Ghostbusters was exactly what I expected to be - a kind of silly, fun romp with some comedic elements. It delivered that pretty well. It wasn’t a great work of cinema like Everyting Everywhere All At Once, but it wasn’t trying to be.
And yet the only criticisms you ever saw about it at the time was people being like “omg, it’s so shit, so cringe” from people whom if you clicked their profile they’d be posting about how the alphabet mafia controls the media now and anti semitic shit.
Thats where we are with Acolyte. I’m not saying you should watch it, it’s completely fair to say it’s not for you or whatever, but by talking about how if it has a 3.5 on IMDB that must mean it sucks, that’s just pushing right wing misinformation. it’s not a great show, and it’s frustrating that I’m essentially being compelled to defend a show that I personally am kind of ambivalent about, exclusively because the criticisms of it are so fucking bad and are being so heavily pushed by the far right as a way to shift the conversation towards their misogynist, racist agenda.
I’m sure you’re a decent person and that you’re not like those people at all, but you kind of are helping them by making their arguments for them. just say it’s not for you and move on, don’t try to criticise a show you haven’t ever seen…
And yet the only criticisms you ever saw about it at the time was people being like “omg, it’s so shit, so cringe” from people whom if you clicked their profile they’d be posting about how the alphabet mafia controls the media now and anti semitic shit.
We must’ve read different comments and reviews. I saw plenty of people just saying it wasn’t funny from what I at least thought were normal commenters. Which is the worst thing a comedy can be, really. Unless it really tries to be funny and fails spectacularly, that can loop around to being funny again. No such luck this time.
Thats where we are with Acolyte
I feel like the situation is similar where there’s some culture war shit going on and all the praise and criticism will be lumped under that umbrella. Didn’t hear that from my friends though, it just felt like it wasn’t enjoyable at all.
I’m sure you’re a decent person and that you’re not like those people at all, but you kind of are helping them by making their arguments for them. just say it’s not for you and move on, don’t try to criticise a show you haven’t ever seen…
Fucking hell. I just said my friends said it was shit so I didn’t watch it. You wanted to engage me about it.
Same point stands, I didn’t go any further than saying my friends said it sucked and I didn’t watch it before someone else engaged me about it. I didn’t know there was a whole thing about this where some feel compelled to defend the show and shit like that.
I engaged with you because you’re amplifying far right talking points, and for no other reason. if you had just left it at “my friends didn’t like it and we share tastes, simple as that” I’d have quite happily accepted that. you tried to back up your friends opinions, for some reason, by doing the laziest research imaginable and then being kinda smarmy about it.
Ghostbusters was exactly what I expected to be - a kind of silly, fun romp with some comedic elements. It delivered that pretty well. It wasn’t a great work of cinema like Everyting Everywhere All At Once, but it wasn’t trying to be.
And yet the only criticisms you ever saw about it at the time was people being like “omg, it’s so shit, so cringe” from people whom if you clicked their profile they’d be posting about how the alphabet mafia controls the media now and anti semitic shit.
Thats where we are with Acolyte. I’m not saying you should watch it, it’s completely fair to say it’s not for you or whatever, but by talking about how if it has a 3.5 on IMDB that must mean it sucks, that’s just pushing right wing misinformation. it’s not a great show, and it’s frustrating that I’m essentially being compelled to defend a show that I personally am kind of ambivalent about, exclusively because the criticisms of it are so fucking bad and are being so heavily pushed by the far right as a way to shift the conversation towards their misogynist, racist agenda.
I’m sure you’re a decent person and that you’re not like those people at all, but you kind of are helping them by making their arguments for them. just say it’s not for you and move on, don’t try to criticise a show you haven’t ever seen…
I felt the same.
We must’ve read different comments and reviews. I saw plenty of people just saying it wasn’t funny from what I at least thought were normal commenters. Which is the worst thing a comedy can be, really. Unless it really tries to be funny and fails spectacularly, that can loop around to being funny again. No such luck this time.
I feel like the situation is similar where there’s some culture war shit going on and all the praise and criticism will be lumped under that umbrella. Didn’t hear that from my friends though, it just felt like it wasn’t enjoyable at all.
Fucking hell. I just said my friends said it was shit so I didn’t watch it. You wanted to engage me about it.
This is why I replied to you, not because you said your friends said it was shit. Anyways, we’re done here, I think.
Same point stands, I didn’t go any further than saying my friends said it sucked and I didn’t watch it before someone else engaged me about it. I didn’t know there was a whole thing about this where some feel compelled to defend the show and shit like that.
I engaged with you because you’re amplifying far right talking points, and for no other reason. if you had just left it at “my friends didn’t like it and we share tastes, simple as that” I’d have quite happily accepted that. you tried to back up your friends opinions, for some reason, by doing the laziest research imaginable and then being kinda smarmy about it.