Hi Tops to task for not living up to its supposedly Christian messaging. Maybe Donna's faith in her is well-placed.
• During the case of La La Land, Diva calls out Sebastian on his belief of "saving Jazz" by saying Keith has a point: while traditional Jazz isn't popular like it used to be, Jazz doesn't need "saving", it just changes with the times like any other artform.
  Keith: How are you going to be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You're holding onto the past, but Jazz is about the future.
• In her review of The Thief and the Cobbler (Miramax version), Diva defines the Laser-Guided Karma when (with laser-like precision) she excuses the creator from punishment because it was punishment enough for him to lose his creation to other buyers. Instead, she punishes those who had a hand in actively ruining what could've been an animated masterpiece.
• Diva calling out Basmati Blues for not only playing the White Man's Burden trope straight, but somehow failing at using it by calling on Linda's stupidity for not even seeing the problem of cultivating a sterile crop:
  Diva: But I think where Basmati Blues really fails as a white saviour is that the would-be saviour is clearly the stupidest person in the entire movie. So Linda doesn't know anything about traditional Indian greetings or dining etiquette, fine. Honestly, that probably puts her on the same level as a lot of visitors to India. But she's an agricultural engineer! She has a doctorate in this field. She has ranked her favourite weeds, for Lucifer's sake! High on the list of the things she should know is how farming works.
• Diva shows no mercy towards Music (2021), verbally tearing it apart for how offensive it is for treating autism as a mere prop while it gave the part of lead character to a rather loathesome side character. The movie winds up being so insulting that she even gives it an 11 sin count, a first for the show.
• In Cinderella (2021), Diva making it clear a character as cold and uncaring as King Rowen doesn't deserve to have a redeeming moment with Queen Beatrice.
  Diva: No. I mean, props for knowing how to use Peirce Brosnan's lack of talent in this area, but still, NO. Rowan does not get to be a callous, bullying, borderline-abusive ass for 90% of the movie then wipe everything away with a comically awkward serenade. Especially since Beatrice is more annoyed by it than anything else. Because it shows Rowan has learned nothing! He's still making things all about himself and has no consideration about her needs. This attempt to redeem his character is completely unearned!
• Despite thinking Sweeney Todd was not that bad a movie musical, she still gives it fair review both pointing out the flaws and giving credit where it was due.
  • Bonus points as it was the first movie to earn Two Saving Graces for the visual style and for the ending.
• Also doubling as heartwarming, any time she gives a movie a saving grace. Even if the movie is not that great, by getting a saving grace it at least did something right!
• The normally cheerful and upbeat Donna flies into a rage when the disabled Pam is used for a Too Good for This Sinful Earth plot in Saturday's Warrior. If Diva hadn’t talked her down, she would have smited everyone.
  • After that, Diva then proceeds to call out the movie for guilt tripping Jimmy to believing that Pam’s accident and death was his fault just to show how “forgiving” his parents are.
• In her review of The Oogieloves, Diva analyzes movie producer Kenn Viselman's thought process of eschewing a Big Bad from the movie because he wonders "[But] why does there have to be evil?" In response, Diva makes a good point that although having a bad guy can sound clichéd on paper, not having one (or any other sort of major conflict, for that matter) in a story can be just as counterproductive.
  Diva: (Quoting Viselman) "Pixar always has the triumph of good over evil. But why does there have to be evil in the first place?" Because kids don't live in a candy-colored bubble like your characters, Kenn. They live in a world where evil exists, along with common every day struggles: conflicts with friends and siblings, fears and anxieties over certain situations, coping with anger and sadness and disappointment. Stories are one of the ways they learn to deal with these situations, and develop the tools they'll need to interact with a world that won't always be sunshine and lollipops for them. And the fact that you think that's a bad thing shows just how little you understand or appreciate those you want to entertain.

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