It’s gonna be one of the shows ever.

it's gonna be the most stunning and brave collapse of civilization ever!

@@Sixstringman 💯💯💯😂

@@chasehedges6775 Of all the releases this year, it will certainly be one of them.

Has everything with selling the show and making money. A group of Hollywood execs want to take a male dominated fan base and expand it outside that. If you don’t like it. Leave.

welcome to definition of communism and socialism. ruZZians applied that really well by stealing not just tech, but and history of entire nations (Ukraine and Belarus)

That's true in some way but it makes people that use the public domain just as bad as the woke when in fact that's not true.......

I call it more reverse plagerism. Rather than pass off other people's work as thier own, its passing off thier own work under the name of others. The Rings of Power probably being the best example.

Shorter version - it is much easier to destroy than to build. These scum want to destroy an existing story rather that building their own. Why? Because they have no talent to actually build something that the general populace would enjoy.

Agreed.

Obviously, swords and staffs are just phallus symbols, and magic is just orgasms

I'm gonna say a sexual deviant said that

Replace probably with definitely.

Bingo!

Whoever wrote this has a serious mental issue, and needs help. If all their thoughts are sexual thoughts, then how do they interact with people?

Agreed. Good thing we have decades of great movies to watch. Can you imagine if movies were this from the start? Idiocracy.

This is exactly right. There is a proper standard to be expected when doing storytelling, especially within film. "Bias" doesn't even enter into the equation until much later, and even then bias is not an accurate term, it's really just preference. I don't think there is a such thing as bias when it comes to the art of proper filmmaking and storytelling. One may or may not prefer different types and elements, but they can still appreciate a film and story they don't prefer if it is done properly. The problem we're having for at least ten years now in the modern age is that these films are not even done properly. There is no creativity. The basics of storytelling are trash and predictable. There is a clear agenda that is filled with agitprop, and insults the audience who actually cares and pays attention to quality. Frankly, I think that because they've been putting out garbage for so long it has dumbed many people down to accepting subpar films and stories. There is no bias when something is discernably and objectively bad; it doesn't matter if a dumbed down audience swallowed it.

Consooomers get butthurt when you have standards, because they just want to turn their brain off to escape their miserable lives

@@Oakshield2 Thorin, you are dead.

@@thehoodedvagabum7375 I nicked that name from the third book so long ago back in 2001 when I read them. Hadn't even read the Hobbit yet. Just kinda stuck as my internet monicker. But indeed, Thorin is unfortunately dead.

Remember that these people insist on reinterpreting Sam and Frodo's friendship to be gay, so they see a lot more sex in it than there actually is.

Tolkien was telling his story that did not concentrate on the love interest of characters and hinted at it from a side view. You will find plenty of great movies and stories that have that tone through the ages but you will find many a great story that does have love at the center of a characters story.

@@Good100 Tell the "small hat wearing" people that David and Jonathan were gay. Will probably get you banned. 😁

@@bighands69 Naw it only seemed like true love was at the center, but if you pay close attention its actually _to blaaaaave_ which means to bluff! These writers were actually telling metaphors about card games and people cheated.

Thats an excellent point. Reflects on how everything has to be sexualized to the highest degree that will sell to the masses.

100% ! It feels like these days no one starts writing a story that they've been working on in their head for years before. Anymore, writers are just hired by corporations to churn out content they think will appeal to the mob; stories that are no older than the last paycheck they received.

I cannot say Tom Cruise is crazy because the media that lies tells me he is.

I agree. Can't wait for his last 2 mission impossible movies

Yeah i'm sure Tom Cruise has a ton of opinions he could force onto the movies he's in because he's so rich and famous but he doesn't. That's something to respect.

The Batman and top gun are miles above any movie this year

Seems that criticism just ignites them, negative attention is attention too. So just ignore their garbage. Watch older shows. I just finished Firefly again and there's plenty more golden oldies. I'm not going to spend one second watching Rings of Power. I made the mistake of thinking Prey would be sorta OK but I can blame the Drinker that probably drank too much ;-). I won't care much for what Marvel will be shitting out. Star Wars is somehow harder to completely let go...good trailer for Andor...but considering the travesty that Obi became...not holding my breath!

@@FlorisDVijfde I feel the same as you do! Excepted for Pray, I haven't seen it and never will I recently finished watching Star Trek: The Next Generation + its movies :) it was awesome. I loved every character, the one I loved the least was Dr. Crusher, maybe it's because she doesn't have much flaws... I'm not sure, might just be petty about her BUT amazing "old" show it is !! I love Data

@@mushylog Data is the most popular character. Wesley Crusher the most hated. I liked all TNG characters really. Beverly Crusher's weakness...no you're right I can't think of any meaningful one. Well she spawned Wesley LOLz. I actually liked Wesley but he was a bit too brilliant...

​@@FlorisDVijfde Haha yes Wesley had that weird expression, the way the actor played him was a bit funky but he got better in the later seasons (before he completely disappeared into another plane of existence haha), I didn't think he was as bad as a lot of people say he was (like RedLetterMedia, I love them but they're unfair) Overall it felt like they had a specific idea for Wesley Crusher, then he was forgotten for a bit and later they bring him back, when he returns from the academy to the starship, to have a totally different goal in his life and goes with that nice tall alien; at least they closed his arc in a way :)

@@FlorisDVijfde I'm not trusting the mouse to give me a mature or well-rounded commentary on justified revolution...not for one second. Pour one out for Luna; his show will disappoint it won't be because of his performance, it will be because of the half-baked, noncommittal, big money big agenda storytelling.

When you're served nothing but sh*burgers by a restaurant, having negative bias towards eating there is a normal reaction. It's learned behavior, something these types refuse to do.

Yeah. They're the ones who've made these movies and shows crap. So we're going to automatically assume it's crap first. And be surprised it's not later.

I so very much WANTED to like Kevin Smith's MOTU cartoon. I TRIED. I got all my nostalgia feels wound up and then dove in. It's not MY fault that it sucked.

Exactly, that "negative bias" needs to be formed from somewhere. But as usual they claim no responsibility for creating it themselves just say this bias there because "that is how things always were." Which is factually not true, there were movies in the past that were different from what we have today that were not predictable and diversity was not their main selling point. In fact those rarely need to have a "main selling point" beside being just good films save for maybe a famous actor cast for the role. But that gone too actors rarely have much value or respect anymore.

I love the whole concept of consumers having a “negative bias” towards fictional material that is _intended to entertain_ us. This isn’t a thing. It either entertains us or it doesn’t, and if we don’t like it, that means it failed as entertainment (for whatever reason), and the error isn’t on the customer end . We’re the target; if your arrow misses, the archery is always to blame.

Everyone will have a moment where they are like, “OK, this is going too far.”

Everything the other side do is false so they want you to make concessions to them and tolerate the vandalism of lore. Just as they pretend to care about Tolkien. Their entire world is pretense.

This is simply Based. We don't need to hear that they agree with us. We have enough integrity to form our own opinions on the subject of things we care about. End of discussion 😊

@Matt Schuler - August 13, 2022 - All your comments are spot on. However, like the overall conflict that is going on in our society presently. You have the "activists", and the Entertainment panders. Pandering companies are trying to make money, not fine art, or stay true to the original works that their productions are based on. The fact that they are able to make money, is because there is an audience that doesn't care about "cannon", or the original works. Further, the "activists", SJWs, and the politically polite mob are calling the shots at the moment. True fans, and people that want to be entertained without being subject to.. "the message" like you and I. Will find ourselves sadly unable to watch productions in genres that we are big fans of. Stay well.😊😊

And thats why i love arcane and look forward to season 2, because they didnt hand it off to anyone They used their own, experienced writers. They used the animation company that makes their music videos Those involved had passion about the game and what they were making. And it shows!

I'd only disagree with the sequels being commercial successes. All they had to do is make movies that were just slightly better than the prequels and they would have made 3 to 4 billion each film. They also lost money on merchant icing and future tv/streaming (20, 50, 100 years from now people will still be watching the OT and even the prequels, while the sequels will be long forgotten).

@@qam2024 I think there's no doubt that Star Wars, as a whole, has been a loss for Disney. That being said, TFA took in over 2 billion world wide, and the other 2 made over a billion each. They weren't nearly as successful as they could have been or should have been, but, when viewed in a vacuum, they turned a profit. Now when you compare that to how much Disney spent on just acquiring the film rights, on top of how much the films themselves cost to make, I think, at best, they broke even, which is a terrible outcome no matter how you slice it. All I'm saying is, the movies by themselves made money, which they were always going to based solely on name recognition, and I said that this would be the outcome years before TFA came out.

@@ragnarian Thank you! Actual fans of the series wrote it, had plenty of time to practice and rework their animation and story, and released it only when it was ready. Especially because the "diverse" character are not talking points about how oppressed they are by white men, and all of them are flawed, imperfect individuals who make mistakes and can be wrong. In other words... real people. "It was definitely, I think, a goal for us to show the two sides of everything... so much of the exploration of character was finding the good in the bad, the bad in the good... [and] really feel like you're testing whatever your core values are, your core beliefs... it would never be a thing where "oh clearly this is the good one, or clearly this person's right." It's really the best outcome... and people are like "Jayce sucks!" and someone else will go on and just be like "Wait a minute, here's what he actually did, is that really so bad?" It's all arguable, they're all making decisions that are hard, and I think the best storytelling is when stuff's hard" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6eYbNV6rrvZdKM.html

That use to be me at my high school, but I graduated last year, so I don't have to hear anymore idiotic talking points about, how Black Panther is a good movie. IT'S NOT OKAY!, ITS MEDIOCRE AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF RACIAL TENSION!!!

Well said, the problem is a bunch of fools will end up watching this trash Instead of not giving it any of their attention time or money. All this crap needs to be boycotted and fail on a massive scale for the studios to see this is not how you do it.

@@declanjones8888 according to the critics Black Panther scored better than all the classics a basic action movie wayyyyy over rated.

@@bartsullivan4866 Yes Black Panther is a overrated dumpster fire.

@@declanjones8888 I watch it years after it came out, I honestly didn't get why people thought it was so great. No disrespect to Chadwick boseman but the movie was just okay, I actually think black panther is better in civil war

Agreed. They're putting off the inevitable. At some point, people have to know what they're doing in business. This skin suit nonsense is on its way out -- just going to take a while.

That is exactly why they are going from existing IP to existing IP and never once daring to create something new. Even the wokest among them knows no one wants to watch this garbage..but then they'd have to admit it is garbage to themselves, so rather than do that they stuff it into things people know, love and want to see expanded upon so that they can live vicariously thru that desire to see more of XYZ property and pretend it is a desire to see the woke fanfiction nonsense they spew out.

It's ether they have no confidence in their original creations, they don't have the patience/are too lazy to put in the work to make their creations successful, or a combination of both. How often have we seen the rebuttal to 'make something new' being 'no one liked it'? They forget all the successful franchises/characters didn't start out that way. It took time and effort to become the successes we've come to know.

@@MSinistrari This is correct and seems to demonstrate an even deeper problem: The unholy alliance of the traditional meh-movie studio system in Hollywood, plus, the diversity-hire regardless of merit hiring program. I think the second part is most interesting: It's hard to tell the difference between the lazy, unskilled writer/creator, and the one who is not lazy or unskilled, but is crippled by D*I*E dogma -- they both make the same crap!

That has a limited lifespan, though. Hollywood has already seen a drop-off in people simply doesn't pitch for every movie like they used to, and it's because the 'bait-and-switch' strategy has been overused. You can only use that one time, after which a customer will boycott you for a lifetime.

Man I have been preaching for yeeeeaaars that modern music is garbage, totally in fear of sounding like an old fogey. But people I know do seem to agree with me more as time goes on. I'm not actually as old as Hector Santiago in my profile pic, but closer to 40. I discovered my favorite band ever right in middle of music plummeting into the abyss though. The Midnight is so phenomenal! I'm a rabid rabid fan.

About the music, I can say there is still lots of great music made but you have to do some digging to get to it because if you're looking for gems in the pile of mainstream trash you will barely find anything. There are plenty of indie artists who make good music. Thankfully streaming services made it easier for them to promote it but people still use mainstream to gauge the quality of modern music. I guess it's the same with movies, there are definitely good movies still but they're not mainstream.

@@SpruceCampbell I don’t know man, I think it’s a bit different with music. I mean, at least with movies it’s been a relatively similar industry for the past 50 years, but music has changed a lot. There’s just *so* much music now, and music is far easier to find now, so you see a lot more shit spattered into you face.

@@rey_8834 Mainly I'm talking about what's on the radio and what you hear in the garbage Tik Tok clips you'll find all over the place now. It's mostly generic hip hop junk. And then theres the wanna be folksy sounding banjo-whistling music that's in all the videos that the generic hip hop isn't in- you know exactly what I'm talkin about 😆. But on the radio every single station is just playing pop flavored hip hop. Even the country stations! Tons of songs masquerading as country music and it sounds exactly like the hip hop songs on another channel. But there is a plethora of great music that just doesn't make it into the lime light, as you've said. Agreed 100%. That point really dove-tails into another major issue we're seeing a lot of these days. That is, the sheer volume of content available is so vast that it is rare for two people have a common library of interests anymore. I go to work and try to talk about music and out of the room of 150 people there is just one person I can talk music with on an equal level. For movies there is also just one person who appreciates the ones I do on the level I do. I talk to anyone else in the room about movies or music and they simply have never heard of the new ones I'm interested in. Best bet is talking 90s music and movies with them, but anything new is out of the question.

It is not a phenomenon. "Modern Pop Music" is not actually music and is a collection of basic noises and programs that can trick a person who does not know what music actually is. There is no singing either in "Modern Pop Music" as it tends to be a computer simulated experience. Music and singing have various properties that qualify them as that. Just as running has its own properties and as such being on electric powered footwear with small wheels that can trick a person into thinking somebody is running does not qualify it as running. Just as a CGI man moving across a screen does not mean that man is actually flying through the air. It has nothing to do with any sort of generational bias.

So true, they insult you then expect you to pay money to be lectured to and belittled

TBF, white men did cause movie/film/series to fail, but only because the showrunner or director PRETTY much said "this movie/film/series" isn't for them by telling them if they don't watch something that makes them bigots, and that doesn't even include those showrunners or directors putting in scenes that ACTIVELY demonize their white audience members. Because when you start your movie audience with 50% less potential viewers than it would originally have had, no amount of "success" will make it viable. :/

It's hubris when they see people don't like their art & narcissism that creates said art. Eventually, hopefully, Hollywoke stops raking in hundreds of millions on crap films/TV and producers stop funding these terrible IP's, writers, & directors (Tikatoka Whiny girl...or whatever his name is that gave us Thor the comedian who can channel lightning yet gets knocked out by a damn stungun).

Or they do it to offset the poor product. 'My movie or series failed because *racism/sexism etc*'. No it failed because it was a bad movie with a marketing campaign that was akin to being stuck in a lift with a meth addict who posts a lot on tumblr.

@@CaptainGrimes1 I think its because in their minds they are the wise, benevolent adult who see's all, hears all and naturally know's all while we are the particularly stupid child that's standing outside looking up at the rain and wondering why we're getting wet. So they must tell us the correct way to be and they do it like an adult lecturing a child and are then suprrised that adults don't like that because they can't be wrong, they know all after all.

Well, that’s good to know.

Well, you know, radical liberalism!

That is the crux of it. People can no longer be individuals but must belong to the assortment of arbitrary 'groups'.

It's a collectivist mindset

It's what I like about a lot of the media reviewers in this kind of group that exists. Drinker is more balanced between criticizing "The Message" and quality. Az and Gary focus more on the Message. Mauler, Fringy, and a lot of EFAP focuse mainly on the material.

@@angrynapolean3820 Not the reviewer we wanted the reviewer we deserved.

Legendary name

@@Infernal460 "And so we'll hunt him... because he can take it."

Stating that men do not want to watch the WNBA type shows is not biased it’s just saying men have a preference. They don’t want to watch women trying to be men. Pretty basic.

This is a really good point and I've wondered the same thing. The whole situation has gotten so insane, would people now just knee-jerk react, regardless if (insert protected demographic here) character was well written/acted?

I would say no sexuality involved but being Alien, with that vagina-mouthed-raping-spider, fallus-headed-creature and that facial-killer-android who uses a porn magazine to try to kill Ripley. However I think she is one of the best leading female characters I've seen. One of the reasons is she fills the role in the ship, so she is tough because she must. She was going to let three members of the ship die for the sake of the rest - I would like to see characters today (not only female) who must enforce that kind of rules and still maintain that cold-heades attitude.

Well, for one thing, a movie like Alien wouldn't come out today, so at least there's that. Why? Because as we've already seen the last couple of years, very few Hollywood writers can write good female characters in 2022, much less ones we can relate to, because they create characters based on articles written, not actual people you're likely to encounter any day of the week. Also, if marketing has shown us anything, it's that the marketers are clueless as to what the audience want, and their inability to see how they pollute the waters with their nonsense is only one part of a bigger problem. And to be brutally honest, the biggest plus for the Prey movie is that we finally got a Predator that acted the part, in a visually pleasing movie that didn't ooze CGI from every pore. Take that out, and see if you still like the basic story setup.

Except Weaver doesn't become the lead until Dallas dies. It was quite the twist at the time, but it worked because the movie was that damn good.

I read somewhere that there were no particular male/female roles in mind when the script was written. Those didn't come until later drafts/casting. If so, an interesting case of writing blind and letting characters form through the whole process.

@MaGuffintop I’m a pervert BUT i like character development and story at the forefront of all forms of entertainment that isn’t wonder adult films lol. My point is, not all perverts lack standards

@MaGuffintop But there is nothing wrong with being a pervert as long as it’s kept to yourself.

Or the stories I got told growing up like . . . story of the spider, the fly and fire, very vague memories of childhood tales here but . . . A king learns that there is fire in a pit in the ground which can keep his castle cold so he makes a proclamation anyone who retrieves it shall eat at his table. Various animals try and fail with explanations of things like black feathers on a bird from being burnt. Eventually the spider uses her web to go down and retrieve the fire but is so exhausted she goes to sleep when she gets out of the pit. Fly comes along and steals the fire so the king grants it his eight fold seal (flys eyes) and permision to eat of any food from any table in his kingdom. Spider comes along and reveals flys duplicity so the king since he can't revoke his seal instead grants spider permision for her and her descendants to eat fly and fly's descendants as punishment. Or the tale I think Finnish? who's name I can't remember about a village where whenever one becomes too old to work you taken into the woods and left for the wolves. A father is too busy working to take care of his daughter so he leaves her in the care of his father while everyone in the village mutters about how foolish he is and how he'll regret not feeding his elderly father to the wolves. Naturally a harsh winter comes and food runs low so the father gets his father, puts him on a sled and sets off into the woods. The daughter seeing this cries and begs him to spare the grandfather who raised her. So he relents and brings him back. Time passes, winter continues and food runs out. Father gets ready to despair when grandfather points out that the houses roof is straw and if they beat it they can get grain from it. Father does so and they have food till spring and from then on the village stopped feeding their elderly to the wolves and instead benefited from their wisdom. then there are the ones that are technically about sex I suppose like the king who takes a woman as his bride and she becomes pregnant. When she gives birth his mother who hates her steals the children and has them taken out into the hills to die while replacing them with a couple of pups that she claims are his wifes children. King is enraged that his wife gave birth to dogs and sends her to live and raise them in the stables. Years later children return, reveal the truth and deal justice before raising their mother up.

Little Red Riding Hood has had puberty and menstruation interpretations attached to it, but it's also had the interpretation of the red hood being a symbol of the French Revolution. Like any piece of classic literature, it's going to have people looking at it in different ways.

Indeed. Just tell a good story. That is all that really matters. honestly. It’s a shame we’ve lost sight of That

Ex Machina was a great movie too. That is how you actually subvert expectations in a meaningful way.

I prefer MI: Rogue Nation over Fallout, because more Ilsa is better than less 🙂

@@GreyDeathVaccine Rogue Nation is awesome.

@@GreyDeathVaccine is Rogue Nation the one where Tom Cruise scales the world's tallest building with magnetic suction cups on his hands?

I remember those!

I think that rubbish was written by Cassandra Clare, a talentless Harry Potter super-fan who wrote equally depraved and inane HP fanfic. Then she signed with a publishing house and wrote a young adult series called the Mortal Instruments, a mashup of Percy Jackson and Twilight that somehow managed to be worse than both of those. I could actually see the RoP writers consulting her as some kind of Tolkien expert 😂

@@talithakoum3922 She was also a serial plagarizer.She stole lines and plot points from TV shows,movies and even other fanfics.

If you look at the great films in the last decade that would amount to one year of film making in the 1990s. People would have went to the theater every weekend in the 1990s and seen a fantastic film every couple of weeks with good films in between that and the odd bit of trash. The problem today is that the theater industry is in decline as is the studios. We have a perfect storm that amounts to a very poor output. And as the budget of films has increased it has further limited the amount of quality that is seen.

@@bighands69 look at Top Gun Maverick. I'm not saying it's bad but it didn't beat titanic and star wars box office numbers because it was great it beat them because it had no competition. A good movie standing alone will beat what a great movie can do when the fields packed

While, yes, it’s true that the audiences sentiment doesn’t affect the art form (because how could it?), it’s this predisposition towards cynicism that is destroying the audience’s ability to enjoy ANYTHING. These Red Pill KZfaqrs will come out with a cynical opinion on anything and everything because, let’s be honest here, they make money off of it. They pump out hot take video after hot take video in order to keep engagement and views up while taking in thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, their vitriol is seeping into the minds of impressionable young men and- again, let’s be honest here- insecure middle-aged men who are afraid of a changing world that doesn’t have much room for them. This becomes a cult; a cult of angry guys who won’t stop shouting “Boooooooo!” every time someone tries to enjoy something.

@@eyespy3001 1. You are essentially blaming these KZfaqrs for reacting to a problem that many have noticed and called out but with less eloquence and attention drawn towards them. What you fail to account for is that many others feel the same way and you can see it not only online but reflected in declining box office numbers and streaming viewership. 2. The red pill community is a specific community that none of them are affiliated with. What a random yet oddly specific and revealing accusation.

@@eyespy3001 "These Red Pill KZfaqrs will come out with a cynical opinion on anything and everything because, let’s be honest here, they make money off of it. They pump out hot take video after hot take video in order to keep engagement and views up while taking in thousands of dollars." No, they don't. They're free to publish ANY video they'd like because it's their channels. YOU have the freedom to NOT watch those videos if you don't like them. How the hell are they making money off subjects that lead to practical instant demonetization? If they were making "thousands" off it, they wouldn't have to advertise products like door-to-door salesmen. Present your proof, other wise it's just your own toxic hot take misrepresenting other people for whatever reason you choose to justify it. "Meanwhile, their vitriol is seeping into the minds of impressionable young men and- again, let’s be honest here- insecure middle-aged men who are afraid of a changing world that doesn’t have much room for them. This becomes a cult; a cult of angry guys who won’t stop shouting “Boooooooo!” every time someone tries to enjoy something." That's GOD-TIER projection on your part. Their "vitriol" is their own personal opinion, in very much the same way that EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLATFORM gives their own opinions about anything. Nobody is standing in anybody's way to enjoy ANYTHING, no matter how terrible something is. There is, however, a cult of middle-aged men and young people who think that anything that isn't expressly positive is harmful to society because you either comply with what they want or you should be destroyed. Those are pretty sheltered (and usually rich) individuals who have never lived in the real world before. :/

And thanks to you I finally have the words. It's not bias, it's pattern recognition!

Clever metaphor!

Exactly the point i was about to make. When people come out and tell you right in your face, that "this movie is not for you", there is little space for assumption.

@@spacemonkeyentertainment6413 and yet when it fails they blame you for it. "This film is not for men." film fails and has multiple female fans unhappy with it "this film failed because men can't handle strong women."

She uses those exact words over and over and over in interviews, like she's reading off a script.

Not really the first dwarf of colour. Tony Cox was in Willow as well as other films.

that thing pushing its own agenda and identity on the character it's attempting to portray, as soon as it starts its verbal manifesto it drives me to incandescent white hot rage. all l hear is ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME..

Can I have a link to the cringe, don't send it to me yet, gotta put the hazmat suit on.

She almost clings to it. It feels like a talking point and what is worse, it is uninformed and inaccurate.

You didn't get a feeling of "female empowerment" from Arcane?

@@flameshana9 No. Arcane is well writen that also includes female characters.

My only problem with the show was that the relationship of lesbian chick with the police chick was a bit rushed for my taste.

Sharpe is awesome! =^[.]^=

Absoooolutelyyyy. And when I say I too have skipped Marvel Phase 4, I mean the only clips I have seen of Marvel Phase 4 are from Drinker and Red Letter Media reviews.

Don't forget to judge for yourself occasionally. The five's business model relies on you being subservient to their gatekeeping.

To be fair i thought Spider-Man was along the same lines as every other marvel film churned out lately

I thought No Way Home was overrated. I think the nostalgia baited a lot of people.

Average at best, wuxia Isekai most of the time

Pretty much. We are so starved for a great movie anymore that a decently microwaved hotpocket of a movie will get everyone talking about how much it didn't suck. Actually great films are very few and far between. We really are just conditioned to be happy when a movie isn't ridiculously woke these days.

@@SpruceCampbell 💯

This movie is a evidence that we regressed in the way we produce and think media.

It's scored higher because it's more scores. Not necessarily higher. Like how Biden has the most votes in US history. Because there are more people now then decades a decades before.

wow, the amount of bigotry in your comment ick and yikes. you need to do better.

Because gay people can only really thrive in an environment in an extremely safe, affluent environment.

@@jhonviel7381 no he is correct

@@jhonviel7381 what bigotry? Lol stop projecting bigot. Do better clown.

@@mrcliff3709 I think he's being sarcastic. lol

Well, there isn't anything wrong with writing to service a certain group or community, every genre does that, to a degree, but it's wrong to then claim it's for everyone and then get annoyed, when people whom it's clearly not written for, calls out on it.

@@MrAstrojensen True. If you're writing for a limited audience, don't assume the general public is going to hop on board and get angry when they don't.

I do the same! I try to find films and shows I missed from the 60's 70's 80's and 90's! They are more entertaining than what we have now!

@@HindiRapGuru is so much better, than getting dissapointed and funding the disappointment in the same way. Enjoy your movie times!

Don't forget Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Bridge over River Kwai, the Great Escape!

Adapting an IP like Sandman should be all about trippy visuals and pushing the limits of what is thought possible in terms of visual story telling.

I mean death is black so that told me all I needed to know.

I was just thinking that diner was in such an area.. Because the other episodes didn't have the message at all times

@@soulrebelstudios3185 What would you think if death was white ?

Freud would be wrong about a lot of these people. The gay market for sex has the average gay person with a body count in the HUNDREDS.

Indeed. We are so used to the mediocre and average content

You're right. Knowing modern Hollywood I was actually not exited to see Maverick, assuming it would probably be crap like everything else. So I was completely surprised when it wasn't, which is just sad.

@Private Custard I have to disagree with you about Top Gun Maverick. While far from being in a 'perfect' film, it was quite well done. The sense of realism from the practical application of mostly real aircraft, settings, and ships was refreshing and immersive. The story and factors at play probably rival the original film, and actually have quite a lot of interesting undertones. Where in the Top Gun the story is about Maverick at war with himself, particularly his own ego, the second film is about an older Maverick coming to terms with his past. Outside the jets and fast action, there is a lot going on under the surface. Maverick can see the end of the line; his friends are passing, he has no wife or children, his career (which defined him) is coming to an end, and he's haunted by his past. To top it off, Goose's son (who is the closest thing he has to family) despises him. This is really Maverick's last hurrah, his last ride into the breach, and the film knows it. There are a lot of undertones and multi-meaning lines in this movie that I think a lot of people are missing. I would give it a solid 8.5.

I've been revisiting some "mediocre" films from the early/mid 00s lately, and with how standards have plummeted lately, they come out looking better than I remembered.

Yeah whenever people say a new movie is “amazing and the best movie to come out in a long time!” Usually translates into my mind “this movie is average & is good in comparison to all the shit” it makes me sad that mid movies are becoming considered good, the fact prey has a higher rotten tomatoes review than the original predator tells you everything.

Because these braindead hacks think so

Agreed. Give me a good show with characters.

I hate the phrase "taking things too seriously." I go to see movies to be immersed in a world, not have characters pander to the audience every minute with cheap jokes. A good exception is Deadpool who can break the fourth wall by design. I also loved The Naked Gun because Leslie Nielsen took the world he inhabited seriously even though the movie was one of the greatest comedy.

@@inazuma3gou The best comedy is situational comedy because it takes some creativity. Marvel movies USED to have that at the start, that's what made the original Iron Man great. But as with everything it goes too far.

An the irony is there are no good comedies today. Quick, name the best comedies that were made this century. Sure there were a few early on like Dodgeball, Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland that come to mind but nothing from the last decade.

@@qam2024 That's kind of my point, I love comedy, but I hate comedy movies as there's no thought in them. I'd class Shaun of the Dead as black comedy as there's a lot more going on than just a few jokes. It's not in the same league as The Hangover. There have been some good comedies though, I personally like Zoolander and Meet the Parents.

It shocked me to find out that some people hated The Batman because "it wasn't funny". Jesus lads, how about you judge the film for what it is and not for what you wanted it to be??

It's also the fact that they are very soap opera-ish and simply stating or showing a character is gay or lesbian means nothing in most modern stories because it doesn't form any kind of important plot point, inform any relationship or is relevant to the story being told. If a gay/lesbian/trans character isn't an organic part of a story (and there are stories where it totally is), it's gonna feel artificially added on as an afterthought and people will rightly call it out as such. If anything, adding a gay or lesbian character (or swapping straight characters to gay/lesbian ones) serves as much purpose as adding a prop in the background that most people miss because it has no relevance to the story, and one can clearly see this in how directors simply add a same-sex kiss into their productions and that is about as much representation as you're likely to get in a modern story. Example: the kiss in the Rise of Skywalker, which serves NO purpose because we LITERALLY don't know who the couple is, or why we should care that they reunite after the big, disastrous battle that pretty much killed the original Rebel strike force (how did that lady survive then?), because the couple was never built up as anyone that we should care about (like Han and Leia was) in that universe. The director and his team WANTED to be progressive, and had the OPPORTUNITY to be so, and failed terribly at both instances. That's not my opinion, that's LITERALLY how the movie was set up to be. :/

@@sigmacademy Romance can add something to lose and inform a characters decision making. Modern shows/movies just don't use that to their advantage and it's fucking stupid.

Best done love story I've ever experienced (meaning books, shows, movies and videogames included!) was G Gundam, Domon Kasshu and Rain Mikamura. Those writers EARNED that cheesy ending blast leaving a heart shaped hole.

There's also a fair number of suppression going on as well. Good projects are DELIBERATELY being blocked or pushed to the fringe because of who their creatives are and based on their personal politics. It's not that the good things are getting fewer, it's that the good things are being buried (or effectively subverted/sabotaged) and the "subverted" projects are being hugely and unfairly AMPLIFIED. :/

Unfortunately the Legend of King Arthur was dragged into the modern world by Guy Ritchie. There are no words!!!

@@meganhuggins7494 You mean the rapid-firing bows wasn't the biggest issue in that movie? :P Edit. Sorry I mean't Robin Hood. Which is still kinda circling the same pool. :P Speaking of which, whatever happened to the female mage? She just kinda moved off to the side of the story? :/

Lenny Henry is still looking for that girl from Reading, to jerk his flacid member back to life in the modern world.

I love the movie! I was soooo positively surprised by the plot, acting amd execution. Would love to see a sequel.

It kind of wandered, and the guy ends back up at his commune with his underdeveloped family-by-choice. It's still a good time, but not particularly memorable

@@MVPMVE He didn't end up back at his commune. He went back and got his friends to take to where Clyde and Minnow went. You're trying to sound smart but it is clear your not.

@@reesebn38 Nothing I said was wrong. He _did_ return to his family, and they _were_ underdeveloped. Instead of insulting a random stranger because of a single detail that doesn't invalidate anything I said, how about you log off the internet and go see some family or friends yourself. They might help your mood.

They often hire showrunners who have either no interest or feel for the genre and oftentimes a desire to make a statement, alongside an open contempt for the source material as well. It happens too often to be a coincidence.

That's the great myth, of course. Diversity can be a benefit, but should not be a goal.

I´m still waiting for that Harfoot that robbed me 5 bucks outside Walmart this morning.

You probably won't. I've been asking this question for years now. Add to it, why is inclusion inherently good? And if not, when is it bad? Don't even get me started on 'equity'...

I don´t think diversity is bad. There´s a shit ton of diversity in Arda. The problem is when you want that diversity to fit into the "real world" in a forced way.

Diversity is for people who need to live through fiction.

The Hobbit was screwed by the executives way more than Jackson, he was basically making it up as they went because of the time crunch and all the demands

The sheer arrogance that Amazon and it's Bad Robot writer's have shown towards Tolkien is biblical. They clearly hate what his themes are. I view this entire enterprise as a demonic attack against strong Christian morals.

To drive the point home, Tolkien created several languages as the bedrock and the world of Middle Earth was the topsoil. Next thing we'll hear is the 2 dummies telling us, "We didn't want to dishonor Tolkien but we had to update his language to fit with modern ideas, so now the elves speak Spanish, the dwarves speak French, and mankind speaks like us"...pure idiocy is the new status quo

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

This is so true. Especially with Disney and their mediocre D+ Star Wars series

Yep. If I hand in 11 papers for a class that get an F and then one that got an A+, that would mean _I failed the class._

I think after 2015 ended, we just kept getting more and more awful films and it hasn’t stopped since. 2016-2022 has been a Mediocre decade.

The few movies that people are naming tends to be over a period of a decade but you have to point out that level of output would have been the norm in a single year of film in the 1990s and that the film the person is naming would be considered an average film of that era. Blade Runner 2049 for example is good but nowhere near as good as the original nor would it have stood out in that era.

@@bighands69 Exactly right. The 80s and 90s were the inverse where the norm was for a movie to be amazing and we can list the terrible flops as noteworthy exceptions.

@@SpruceCampbell The early to mid 2000s and early 2010s were good years for films. After that…

These "Pre-Hobbits" look dirty and smelly. In a medieval society, this useless folks would be chased away by the Men as well as the Elfs.

Technically, she DID actually killed the Europeans the Predator didn't, so you are correct in that regard. She also practically served the leader on a silver platter to the Predator, as bait for her hunt, essentially. :/

“Why does it look like Vegas?!”