Now make a meme with the text:
“Audiophiles” when someone listens to high-energy goa trance through a moderately expensive monitor headphone and audio interface from a digital source, while coding; instead of listening to Vivaldi though overpriced headphones and a tube headphone amplifier, from vinyl, using cables with magical properties, while doing nothing and “getting immersed into the music”.
“au hazard balthasar” more like cogitohazard balthazar
Eraserhead doesn’t make sense. It just fills you with a sense of unease.
It’s about the dude’s fear of committing to a relationship with a girl he’s been dating.
It took me a moment to realize that “Gritty Black” and “White Polish” weren’t movie titles.
Yeah it feels like the MCU ran over everyone’s dog or something. I get the arguments where people say it’s not real art or that studios put out shlock because they’re trying to copy the MCU. I don’t know if I necessarily agree.
However, what about the meme about just letting people enjoy things?
Let me clear. Last MCU movie I watched was like Shang Chi and I lost interest after Loki and Wandavision (great shows). So like, I’m not a fan anymore and I ain’t watching any of their movies any time soon.
IMO the issue is the frequency of releases (and I say this as a former Marvel fanboy, up to ~Endgame).
People don’t go to the movies often, only a couple of times per year. Without these big franchises, they distribute over the available movies, giving unknown properties the chance to get recognized. But all this goes away when people have a safe choice they already kinda know.
Now we’ve had a huge franchise with multiple yearly releases that keeps on going. This drained a lot of random audiences away from other movies, who in turn Marvel-ized themselves (with the quippy humor etc., you know what I’m talking about) in an attempt to still garner some support.
I think some of it is a misplaced sense of frustration with the way that most big commercial films are franchises/cinematic universes, which focus on plot over everything else. See spoiler culture - where plot details are so key to the point of the movie that revealing them could somehow “ruin” it.
Weirdos like me who would rather watch shit like Au Hasard Balthazar often aren’t eating good at the box office. I’ll watch Marvel movies with friends and turn off my movie critic brain but I’m not enjoying the movie, just the company. I’ll go watch Venom with my younger brother or something, but very rarely have I been able to find friends to go watch like Lancelot du Lac with.
