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The Last Jedi review seems to have inspired the kind of salt that makes me wish the Salt Mines are still alive.

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"white mediocrity"
 
To be fair, /pol/ spergs also hate RLM and consider them Reddit-tier shills for Disney.
You're mistaking /pol/acks (I presume you mean the ones on /tv/) with
a. DC fanboys
b. Prequel fanboys/Lucas dick-suckers/muh EU-fags
and c. baiters
A quick look at the archives shows they consider them as much a friend simulator as everyone else, except ofc the aforementioned spergs. I mean, /tv/'s 4Chan Cup roster even has (nazi) Mike on the team. Every over the top shit opinion about the crew is 100% quaranteed to be an old pasta, like the ones about Jessi using Patreon money to buy jewlery, something about RLM being a reflection of Gen-Z or X or whatever humour, Jay and Mike being pathetic and too old to break into the movie making industry and so on.
 
If we're talking about people complaining about TLJ video, then here's... probably the most bizzare thing I've seen recently:

(the fun starts several posts down:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...id=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1120#post487480728
https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...id=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1120#post487480728
Some dude in somethingawful RLM thread is seriously arguing that Plinkett is problematic, because he is racist against... robots. You hear it right. Robots.
That's a level of galaxy brain no twitter warriors can hope to reach
 
The Last Jedi review seems to have inspired the kind of salt that makes me wish the Salt Mines are still alive.

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But the markets where TLJ underperformed the worst vs. TFA were all places with lots of PoC. (South America and all of Asia outside of Japan). The hate boner China in particular had for TLJ is why Solo was out of theaters in two weeks as much as any other reason. White critics this, white critics that, "cinephilia(?)" don't have shit to do with any of that. Never mind "cishet," given that China bans overt displays of homosexuality in permitted media.
 
Some dude in somethingawful RLM thread is seriously arguing that Plinkett is problematic, because he is racist against... robots. You hear it right. Robots.
That's a level of galaxy brain no twitter warriors can hope to reach

Hey now! Stop belittling the oppression of my people!
 
It wasn't me but I started the chain by linking MauLer's videos (then someone else found it).

But here you go. I live to please, feel free to ping me for requests any time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nSaasl-nseo

Mauler is garbage.

Mauler is a sped who vomited a coredump of any negativity about the movie, and thought he was being deep by ranting for four hours over 2 minutes' worth of looped bootleg footage. I watched his whole fucking tirade, and he even admitted that he was wrong numerous times in the name of "so i admit i was wrong, never mind." Motherfucker, this is why you don't race to be first. There's nothing remotely academic about what you've done. But yeah, I guess a lot of spergs are going to say "omg this video is so long! he must really know what he's saying!" So. Fucking. Quite the opposite.

But I'm new here. Not trying to make enemies or anything. Whatever.
 
I think it's more a combination of how busy RLM is now compared to when they did their prequel reviews and the amount of work that goes into the Plinkett stuff. As good as Mauler's points are, his review is the opposite of tightly edited. We did get some unique insights (especially the comparison of its structure to that of a slapstick comedy) and the short film "The Wine Tasting," which is probably going to be a meme all on its own. I also suspect there was a lot of behind-the-scenes debating on whether to do the review at all, since it's stupidly become a political litmus test, which is the sort of thing RLM has avoided like the plague since the beginning.

RLM basically wants to stay out of it as much as possible and make fun of dumb shit. You always get that sense, see:


They want to 100% stay the fuck out of it and just say their opinions without the drama of it. That's basically a message to both sides saying 'Please stop, we don't want to talk about this. Leave us alone'.

Of course the salt is going to fucking flow because everyone loves RLM, now they're shitting over their favorite Star Wars movie who they like only because whom they feel misogynists don't like.
 
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Mauler is garbage.

Mauler is a sped who vomited a coredump of any negativity about the movie, and thought he was being deep by ranting for four hours over 2 minutes' worth of looped bootleg footage. I watched his whole fucking tirade, and he even admitted that he was wrong numerous times in the name of "so i admit i was wrong, never mind." Motherfucker, this is why you don't race to be first. There's nothing remotely academic about what you've done. But yeah, I guess a lot of spergs are going to say "omg this video is so long! he must really know what he's saying!" So. Fucking. Quite the opposite.

But I'm new here. Not trying to make enemies or anything. Whatever.
Yeah, and then later he went over the movie in detail and even pointed out where he was wrong the first time.

We even talked about here how RLM wasn't that harsh on TLJ at first, but steadily grew more hateful as time went on (and they thought about it).

Are you saying just nobody should ever talk about their first impressions?
 
Yeah, and then later he went over the movie in detail and even pointed out where he was wrong the first time.

We even talked about here how RLM wasn't that harsh on TLJ at first, but steadily grew more hateful as time went on (and they thought about it).

Are you saying just nobody should ever talk about their first impressions?

Nah, I just don't think he's worth the time of any free-thinking critic.
 
Yeah, and then later he went over the movie in detail and even pointed out where he was wrong the first time.

We even talked about here how RLM wasn't that harsh on TLJ at first, but steadily grew more hateful as time went on (and they thought about it).

Are you saying just nobody should ever talk about their first impressions?

"Hateful" is the wrong word. They're just increasingly amused with its absurdity.
 
Remember when James Rolfe made a case for why he wasn't going to see 2016 Ghostbusters, did not mention anything about the zero-personality grrl characters or queef jokes, and got attacked for it by a bunch of knee-jerk responders, including Patton Oswalt? And then James didn't say word one about in response, even when shit was flying in the other direction and Oswalt had dead wife jokes Tweeted at him?

Same shit's going on with RLM here. They want to make funny videos. They don't otherwise give a damn about Internet drama. They've made that clear. They even put out their own "'16 Ghostbusters sucks" video void of mentioning feminism. Yet there's this absurd notion that because a movie has been politically fought over, it cannot be criticized. Whoever's doing the teardown must be another of those cishet heteronormative straight white people.

Or hey, maybe if you take away the feminazi subtext, there are still plenty of reasons why the movies suck?
 

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