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This comment reminds me a lot of The Critical Drinker on YouTube. Sometimes a bit biting, but often accurate in analyzing what went wrong in some movie's plot.

This comment reminds me a lot of The Critical Drinker on YouTube. Sometimes a bit biting, but often accurate in analyzing what went wrong in some movie's plot. One of the most egregious and frequent is having characters who basically have zero or backsliding character arcs.

throwaway14356 4y ago
He ruined movies and series for me. I now keep seeing horrific mistakes. like: The team of heroes has 1 character without a back story so he was designed to die.
- kinghtown 4y ago
  His zone is mainstream hollywood action movies, for every brilliant action movie that gets it you’ll have like 100 BS ones. I think what really annoys me about the critical drinker, and others like him on youtube, is that his essays focus on complaining about the most common denominator mainstream entertainment with very little awareness of art house films or international cinema. It seems that all he wants are cooler action movies.. which, yeah me too for sure but the criterion collection/channel is a thing as well. I’m not feeling his complaining in general. He’d be easier to love if he would champion some cool underground films like Film Comment or whatever will.
hnhg 4y ago
He makes some decent points but I can't watch his content without cringing at the persona he makes use of. I find it very painful, but I guess it has an audience. I can also imagine people saying the same thing about redlettermedia, which I do enjoy.
kinghtown 4y ago
He likes to do alt right click bait and I mainly ignore him these days.. like I would tag him as a leftie and I mainly agree with him in terms of how obnoxious and cynical corpo-hollywood is in its execution of inclusion and diversity (to be clear: I want more diversity in entertainment) but he does play it up quite a bit and exaggerates “the message” thing he pushes. Months ago, I watched a ten minute video/rant on Loki where he complained about forced inclusion and gender politics ruining the show.. though I finally saw the show this week and I found it to be very good and no where near as annoying as he made it out to be. He’s part of an alt right baiting group of youtubers like Nerdroitic who all flirt with this notion of white culture being under siege. Like I don’t believe any of these guys swing that way (as in MAGA) but they like the views on their channels.
- newsclues 4y ago
  It seems like these creators and others like Tim pool, have found a sizeable niche audience that really supports them (in part they are alienated by the mainstream and the alt right welcomes them). It’s weird how hippies have become conservatives if they didn’t go woke.
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  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    >>It’s weird how hippies have become conservatives if they didn’t go woke. Except they dont... Conservative has a very specific political meaning, and to consider everyone that is "not woke" either conservative or alt-right shows a massive ignorance of the political landscape Classic Liberal, or libertarian people still exist, we are here. The 1990's and 00's the battle was against conservatives wanting ti suppress speech, blame violence on video games, and all other manner of BS. Today it seems the far left has also taken up the mantra of speech suppression, and blame video games for all manner of social ill's, It is the Horseshoe Theory of politics manifest in reality.. One can be "not woke" and at the same time, not conservative... the " sizeable niche audience" is actually the sane people, the middle of the road people, the people that think both Extreme Conservatives, and Extreme "Leftists" are crazy....
    - newsclues 4y ago
      As a bike riding, pot smoking, liberty minded hippie, perhaps becoming was the wrong word, but I have more in common with conservatives than the progressive activists. When you say “except they don’t” and I am part of that group that has, my existence proves you wrong. But perhaps it was just my poor use of language
      - TurningCanadian 4y ago
        The key is in the way you're looking at it: "I have more in common with conservatives than the progressive activists" You didn't compare conservative activists with progressive activists, or conservative activists with progressives. If you're comparing the mainstream views of one side with the extremes of the other, (or worse: a caricature of the other side that you've been told about) then of course you're going to find the other more extreme.

throwaway14356 4y ago

He ruined movies and series for me. I now keep seeing horrific mistakes. like: The team of heroes has 1 character without a back story so he was designed to die.

kinghtown 4y ago
His zone is mainstream hollywood action movies, for every brilliant action movie that gets it you’ll have like 100 BS ones. I think what really annoys me about the critical drinker, and others like him on youtube, is that his essays focus on complaining about the most common denominator mainstream entertainment with very little awareness of art house films or international cinema. It seems that all he wants are cooler action movies.. which, yeah me too for sure but the criterion collection/channel is a thing as well. I’m not feeling his complaining in general. He’d be easier to love if he would champion some cool underground films like Film Comment or whatever will.

hnhg 4y ago

He makes some decent points but I can't watch his content without cringing at the persona he makes use of. I find it very painful, but I guess it has an audience. I can also imagine people saying the same thing about redlettermedia, which I do enjoy.

kinghtown 4y ago

He likes to do alt right click bait and I mainly ignore him these days.. like I would tag him as a leftie and I mainly agree with him in terms of how obnoxious and cynical corpo-hollywood is in its execution of inclusion and diversity (to be clear: I want more diversity in entertainment) but he does play it up quite a bit and exaggerates “the message” thing he pushes. Months ago, I watched a ten minute video/rant on Loki where he complained about forced inclusion and gender politics ruining the show.. though I finally saw the show this week and I found it to be very good and no where near as annoying as he made it out to be. He’s part of an alt right baiting group of youtubers like Nerdroitic who all flirt with this notion of white culture being under siege. Like I don’t believe any of these guys swing that way (as in MAGA) but they like the views on their channels.

newsclues 4y ago
It seems like these creators and others like Tim pool, have found a sizeable niche audience that really supports them (in part they are alienated by the mainstream and the alt right welcomes them). It’s weird how hippies have become conservatives if they didn’t go woke.
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- phpisthebest 4y ago
  >>It’s weird how hippies have become conservatives if they didn’t go woke. Except they dont... Conservative has a very specific political meaning, and to consider everyone that is "not woke" either conservative or alt-right shows a massive ignorance of the political landscape Classic Liberal, or libertarian people still exist, we are here. The 1990's and 00's the battle was against conservatives wanting ti suppress speech, blame violence on video games, and all other manner of BS. Today it seems the far left has also taken up the mantra of speech suppression, and blame video games for all manner of social ill's, It is the Horseshoe Theory of politics manifest in reality.. One can be "not woke" and at the same time, not conservative... the " sizeable niche audience" is actually the sane people, the middle of the road people, the people that think both Extreme Conservatives, and Extreme "Leftists" are crazy....
  - newsclues 4y ago
    As a bike riding, pot smoking, liberty minded hippie, perhaps becoming was the wrong word, but I have more in common with conservatives than the progressive activists. When you say “except they don’t” and I am part of that group that has, my existence proves you wrong. But perhaps it was just my poor use of language
    - TurningCanadian 4y ago
      The key is in the way you're looking at it: "I have more in common with conservatives than the progressive activists" You didn't compare conservative activists with progressive activists, or conservative activists with progressives. If you're comparing the mainstream views of one side with the extremes of the other, (or worse: a caricature of the other side that you've been told about) then of course you're going to find the other more extreme.