Drinker's review felt schizophrenic He praises the story for being about family etc. that made me think I would rent stream it with my wife. Then he leveled a ton of criticism at it, that by the end I had absolutely no desire to see it.
Drinker’s criticism is highly suspect at this point. I trust him to rip apart the obviously bad shit, but his recommendations are not to be trusted. He’s just way, way more tolerant of “moderate” woke trash. Strikes me as yet another disaffected classical liberal and/or libertarian, which is not a valid perspective in 2023.
For Europeans, he's reasonably based. For Americans, his opinions are simply frozen in a time before the institutional Left's control metastasized, talking about how great it was to only have stage 2 cancer.
There is also the issue of superhero movies not being judged in a vacuum. They have to compete not just with what is currently out, but literally all the other ones that are still super fresh in people's memories.
Its no longer enough to just use pure name recognition or "who the fuck is that, I must know" to sell these things. They need something legit special to not just get ignored while someone goes watch Avengers 1 or Shazam or Deadpool again.
Good, the more movies that fail the better.
Drinker's review felt schizophrenic He praises the story for being about family etc. that made me think I would rent stream it with my wife. Then he leveled a ton of criticism at it, that by the end I had absolutely no desire to see it.
Drinker’s criticism is highly suspect at this point. I trust him to rip apart the obviously bad shit, but his recommendations are not to be trusted. He’s just way, way more tolerant of “moderate” woke trash. Strikes me as yet another disaffected classical liberal and/or libertarian, which is not a valid perspective in 2023.
Drinker and people in that scene just aren't really political. They're just cultural critics.
That's incorrect, they're just okay with 90s & 2000s era pozzed shit.
For Europeans, he's reasonably based. For Americans, his opinions are simply frozen in a time before the institutional Left's control metastasized, talking about how great it was to only have stage 2 cancer.
I think his problem is that he's feeding from the dumpster so much, that when he gets something that ONLY gives him diarrhea, he has to recommend it.
Lesson here is not to consoom from the dumpster of hollywoke, and make your life 'creating content' about food poisoning.
Dude was recommending the new Predator movie. The 80lbs Indian teen chic one.
There is also the issue of superhero movies not being judged in a vacuum. They have to compete not just with what is currently out, but literally all the other ones that are still super fresh in people's memories.
Its no longer enough to just use pure name recognition or "who the fuck is that, I must know" to sell these things. They need something legit special to not just get ignored while someone goes watch Avengers 1 or Shazam or Deadpool again.
Agreed. Also I feel like they refuse to see/accept that people are sick of hearing about race across the board.