I just want to clarify my stance on stuff like Rise of Skywalker, Dial of Destiny, Wish, Callisto Protocol, etc; stuff that some people hated but I didn’t. I’m not going into full detail on Rise of Skywalker or the SW sequels in general, as I want to save the brunt of my takes for if and when I do that retrospective.
However, I will sum things up as this, in the most level-headed rational manner:
My issue is not that “people hated it but I didn’t so wtf?” That would make me no better than Zaid/Diaz Station. My actual issue is that all this hate over that particular stuff just feels……overblown. Like the reactions from Zaid and other people online on stuff like this and some of the “lesser” MCU stuff (sans Secret Invasion, that was shit) just comes off like people acting like it’s the apocalypse because they didn’t like something or they did something to hurt them personally……when really for a good chunk of this stuff isn’t that bad or just decent. It’s ok to just call something “ok” or plain “fine”. It doesn’t have to be either solely “the greatest thing ever” or “fucking shit”. There’s far more of an actual critical range for media and I feel a lot of people online have forgotten this. You can still like or not like something, but you don’t have to be screaming or threatening violence or making obscene comments over it. When I try to call out bad movies, I try to be constructive and analytical towards them and why they don’t work for me. The “louder” people on here, Zaid included, just seem to either nitpick the shit out of everything and not focus on actual issues or just straight up make up lies at times (the entirety of Lilly Orchard’s Steven Universe video comes to mind for the later). And that’s what I have a problem with: for certain things, it seems like some people sacrificed actually using their brains for cheap-ass sensationalism, blind hate and even bigotry, all for the sake of cheap clicks on their YouTube or social media posts. And again, I don’t care how much you hate something: suggesting you destroy physical copies of something in a store or threaten violence toward people involved in making it doesn’t aid your opinion at all; it just harms it and kills your integrity.
There. There’s my reasoning. And it’s my opinion, not a goddamn fact. They are not the same thing, Zaid. You can disagree with my stances all you want. Just don’t be an asshole about it.
P.S. I thought the Snow White remake was ok, and Rachel Zeigler was the best thing about it (Gal Gadot, however, cannot fucking sing and she was VERY NOTICEABLY autotuned at points; her song was good lyrically but her singing wasn’t). Leave the girl alone. Also, the CG on the “dwarves” (they aren’t even called that in this oddly) is not as bad as people say. It’s just eh; what else were they gonna look like? You want actual bad CGI? Expendables 4, Spawn or the Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns are right there. “Obvious CG” is not the exact same as “bad Cg”. 6/10.
FilmGeekofDoom
I just want to clarify my stance on stuff like Rise of Skywalker, Dial of Destiny, Wish, Callisto Protocol, etc; stuff that some people hated but I didn’t. I’m not going into full detail on Rise of Skywalker or the SW sequels in general, as I want to save the brunt of my takes for if and when I do that retrospective.
However, I will sum things up as this, in the most level-headed rational manner:
My issue is not that “people hated it but I didn’t so wtf?” That would make me no better than Zaid/Diaz Station. My actual issue is that all this hate over that particular stuff just feels……overblown. Like the reactions from Zaid and other people online on stuff like this and some of the “lesser” MCU stuff (sans Secret Invasion, that was shit) just comes off like people acting like it’s the apocalypse because they didn’t like something or they did something to hurt them personally……when really for a good chunk of this stuff isn’t that bad or just decent. It’s ok to just call something “ok” or plain “fine”. It doesn’t have to be either solely “the greatest thing ever” or “fucking shit”. There’s far more of an actual critical range for media and I feel a lot of people online have forgotten this. You can still like or not like something, but you don’t have to be screaming or threatening violence or making obscene comments over it. When I try to call out bad movies, I try to be constructive and analytical towards them and why they don’t work for me. The “louder” people on here, Zaid included, just seem to either nitpick the shit out of everything and not focus on actual issues or just straight up make up lies at times (the entirety of Lilly Orchard’s Steven Universe video comes to mind for the later). And that’s what I have a problem with: for certain things, it seems like some people sacrificed actually using their brains for cheap-ass sensationalism, blind hate and even bigotry, all for the sake of cheap clicks on their YouTube or social media posts. And again, I don’t care how much you hate something: suggesting you destroy physical copies of something in a store or threaten violence toward people involved in making it doesn’t aid your opinion at all; it just harms it and kills your integrity.
There. There’s my reasoning. And it’s my opinion, not a goddamn fact. They are not the same thing, Zaid. You can disagree with my stances all you want. Just don’t be an asshole about it.
P.S. I thought the Snow White remake was ok, and Rachel Zeigler was the best thing about it (Gal Gadot, however, cannot fucking sing and she was VERY NOTICEABLY autotuned at points; her song was good lyrically but her singing wasn’t). Leave the girl alone. Also, the CG on the “dwarves” (they aren’t even called that in this oddly) is not as bad as people say. It’s just eh; what else were they gonna look like? You want actual bad CGI? Expendables 4, Spawn or the Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns are right there. “Obvious CG” is not the exact same as “bad Cg”. 6/10.
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