The Critical Drinker

urr13 account said:
Has any critic ever successfully made anything?
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BrunoMattei said:
Roger Ebert wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. That's about it. Even though I thought that one sucked aside from the title.

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Arthur Morgan said:
Harlan Ellison wrote some critic pieces and he's well regarded as a writer. Hell, James Cameron stole a bunch of his ideas to make Terminator. But Harlan was a writer who did some critic work for a pay check. RLM are too high on their "We're too cool to give a fuck" Gen X bullshit to make anything good so Space Cop had to be shit, though I did find it enjoyable enough as a fun bad movie.
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Wonder Boy said:
Never heard of James Agee?

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Also TCD is absolutely not a critic and barely qualifies as a reviewer... I'd even trust Doug Walker over him and his posse of outrage-grifters
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Tell me you're not actual kinema fans, without telling me...
 
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urr13 account said:
Has any critic ever successfully made anything? Space Cop was unwatchable imo, Stuckmans movie looks dull, I never even considered giving drinkers Jack Ryan fan film thing 30 seconds of my time to see how much it sucked.

You'd think people who spend their time picking apart the work of others would at least be able to avoid certain pitfalls but they end up making similar mistakes as the things they criticize.
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I've spent enough time in the Movie on thread to come around to the conclusion that critics of any kind are utterly worthless.

Drinker is no exception. Sure he has a few takes I agree with but I'm not about to run out and buy anything he's selling and he has his own faults.

BTW, what I said about critics above also applies to Siskel and Ebert, Pauline Kael etc.
 
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ChampFantana said:
I've spent enough time in the Movie on thread to come around to the conclusion that critics of any kind are utterly worthless.

Drinker is no exception. Sure he has a few takes I agree with but I'm not about to run out and buy anything he's selling and he has his own faults.

BTW, what I said about critics above also applies to Siskel and Ebert, Pauline Kael etc.
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Ego's speech in Ratatouille is still the gold standard on both the importance and unimportant nature of the critic.
 
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I really don't understand the thought process behind people who watch things they know for a fact they're going to hate. I know people like Drinker do it because it rakes in the views but I'll never understand why the types of people who watch Drinker waste their lives on it.
 
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Halloween23 said:
I really don't understand the thought process behind people who watch things they know for a fact they're going to hate. I know people like Drinker do it because it rakes in the views but I'll never understand why the types of people who watch Drinker waste their lives on it.
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Negativity sells better than positivity nowadays. The funny part is that these reviewers are indirectly promoting the thing that they despise in the first place so I'll never take these people seriously.
 
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PurpleDisclosure said:
Drinker takes the grift to a new level - you can crowdfund his and Mauler's new movie and if you donate enough shakels, you get an "executive drinker" credit. Damn, how generous!
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I wish he would stop shilling random action movies nobody cares about. They are leading the industry's stagnation in being repetitive reddit chungus slop. Such a copy-pasted genre that Bruce Willis churned them out on the verge of retirement from dementia.
 
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crunchy bits are the best said:
Negativity sells better than positivity nowadays. The funny part is that these reviewers are indirectly promoting the thing that they despise in the first place so I'll never take these people seriously.
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Greg Owen made a video about this at one point.

I think it's silly, but I think it's a form of mass catharsis. When you have a media that is constantly telling you that the sky is green, someone pointing out the sky is actually blue is someone who you can trust. If he just happens to be entertaining while he's giving you that catharsis, more's the better.

Personally, I don't care if someone makes a living of reviewing bad things - I enjoy Rifftrax, after all, and the only good Rifftrax are for movies that have it coming - I just hate the performative outrage ("I can't believe I have to watch more of this shit, but I do it for you people.")
 
crunchy bits are the best said:
Negativity sells better than positivity nowadays. The funny part is that these reviewers are indirectly promoting the thing that they despise in the first place so I'll never take these people seriously.
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Not really a fan of Drinker and his lying-ass crew (Kathleen Kennedy has been about to be fired how many times now?) but he makes lefties seethe something fierce, which gives him value. They legit believe his type are responsible for the failure of their shitty Disney+ propaganda and it ENRAGES them that he's allowed to exist. They tried to get him and that prison nerd deplatformed for hate and YouTube laughed in their faces, which only makes them rage even harder.
 
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Quarterback Rex Grossman said:
(Kathleen Kennedy has been about to be fired how many times now?)
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If anyone, Drinker is the least guilty of this kind of clickbait.

Although he doesn't dissociate from the people who DO engage in it.

It's absolutely hilarious that he's the most reasoned, the least likely to use buzzwords and even more than a little willing to capitulate on a few things (he's said more than once that diversity isn't a bad thing - a point I'd vehemently fight him on), and yet he takes the brunt of the blame as the "ringleader" for everyone who does the clickbaity things.
 
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Halloween23 said:
I really don't understand the thought process behind people who watch things they know for a fact they're going to hate. I know people like Drinker do it because it rakes in the views but I'll never understand why the types of people who watch Drinker waste their lives on it.
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I could see if you were pirating the latest DEI Disney cancer like Skeleton Crew or Snow White and the 7 CGI monsters but presumably he sees it in theatres. I guess watching his videos and just laughing at how bad you know the movies are is more entertaining than wasting 20 minutes to drive to a theatre, sit in crappy chairs surrounded by assholes, and paying for more of Disney's bad practices as you subject your brain to 2 hours of audience insulting sludge.
 
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I wish he would stop shilling random action movies nobody cares about. They are leading the industry's stagnation in being repetitive reddit chungus slop. Such a copy-pasted genre that Bruce Willis churned them out on the verge of retirement from dementia.
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Honestly, I'd say Statham is pretty much becoming a new Seagal, specially since 3 of his latest movies were like Stallone scripts that he was just too old to take part in, so he threw 'em at Jason.
 
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