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Brie Larson's comments on diversity in film reviewing!
Brie Larson's comments on diversity in film reviewing!
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In Captain Marvel review, RedLetterMedia don't discuss the film for over 15 minutes as they talk about Brie Larson's comments on diversity
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I'm not "just asking questions," I literally don't know what the controversy about the film is. Is it that she's a girl?
"she said something true about lacking diversity on press releases, some idiots understood that as she saying fuck you to them and nothing affected the movie"
Why 15 minutes for this?
Brie Larson was outspoken about issues of representation and feminism.
Chaos ensued.
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Brie Larson's 'controversial' comments about the abundance of white male reviewers. Didn't realise people would be so easily offended by the OP, will amend it.
how outrageous im so angry they criticized both brie larson and angry neckbeards i thought you had to side with one
its not that man, some of us cannot see the video because we are at work
Oh no worries.
Hmm, it's about the fact that Brie was very vocal about wanting to have diversity in her press junkets for Captain Marvel. Then it created the controversy surrounding the review bombings of the movie.
Then they kinda dig at her a lot for 15 minutes...
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Ah, I'm sorry. It clear is that for some posters though:
The first 6 minutes is their opening skit
Around 8~ minutes is where they start talking about the movie itself. There's two minutes of whining about the whining about this movie.
There ya go everybody!
edit: Ah, they get back into Brie Larson/what she said/the internet stuff around the 11 minute mark after talking about the movie itself for a few minutes
Around 8~ minutes is where they start talking about the movie itself. There's two minutes of whining about the whining about this movie.
There ya go everybody!
edit: Ah, they get back into Brie Larson/what she said/the internet stuff around the 11 minute mark after talking about the movie itself for a few minutes
This is pretty standard lefty stuff... Not really MRA shit. I would recommend really watching the entirety of what they are trying to say.
I'll summarize:
- They are critical of people attaching social justice concerns to a massive corporate film. Both those on Youtube who make dozens of videos shitting on the film or Larson and those who feel like the movie is important.
- Mention the charity thing that gave tickets to underprivileged kids to go see the movie as an example of faux wokeness.
- They center most of the criticism of Larson specifically due to a speech she made at a conference that they think came from her realizing she's not a black woman and thus not the lowest on the totem pole of having to struggle so she decides to shit on white male film critics and how they give negative reviews to films like A Wrinkle in Time. "These movies aren't for them" is what she says. This is the main focus of this part of the video. The main thing they take issue with here is someone using lack of representation as an excuse for a movie doing poorly (they show images of white men giving Larson's films positive reviews).
- They say that having more voices in film criticism is good and that their is probably a kernel of what she was trying to say. They sight the documentary about the history of African Americans in horror and how it presented ideas that Jay would never have thought of. Basically they think she framed it all wrong.
- Film criticism is the least important thing in the whole world on the scale of social justice. They namedrop films like Tangerine as movies that would be worthy of this level of discourse. Films that got great reviews from white men.
I don't think the RLM guys are perfect, but there has been this weird conflating them with alt-right people.
I'll summarize:
- They are critical of people attaching social justice concerns to a massive corporate film. Both those on Youtube who make dozens of videos shitting on the film or Larson and those who feel like the movie is important.
- Mention the charity thing that gave tickets to underprivileged kids to go see the movie as an example of faux wokeness.
- They center most of the criticism of Larson specifically due to a speech she made at a conference that they think came from her realizing she's not a black woman and thus not the lowest on the totem pole of having to struggle so she decides to shit on white male film critics and how they give negative reviews to films like A Wrinkle in Time. "These movies aren't for them" is what she says. This is the main focus of this part of the video. The main thing they take issue with here is someone using lack of representation as an excuse for a movie doing poorly (they show images of white men giving Larson's films positive reviews).
- They say that having more voices in film criticism is good and that their is probably a kernel of what she was trying to say. They sight the documentary about the history of African Americans in horror and how it presented ideas that Jay would never have thought of. Basically they think she framed it all wrong.
- Film criticism is the least important thing in the whole world on the scale of social justice. They namedrop films like Tangerine as movies that would be worthy of this level of discourse. Films that got great reviews from white men.
I don't think the RLM guys are perfect, but there has been this weird conflating them with alt-right people.
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Pretty much. I mean, even if you want to take issue with Larson's point, or her tone, or whatever you want to take issue with, being unable to separate that from the movie is the definition of bullshittery.
Expecially since this is often the same crowd that goes "It doesn't matter if this artist is actually a suspected pedophile who claims the Holocaust is an hoax, you need to be able to separate art and artist, we can still enjoy it" more often than not.
I am not offended (I think others aren't too) but most of us don't want to waste time watching something without knowing why. Especially not as long as this.
She dared say she didn't care about 'white dudes'. They literally montage her saying 'white dudes,' and try to post a bunch of positive reviews of her movies from white men on RT as some kind of 'gotcha'.
They then talk about how "annoying" she seems in interviews.
Jay then goes on to talk about movies starring black people that he liked to prove... something.
They also then try to counter Brie's criticism of white men dominating the press sphere with a montage of non-white men doing interviews for Star Wars as some kind of 'gotcha'.
It's extremely #notallwhitedudes
I normally like their stuff and Brie was a little "foot in mouth" in how she got her point across.
But this was just hard to watch this morning, I normally like their stuff especially best of the worst, but post TLJ RO and now this, I may just stick to BoW if I watch them
But this was just hard to watch this morning, I normally like their stuff especially best of the worst, but post TLJ RO and now this, I may just stick to BoW if I watch them
RedLetterMedia is good when it comes to actually talking about movies and analyzing what makes them work or not work. But they're fucking trash when it comes to addressing controversies surrounding movies.
Yeah, Best of the Worst and reView are basically their two best shows.
Yeah, Best of the Worst and reView are basically their two best shows.
Sadly, this is correct.
Their Plinket Episode 7 review made me understand that.
We need an era version of that twitter account that summarizes in 5 words all these substanceless articles.
"Captain Miscast".
Then they whine about some wired video of hers.
Then they whine about how she is snarky and cocky in the movie but weirdly also sometimes vulnerable and confused too?
Then I closed the video.
Yep. They're better than Cinemasins, but they ain't any Lindsey Ellis or Dan Olsen.