First of all, it’s not an attack on genre films, generally. It’s not even an attack on a genre of film, specifically. He didn’t speak about “superhero movies” as a whole, like Ridley Scott or James Cameron have in the recent past (although, let’s face it, the genre is synonymous with Marvel at the moment, anyway). He expressly targeted Marvel films; the MCU in particular. Gee, I wonder why.

He also didn’t say that they were “bad”, he called them theme parks. You read that superficially and assumed that he meant, “Things that are fun” but what he actually meant was, “Things that are built with the soul purpose of funneling people into seats to be optimally profitable.” 

It’s very amusing to me that you folks will log on Tumblr to hem and haw about late stage capitalism, but then leap at the chance to defend your favorite Mickey Mouse production from the scary old man who’s been trying his best to make good films for 50yrs. What good, respectable consumers!

Lastly, he refers to cinema as “human beings trying to convey emotional, and psychological experiences to other human beings,” and you guys all either went, 1) “Cinema just means it’s a movie played in a theater, hurr hurr hurr,” 2) “Thor almost cried one time when he planet blow up,” or 3) “That’s pretentious! Everything is art! My cheerios are art!” and again this is missing the point. 

When you watch a Marvel film, a writer didn’t decide that he had something interesting to say about Frog Man and pen a script, and then a director didn’t get to take said script and produce a work through their own artistic lens. A boardroom full of people in suits sat around and decided which licensed properties they already owned the rights to would be most profitable, and how it would fit into the conveyor belt of content they’d already pre-designed, and then they controlled every single aspect of that production, down to tone and color grading. And if you don’t believe that, ask Edgar Wright.

Martin Scorsese gave you guys an incredibly milquetoast, obvious criticism of movies you slurp down, and it made you all fume, but what you should be mad about is that you’re forced to consume fast food art when you could, just as easily, be getting filet mignon with the same genre and character roster.

As if the vast majority of Marvel Studios filmography, over 20 movies since 2009, haven’t been predominantly about white men and their white male drama. As if Isaac Perlmutter, who was in charge of Marvel Studios until very recently, hadn’t refused to pay Terrence Howard comparably to Robert Downey Jr., and then simply recast him with Don Cheadle for Iron Man 2 because “all black people look alike.” As if they didn’t choose to adapt a character steeped in orientalism and yet refused to cast more than one Asian actor who played second fiddle to the white hero. As if it didn’t take them nearly 10yrs to produce a movie with a black protagonist who wasn’t a white man's sidekick, let alone a black woman with more than one scene or two speaking lines. As if, after buying your fervent loyalty off the labor of Ryan Coogler and his cast, they didn’t immediately relegate Wakanda to cannon fodder in two separate alien attack setpieces. Marvel is suddenly the epitome of diversity, now?

This is new school white Hollywood, folks.

Meanwhile, how many of you are out here writing Moonlight fan fiction? Where were you when A Wrinkle In Time came out? How many of you watched Fast Color, or saw BlacKkKlansman or The Last Black Man In San Francisco? What’s your favorite Ryan Coogler film that doesn’t have an ugly CGI fight scene at the end? How often do you post headcanons about Jordan Peele’s work?

Hell, are any of you even watching Raising Dion on Netflix, which is essentially offered to you for free? On that note, did you support The Get Down, or did you contribute to its cancellation by watching Stranger Things instead?

I know the answers to these questions. I’ve been in the tags. Let’s not even talk about works by artists of other ethnic backgrounds. You’ll only watch Guillermo Del Toro’s movies if Tom Hiddleston is in it, or someone has sex with a fish.

You don’t want diverse media, what you want is your cape and to eat it, too. But you’ll gladly prop up the multitrillion dollar entertainment monopoly for doing the barest of minimums if the morality pageantry bolsters your false wokeness.

I love the gif because there’s an incredible number of mistakes crammed into just a couple of seconds. 

1. how the hole starts in the wall but it keeps moving forward

2. then magically heals itself

3. the triceratops walks right through the wall

4. the table blinking before the dinosaurs appear

5. both tables disappear

6. so suddenly appear again as they are toppling over

7. two people clipping into running without any transition 

8. the table outline hides a man’s legs but there is no table

9. the triceratops horns aren’t white in the second clip

10. tables changing both color and material in the second clip

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

Native Tongue, by Suzette Haden Elgin (Women’s Press, 1985).

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593

https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/20/european-parliaments-legal-affairs-committee-gives-green-light-to-harmful-link-tax-and-pervasive-platform-censorship/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitterfacebook&utm_content=JURI-vote-june-20

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/article-13-european-parliament-internet-censorship-copyright-a8408531.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control?__twitter_impression=true

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-meme-war-article-13-regulation

Also ao3 has spoken out about this

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10637

Nobody knows who made the decision, but it is notable that many contractions once used are not used anymore. These include:

H’ere (Hi There)

Th’eat (That’s neat)

Se’sons (See Simpsons?)

Li’n’ation (License and Registration)

Wa’mr’ne (Want more wine?)

Why’bl’m’s (Why did you reblog my nudes?)

M’ven’tis’k (My venereal disease tests are back)

Spr’g’giddr’b’Sco’tr (Spielberg is a good director but Scorsese better understands the issues that effect modern cinema’s portrayals of crime and redemption)

gimli:

aragorn:

gandalf: