Block Muteson

2y

It's honestly crazy how Sound of Freedom's fake underdog status has let you pretend to be a victim of something. It's a movie. Who the f*** cares

Oppenheimer is about a sad tortured genius making a WMD and how difficult that was for him. It's going to make a billion dollars and get a ton of Oscars. It's a movie. Who cares

These are just consumer goods. It's like criticizing a chicken nugget anymore

CloudyDreams

2y

It’s not bad faith because I’ve seen plenty of critics openly admit their bias for these movies because of the diversity involved.

I don’t believe I’m over correcting. I still enjoy films made all over the world and I can still enjoy a movie like Nope even if I feel the praise it got was wildly unwarranted. But it’s honestly an objective thought that film criticism and award shows nowadays have massively over corrected and essentially believe that diversity in film automatically makes it a good movie. Even for a film like Oppenheimer, I’d say most of the reviews that praised it spent more time talking about its defense of communism, fragile male ego, and other woke agenda talking points rather than actually discussing the movies merits beyond “direction excellent, acting excellent, score was great”. I’ve never trusted these award shows and film critics less than I do now because I know they’re used to be a time when they actually praised movies that deserved it

CloudyDreams

2y

It’s honestly sad that you can’t read if you seriously think I’m rooting for sound of freedoms success or that I believe it’s an underdog when I literally said I didn’t watch it

Jonboi

2y

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“most of the reviews that praised it spent more time talking about its defense of communism, fragile male ego, and other woke agenda talking points…”
Most of the reviews?
Or the cherry-picked examples you’ve found in your echo chamber?
Certain woke points are also possible to be talked about, in a way that engages with the text of the film.

CloudyDreams

2y

Don’t worry darling is an absolute piece of s*** dumpster fire that deserves a 0% on rotten tomatoes and a 5/100 score on metacritic but the liberal agenda still tried to softly defend the film. If a white male director made that movie, critics would salivate at the thought of annihilating it in a far more brutal fashion.

And yeah, you’re right. Some people genuinely enjoy films, but that number is drastically decreasing everyday as social media, mainstream media, and the internet has routinely displayed they don’t care about movies anymore but rather the short clips that make for great memes or attention to spew their bullshit agendas. Even film critics know this and that’s why they spend more time talking about diversity and liberal agendas because they know that gets more attention than actual movie talk.

The most interesting thing about Barbie to movie critics wasn’t the set design or the cinematography or the acting. It was how much it pissed white men off.

CloudyDreams

2y

Don’t worry darling is an absolute piece of s*** dumpster fire that deserves a 0% on rotten tomatoes and a 5/100 score on metacritic but the liberal agenda still tried to softly defend the film. If a white male director made that movie, critics would salivate at the thought of annihilating it in a far more brutal fashion.

And yeah, you’re right. Some people genuinely enjoy films, but that number is drastically decreasing everyday as social media, mainstream media, and the internet has routinely displayed they don’t care about movies anymore but rather the short clips that make for great memes or attention to spew their bullshit agendas. Even film critics know this and that’s why they spend more time talking about diversity and liberal agendas because they know that gets more attention than actual movie talk.

The most interesting thing about Barbie to movie critics wasn’t the set design or the cinematography or the acting. It was how much it pissed white men off.

ghosting

2y

Martin Scorsese is dropping

Block Muteson

2y

You're legit doing "fake news" discourse in 2023. Grow up.

Media critics are in major cities and they might be more preferential to Spike Lee than Jim Caviezel- who is actually insane and a terrible person. Who would have guessed. Who the f*** is reading these articles. You might check RT or Metacritic and dip. Might.

A period piece generally goes down smoother than contemporary political discourse. That's why people make period pieces and launder contemporary discourse through it

Jonboi

2y

Fincher too

ghosting

2y

maybe they finally give him an Oscar...

Senior Intern

2y

Crine that movie got 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, was mired in controversy, EVERYONE was s***ting on it, probably derailed the directors career and you're still like "but if it was a white male😢".
I've seen some of the most ass movies, they rarely go lower than that on these critic sites. (and yes that movie stunk)

CloudyDreams

2y

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Movie 43 was more enjoyable than don’t worry darling

They gave Blackhat a lower RT score than dont worry darling….

A Michael Mann film got worse reviews. Let that sink in

Jonboi

2y

That’s my prediction
Too late tho, f*** em

ghosting

2y

would rather Wes Anderson got it

Jonboi

2y

You didn’t like it. That’s fine. But you can’t ignore the response other people had to it. Everyone I know in real life loves this movie. Look at the Letterboxd reviews. Look at the YouTube reviewers. They’re creaming themselves. They’re acting like they’ve seen the second coming of Christ. Regardless of your personal opinions, to chalk all that up to diversity is just ridiculous.

SUPERMAN

2y

I mean subject matter alone is gonna be oscar-ish

Dated American film
White innovations during war times
Cracka ass cast
Nolan

Block Muteson

2y

How the f*** does Oppenheimer "defend communism"

ghosting

2y

Letterboxd rating lowkey get way inflated for mainstream movies that are above average bc the casual movie watcher isn't watching that many movies tbh

Jonboi

2y

Is the casual movie watcher on Letterboxd?
Regardless, my point was that the movie had a lot of passionate fans. Fans that liked the movie for reasons other than diversity.

Jonboi

2y

Is the casual movie watcher on Letterboxd?
Regardless, my point was that the movie had a lot of passionate fans. Fans that liked the movie for reasons other than diversity.

CloudyDreams

2y

We’ve already established most people are film illiterate and only watch a movie because an authority figure told them it’s good. Most people are too scared to ever have an opinion that goes against the consensus

madison beer guy

2y

Very bad thread!