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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

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Stab You in the Back said:
And just as a reminder, Rich's critera was "if I'm channel surfing and I come across the movie on television, would I watch it?" By his own criteria, he's more likely to watch OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL than Spider-Man.
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The younkers here and over on 4chan like to attribute this to GenX detachment, but it's something more universal than that. Rich is a nerd with normie tastes, and as a nerd he reacts very poorly to what he perceives as attacks on his various totemic woobies. Witness his full length review of Mass Effect Andromeda, where he did nothing but snip the discs of all four games into plastic confetti with a pair of pliers. It's very ugly behavior in the wild, and I believe one of the sources of Mike's abuse: the nerd must be kept humble.
 
Tepes Thot said:
I mean compared to the peak of superhero movie production (not quality, just how dominant they were).

No character in the MCU or DCU has a line that’s that uncolored by Disney and theater kid comebacks.

That’s why you keep seeing modern people whine about it now. Not their heckin good boy comfort character saying something problematic.
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It's a bit cutting, but still feels like something Spidey would say.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
I don't know about that. Back in ye olde year 2000, you could still call people gay to insult them.
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I mentioned this before in the Moviebob thread because he virtue signal about it a few times but I'm shocked people find that dig homophobic. Even as a kid I thought the dig was supposed to be misogynistic. Spider-man asked about his husband because the muscular wrestler has long hair and wears a colorful tank top. I thought it was clear he is comparing him to a lady.
 
link1234 said:
I mentioned this before in the Moviebob thread because he virtue signal about it a few times but I'm shocked people find that dig homophobic. Even as a kid I thought the dig was supposed to be misogynistic. Spider-man asked about his husband because the muscular wrestler has long hair and wears a colorful tank top. I thought it was clear he is comparing him to a lady.
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Shit-talking homos and women = same smell.
Or if you want, you could say that homophobia is rooted in misogyny.
Men who use 'bitch' as a way to describe women emulate hood negroes, and they are the most down-low gay population we have. It's all of a piece. When one considers that being 'made into a bitch' is a way of describing prison rape [the gayest of rapes] one is again confronted with the gayness of misogyny overlapping with the gayness of negritude.
Fun fact: 'faggot' used to be a slur against women.
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
Rich's mild criticism of a dumb movie from the 80's sends this thread into an emotional tailspin.
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Are you talking about Spider-Man? Spider-Man is from 2002.

If you are, then it's not really his criticism per se that's got people up in arms. It's that the movies Rich considers better than Spider-Man include a catalog of absolute dogshit. We're talking things like The Quick and the Dead, Oz the Great and Powerful, a terrible Doctor Strange movie, and -- oddest of all to my mind -- Spider-Man 3, which angered most Spider-Man purists I know way more than the first one.

He even seems to be hinting that he liked how Peter Parker was portrayed in that movie, which is infamously one of its most derided elements.

At the end of the day, I do agree it's not worth getting worked up about. Lists like this are always calculated to irritate people just so it'll get them talking.
 
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Marc said:
We may be missing the context of him jerking off to it.
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We are already seeing BreadTubers taking jabs at Red Letter Media. It makes me seriously wonder if they will start going after RLM for calling Gul Dukat a well-written villain. The BreadTube media literacy crowd is demanding that fiction become dumber to protect democracy. They are now outright saying that having well-written villains will feed the alt-right pipeline. Yes, Star Trek Deep Space Nine is far-right propaganda to them.
 
Mola Ram said:
Is there such a thing in your linked video, because if there is you need to give us a timestamp for that shit.
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I published a previous post several months ago. The video I shared pertains to the narrative they are promoting, which subsequently positions them as targets for advocating for intriguing villains. Not the shit you see in disney movies. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dominion concept is depicted as highly alien within the narrative universe, reflecting its unfamiliar mode of operation. The series would likely be disliked by breadtubers, as the Dominion does not serve as a metaphor for white supremacy. Bad guys not being Nazis or white supremacy = Dogwhistles.
 
Battlefield2142EU said:
I published a previous post several months ago. The video I shared pertains to the narrative they are promoting, which subsequently positions them as targets for advocating for intriguing villains. Not the shit you see in disney movies. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dominion concept is depicted as highly alien within the narrative universe, reflecting its unfamiliar mode of operation. The series would likely be disliked by breadtubers, as the Dominion does not serve as a metaphor for white supremacy.
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Gotcha. I only snarked because I suffered through a good chunk of this video waiting for RLM to be mentioned.
 
Listening to Rich review Spider-man just gives me the same vibes as listening to an autist rant about Sonic's arms being the wrong color so it's a 1/10.
 
FWIW, I would rather watch Oz(..) over the Raimi Spider-Men any day of the week, too. I don’t think we even had them on VHS but I watched those so many times as a kid I can’t stomach them anymore. Plus, Mila Kunis is hotter than Kirsten Dunst.
 
I revisited the Red Letter Media Star Trek retrospective reviews and found it amusing that Mike and Rich took a strongly media literacy-oriented approach when discussing Star Trek fans who thought Sisko punching Q was impressive. However, they seemed to overlook the underlying subtext in the episode where Picard was willing to risk his life to demonstrate that he is not a deity, which was meant to challenge local aliens’ religious beliefs. This suggests that Picard himself might have been portrayed as a religious radical willing to sacrifice himself for the Federation’s principles. The episode's subtext appears to compare the Prime Directive to religion. Picard's actions were not intended to make him look heroic for risking his life over a trivial matter.
 
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