Twitter's Dark Fate: To forever speak of Marty vs Marvel
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 9:16PM a curated batch of amusing or interesting tweets about the movies...
Seeing people complain that Dark Fate brought wokeness to the Terminator is pretty hilarious when you realize that the most beloved installment featured a robot, a buff woman, a kid played by a Latino actor & a black scientist vs. a villain with the appearance of an LAPD officer. pic.twitter.com/3PPFFOEXWU
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) November 5, 2019
The indignities we’ve put our ascending queens through... pic.twitter.com/rQ8CSeO9fW
— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) November 4, 2019
It’s only a matter of time before Critics’ Choice voters are sent peanut butter and HFPA voters are sent falcons.
— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) November 4, 2019
Okay, I refuse to see this man be unattractive. Just sayin' https://t.co/QfReBptC93
— Kristen Lopez (@Journeys_Film) November 5, 2019
Judy Garland performing as *herself* never won an acting Oscar, so I don't particularly see why Renée gets to swoop in
— Tim Robey (@trim_obey) October 30, 2019
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE STOP MAKING TELEVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— John Early (@bejohnce) November 5, 2019
When I tell you I screamed #BillyOnTheStreet pic.twitter.com/u9VM5T6IEz
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) November 5, 2019
AND THE SCORSESE VERSUS MARVEL "CONTROVERSY" CONTINUES UNABATED ON TWITTER. SERIOUSLY IT'S BEEN A MONTH AND IT DOESN'T STOP.
If Martin Scorsese loves cinema so much, why doesn't he create some sort of organization to preserve, restore, and re-release forgotten and neglected masterpieces from around the world? A "World Cinema Project," if you will?
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) November 5, 2019
Martin Scorsese 2: Judgment Day
— Ray Lewis (@RayLewis1997) November 5, 2019
Martin Scorsese 2049
Martin Scorsese XXL
Martin Scorsese 2: Electric Boogaloo
Martin Scorsese: The Emprie Strikes Back
Martin Scorsese: The Winter Soldier
The Martin Scorsese Supremacy
Martin Scorsese: The Two Towers https://t.co/URiOzlPNM0
“There should be all kinds of movies made and widely available” is not exactly the sort of argument I’D term “gatekeeping,” personally. https://t.co/q68qKVjbbP
— Scott Nye (@railoftomorrow) November 5, 2019
"Martin Scorsese only makes gangster movies" = "I have only seen the Martin Scorsese movies about gangsters."
— Josh Spiegel (@mousterpiece) November 5, 2019
Reader Comments (15)
#TeamMartyScorsese #FuckDisney
Also, I would TOTALLY be on board with reviving peanut butter with a screener for PBF!
Scorsese is absolutely right and he's being way too polite.
Scorcese is 100 percent right.
Marvel movies entertain billions of people and earn bajillions of dollars. The idea that they are the underdog in any way because Marty dares to call them shallow is hilarious.
Especially when critics and the Academy roll over easily enough. Intelligent people acted like Michael B. Jordan did Hamlet last year! That's proof enough that Marvel expects to be graded on a curve and the media is happy to oblige.
@CW - YES to your point about how some critics give Marvel way too much leeway. ESPECIALLY given that if any other franchise were to do some of the shit Marvel's been doing the last few years, they'd be EVISCERATED.
CW and Chris, I've always found the goodwill most critics have towards Marvel movies to be strange, to say the least..... specially when they trnd to be so vicious towards other franchises.
CW and Chris, I've always found the goodwill most critics have towards Marvel movies to be strange,curious, to say the least..... specially when they trnd to be so vicious towards other franchises.
I don’t understand the Feinberg tweet, and the Tim Robey tweet is just a trite unfunny observation. They must be a good friend of Nathaniel’s to pick from the 1000’s of identical instances of this tweet from all the “witty” gays on twitter.
Aw bless -- the Feinberg tweet is a joke about aggressive awards campaigning.
Amanda -- it is a bit strange but critics also go easy on animated films for the most part. I think certain companies and genres inspire a certain kindness... or unwillingness to really dig in for fear of looking like a bully (which is hilarious given that these are hardly the scrawny weaklings of the movie world with any right to worry about bullying.
Am I going to be the only one to mention that the Hugh Jackman clip includes a brief appearance from VIOLA DAVIS?! She brings a level of intensity you would not expect to her two lines about keeping the sidewalk free of dog excrement.
I think that was the point of the tweet, Biggs.
I keep reading Biggs' comments over and over... I can't tell if it's really that dumb or if it's actually self-aware.
Nat: Honestly, I at least get it with the movies. It's how the recent TV doesn't get bottom of the barrel reception that stuns me. Jessica Jones S3? Runaways S2? Those have gotta be...74%? 86%? Um...what? Those seasons were dumb as crap, and not even fun dumb. I mean, the Hellcat storyline? Yikes. Even just "Oh, hell no!" hurt to hear (and that's leaving aside the fact that, personally, that costume looked better than basically every modern superhero costume, even the movie ones), let alone where the plot line ends up. And, as for Runaways? Julian McMahon as Jonah makes most Phase 1 and 2 Marvel villains look like Loki in comparison, and it's not even like they had an excuse to cast him. Freed from the expectation of living up to Doctor Doom...he's STILL an impossibly lame villain. And Elizabeth Hurley (who you may remember from that Wonder Woman pilot) is taking over the villain role for Season 3. That show isn't even trying, are they? And yet: 74%. 86%. Who the crap is giving those shows a pass over OBVIOUS bad calls?
I'm still missing nothing then not being part of Twitter.
I really am that dumb. God bless!
Um okay Volvagia.....