I got a tumblr style rant for this xtter style rant.
This again? When has telling people "make better entertainment choices?" ever worked?
But also "X is mindless garbage that's destroying culture?"
It's so fucking cliché.
Before the MCU, it was reality TV, before that it was video games, before that MTV, Rap music, sitcoms, hippies, Rock & Roll, comic books, TV, movies, can't forget JAZZ, it goes back to the penny dreadful, to novels in general, and beyond.
Just say you're pissed off the pulp trash is getting all the money and be up front about it.
Maybe a legendary director could move the culture on Hollywood accounting and the obvious fraud of the marketing budgets, and solve that a bit?
Better yet, maybe go tell congress that giant entertainment monopolies are crushing small projects and limiting consumer options. A horde of little mice would eat a more diverse array of cheese than one giant one.
"See the rats in their million hordes, From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads"
But who am I fooling? This is kayfabe.
Harlan Ellison pulled this act off for years for self promotion (far better, I might add).
He'd strut out, tell the Star Wars nerds their movies sucked, soak up the boos and get eyes on everything he was doing.
The entertainment media, they love it. It's the easiest, laziest, click-bait imaginable. If the news day is slow, you just ask Martin Scorsese or Alan Moore about comic book movies and transcribe the one that answers first.
I mean, I've drawn you in with a multiple page ramble about this, after all.
Shakespeare had a line about this... what was it?
Oh yeah!
"WHAT? You egg!" [he stabs him]
That's the stuff.
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