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Post by queenzod on Oct 1, 2023 14:02:24 GMT
A portion of Twitter has turned into a game of one upsmanship using hate, name calling, and negativity, each person working hard on being more dismissive than the last. It’s tedious.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 1, 2023 15:24:56 GMT
Most of the comments are positive, however, and they outnumber the nasty remarks.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2023 16:04:13 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2023 16:15:44 GMT
A portion of Twitter has turned into a game of one upsmanship using hate, name calling, and negativity, each person working hard on being more dismissive than the last. It’s tedious. There is someone who said that people who likes Wes Anderson’s movies are over educated but unintelligent. That’s kinda silly because it’s true that there are very smart people who maybe can’t have access to education but you really need education to develop intelligence! On the other hand, yeah, there are people with access to education who will fail or will be mediocre but that’s the opposite of being educated because if you fail to understand then by definition you aren’t well educated. Also I have know very intelligent and educated people, people in science, who have awful taste in movies because, guess what, liked certain kind of movies has 0 relation with intelligence! There are also a lot of pretentious hacks who aren’t very educated nor intelligent that think they are genius just because they into Tarantino or Nolan movies.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 1, 2023 16:30:16 GMT
Granted there are many different types of intelligence- emotional, spatial, mechanical, common sense, etc., and I appreciate the notion of a highly educated person being unintelligent (I’ve known many very smart, highly educated professors who didn’t know how to put a stamp on an envelope, lol), but just because someone likes a movie you don’t like doesn’t put them into that category. There may be some affectation regarding the depths of things by some folks, but still, there’s no need for name calling. If the movie isn’t for you, fine. Move along. Watch Transformers or something. Ooo, my snobbery is showing.🤭
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Post by mllemass on Oct 1, 2023 17:43:08 GMT
I always like to remind people that my brilliant cousin, who’s a doctor, can’t spell and knows nothing at all about grammar. Way back, when she was in high school, she accepted that she would always have to hire someone to edit her writing.
And my brilliant, creative friend in high school couldn’t do math. She lived in shame that she struggled through three years of math and didn’t even bother taking it her final year of high school. At one point, she got a waitressing job where she was expected to make change for customers on the spot in her head. She was constantly in a panic.
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Post by jbc12 on Oct 1, 2023 18:44:02 GMT
On the other hand, yeah, there are people with access to education who will fail or will be mediocre but that’s the opposite of being educated because if you fail to understand then by definition you aren’t well educated. Why'd you have to call me out like that, Sgev? 😢😂 _____ This is the Barbie and Scorsese/Marvel discussions all over again. People need to stop judging other people over trivial stuff like their taste in movies! We're supposed to indulge in a bit of escapism at the cinema, not turn it into social commentary lamenting the decline of our collective intelligence. Let people like what they like. 🙄
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2023 20:51:38 GMT
Education is not necessarily schools IMHH
But yeah, I don’t think intelligence has anything to do with good taste in arts! I mean there are very cultured people who are intelligent and have good taste but, again, I know scientists who are great in their field with intelligence above the average but who like very cringe flicks!
EDITED I don’t know about Barbie and Scorsese. I know he had nice words for Oppenheimer. I’m not interested in any of those movies but I understand why he was sympathetic to the more “serious” Oppenheimer. I still think that its massive success was in big part thanks to Nolan following who absolutely loves him because his comic book movies.
On the other hand, I think Scorsese opinion about Marvel movies is more complex than what out of context quotes or idiots in Film Twitter are saying. He wrote a long article about it. It’s more about how those movies saturating the market. I don’t think he believes there is something wrong with their fans (he famously also criticized Spielberg and Lucas movies in the 1980s for the same reason. They are his friends), it’s just that it seems that’s the only thing Hollywood want to produce.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2023 20:51:45 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Oct 1, 2023 21:28:36 GMT
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people talking about that Scorsese article and have reduced it to “Scorsese hates comic book movies and thinks they’re not real movies.” He never said that! He said they’re not cinema, and I agree with him. These people can’t even understand the difference and now hate him because they think he’s against entertainment.
I’m so tired, lol.
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