Exposing the Grift: Go Woke Go Broke

Confucamus said:
My God, that's an absurdly high budget. Special effects were great, but should be straight up photo-realistic with that amount of money being spent. Not to mention the story seemed whipped together.
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Just remember when they try and tell you a film in 2025 broke even, that’s probably based on a production cost that is half the true value
 
Confucamus said:
My God, that's an absurdly high budget. Special effects were great, but should be straight up photo-realistic with that amount of money being spent. Not to mention the story seemed whipped together.
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No amount of amazing special effects can cover up a shit script.

They can fuck right off with Episodes 8 & 9. Unwatchable.

I actually enjoyed The Force Awakens... probably they followed the script from A New Hope and didn't manage to fuck it up.
 
avenue94 said:
Do you consider Pynchon's works to generally include leftist sensibilities?
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I considering telling that a gay man well respected in the field told the truth about a mediocre movie and the modern mainstream media

MSM can keep fluffing crap, but normal people will point and laugh at the emperor strolling around naked
 
SuperAlly said:
I considering telling that a gay man well respected in the field told the truth about a mediocre movie and the modern mainstream media

MSM can keep fluffing crap, but normal people will point and laugh at the emperor strolling around naked
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So you aren't familiar with with Pynchon's works but are complaining that an adaption of one has too many leftist sensibilities?

The movie was always a longshot to break even, but it's also clear that plenty of people were interested in seeing it. So it's not like critics are in a bubble and out of step with the general public on this film.
 
avenue94 said:
So you aren't familiar with with Pynchon's works but are complaining that an adaption of one has too many leftist sensibilities?

The movie was always a longshot to break even, but it's also clear that plenty of people were interested in seeing it. So it's not like critics are in a bubble and out of step with the general public on this film.
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Seems like you've missed the point of the guy I quoted and why I shared it.

Also seems like your last paragraph makes no logical sense in the context of what I posted and the performance of the movie

Critics bumming it up as the greatest movie of the decade (because it jives with their own extreme political position) when it struggled to break even and other experts in the field are saying its not better than ok is absolutely 100% at odds with the argument you present in your final paragraph

I think you need to stop diving in and defending every indefensible position

You are basically the exact same mindset as the critics Ellis has chided
 
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SuperAlly said:
Seems like you've missed the point of the guy I quoted and why I shared it.

Also seems like your last paragraph makes no logical sense in the context of what I posted and the performance of the movie

Critics bumming it up as the greatest movie of the decade (because it jives with their own extreme political position) when it struggled to break even and other experts in the field are saying its not better than ok is absolutely 100% at odds with the argument you present in your final paragraph

I think you need to stop diving in and defending every indefensible position

You are basically the exact same mindset as the critics Ellis has chided
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Who are these critics claiming its the greatest movie of the decade because it jives with their politics? It is strange you insist so much on criticizing a movie that's been popular enough with critics and audiences despite never having watched it, or as far as I can tell, not even being familiar with the work of the author that this movie takes cues from.

Paul Thomas Anderson isn't exactly known for raking it in at the box office, which makes your measuring stick even more bizarre. Unless you're telling me Magnolia, The Master or Licorice Pizza were bad movies?
 
avenue94 said:
Who are these critics claiming its the greatest movie of the decade because it jives with their politics? It is strange you insist so much on criticizing a movie that's been popular enough with critics and audiences despite never having watched it, or as far as I can tell, not even being familiar with the work of the author that this movie takes cues from.

Paul Thomas Anderson isn't exactly known for raking it in at the box office, which makes your measuring stick even more bizarre. Unless you're telling me Magnolia, The Master or Licorice Pizza were bad movies?
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You're missing the point.

But then across this and the Palestinian terrorists thread you repeatedly show yourself to be a quisling contrarian of low intellect so that isn't surprising.

Trying to take people off on weird tangents and lost in the trees with you.

I'm good. The original post and contention stands on its own merits. You can get lost down rabbit holes by yourself Alice.
 
SuperAlly said:
You're missing the point.

But then across this and the Palestinian terrorists thread you repeatedly show yourself to be a quisling contrarian of low intellect so that isn't surprising.

Trying to take people off on weird tangents and lost in the trees with you.

I'm good. The original post and contention stands on its own merits. You can get lost down rabbit holes by yourself Alice.
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So to summarize, you are once again attempting to criticize a movie you haven't watched because it's leftist (never mind the source material is has leftist themes) and because it probably won't break even, despite many of the director's movies being good but not profitable.

And we'll also just ignore that only now critics are showing their leftist bias, even though these director also directed There Will Be Blood, which is explicitly a left-leaning movie adopted from a novel by one of the country's most famous socialists.

Have you ever seen a movie by Anderson?

Also lol at accusing me of being a contrarian even though you are literally being a contrarian by claiming a movie isn't that good despite audience and critical approval, with the cherry on top being you haven't even seen the movie.
 
avenue94 said:
So you aren't familiar with with Pynchon's works but are complaining that an adaption of one has too many leftist sensibilities?

The movie was always a longshot to break even, but it's also clear that plenty of people were interested in seeing it. So it's not like critics are in a bubble and out of step with the general public on this film.
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TIL that One Battle After Another is based on Vineland. I didn't know that. Now I have to watch it. I love Pynchon. Just picked his new novel up, but haven't started it yet.
 
avenue94 said:
So to summarize, you are once again attempting to criticize a movie you haven't watched because it's leftist (never mind the source material is has leftist themes) and because it probably won't break even, despite many of the director's movies being good but not profitable.

And we'll also just ignore that only now critics are showing their leftist bias, even though these director also directed There Will Be Blood, which is explicitly a left-leaning movie adopted from a novel by one of the country's most famous socialists.

Have you ever seen a movie by Anderson?

Also lol at accusing me of being a contrarian even though you are literally being a contrarian by claiming a movie isn't that good despite audience and critical approval, with the cherry on top being you haven't even seen the movie.
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So to summarise you have once again not understand the first post you jumped into attack.

The original post pertained only to the reception of the movie and some interesting social commentary by an industry expert on why that reception has been so overblown.

But as usual you are too thick to read and understand basic English before jumping down all kinds of weird rabbit holes Alice.

I never once criticised the movie. Perhaps back out from this knee jerk reaction of having to vigorously defend every woke or perceived woke entertainment project and it may allow you to better understand the basic English you are reading.

You really are a clown shoe
 
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