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I can't think of a single one. The reporting is beyond shoddy (with a ton of errors), controversies often seem to be slanted in favor of toxic YouTube Neckbeards (which makes sense because they ARE probably the primary readership.) They post bland meaningless lists with absolutely no thought or effort put into ANY of the choices on said list.
They recently did a list of 20 sitcoms from the 1990's ALMOST as a good as Seinfeld. What made number 2?
Saved By The Bell.
I honestly cannot think of a single positive thing or good insight that website has ever given the world. We are stupider and worse off for it existing.
What's fucked up, is even on the rare occasions they mean well, they can't help but getting everything wrong. They recently did a post about movies that were damaging to the mentally ill and contributed towards negative stigma against us.
On the list was... American Psycho. For portraying poor put-upon narcissists and sociopaths as more violent than most actually are.
How stupid is this site? I feel dumber for reading that opinion. My liberal guilt does not extend to psychopaths and narcissists. If it did, Vic Puff and Donna Demented would have entirely different arcs than they do.
They recently did a list of 20 sitcoms from the 1990's ALMOST as a good as Seinfeld. What made number 2?
Saved By The Bell.
I honestly cannot think of a single positive thing or good insight that website has ever given the world. We are stupider and worse off for it existing.
What's fucked up, is even on the rare occasions they mean well, they can't help but getting everything wrong. They recently did a post about movies that were damaging to the mentally ill and contributed towards negative stigma against us.
On the list was... American Psycho. For portraying poor put-upon narcissists and sociopaths as more violent than most actually are.
How stupid is this site? I feel dumber for reading that opinion. My liberal guilt does not extend to psychopaths and narcissists. If it did, Vic Puff and Donna Demented would have entirely different arcs than they do.
I'm tired of this Snow White backlash.
Mar. 14th, 2025 06:02 pmI just don't give a fuck. I understand why people talked shit about Warner releasing The Flash movie. Ezra Miller was accused of serious crimes and handled it shittily.
Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot have unpopular opinions. And while I disagree with Gadot's, I don't actually with Zegler's, and am wondering when the fuck society decided all actors in the world have to have popular opinions with everybody else or the work itself, which has nothing to do with that, will be trashed.
If that's the actual standard, I wish I could play that card against Jon Voight and Tim Allen. They'd never work again, which would suit me just fine.
The only person whose complaints about Snow White that feel legit are Peter Dinklage's. But that's not exactly a complaint Disney can change, is it? Because when Zegler pointed out the original was problematic, she's actually right. Not artfully said to that movie's many fans, and there IS, in fact, something obnoxious about the star of a remake talking shit about the original to build up their own version.
But Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is an incredibly overrated movie, which despite the ground-breaking animation, is filled with sloppy and dated characterization, a trite script, unfunny humor, lackluster songs, and it's just fucking boring all the way through.
Don't tell me Zegler is trashing a sacred cow. I've actually seen it.
Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot have unpopular opinions. And while I disagree with Gadot's, I don't actually with Zegler's, and am wondering when the fuck society decided all actors in the world have to have popular opinions with everybody else or the work itself, which has nothing to do with that, will be trashed.
If that's the actual standard, I wish I could play that card against Jon Voight and Tim Allen. They'd never work again, which would suit me just fine.
The only person whose complaints about Snow White that feel legit are Peter Dinklage's. But that's not exactly a complaint Disney can change, is it? Because when Zegler pointed out the original was problematic, she's actually right. Not artfully said to that movie's many fans, and there IS, in fact, something obnoxious about the star of a remake talking shit about the original to build up their own version.
But Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is an incredibly overrated movie, which despite the ground-breaking animation, is filled with sloppy and dated characterization, a trite script, unfunny humor, lackluster songs, and it's just fucking boring all the way through.
Don't tell me Zegler is trashing a sacred cow. I've actually seen it.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Mar. 3rd, 2025 08:59 amDanny Trejo has the most interesting IMDB page of any actor, living or dead. You will never find another actor with both Machete Kills and Elena Of Avalor in their filmography. Some people might tell him he needs to be choosier in his roles, but I think the fact that he says yes to everything makes the industry better. He makes Samuel L. Jackson look picky, and we're all better off.
Weird notion.
Mar. 1st, 2025 01:40 amFans, let me let you in on a little secret.
You are not automatically entitled to great movies and TV shows.
...
I know. Shocking, right?
I'm old. So I can set the younger generation straight about how this actually works.
Growing up in the 1980's I was surrounded by shitty movies (and don't get me started on the desolation of the TV landscape at the time. Literal embarrassing garbage used to win Emmys because there were almost NO good TV shows). The really popular movies tended to be popular because they were LESS shitty, but they were still shitty. Once in awhile, you'd find a legit amazing movie out there (see The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Little Shop Of Horrors for some movies from the 1980's and 1990's that have still stood the test of time). But mostly, we were fed crap and accepted crap.
On some level it's outrageous the amount of stuff general audiences tolerated back then. But the truth is film buffs had a MUCH healthier perspective about it all. It was generally agreed that most films were terrible, but part of the joy of loving cinema is seeking out those rare masterpieces and falling in love with them.
YouTube Neckbeards, Rotten Tomatoes ratings manipulators, and incel trolls have drummed it into fandom's heads that we deserve perfect movies and TV shows from our franchises at ALL times. They say if we don't get that 100% of the time we ought to be outraged at the people in charge. And the movies invariably are terrible because of their Woke Agenda.
I'm not going to argue whether current films are terrible or not. I seem to have fewer problems with them than most fans, mostly because I don't demand perfection, and also because I think the complaints about Woke agendas are nothing but a huge scam to generate outrage clicks. It's not a real problem and people insisting it is are either lying or crazy.
But the Neckbeards have conditioned people to believe the Treasure Hunt, that for DECADES film buffs held in their hearts as sacred, is something that shouldn't exist. All movies should be perfect all the time.
Not only is that an unreasonable expectation. Not only does it fly in the face of every single movie lover I grew up with and shared my passion with. But it's a majorly unfair burden to hit ANY filmmaker with, whether they are heading a big franchise, or telling a personal passion project.
Newsflash: Personal passion projects aren't ALWAYS going to be amazing. I'd argue few of them are. And people saying they are entitled to great movies are actually discouraging experimentation from fledgling directors who may not make a movie everyone likes, but whose vision is THEIRS.
One of the common complaints I hear is movies need to be innovative and not copy what's come before. And yet the scathing reviews directed at projects that try even something a LITTLE bit different shows that advice is a lie on the part of the Neckbeards. They want films catered specifically to THEM, which is not just an entirely fucked up way to view art. It's a fucked up way to view LIFE. It disturbs me how many people take their complaints seriously. It disturbs me even more creators actually take these complaints seriously, and sometimes even FOLLOW these ill-advised and completely insincere suggestions.
If you don't like a movie, believe it or not, that's okay. The filmmaker who made it is not obligated to please you. That's not what cinema or art is. And despite the Neckbeards trying to rewrite reality and convince us all it is, I know for a fact it isn't, and those assholes are lying to you. Don't believe their bullshit for a second. They are always complaining about films having an agenda. That is pure projection on their end, and THEIR agenda seems pretty clear to me. Don't fall for it.
You are not automatically entitled to great movies and TV shows.
...
I know. Shocking, right?
I'm old. So I can set the younger generation straight about how this actually works.
Growing up in the 1980's I was surrounded by shitty movies (and don't get me started on the desolation of the TV landscape at the time. Literal embarrassing garbage used to win Emmys because there were almost NO good TV shows). The really popular movies tended to be popular because they were LESS shitty, but they were still shitty. Once in awhile, you'd find a legit amazing movie out there (see The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Little Shop Of Horrors for some movies from the 1980's and 1990's that have still stood the test of time). But mostly, we were fed crap and accepted crap.
On some level it's outrageous the amount of stuff general audiences tolerated back then. But the truth is film buffs had a MUCH healthier perspective about it all. It was generally agreed that most films were terrible, but part of the joy of loving cinema is seeking out those rare masterpieces and falling in love with them.
YouTube Neckbeards, Rotten Tomatoes ratings manipulators, and incel trolls have drummed it into fandom's heads that we deserve perfect movies and TV shows from our franchises at ALL times. They say if we don't get that 100% of the time we ought to be outraged at the people in charge. And the movies invariably are terrible because of their Woke Agenda.
I'm not going to argue whether current films are terrible or not. I seem to have fewer problems with them than most fans, mostly because I don't demand perfection, and also because I think the complaints about Woke agendas are nothing but a huge scam to generate outrage clicks. It's not a real problem and people insisting it is are either lying or crazy.
But the Neckbeards have conditioned people to believe the Treasure Hunt, that for DECADES film buffs held in their hearts as sacred, is something that shouldn't exist. All movies should be perfect all the time.
Not only is that an unreasonable expectation. Not only does it fly in the face of every single movie lover I grew up with and shared my passion with. But it's a majorly unfair burden to hit ANY filmmaker with, whether they are heading a big franchise, or telling a personal passion project.
Newsflash: Personal passion projects aren't ALWAYS going to be amazing. I'd argue few of them are. And people saying they are entitled to great movies are actually discouraging experimentation from fledgling directors who may not make a movie everyone likes, but whose vision is THEIRS.
One of the common complaints I hear is movies need to be innovative and not copy what's come before. And yet the scathing reviews directed at projects that try even something a LITTLE bit different shows that advice is a lie on the part of the Neckbeards. They want films catered specifically to THEM, which is not just an entirely fucked up way to view art. It's a fucked up way to view LIFE. It disturbs me how many people take their complaints seriously. It disturbs me even more creators actually take these complaints seriously, and sometimes even FOLLOW these ill-advised and completely insincere suggestions.
If you don't like a movie, believe it or not, that's okay. The filmmaker who made it is not obligated to please you. That's not what cinema or art is. And despite the Neckbeards trying to rewrite reality and convince us all it is, I know for a fact it isn't, and those assholes are lying to you. Don't believe their bullshit for a second. They are always complaining about films having an agenda. That is pure projection on their end, and THEIR agenda seems pretty clear to me. Don't fall for it.
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