My favorite thing about the routine uproar around old directors sniping at superhero movies is that, in context, it’s always a throwaway dig, because they just don’t give a shit. It’s not malicious or targeted. It’s just like “oh, those? Nah fuck em.”
Ridley Scott on superhero movies: “Their scripts are not any fucking good. Why don’t [they] have better stories? They’re mostly saved by special effects.”
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A lot of people think I mean a Batman Beyond movie but really I just think Annette Benning as a genderbent Gordon and Oscar Isaac as Bruce Wayne would have great onscreen chemistry.
Every joke in this thread is lazy and fails to even prey on the very recognizable and obvious tics in Snyder’s style for their attempts, but this tweet in particular is literally the modus operandi of every existing MCU film.
Get off the streets.
Don't mob senators.
Don't mob people eating dinner.
Don't scream hysterically at people.
Don't dox anyone.
Don't threaten anyone.
Don't commit violence.
Leave the Portland Courthouse alone.
Just go home.
And vote.
logan paul being openly transphobic the weekend he's gotta share a locker room with punk feels like the universe testing if phil's choking days are truly behind him
This is like, one question in a long interview. It’s cliche at this point. But a lot of these cats are old as hell and they don’t care about this shit! It’s ok not to give a fuck about superheroes!
The QTs on this are just people implying Scott is racist and talking about Falcon & The Winter Soldier like it’s a Zora Neale Hurston novel. I’m genuinely in awe of the PR coup Disney has pulled off making the MCU critique proof via its cynical deployment of identity politics.
What's amusing about the headlines exclaiming that Anthony Mackie is playing Captain America in CAPTAIN AMERICA 4 is that ENDGAME ended with most folks assuming he was about to assume the mantle and then FALCON & THE WINTER SOLDIER wasted five hours to get to that same point.
Super fucking creepy to see this kind of the rhetoric passed around like it's cool.
There's a big difference between "someone who used to tweet homophobia and racism" and "someone who thinks Castle was a mediocre show."
WWE invests a ton of money into the performance center.
Y’all: They’re just going to train cookie cutter wrestlers all taught one specific style. They should send them on foreign excursions.
WWE apparently sending someone from NXT to AJPW.
Y’all: NO. NOT LIKE THAT. 😤
I sincerely question the mindset that looks at that Robert Pattinson interview where he (clearly cheekily) is talking about how absurd it is for actors to get ripped for these roles and gets angry that he’s not bending over backwards to end up on the cover of a health magazine.
I watched the first 4 episodes of She-Hulk and felt like if I made a video about it, I’d just be ranting & nitpicking for 20 minutes I’m really trying to Not make content like that unless profoundly compelled to.
She-Hulk doesn’t deserve that level of vitriol. But it DOES suck.
Jericho said in an interview he was gonna make Page look like a bigger star than the WWE has made in the last six months.
That wasn’t better than Roman/Murphy.
Every time I see someone getting angry that Robert Pattinson isn’t working out hard enough in quarantine to play Batman, a fictional character, in The Batman, a fucking movie, I want to headbutt them.
I really want to see Once Upon A Time In Hollywood but now I'm wishing Netflix had bought it so they could just dump it online and I could see it without six months of Tarantino discourse. That would be great.
I fucking hate seeing articles and videos with theories about how various characters can be introduced into the MCU. Just saw one about how they could introduce Blade as if you can’t just open the fuckin movie with him stabbing a vampire and call it a day.
I just want this dude to make a good movie. Lots of shitty comic book adaptations star ripped and shredded actors. It’s just not an important metric. Whenever someone does the superhero body transformation, you see it more in interviews and articles than the finished product.
Just wanna say that if Tom Hardy continued voicing the symbiote in Venom but brought Tim Robinson in to play Eddie Brock it would be the single most important movie of the modern era. I will not be taking questions at this time.
I feel like Zdarsky's recent Daredevil work proves this kind of comic COULD work, but the recent spate of people on Twitter clamoring for this kind of Batman comic are not people who read Batman comics and likely woudn't start just because this became canon.
I want to write a Batman comic where Bruce Wayne goes to therapy, and then uses all his riches to invest in better city infrastructure and public safety in Gotham. And forces a minimum wage increase across the DC Universe.
The exact moment I had to cut this immensely smug video off.
I've long been a fan of Lindsay's videos, but the "missing the point" energy wafting off of this FEATURE LENGTH video essay masquerading as an apology or explanation to a pretty simple controversy is beyond grating.
In today's pop cultural economy, how many aspiring screenwriters start out as critics?
Not hiring a talented writer because they had constructive criticism of a movie your friend wrote is cartoonishly pathetic behavior.
I acknowledge that movie stars get paid exorbitant amounts of money precisely so they can get shredded to play superheroes, sure, but realistically speaking, how many shirtless scenes is he gonna film? Michael Keaton wasn’t shredded. Who fucking cares?
AND NOT FOR THE BETTER!!! Movie Discourse has become a perverted amalgamation of pop music stan culture, fandom driven team sports mentality, and an insistence on needing to be a part of a largely online conversation for people poisoned by the exhaustion of digital living.
There was a thread going around about Avatar and cultural impact that was getting a lot of “THIS!!!” reinforcement about how just because a movie makes a lot of money that isn’t a substitute for “cultural impact” if it’s not being quoted or memed or referenced or parodied, etc.
I love Richard, and he's right that fundamentally disagreeing with a format rooted in sequential storytelling is a silly thing to lob at the MCU, BUT!!
What these movies are devolving into would be the comics equivalent of a monthly ongoing that is ALWAYS tying into a crossover.
Do the weirdo contingent of AEW fans realize that if your response to the promotion not being diverse enough is that they shouldn’t focus on race over talent…you’re essentially saying that currently, in the pro wrestling landscape, all the black talent available are inferior?
10+ years working in theatrical exhibition has taught me that one thing the customer always has is the motherfucking audacity.
My general rule of thumb is if the first half hour they come out like “nah” I’ll give them their money back but if you made it to credits? No.
I can’t take anymore opinions from people who insist Scorsese only made mob movies, or that Tarantino is wrong about the current marketplace because EEAAO was good, or judging lapsed movie stars for being mad that they can’t get cape-less movies made.
This is not my dream.
This was probably Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan’s dream when they started writing Westworld, and anyone else whose goal is a subreddit about their story.
I want people to be emotionally affected by stories I tell, not moved to dramaturgical algebra.
Its a screenwriters DREAAAAM to have 230k+ people theorizing about their work for 12 fucking hours. Yall... this is a great thing. This is what happens when good shit is produced
Big thank you to everyone at
@baltbeat
for giving me a space to explain how fucking doomed and pointless the MCU Blade experiment is and how rad the original film remains.
"...not in teary-eyed handwringing at the evil that men do and the systemic structures of power that enable them to do so, but in the darkly comic pop art of subverting the historical costume drama into a sort of medieval Monday Night Raw."
My latest:
I don’t know how to *fix* this problem but it’s wild to me how unless you make loving movies your identity like a lot of us, the average person has no fucking idea what movies are coming out, ever.
Two guys driven to grotesque savagery in their desperation beaten by one man in his prime who has proven to be a more effective sociopath than either challenger. Pretty perfecting ending to me.
Spoiler culture is a fucking disease and this weird fealty to the sanctity of superhero movies is so tiresome. People really talk about having a movie spoiled for them like it was a drive by that left their family leaking.
I really feel this is an instance of bad timing and subject matter for the marketplace. The Last Duel rocks, but I run a theater aimed at the audience who loves shit like this and pretty much every movie we program for discerning adults is failing, Disney or not.
Disney threw the last Terrence Malick film directly into the trash, and they’re doing the same thing with Ridley Scott. Keep an eye out to see how they treat French Dispatch. All former Fox Searchlight movies. Eradicating traces of the old regime.
I’m not just defending Avatar, a movie I really liked, but rather trying to articulate that this obsession with quantifying new movies based on whether or not they have a rabid fandom or fan-fiction or all these other metrics we used to collectively mock from Tumblr MIGHT BE BAD.
The one about “1960s continuity” when they mean “history” reminds me how deep dedication to fandom can warp minds.
In what way is the structure of this movie a fetch quest?
Love me some Sam Elliott but this roughly the equivalent of asking “what does Ang Lee know about the American west?” after a serious misreading of Brokeback Mountain.
“What the fuck does this woman — she’s a brilliant director by the way, I love her work, previous work — but what the fuck does this woman from down there, New Zealand, know about the American west?" Sam Elliott slams "Power of the Dog:"
I only watched this show because
@OGJOHNNY5
made me 😤
#Them
is the worst show, or really any kind of filmed media, I’ve experienced in quite some time.
I cannot fathom a good reason for it to exist.
The Problem With Them: Covenant...
My spoiler-free review of
#SpiderManNoWayHome
, a movie I enjoyed but one I cannot pretend is more than a hollow exercise in fan service. It’s just not sustainable or nourishing.
I was up til 3am with this, pls share
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Movie Review)
If Sony really doesn’t reach a deal with Disney and we get a Spidey movie from the same creative team (sans Feige) that follows up on Far From Home’s ending? That is a major fucking win. They set up a status quo that would be a lot more interesting outside of the MCU.
Desperately wanna see Pete Buttigieg and Beto O'Rourke debate, if only because it'll look like one of those old ROH matches where every sequence is vanilla chain wrestling punctuated by a double dropkick spot and Pavlovian applause from fans.
Has anyone RTing this agreeably seen the movie?
The bit about the female imagination in the opening is about the fact that the movie follows a group of illiterate women having a nuanced debate about their future with the language of a philosophy 101 course.
Feminist utopia?
Watching WOMEN TALKING, the film allegory of the feminist movement, I was struck at how in the film, as in real life, no women of color were included. The film stated it was a true story in “the female imagination”. Even in the feminist utopia, women of color aren’t considered.
You can’t convince me
#WestSideStory
wouldn’t be better if an angry fan campaign hadn’t led to the leading man being replaced by the updated CGI version of Sonic The Hedgehog.
This is me reviewing
#killersoftheflowermoon
to the best of my ability without the crucial second and third watches I feel I desperately need. Less rambling and long than any of my videos in ages!
I expect RTs. Like…90 of them, pls and thank u. 🙏🏽
"No two characters in House of Gucci speak as if they're from the same country, much less the same realm of being, with their wildly divergent interpretations of the Italian accent artfully beating Spider-Man: No Way Home to the multiversal punch..." - Me
I’m just beyond sick of seeing people
who do not engage the work with good faith
who weaponize more thoughtful critique in a dullard’s way of proving their dislike of a movie they won’t watch is somehow praxis
who call people liking a popular movie contrarian.
I’m over it
I've officially reached my limit with this brand of wrestling. I won't pretend it's not physically impressive but it's not creative and it is essentially meaningless.
Even the "best" version of this is just repeating the same sequences.
I was in the bathroom at work and saw a TikTok about Marvel movie discourse that made me so mad I felt like…physical rage. So I feel like I need to just leave online alone. I can’t take the culture war sore winners anymore.
The Baltimore Beat is back today and I have the honor of being their new film critic, so expect to see more of me over there every couple of weeks.
Here’s me talking more about Nope, a movie I’m genuinely bummed hasn’t been a bigger deal to most folks.
🎥NEW VIDEO🎥
I got sick of seeing the same three or four depressing ass movies when every streaming platform wanted to “uplift black voices” so I made a video about it.
Why I Hated Those Juneteenth Movie Playlists
Genuinely like all of Carnahan's movies but that tired ass "critics shut up until you make one" bullshit needs to die.
People loved and respected Ebert for years and the one time he wrote a movie it was just about tiddies. Shut the fuck up.
Today marks five years I’ve been sober from drinking alcohol. I thought this was a pretty appropriate movie to review for the occasion.
Thank you in advance for indulging what is a review, yes, but also something personal.
Another Round (Movie Review)
I'm back at
@baltbeat
this week with a look at The Whale, a movie I wholesale despised. Major thanks to
@halleteri
for helping me shape this into something remotely measured and not the type of raging screed it otherwise could have been.
Saw Bad Boys 4 with an all Black crowd last night. Truly the moviegoing equivalent to watching a WWE show in a foreign stadium. As such, I am not sure how objective my thoughts are.
My review for
@looper
:
I’m of the mind all theatrical exhibition should just be open caption by default. Genuinely think the benefits for the hearing impaired, who otherwise have to fiddle with weird captioning devices, outweigh the detriment for people who hate seeing words at the bottom of a frame.
The movie theater chain AMC will offer open captions, which are displayed on screen in a way similar to subtitles, at 240 locations in the U.S.
The move was praised by advocates for the deaf and the hard of hearing, who have long sought better captioning.
I don't understand the negative reaction from wrestling fans over the John Oliver video.
The Roman bit is bad & unfunny but it doesn't invalidate everything else the video was about.
Why do you feel the need to defend a billionaire who wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire?
I agree with Vyce that a fair amount of lazy MCU criticism on this app amounts to repetitive and hollow word salad BUT no matter how many moments in this series worked for me, none of them overpower the ridiculous ending message of "stop rioting and talk to your representatives!"
MCU keep doing Black women dirty and that needs to be interrogated and changed for sure. As far as Falcon & Winter Soldier goes, beyond that point I have a hard time with the criticisms because it all sounds like this. Go outside
People shitting on Armie Hammer for not publicly disowning his own mother when their anger is fueled by even the abstract notion they should question their undying devotion to the Marvel machine gotta chill, man.
Water is good for you and before you know it, there’ll be insane scarcity and we’ll all be wearing spikes and leather fighting in the desert for a taste of it, so please keep your thinkpieces about owning a hydroflask to your fucking self.
We have known of Chadwick Boseman’s passing for less than an hour and motherfuckers are already trying to turn his death into a Rock The Vote commercial. Seal your fucking lips shut with staples.
My latest for
@looper
, a movie I’ve seen some craven love for here on Twitter dot com that didn’t really do it for me.
To be clear, there is no reason for a Cruella De Vil origin story to be 140 minutes.
It’s a movie about a closed off colony where women and girls are raped by the men and told the devil did it! There are valid critiques of the movie to be made but claiming it’s a feminist utopia BIPOC actresses are being excluded from is WILD!!!!!!!!
People living in elective online silos might be the biggest problem. I don’t watch or like Yellowstone or NCIS or Young Sheldon or LOTS OF THINGS but I don’t take me and my friends not sharing gifs about them to mean they’re irrelevant.
I think the reason the people who love the MCU don't feel bothered by this is because they're themselves not even thinking about the new movies AS movies. They're just save points on a winding map of nothing but fandom.
Also great message from
#FalconAndWinterSoldierFinale
; you can champion a cause without being a complete radical extremist. There IS room for conversation with opposing viewpoints. Probably something 98% of Twitter needs to hear 🤷🏻♂️
If you watch Goodfellas/Casino/The Irishman back to back, Joe Pesci’s performative arc is not dissimilar to Nick Frost’s throughout the Cornetto trilogy.
If Black Panther is the sole title in this year's Best Picture field that stands out to you as an unreconcilable anomaly, ask yourself why. Really question what you consider "Oscar quality" to be and why.
That pull-quote going viral from Jessica Gao about them abandoning the focus on a long-form case for what is ostensibly a courtroom show because of the writer's room's inability to pen compelling trial scenes really bothered me.