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enough-rope t1_jefrdpk wrote

Big Trouble in Little China: the main character is actually the side kick.

Any movie with a hacker: they press too many buttons.

Marvel movies: the jokes undercut the seriousness of a live action cartoon.

Movie I like: underrated.

Movie I hate: overrated.

Movie that makes me feel uncomfortable but there's actually nothing wrong with it: problematic.

Sequels/prequels: need to stop.... unless it's a franchise I like.

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barnegatsailor t1_jefzzoh wrote

>Movie that makes me feel uncomfortable but there's actually nothing wrong with it: problematic.

Building off of this one; movies where the protagonist is a terrible person or amoral character are problematic because they're "praising terrible behavior".

Like, no, the whole point of a movie with terrible person as the protagonist is to explore how being a bad person will eventually cause you ruin in the end.

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cockblockedbydestiny t1_jegplin wrote

This is also the reason comedy gets unfairly shit on: in the name of white knighting or whatever people will deliberately misunderstand the butt of the joke and assuming whomever is saying it is perpetuating harmful stereotypes. This in spite of how ridiculous it would be for an obviously intelligent, talented person to be saying this stuff for real (and that it usually wouldn't even qualify as a joke to begin with if they were being serious about it)

Artists need to have the freedom to depict problematic characters or situations, otherwise it just comes off as preaching

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erniebarguckle213 t1_jeggiwr wrote

Third point is keeping me from upvoting this. Marvel humor really does suck.

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Dragonborn83196 t1_jegogjh wrote

I second that, it’s way over used and takes away from so many scenes that could have had so much more impact if it were taken seriously instead, I’m all for humor, but use it wisely. Don’t make light of every single scene.

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Inkthinker t1_jefzcva wrote

Your first point is just a Lucky Ten Thousand problem… you’re never gonna run out of people discovering things for the first time, or people wanting to share this thing they just learned with others. That’s just people learning.

Replace Big Trouble with anything else, literally any other topic, and somewhere there will be someone moaning about how tired they are of hearing about a detail that is familiar to them, but not to others. Oh god, yes, everyone knows that the infinite tessellation of non-Euclidean space is a hyperbolic honeycomb, so sick of hearing about it.

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