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Variety: Stephen King Doesn’t Care for Marvel Movies but Says ‘Gloating’ Over ‘The Marvels’ Flopping Is ‘Very Unpleasant’: It May Be ‘Adolescent Fanboy Hate’ (archive.ph)
posted 2 years ago by Ahaus667 2 years ago by Ahaus667 +41 / -0
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– realerfunction 40 points 2 years ago +40 / -0

adolescent fanboys are the bedrock upon which comics was built.

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– BandageBandolier 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0

And King's books are built on a bedrock of middle aged midwits who believe parroting what the elites say publicly makes them superior.

So he's being true to his own fanbase at least, I guess.

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– BoberFett 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

And pedophilia. King loves underage sex.

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– ghostfox1_ 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

He had a couple good ones, a lot of middling ones, and some awful ones.

The Stand was one of my favorites.

He's still a shitbag though, don't get me wrong. I just can appreciate his one or two good books.

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– Smith1980 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

I loved the Stand. I can only imagine what Apple did with it

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– BandageBandolier 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Yeah, he's at least a middlingly competent author, far better than most of the purely "diverse" ones recommended by critics these days.

But the degree to which he is successful is largely due to the number of people believing the hype of critics saying he's some must read literary genius, and parroting the same to join the cool intellectual club. Not just recognizing a good-ish author, with thousands of equivalent peers.

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– ghostfox1_ 25 points 2 years ago +25 / -0

Leftist mad people are happy about leftist trash being a flop.

It's a day that ends in y

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– simian 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

Morally, how is gloating over it flopping any different from celebrating it succeeding? Either way it's fanboyism.

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– RondoOBlongo 18 points 2 years ago +18 / -0

They don't care about morals. They are scared executives will notice the woke grift doesn't work, which they are doing regardless.

After tampering with rotten tomatoes and buying tickets they are going to question why they still aren't seeing the mythical wider demographic manifesting itself

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– Deadlaw 19 points 2 years ago +19 / -0

Fuck this pedo aligned leftist cokehead.

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– Ahaus667 [S] 16 points 2 years ago +16 / -0

To be fair, his only good books were while on coke

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– Wizardslayer 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

He even admits his favorite book he has no recollection writing cause he wrote it during a 2 week long coke and alcohol fueled binge.

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– TheMerleOfHaggard 18 points 2 years ago +18 / -0

The Iron Law of Projection. Every one of this creature's tweets is gloating over someone's loss. He's been a Karen before we started calling fussy chicks, Karens.

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– RondoOBlongo 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

So, what's his cope for the 2/3 male movie goers ratio?

Edit: it's closer to 3/4

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– Norenia 17 points 2 years ago +17 / -0

Men didn't see this movie because the higher ups were pretty clear "this isn't made for you."

2/3 of the movie viewers were reportedly men

Who the fuck was this made for?

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– ThreeLights 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

It was made for single, 30 something wine aunts with a “fur family” consisting of 5 or more cats.

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– Ahaus667 [S] 13 points 2 years ago +13 / -0

In all honesty it’s obvious they are doing the Disney princess treatment to superheroes, the problem is girls don’t give a flying fuck about being a superhero…

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– Wizardslayer 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

It's funny because hollywood used to force a love interest into movies to get female viewers. Now they're trying to girlboss everything.

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– Smith1980 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

I would say that it makes more sense to put in a heterosexual love interest since it’s been shown time and time again that romance definitely appeals to a female audience

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– RondoOBlongo 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

It's funny tho.

"Quick! How can we make capeshit appeal to women?"

"Uh, put some cats, a musical number and a fangirl self-insert"

"Brilliant!"

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– FrozeInFear 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

Enough about King Stephen (of the lesbians), what does Stephenie Meyer think?

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

Gloating? It's a tragedy.

Tales of heroism and virtue have been told for as long as we've had language. Going woke and deliberately replacing white men of valor with ethnic women of struggle-who-also-are-Mary-Sues is cultural poison.

Millions of investor dollars down the tubes, maybe billions of fantasies and dreams of little boys evaporated, all to flash a Batman Batgirl symbol of false virtue and impress their cultural marxist buddies.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

He's always been lefty. His Mom beat it into his head that the only answer was lefty politics, and he never really questioned it. I enjoy his writing, but its obvious when he wrote something because it fits the lefty political views of the time.

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– Smith1980 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

I’ve read a number of his books and in theory he shouldn’t be so out of touch, but he is a leftist. Has he considered that comic books are a medium that tends to appeal to guys and they are floating because once again we are shown that women do not read comics like men do?

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– rebuildingMyself 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Typical leftist. Only OUR SIDE is allowed to gloat!

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– ArtemisFoul 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Washed-up writer wrote a twatter post? Let's turn it into an article because it's very noteworthy and important!

Truly peak journalism.

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– Ender910 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Senile hack thinks anyone gives a rats ass what he thinks.

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– FatalConceit 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Needful Things was a complete rip off of Something Wicked This Way Comes. King is a massive plagiarist.

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– when_we_win_remember 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Stephen King

Stopped reading there.

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– ZeroPercentCamoIndex 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

If a new Transformers or some other cinematic boondoggle flopped and got laughed at for doing so, King wouldn't give a shit. He's defending a movie he doesn't like because he knows it contains propaganda he does like.

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– Knife-TotingRat 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

This from a guy who approved movie adaptations of his books that were utter shit, and even had a hand in an original movie (Catseye) that was utter shit.

His books are fun, at least the older ones are, but the only movie adaptation of his I liked was the The Shining miniseries with that dude from Wings.

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– nuggetpatrol 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Here's the rub. Most people have no idea who Stephen King even is, what he looks like, or that he's a writer.

They know the movies. That's where they saw his name and heard he had something to do with it.

And you know that's gotta be the most bitter of pills to have to swallow.

Daily.

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– Trailblazersfan 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Why won't he just transition? We all get it

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