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- Dec 17, 2019
I watched a couple reviews of Captain Resting Bitchface 2, the Jeremy Jahns one posted earlier and this one:
I'm not overly familiar with either of them because I don't really watch many modern film reviews on YouTube (Drinker is about it at this point; I still watch RLM but they don't do as much in-theater stuff anymore), but it was interesting looking at the comments that basically concluded "if Jeremy/Dan is calling this shit, then it must be really bad." Between them, they had basically the same review: a confused, disjointed mess that's everything bad about the MCU ramped up to 11. The barest minimum of a plot that's just an excuse to string action setpieces together, a boring villain that somehow manages to be even more boring than usual, obvious reshoots and attempts to salvage something of a messy production, cringeworthy comedy (both mentioned the musical number as offputting), jarring tonal shifts, and not much that actually stuck out as good (the only thing they both praised was Iman Vellani's performance).
And then here comes Bob with such a non-review review, it seriously makes me wonder if he doesn't realize how much of a shill he's being for Disney. Sure, he tries to disguise his non-critique by arguing that it's not that bad because most of the MCU isn't that good (he literally just stated the bulk of it is B+ material, not A), but he doesn't really understand that doing the same thing over and over and never trying to do better is going to make your consistently average product look worse and worse over time. Marvel isn't trying to improve, they're still using the same tired formula that they've been shitting out into theaters for over a decade now.
(As an aside, I began to turn on the MCU when I noticed how critics gave Captain Resting Bitchface 1 a pass by praising how it used the formulaic approach to Marvel movies, when that had been a longstanding criticism in many other movies up to that point. For all the complaints about toxic male fans bitching about women-led capeshit just because it's a woman, they seem perfectly fine to give women-led capeshit a pass because it's a woman.)
Bob's argument is basically that because the average MCU movie is just fine and there are very few bad ones, it's okay for this one to be just fine too. In a sense, I agree; it's okay for movies to be fine, some way to pass the time and forget about the world for a while. But your job as a critic is to break it down for your audience and tell them whether a movie works or not, and Bob basically skips over that to make excuses for how this movie is likely going to underperform. Y'know who does that? Shills.
Not having seen the movie (and I pray to God I never will), I trust non-clickbait reviewers who point out how this movie is an absolute mess than Bob saying "b-b-but it's not that bad!"
Oh yeah, and finally, Iger's not pumping the brakes at all on the MCU like he really should. Things are getting delayed a bit, but they still seem to be going ahead with every project still in the pipeline; currently, they have four movies now releasing in 2025. Gotta keep that content sludge flowing!
And then here comes Bob with such a non-review review, it seriously makes me wonder if he doesn't realize how much of a shill he's being for Disney. Sure, he tries to disguise his non-critique by arguing that it's not that bad because most of the MCU isn't that good (he literally just stated the bulk of it is B+ material, not A), but he doesn't really understand that doing the same thing over and over and never trying to do better is going to make your consistently average product look worse and worse over time. Marvel isn't trying to improve, they're still using the same tired formula that they've been shitting out into theaters for over a decade now.
(As an aside, I began to turn on the MCU when I noticed how critics gave Captain Resting Bitchface 1 a pass by praising how it used the formulaic approach to Marvel movies, when that had been a longstanding criticism in many other movies up to that point. For all the complaints about toxic male fans bitching about women-led capeshit just because it's a woman, they seem perfectly fine to give women-led capeshit a pass because it's a woman.)
Bob's argument is basically that because the average MCU movie is just fine and there are very few bad ones, it's okay for this one to be just fine too. In a sense, I agree; it's okay for movies to be fine, some way to pass the time and forget about the world for a while. But your job as a critic is to break it down for your audience and tell them whether a movie works or not, and Bob basically skips over that to make excuses for how this movie is likely going to underperform. Y'know who does that? Shills.
Not having seen the movie (and I pray to God I never will), I trust non-clickbait reviewers who point out how this movie is an absolute mess than Bob saying "b-b-but it's not that bad!"
Oh yeah, and finally, Iger's not pumping the brakes at all on the MCU like he really should. Things are getting delayed a bit, but they still seem to be going ahead with every project still in the pipeline; currently, they have four movies now releasing in 2025. Gotta keep that content sludge flowing!
