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Ministry/Revolting Cocks/Pigface + Texts from Last Night

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Nine Inch Nails + Texts from Last Night

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Nowhere in this post or in my previous post did I defend the MCU. I didn’t even mention it. They don’t appear on my blog, either, so the only reason you assumed that I’m a an MCU fan is because I disagreed with you. As it happens, I don’t like the MCU at all, never have, and I wish it would just go away already. 

What I did say is that you don't seem to know anything about how film production works and because of that, most of your rant makes no sense.

The problem with the MCU isn't that they're based on execs doing market research and then hiring a screenwriter and director. Most films are made like that. The problem with the MCU is that they're, at best, mediocre popcorn movies that have become increasingly terrible as a result of execs over-milking a trend. Film execs previously destroyed musicals in the 1960s by producing a lot of really horrible, bloated ones and they're going to do the same with superheroes, eventually. 

I have never actually taken a film class or film studies or anything of the sort, because I have no interest in working in the film industry in any capacity. The little I do know about film production comes from watching DVD commentary tracks and YouTube videos. If that's all it takes to know that you're woefully misinformed ... well, that's just kind of sad.

So, why don't you drop the edgy hipster persona and actually try to have a conversation instead of just scoring cheap shots? (I mean, I doubt you will, because whenever people try to engage with you with you at all, you should just throw up your hands and pretend that you don’t care, but I can always hope!) 

For me, the biggest problem with films in general is that they are, by far, the most expensive media to produce. And for that reason, the film industry is heavily dominated by money men who prefer safe bets to experimentation. But the money men often don’t actually know what audiences want, so instead they just ride trends into the ground. And this problem has no obvious solution to me, unfortunately.  

I’m skeptical of your apparent solution of “auteur directors”, because even the greatest directors can make bad movies sometimes. All creators are human and they fuck up sometimes and what’s more, I don’t think films ever really are one person’s vision; instead, they are inherently a collaborative medium. But you obviously disagree so I want to know: why?  

He’s correct and he should say it.

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One from the Heart flopped because it was an unfinished mess with an inflated budget, which Coppola himself admitted. It's almost like... giving the director " control the product from development to release" and thus freeing them from any kind of editorial control isn't an unqualified good.

Like I said before, there have been a few cases where a potentially great film was destroyed by executive mandates, but most instances of heavy executive meddling instead involved films that weren't really all that good to begin with.

He’s correct and he should say it.

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"Violently anti-Semitic and Islamphobic...?" Speaking as someone whose relatives are Armenians, Kurds, and Persians of varying religions (mostly Judaism, Apostolic Armenian Christianity, and Shia Islam), I've never gotten that impression at all.

Rowling was particularly outspoken about her support that of Middle Eastern refugees in 2015, at a point when that was not an especially popular position among either the British specifically or Europeans in general.  

So far as I can tell, her politics are generally Left and that, unfortunately, is not incompatible with her wholescale adoption of TERF propaganda. Transphobia in the US is mostly a right-wing phenomenon, but in the UK, a lot of the vocal transphobes can also be on the Left and I've lost several ostensibly left-wing British friends after they drank the TERF kool-aid and started on about how it “denies science” or some other such bullshit. 

Her handling of race, both IRL and her books, is rather mediocre, IMO. It could be much better, but it’s nowhere near as bad as the oeuvre of SFF writers like Brad Torgerson, Vox Day, or John C. Wright, who are like listening to your racist uncle complain about “political correctness” over Thanksgiving dinner. 

all these people saying “just pirate the new game!” like…. financial support isnt the only issue here guys

just dont fucking play it. if you cant live without playing the newest harry potter game then like. die i guess

saying “just pirate it!” isnt actually addressing anything. rowling is already richer than g-d. stop trying to find excuses and workarounds so you can keep engaging with her content. just move the fuck on

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Most (like 90% or so) of all movies have always originated as the brain children of producers and studios looking to rake in either a lot of cash or a lot of awards (or both) who then farm out their idea to a screenwriter and director. It's also not especially unusual for movies to be based on pre-existing source material, especially plays or books. Your imagined scenario of a plucky enterprising screenwriter (probably without an agent or any kind of industry connections) selling their super original and artistic screenplay and then handing it to a director who only has an artistic vision in mind is extremely rare. It's happened a few times, but that isn't how most movies get made at all and never had been. You especially can't make a movie about a copyrighted character that way, unless you want to get slapped with a mega lawsuit. You have to get the rights first and rights to make film adaption get granted to studios, not individual screenwriters. It's also extremely common for screenplays to go through numerous drafts and change substantially throughout production for many reasons, even though you seem to think that's an travesty that only happens to popcorn movies. I mean, try watching commentaries on your favorite movies' DVDs or Blu-Rays. Your complaint about being "handcuffed to a corporation" is especially hilarious. There have been a few cases of studios mostly or completely destroying a movie with their mandated changes ("Blade Runner" and "Alien 3" come to mind), but most of the time, they were actually right or the movie they were trying to change wasn't really that good to begin with. A complete lack of studio control is more likely to give you bloated, unwatchable dumpster fires like "Heaven's Gate" than masterpieces of cinema. No matter how good a director is, he or she is still human and still needs what amounts to an editor.

He's correct and he should say it.

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Most (like 90% or so) of all movies have always originated as the brain children of producers and studios looking to rake in either a lot of cash or a lot of awards (or both) who then farm out their idea to a screenwriter and director. It's also not especially unusual for movies to be based on pre-existing source material, especially plays or books. Your imagined scenario of a plucky enterprising screenwriter (probably without an agent or any kind of industry connections) selling their super original and artistic screenplay and then handing it to a director who only has an artistic vision in mind is extremely rare. It's happened a few times, but that isn't how most movies get made at all and never had been. You especially can't make a movie about a copyrighted character that way, unless you want to get slapped with a mega lawsuit. You have to get the rights first and rights to make film adaption get granted to studios, not individual screenwriters. It's also extremely common for screenplays to go through numerous drafts and change substantially throughout production for many reasons, even though you seem to think that's an travesty that only happens to popcorn movies. I mean, try watching commentaries on your favorite movies' DVDs or Blu-Rays. Your complaint about being "handcuffed to a corporation" is especially hilarious. There have been a few cases of studios mostly or completely destroying a movie with their mandated changes ("Blade Runner" and "Alien 3" come to mind), but most of the time, they were actually right or the movie they were trying to change wasn't really that good to begin with. A complete lack of studio control is more likely to give you bloated, unwatchable dumpster fires like "Heaven's Gate" than masterpieces of cinema. No matter how good a director is, he or she is still human and still needs what amounts to an editor.

He's correct and he should say it.

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HBO’s Chernobyl + The Onion headlines, part III of ??

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HBO’s Chernobyl + The Onion headlines, part II of ??

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HBO’s Chernobyl + The Onion headlines, part I of ??

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YouTube Skeptics, Anti-SJWs, & Internet Bloodsports + The Onion headlines

[ Andy Warski, Jared Taylor, Jean-François Gariépy, Louis Le Vau, Mr. Metokur, Sargon of Akkad, Tonkasaw, Veeh ]

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YouTube Skeptics, Anti-SJWs, & Internet Bloodsports + The Onion headlines

[ Andy Warski, Armoured Skeptic & Shoe0nhead, Brittany Venti, Jean-François Gariépy, Kraut and Tea, MundaneMatt, Sargon of Akkad, SweetErin ]

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Alt-Lite & Alt-Right + The Onion headlines

[ Alex Jones, Brittany Pettibone & Tara McCarthy, Jared Taylor, Jean-François Gariépy, Lauren Southern, Rage After Storm, Richard Spencer & Nina Kouprianova, Roaming Millennial, Stefan Molyneux, Varg Vikernes ]

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YouTube Skeptics and Internet Bloodsports + The Onion headlines

[ The Amazing Atheist, Atheism-Is-Unstoppable, Aydin Paladin, Chris Ray Gun, Kraut and Tea, Mr. Metokur, Mr. Repizon, Tonkasaw ]

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YouTube Skeptic Community and Anti-SJWs + The Onion headlines

[ Armored Skeptic, Aydin Paladin, Jordan Peterson, Kraut and Tea, Laci Green, Mr. Metokur, Roaming Millennial, Sargon of Akkad, Tonkasaw ]

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Alt-Lite & Alt-Right + The Onion headlines

[James Allsup & Nick Fuentes, Robert & Theodore Beale, Jean-François Gariépy, The Golden One, Matthew Heimbach, Alex Jones, Mouthy Buddha, Matthew Parrott, Paul Joseph Watson, Milo Yiannopoulous]