Insane Critics are KILLING Hollywood

[@disparutoo]

Insane critics are killing Hollywood, a group long held in disdain since before I had the internet and had to get reviews from the local newspaper. But it's only gotten worse as the internet has pushed them out further and even made them the news themselves. But critics and Hollywood rely on each other, both wanting to pander to the other at the expense of the customer. I previously did a video like this about actors, and have decided to turn it into a series with it's own playlist. Looking at individual components of entertainment how they contribute to the situation we currently find ourselves in. But what do you think? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@earlofdoncaster5018]

Curiously, I've just seen the last episode of a show full of cynicism, suffering, injustice and tragedy: Season One of Preacher. It rocked. And was entertaining. So not all entertainment has to be feel-good escapism.

[@112Famine]

Please stop shaving off your eyebrows, & spend some time in a dentist office getting your teeth fixed! ..dear GOD I was trying to eat!

[@thisguydan]

7:40 Good example why RT is so misleading. You're well aware that the RT% isn't a score, but what percentage of reviews gave it a 6 or better, and yet even you at a glance see 100% and get the impression that "The critics think this is perfect. They can't even think of one single problem" making the mistake, like we all do, that it's an actual score. It's just natural to see something like "80%" and have the impression "This is an 8/10" without a second thought rather than "80% rate this a 6/10 or better". If we understand it and still make the mistake, imagine those who don't and are misled by it. Certainly helps Disney consistently target an inoffensive 6/10 that's reflected as a 70-100% on RT rather than reflect mediocrity.

[@tylergillmani5567]

Disparu - Critics are killing Hollywood Me - I hope they do

[@elliotmorin5560]

You may wish to check out the Thomas Sowell audiobook, Intellectuals and Race. He makes many similar arguments about how ego drives this major gap between common sense and the "superior" views of intellectuals.

[@melissar4612]

Critics lost all value when they stopped critiquing the art/media and started critiquing the audience instead. It's the difference between saying, "This movie won't do well because it isn't very good," versus, "This movie won't do well because the audience isn't very good."

[@kempolar9768]

While there is a small degree in which a bad audience can mess up something genuinely decent, yeah. Most of the time when the audience is blamed it's a blatant attempt to cover up how bad something was.

[@waylander9265]

Remember that Shakespeare wrote for the masses. His plays were written for people of all social backgrounds, not just the social elite, hence their ubiquity in all English speaking countries. He also wrote both comedies and tragedies because the people enjoyed both for different reasons. Great art is universal, it speaks to everyone because great artists want to communicate with as many people as possible, not just like minded snobs.

[@SN00PICUS]

I ordinarily troll, but i'd like to take a moment to appreciate you for actually having an expansive vocabulary and using it to make a well stated point. I haven't seen someone use "ubiquity" properly since I was in college. kudos man

[@Sue_Me_Too]

Not everything he wrote was for everybody, but he did write things for everybody.

[@fusilier3029]

Now, to be fair, when Shakespeare was alive his most popular play was Titus Andronicus. And well, that one is probably more akin of a slasher movie than anything else. :-P (And yes, I know, more people die in King Leer, but Titus Andronicus was wayyyyyy more brutal).

[@johnstrawb3521]

@Waylander926 Worth noting, too, is that Shakespeare was rarely the escapism that Disparu too often extols, as if to be valid as entertainment film has to keep life at one remove, somehow.

[@alannothnagle]

Very well stated.

[@PoorMansChemist]

Dude this goes WAY back. When I was a kid in the 80s we used to say that you could tell what movies would be good just by watching what the critics hated.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Didn't realize that. Thought it was just a modern thing.

[@decay79]

We had this one big critic here in Denmark, and it was not like his taste was just always wrong so to speak, you just had to know what he liked, and then with that information you could figure out the odds of it being something for you. That i think is fair enough, you like what you like, same goes for the critics, but lately it's just pandering for the money men garbage.

[@NefariousKoel]

@@MegaSpideyman - It's become worse, recently, due to 'professional' critics switching from art-fart-sniffing to checkbox tokenism as their prime concern.

[@PoorMansChemist]

@@decay79 Watch some clips of Siskel and Ebert from the 80s reviewing movies. The vast majority of of time if it was an awesome flick they hated it. If it was some boring movie that only artsy film students and menapausal women would like then they loved it. In my family we just ignored the fact that critics existed and watched stuff we thought looked cool in previews. Of course back in those days film was actually entertaining. Special effects were still mostly practical so a film had to have a good story. That's why you have episodes of Dr Who from the 70s where the monster is clearly a guy in a paper mache costume with a box for a base and no moving parts that are better than big budget movies today. The production teams of decades past needed the story to carry the film because you couldn't CGI/VFX every little damn thing.

[@emceedoctorb3022]

@@MegaSpideyman Nope, it’s pretty much always been a thing. It’s just these days it’s more noticeable due to the constant stream of utter dogshite being churned out that the critics love.

[@r.blakehole932]

Modern art critics, "The only good art is that art which deconstructs all standards of beauty and truth inherited from two-thousand years of Western Art tradition. If the past thought it was good then it must be horrible."

[@joelvannatta3266]

That is modern progressivism. The past is bad, people from the past were bad, and anyone who looks to the past is bad.

[@Jim87_36]

Tbf there is great eastern art that does that but overall, …yeah it’s a decent summation…

[@Xbalanque84]

Ironic, as my favorite forms of art tend to be certain _ancient_ styles and contemporary works that try to somewhat faithfully imitate those aesthetics.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

You can remove the word 'art' from those two sentences.

[@JosephFrostsGhost]

Critics are going the way of dinosaurs. KZbin content creators are taking their place. This happens when integrity are forgotten about for goodie bags. I’m sure critics hold those goodie bags while they sleep at night, talking in their sleep, saying “absolute triumph” over and over again, while they cry butterfly tears and have all the feels.

[@toddpacker1015]

KZbinrs already took over. You add Twitch Streamers and Tik Tokers... Hollywood's sphere of influence is a very small percentage.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Probably not just KZbin critics, either.

[@decay79]

The big difference would be that critics are to blame for their own demise. They so full of shit & corrupt that no one could care less what they have to say, the example of The rings of powa perfectly shows this.

[@princecharming69]

awards are going away to as peoples opinions of the organizations diminish

[@parisloop6855]

Then all the KZbinr shills got their free trips to London for the Rings of Prime and cried about being called shills.

[@jpteknoman]

Reminds me of a movie where a guy and a woman are looking at a painting and she talks about all the things the painter wanted to convey with it. he says "all i see are random lines of color". then they introduce themselves: she is a pro art critic and he was the painter.

[@NickNapoli]

They’re not critics they’re called activists.

[@stephenthomas1492]

That really is more accurate. They'll give high scores and low ones all for the 'theme' of a movie. I've given up watching anything new. Plenty of great movies from the past that are pre-woke. At least till they start changing them via the Roald Dahl travesty.

[@Liquid-Ben]

@@stephenthomas1492 urinalists

[@sgtbigballs666]

​@@stephenthomas1492 they can edit my VHS tapes? Now that's disturbing 🤔

[@johnhughes2124]

this is why I watch the Drinker, Disparu and Midnight's edge, honest views, breakdown of the writing and acting.

[@johnhughes2124]

@@stephenthomas1492 Hardcopies, scanning the originals, printing and binding them

[@zalybrainlessgenius503]

I studied art at college for a year. I can confirm that every single person with a doctorate in art is like this: 2:35 Ego, arrogance, self importance and pretentiousness. Convinced they're not only doing an important job, but also a job no one else can do. Exactly as you said.

[@FairPlayGaming]

It is not just the critics that are the problem; the production companies, as well as the people who engage with said products, are to blame for the current issues that we have when it comes to the various rating systems. There are people out there who have given Velma episodes 10/10, even though the show is objectively bad, purely for ideological reasons and people on the opposite side of the spectrum have given shows/movies a 1/10, even when they don't deserve that rating. Companies, as we saw with Amazon and ROP, are actively manipulating the ratings for their shows and movies by deleting/rejecting/botting/faking reviews until they get a decent score.

[@guyincognito1406]

Yeah pretty much anyone can put whatever they want on their website, truth doesn’t matter… but people act like everything on the internet is true…

[@JoFa876]

Velma IS a 1/10, though.

[@mynamename5172]

The one to five and one to ten star review thing is part of the problem. It should just be Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. You can then use math, oooh scary, to come up with a ratio.

[@FairPlayGaming]

@@JoFa876 I completely agree with your statement based on my own bias towards the show, however the problem that we have currently, is that people are scoring shows based on their personal belief systems that has nothing to do with the product itself, for example: "I don't like X and Y show pisses them off, so I am going to give it a 10/10.". A creator cannot accurately evaulate what went wrong with a product, when a vocal minority is destroying all discourse around it.

[@mrarogue]

The average person does not go out of their way to give a movie a low score.. They just forget the show instantly.. Actavist definitely go out of their way to score it 10

[@satanscat2333]

I’ve never trusted critics fully, mainly because I always thought. “Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean I won’t.”

[@BigPuddin]

Not a great way to look at things. By this argument, you wouldn't trust Disparu's opinion. I DO trust his opinion even if I don't agree with him because we've an established rapport with me understanding what irks him as a critic. Don't misrepresent legitimate critique simply because there are sweaty internet activists masquerading as the former. Many aspects of criticism are subjective, albeit that's the point of a critic. For example, if a critic REALLY hates horror movies but he ended up enjoying one and fully recommends it, a horror fan will probably like it even more. The inverse is typically true as well. If he hates a particular movie because he doesn't really like horror movies as they're usually silly and laden with jump scares, a horror movie fan should take this with a grain of salt. A critic is a means of quality control. Just because you like something and the critic doesn't in no way invalidates his perspective nor your own beyond concrete things like plot holes and shitty special effects and whatnot. You shouldn't mistrust a critic simply because he has a different viewpoint than you. That's shortsighted and silly. You should only mistrust him when his motivations and intentions come into question. I.e. politics, shilling, etc. If he's doing his job right and for the right reasons, there's no reason to not trust his perspective even if it doesn't align with your own. If you generally understand Disparu's perspective, you'll likely trust his opinion on a movie laden with woke trash if you're of a like mind. After all, people who aren't fans of horror movies would probably agree with his perspective entirely whereas someone who does enjoy them wouldn't. That doesn't make him a bad critic. He's only a bad critic when he doesn't understand basic shit like "pacing" and "characterization" and/or judges things from a purely political perspective as per dicta of a specific agenda.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@BigPuddin Speaking of Masculinity... know Popculture-Detective?

[@satanscat2333]

@@BigPuddin you do have a point, I’m not saying all critics are bad critics. I watch people go over movies, mostly stuff I’ll never watch, just to see the different takes on it and they tend to be more interesting then most articles I see on movies. Everyone has different tastes and everything of course but I apply my not fully trusting of critics to most forms of media (games/books/tv/etc) as most of the time i don’t like what ends up being popular. My dad and mom also have a similar mindset of not really trusting critics so I may have gotten that from them, as well as often seeing a movie critics hate and I end up liking for dumb reasons. Yes critics can be helpful and sometimes not as I don’t want to waste my money on something i end up not even liking, this actually happened recently with a movie that wasn’t bad but not exactly my cup of tea but the few ads i saw of the movie i thought it was going to be different from what it actually was. There are some things I’ve seen/read/played that make me wish i had looked at and trusted critics while there’s other stuff where I’m glad I ignored it. I might of contradicted myself in this but I’ve realized i tend to do that a lot just from the way i think :p But you do have a point, not all critics are bad but not all are good, not all critics are the same or are going to judge something in the same way.

[@satanscat2333]

Yea Forgive me if i contradict myself or the entire comment sounds weird or stupid, I’m like 80% idiot lol

[@BigPuddin]

@@satanscat2333 I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, but you're cool, man. Don't flagellate yourself for not knowing insider information of an incredibly complex medium. A lot of people think the same way.

[@kingmeruem6657]

This is pretty much the same conclusion Rippa came to. That many writers and "creatives" write for their in-group, for the articles, Twitter clicks and grandstanding. And the critics are all in on it cos they perks like early access.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Very saddening and just totally disingenuous. Doesn't really help to gauge what film or show to go with. Something they like could be bad, or just the opposite, while something they dislike could be great, or just as bad as they say.

[@primmakinsofis614]

_That many writers and "creatives" write for their in-group, for the articles, Twitter clicks and grandstanding._ Academia is also like that. And, sadly, scientific research appears to be going in that direction as well.

[@kingmeruem6657]

@@MegaSpideyman Not a problem I really deal with as I mostly watch anime. As for western media, I watch people like disparu, mauler, e;r, drinker and others "review" them in truly entertaining fashion.

[@kingmeruem6657]

@@primmakinsofis614 Definitely, I mean, never question the science™️.

[@logicerrormusic]

As a person who deals with art, styling and design for work and for passion I found a really compelling and complex problem with art and media: we cannot get over Postmodernism, a movement that overstayed its welcome long ago, that should have died with the positivism of the '90s but thanks to the shitty development of the wotld proceded to stay relevant for another 30 years and now we just cannot imagine something beyond. If we want to really see improvements in media, literature, art and culture we need a new manifesto, a new movement. We need to destroy this truth invalidation, we need to deny every snowflake's point of view as valid and set again something that is valid for the majority of us, not only for a bunch of weirdos that feels entitled to do whatever they want.

[@thisismedgr]

Did you ever see The John Laroquette Show? In one episode, as I recall, he was sitting in a darkened stage theatre with his friends, remarking that he just got a job as a local art critic. They were complaining that the show was half an hour late or so, then the lights came on and some stone faced woman was sitting on the stage. She stood and woodenly stated, "The artist watches the audience. Thank you." John leapt to his feet and yelled, "THAT SUCKED!" His friend looked up and said "John! You're a critic now!" John grabbed his pen and notepad and replied, "Oh yeah... THAT SUCKED!!!" Your video made that pop into my head again... Thanks!

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

“F*ck you!” “Bro, you’re a professional!” “Oh, right. With all due respect, f*ck you!”

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

Stephen Fry compiled a bunch of Greek Myths into a catalogue trilogy. Stephen Fry could so easily shove all his politics in your face. And yet, he respects his readers and his audience, acknowledges there are various versions of the myths, then lays out his sources and sometimes why he settled on one and not the other. Greek mythology is full of every emotion and act. Woke and anti-woke. Never does Stephen Fry shows his politics on you. He tells the story, adds one or two of his thoughts from the perspective of a post-modern being, makes you laugh, might make you cry and moves on to the next story. And even if you know all the myths by heart, when Stephen Fry sits on a wooden chair on a bright stage, in his flamboyant oversized suit, doing voices as he simply reads the book out loud, 2000 people listen intently, and gasp and cheer and laugh and shed a tear and applaud at the end.

[@janel.8921]

This is a dark ride. A sign he kept on the wall.

[@janusinitiative3520]

Took me a while to notice the (epic) Gandalf T-shirt

[@BattlewarPenguin]

“Pay no attention to what the critics say: no statue has ever been erected to a critic.” - Jean Sibelius.

[@tcook6759]

Another excellent video captain D. I’m hating almost all the tripe Hollywood has produced lately. I’m boycotting Disney over them pushing “the message”.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Blade Runner was scorned by the critics when it came out while became a cult icon between audiences.

[@marcwilliams9824]

Although the exact same thing could be said about The Room and the critics weren't wrong.

[@dumbidiot973]

@@marcwilliams9824 No one thinks The Room is a good movie, it is a so bad it’s good kind of movie

[@generalautismoactual5213]

The theatrical version of Blade Runner was God awful. Nobody watches that version anymore unless you're a masochist.

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@generalautismoactual5213 Is that the one with the narration or another one?

[@EdB-qh4up]

@@generalautismoactual5213 Não fode. Só gosto da versão original, internacional : happy ending and voice - over.

[@furionmax7824]

Seeing what Hollywood has become has actually opened my eyes as why more books aren't being made into movies. And there's some books out there like The Last Stormlord, The Night Angel, Monster Hunter International, and the Daylight War saga that would be great series or films. If anime has taught me anything is that the author of a manga has full legal control and final say in what goes in their manga. No matter what. A writer of a novel is no different. That's why everything is from a studio employed writer instead of an independent one. For one thing its less complicated. And two the studio and producers have control over what goes in and what can't. Funny thing about the adaptation scene is that there's a lot of legal shit that goes with it. When a studio wants to make an adaptation they have to ask for approval of the writer and the publishing company. So instead of the studio having their hands wrapped around the writers neck, it's the other way around. Take one piece for example. If Toei suddenly decided to ask "hey, Oda, we believe that this character would be better for audience appeal if he was a different race. Can you change it?" All Oda has to do is say no and it's a done deal. Get it?

[@conormurphy4328]

“Ok but your next filler arc is gonna be a crap one”

[@tinymetaltrees]

Dude. A contract determines that, not the art style. Manga doesn’t get special rules compared to other styles. It’s in the legal agreement, not the content of the entertainment product.

[@furionmax7824]

@@tinymetaltrees but don't they still have to run it by both the Author and publishing company for anything that's like more detailed? Say overseeing and approval of casting for the live adaptation? Kind of got curious about this whole thing after All Hunt Grount showed up in the anime. And looking just like another version of Luffy no less.

[@YouthRightsRadical]

Cell in Dragonball Z only exists because of executive meddling. Toryama wanted to have the Androids as the big bads for the arc, but his superiors decided that audiences needed a singular big bad to overcome. And that's just one example. I don't know where you're getting your ideas about the Manga industry.

[@boomingbob1579]

They aren’t learning their lesson so with each show movie or other they are making it worse for themselves

[@RkSmithers]

What lesson? They litterally never get held accountable for anything, how can they learn anything but do what ever they want?

[@falsetitle6940]

@@RkSmithers They can only lose so much money.

[@RkSmithers]

@False Title Indeed, and then all their rich friends in the federal reserve dish out more bailout money instead of letting them collapse under their own failures. So many of our problem companies should already be dead and replaced by some new awesome mom and pop chain. Instead the rich litterally never face failure, it's always dug out for em and blamed on somebody or so.ething else.

[@saymyname2417]

@@falsetitle6940 - Critics do not lose any money. Films aren't made "for them", either. Critics (just like the Twitterati) are nothing but minor minions of the industry and the movers and shakers behind it. It is NOT about money.

[@boomingbob1579]

@@RkSmithers exactly you cant be wring if you drown if out

[@jsutton892]

My art would be a random critic in a tank of formaldehyde. Damien Hirst did it with a shark.

[@realistic_delinquent]

So last decade… throw one in a vat of hydrofluoric acid and call it a performance piece instead.

[@lanuudo]

Those critics need to watch Ratatouille to hear Ego's speach

[@Lonovavir]

Hollywood committed suicide a while ago, critics are just performing the autopsy.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Very well put.

[@sterling7]

Then perhaps they should spend more time burying Caesar and less time praising him.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

@@sterling7 Caesar did Great things. Terrible but Great. The Leftists only do terrible things.

[@vermithrx1744]

I was having a really bad day which left me in a foul mood but then I got a notification that a new Disparu video was up and watching it melted away all the frustration and anger. Thank you, brother!

[@phoenix_xd5728]

It all boils down to one word "Hubris". It's the death of anything

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

The Ancient Greeks held hubris as one of the mortal sins of their culture for a damn good reason.

[@thecornerkid402]

What’s strange is how creators still feel so beholden to these idiots. You can understand chasing the critics years ago. It was the only source of words of affirmation for them. They had no real way of talking to fans and hearing what they thought. A critic’s opinion was the only feedback you could get from the “public”. But now, the internet exists. They can go straight to their fans and hear what they’re saying, but they’re stuck in listening to the critics.

[@cp-the-nerd]

Videos like this prove that Disparu has earned every sub. The creative and biting wit is so incredibly well delivered.

[@ApatheticGod0]

I used to only like tragedies. I thought comedies just weren’t as good. That tragedies had more to give. Then I realised i was miserable. Why? Because all I watched were miserable things. So I watched more funny things. Blackadder, the play that goes wrong, the thin blue line. More and more and now? Now I’m happy. I watch tragedies when I want to be sad and I watch comedies when I want to be happy. That’s why critics are miserable. They convince themselves that the world is awful, that it’s ending (climate change, leftist beliefs etc) and therefore things that didn’t reflect that are for the common plebs, those who are alseep and just wants simple tripe. And that’s why they’re wrong and killing movies

[@jaquitavulpix3418]

ca. 4:00: I mean, I do love a good cynical, "everyone is bad"-story full of suffering which ends just in misery - but honestly, these kind of movies are so much better off in niche genres, often indie or arthouse and therefore very creator driven and not constrained by hollywood rules. European cinema does these quite well at times. It's just not a thing that should be a mainstream hollywood blockbuster, you know?^^

[@agarthastudio6005]

It is a shame that so many people don't appreciate a good tragedy anymore. I mean, Rambo was a tragic character/story. His breakdown at the end is what clenches the movie for the viewers. This, "I just want to laugh & be entertained," mindset is why no serious or sad situation in Marvel movies can go without some horribly unfunny quips & one-liners being jammed in. Imagine how clownish the dramatic scene between Odin & Loki would've been in the 1st Thor movie, if Taika Waititi had had his hand in it...

[@Jimmie2429]

The refined/erudite critics have always looked down on and disdained as you said (and I was actually typing it when you said it!) “the great unwashed masses”.

[@skylx0812]

Actually, "unwashed masses" is Jew-speak for gentiles. And since people often accuse Hollywood as being run by Jews it sort of fits. ...I learned that from the Frannie Goldberg character from the King novel, "The STAND".

[@skylx0812]

When the plague breaks out, she fixes a bowl of "Jewish Penicilin" for her ill father. Then she says, "'Chicken Soup' to the unwashed masses".

[@thedragonking8854]

A lot of the modern art I’ve seen is a prime, real life example of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” I’ve ever noticed Critics: This artwork has remarkable depth and meaning! Almost beyond comprehension! Me: You taped a banana to a wall??

[@derekhell632]

As someone who's worked in customer service way too long, I never thought I would agree with someone saying the customers are right.

[@guyincognito1406]

Dear customer, the sky is not red, you are wrong. Dear customer, whatever taste makes you want those shoes, you’re always right.

[@taejasper1343]

This video is absolutely spot on, bro! Good job, Disparu, you've listed all the exact reasons why no normal person would ever dare take these critics seriously and it's a mystery how they manage to keep their jobs most of the time trying to please their bosses in the entertainment industry, it's amazing to me! It's only going to continue to happen so much because these critics are allowed to continue doing this every time! And the audience will never get their say in the matter if this keeps up in the future. They will continue to do this because some of these companies don't care about entertainment or making money anymore, just give people want they want and you'll be happy! It's just that simple!

[@bring-out]

'Oscar Gold' from the American Dad! episode 'Tearjerker' sums up the Oscar winning concept.

[@KristinaLJohnson]

I miss the days where critics reliably trashed everything you put in front of them. Even their own mother. When they shredded something so horribly it was just package stuffing. Why? Because checked the hollywood egos by saying: there’s ALWAYS room for improvement Hollywood, do better. But then again it was the eta where talent won out over back patting so it’s likely not going to return.

[@ArwenUndomiel406]

11:42 that’s my point exactly. If you ever had to experience something truly horrific in your life you don’t want to see all these terrible, pessimistic stories. You need hope, joy, escapism!!!

[@derrickcrowe3888]

I don't know if that's necessarily true. The saying "Misery loves company" exists for a reason. But even if it were true, that's actually one of the cool things about movies and storytelling in general. They can tell stories of suffering and despair, of pain and loss, and the audience can experience it (to a degree) and expand their understanding of emotions of humanity wiithout having to go through something awful themselves. Not all movies need to be this way, of course, but there is absolutely a place for hopeless, tragic stories.

[@lance134679]

Great essay. I only wonder how long this model of making movies & shows for critics instead of general audiences can sustain itself. It's one thing to have art & fashion that no one likes except those in the business, it's quite another to spend hundreds of millions on movie & TV projects when many of them don't turn a profit. It seems that something has to give eventually.

[@sarkastodon30]

Disparu Have you seen The Green Book? You're missing out. It may have tried to be Oscar Bait, but remember it was cancelled by the Mob because of 'White Saviour' because modern stories can't have that. But actually it was really good! Plus it had Viggo Mortensen in it which his acting is awesome.

[@550LMS]

I watched it the other day and I really enjoyed it.

[@liviapiana4207]

I loved it as well, but that doesn't mean it wasn't an oscar bait

[@YumiCakes]

Can't forget about those cyberpunk 2077 reviews where reviewers just straight up admitted to skipping parts of the game they didnt find interesting and still think that their review should be taken seriously.

[@OppositeOfNinja]

Studios not caring about the customers' opinion about specific projects explains why they have all jumped onto the streaming platform model. By providing access to shows and movies of the past (plus a couple here and there of current day) they effectively guarantee a customer base without having to justify the dross that the critics like. They can lambast the audiences of the awful content, safe in the subscription fees that roll in regardless, as nobody who pays does so for the crap that can kinda be ignored.

[@hayles_]

This is especially true now where everything's on streaming services. The movie or show is still getting money (maybe not as much if it's bad but still more than if it released theatrically or on old fashioned cable) so why should they care about the audience? Why care about the audience when critics' opinions help dictate what's pushed to the top of the website or is talked about the most?

[@johnhughes2124]

The Kristen Lavrensdatter trilogy is being adapted for TV. Set in Medieval Scandinavia I dread to think how they're going to do it. Of course if its any good the Critics will wine about its authenticity

[@Sutorenja]

you think it will be authentic?

[@johnhughes2124]

@@Sutorenja I live in hope

[@johnhughes2124]

@@captainbingo100 Or worse they'll do what they did in the Witcher and make it look more like 2020s New York than Medieval Scandinavia

[@steelshanks1265]

Artist here: Illustrator in fact... This is like the Fine Arts and Photography kids that We all made fun of in College... They always thought they were changing the world, or human perception, etc. I just told them to shut the feck' up... They are insufferable people. Illustrators just wanted to draw, make comics, or tv commercials, etc. Now they're in the comics industry too... Now TV, Movies, and Comics are shyte... I wonder why...

[@dshadows2966]

The customer isn't always right depending on the situation, especially situations where you know they are wrong without a doubt.

[@stevenscott2718]

"The customer is always right" is a shortened quote, the full qoute is "The customer is always right, in matters of taste" meaning if the customer doesn't like/want what your selling tough shit thats on you. Not do whatever the entitled shithead wants you to do.

[@dshadows2966]

@@stevenscott2718 Yep, retail workers always have stories.

[@charlesjmouse]

Indeed. As a general rule to be a critic requires an abundance of ego over ability.

[@ArwenUndomiel406]

Your video is so much more important, than I think you realize. It perfectly explains the unbearable, arrogant, elitist, professional, anxious pessimism that’s being forced down our throats and used to control people. Thank you fo helping me see this.

[@MouseGoat]

like, why even have a "critics score vs public score" I kinda think thy just want a higher number than the public score to feed their egos.

[@billiemazier4672]

Completely losing trust in a critic or news source is like finding massive cracks in the foundation of a house you’re looking to buy. Yes, you can purchases as-is, or they can put in a ton of time, effort, and money into fixing it… But you’d probably be better served just finding a new house to buy. And, in this case, new critics to trust.

[@Borgforce]

I went to the Getty Museum in LA the other week - Most of the 1600-Present day paintings and exhibits were amazing. Then I went to the Photography exhibition wing, and all I could think was *“This, THIS is art? What the actual F**K!”* - One example called “Peripheral” Where the photographer took a picture of a street, COMPLETELY out of focus! You could barely make it out as a street, then right next to it was the same street but this time “the artist” took a photo of a vertical beam of red wood in crisp, crystal detail, and the background in the same blurred vision. I’m no photographer or artist, but I’ve taken better pictures on my iPhone! The rest were much of the same, taking photos of out of frame items or subjects - It’s a crying shame that an entire wing was taken up by that crap! *The photographer(s) had to be taking the piss out of the Getty! - don’t care if they were paid or not, they still had the museums pants down!*

[@HalfLifeOfHumanity]

To be fair, modern art is never going to be as consistent as classical artwork because modern artwork is only what came out this last week, month, year, etc.. when compared to Art work that has been sorted through for centuries and deemed amazing many times over before it was displayed in that museum. And the amazing artwork in a time period of 1600 to 2023 is always going to objectively contain far more masterpieces because of the wider net, compared to modern artwork from a time period of something like 2020 to 2023. Our mainstream standards have definitely plummeted, and our society is truly becoming an idiocracy. But there is always incredible artists at all times, its just much harder to dig through all the garbage to find them now compared to amazing artwork that has been judged a million times over the course of many decades or centuries and even millenia.

[@Borgforce]

@@HalfLifeOfHumanity - I honestly thought I could see the beauty in any photo, but the Getty proved me wrong - I can’t explain how ridiculous most of them were. If I remember it right another picture was of someones feet, but they were in a bottom corner barely in the frame, the rest (95% of the picture) was taken up by the empty space of a wooden floor. At least it was all in focus I guess? (Compared to that stupid street and red wood picture). I know the subject of a photo doesn’t have to be the entire focus of the entire piece, I know it can look amazing with only a half of a face showing in the picture for instance - at least it is attempting something… but those exhibits I saw in there were stupid, if you take your phone out right now, swing it randomly around the rooms of your house and take a look… or if you take a photo of a random part of your hoover, but focus the lens until it’s a bit blurry *that was the quality of the photos that were on display…* I have honestly seen better on KZbin of street photography and people having their portraits done.

[@HalfLifeOfHumanity]

@@Borgforce Haha when you said "I have seen better on KZbin of street photography" I read it as "I have seen better on Google Maps Street View". But I totally get you, abstract for the sake of abstract is what it sounds like to me. A great artist either is a master at capturing reality or is a master at abstracting reality in order to convey a potentially even more powerful message, idea, feeling or otherwise move the viewer. And with photography, when you break the conventions of the medium, there has to be a reason why. And mainstream modern art coming out reminds me of trains being sent down the same railroad where a train derailed on, so its just an ever growing pile up of train after train and piece after piece just nonsensically crashing into the same mistakes as the last. Or in the "art"'s case, just making the same mistakes as the last. But for some reason, we just keep getting more of it. Less meaning in very piece than the last, because there is no guidance or direction to so much of the art. Most of the best modern art nowadays is outsider art and underground art. Perhaps in 100 years the actually good artwork of our time will be given the merit it deserves today instead of the garbage that actually gets merit now. Most talented artists tend to be underappreciated until after their deaths.

[@ericpode6095]

"Written for the Guardian & the BBC......." Instant red flags (in all senses...).

[@gitgudsec]

Nerdrotic and Disparu dropping fresh on the same day

[@toodlescae]

I stopped listening to critics decades ago when Siskel & Ebert kept dissing movies I enjoyed. I guess they were too low brow for their highfalutin' senses.

[@kevlartheweldingwarrior]

A lot of movie Critics have a self righteous feel to them. An all knowing, all correct God complex. I like how you completely incapsulated those characters while mocking them in this video.

[@Kal_g]

Ever since I've stopped watching channels like Collider, IGN, Gamespot, Gamescoop, and the like, my perspective on how I approach films, games, comics and TV shows has changed dramatically.

[@BB-zd3jr]

I always enjoy your takes on modern entertainment. Thanks for your hard work!

[@IlyaKralinsky]

As a guide, and I'm old, so I remember these things: anything roughly pre-1980 that is an Academy Award winner -- you can trust that. Anything after? No.

[@CRF-2013]

Disparu's right about one thing - K-Dramas (and Korean Cinema) have become my go to for quality viewing. It's not just that there are more original stories, it's that even when they are telling tried and tested formulas they do it in a far more 'real' way, without trying to shove "The Message" or some pretentious nonsense down your throat along with it. They entertain, not lecture. They don't spell it out for you - you actually have to think and pay attention. Their tv and movies are made to entertain YOU, not stroke their own egos. It's refreshing after the brainless tripe we've been getting in the West for years now. In fact Asian TV and cinema in general has come along in leaps and bounds. Go check out Japanese shows as well (though some of the Japanese stuff is utterly bonkers and an acquired taste - Tokyo Vampire Hotel anyone? LOL).

[@Xbalanque84]

You caught my attention with "Tokyo Vampire Hotel." And I don't even care about vampires.

[@mmr0221]

And they’re pure

[@marhawkman303]

@@mmr0221 Korean stuff tends to be very unfiltered. I really wish that "Sudden Attack" game hadn't gotten buried in bad press, because the people making it put a lot of work into making a game with young sexy Koreans shooting each other for no obvious reason. Not crusty random army dudes... but... some of them looked like they got interrupted while shopping. hahaahah

[@cherstigordon9475]

The only tv I really watch now a days is on Viki with the occasional british show. I'd like to know what k-dramas DisparU likes. Also, something that I love about asia is they have not forgotten how to do art. Western shows are all one of a kind, generic, and bland. Even when it comes to fantasy, as Rings of Power proved. Asian shows, especially the fantasy and cartoons, have so much beauty to them. They are down right stunning. Even the shows set in modern day have much better outfits and I actually want to dress like their main characters. Don't care for how most western shows dress their actors/actresses.

[@fuferito]

02:04 Friendly correction, Disparu. Those are _vertical_ lines; “verticle” isn't a word that applies here.

[@patriciafenwick5846]

Another brilliant take, I had a good giggle. And laughing 30 mins a day is good for your health apparently. And we have Disparu to put a big wide smile on our faces. 🤣🤣🤣

[@joehasskamp5523]

Art critics are the worst. They, specifically, are a bunch of failed artists who want to tear down those who have the success they couldn't achieve, while praising those with similar talentlessness.

[@Eemi_Seppala]

I like how in American dad they had a super villain make a movie so sad that it would make people cry themselves to death. The movie was called Oscar gold, but it seemed to be a movie that both audiences and critics would actually agree on to be good, in universe that is. However, if it was actually released, I bet it would be bashed by critics and loved by the audience, and since it's animated, it wouldn't even be given a chance at oscars.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Growing up, I was a big Batman and X-Men the animated series fan. It was so well crafted. The story of mutants was universally relatable. Media abstractly taught me life lessons, touched on difficult situations, found intelligent ways to tell stories. So much so that when I've rewatched "Kid's movies" from the 90's I realized how well they told & crafted stories even adults and kid's can enjoy & appreciate it. (Pretty much anything created by Don Bluth or Written by Roald Dahl) My Brave little toaster, James and the giant peach, The never ending story, Jumanji, Hook, The secret of the Nimh, Sword and the stone, black cauldron, beetle juice, Alice in wonderland, Rock-a-doodle, Captain Planet, Thundercats, He-man, Spawn, Matilda, The BFG, Ren and stimpy, courage the cowardly dog, magic school bus, Dexter's laboratory, pinky and the brain, rocko's modern life, Ah! Real monster's, goosebumps, are you afraid of the dark, pee wee's playhouse, she-ra warrior princess, Flintstones, the Jetsons. So many more I won't list them all but they had such creative range. So many ways of telling stories. So many types of creatures, unique worlds, weird things, macabre things. I loved how we used to embrace those things. Nowadays everything is so bland or Shallow live action version's filed with nonsense & hollowness. I miss the Era of creativity, of animated series, of things that made us utilize our intelligence. Artistic depictions of the Human condition that connects us on a deeper level. No matter what kind of character, creature, specie's they are. I seriously don't understand who can enjoy these modern live action movies. Filled with so much disconnected CGI. Cheap cop out writing, acting, storytelling that is treating our entire audience like they are 2 yr olds that just need a pair of shiney keys waved in front of them for entertainment... it's a very bland & soulless way to entertain... Seeing how things are nowadays, i feel so lucky that i got to grow up in the 90's. Back then I never could have guessed that things would have changed the ways they did. It was such a great time to be a kid. The world seemed to have so many creative ways kids, teens and adults could all enjoy themselves. Entertaining movies with practical effects. Animated movies/shows galore. If they used CGI it was used intelligently. I really miss the Vibe of that Era. The creativity that came from that era. I really hope we find a way to reconnect with it because the world seems like it really needs it right now. I mean just look at the aesthetics compared to now? Things have somehow become so bland, bleek, and minimalism that it doesn't even make since. Most Old house's/building's/uúnique shop's are gone. Interesting oddities like drive in movies, indoor fun zones, arcade's, magazines that came with a demo disc to try out game's, blockbuster/Hollywood video, McDonald's had N64's, you could preview music before buying it, they had great kid's toy's, Roller Rink's, Garbage pale kid's card's. You get the point. I want to reignite that feel sort of like Retro-Futurism or that Y2K Vibe compared to this current Dystopian pessimism that seems solely focused purely on capitalistic agendas. Our Quality of Life should be better than this.

[@DS-gc7vg]

Howdy, I'm new to Disparu, but this was a great video. You've got a very levelheaded approach to all this and I appreciated your opinion, I think you are very correct. A few days ago my mom was asking why all shows have to have sex in them now, and I pointed out everyone writing those shows are 20-30 years old and all they know is being immature and sleeping around. You can't really write without experience, so after seeing what major studios are putting out lately, I have to assume most Hollywood writers are drug addicted bed hoppers; whos biggest problem is whatever the television tells them it is. It's not making for anything interesting, thought provoking or least of all entertaining.

[@Likexner]

I agree. I personally dont even like when they shoehorn a romance subplot into a story that didnt have it in the books and/or doesnt need it.

[@Nicksonian]

Adam Conover, in his brilliant series "Adam Ruins Everything," does a fabulous evisceration of the art world and its "critics."

[@nekograce7914]

I’m with you on the Asian media. Wednesday has been the first thing I watched in English in years. I’ve been obsessed with Chinese cultivation shows.

[@Klickor]

I haven't watched the cultivation shows since the low budget for what they are trying to put on screen stands out a bit too much for me. But I have spent like half an hour every day for the last 6 years or so reading cultivation novels. So refreshing having bad guys say bad things and do bad things. The bad guy isn't just misunderstood but actually does genocide at the minimum.

[@philipebbrell2793]

Kdrama is superb storytelling. It is cliched on occassion but it effortless shift between genres. Extraordinary You, a fantastic look at meta-fiction, Crash Course on you, a biting satire on educationl prseeures on parents and children wrapped up in a Rom-com.

[@nekograce7914]

@@Klickor oh they’ve stepped up the budget on many shows. ‘Who Rules the World’ looks pretty good. I’m watching ‘DuoLuo Continent’ right now and effects are bad. I’m actually still watching ‘Alchemy of Souls’ and the VR on that show is actually quite bad. I didn’t notice until just today. I’ve read some novels as well but I really want to read Who Rules The World (or who will win the world) but I can find it in English.

[@nekograce7914]

@@philipebbrell2793 I love the fantastical ones like Kings Eternal Monach or Goblin; The Great and Lonely God. But then I also love Happiness which takes place right after Covid and a new craze hits. It’s maybe my favorite show, I can’t find a flaw or even a plot hole. It’s so well written. The ofc I love Sweet Home and Alice in Borderland. Both different and yet horrific.

[@philipebbrell2793]

@@nekograce7914 I got interested in seeing fantasy/SF from a different view. The King Eternal Monarch was intriguing for its parallel dimension, as a big Mike Moorcock fan.

[@bloodrunsclear]

On Amazon you cannot find a film with less than four stars. Plan Nine From Outer Space? Four stars. Meet the Spartans? Four stars.

[@recon_freakon4688]

If you want to get funny commentary and hand gestures then this is the Channel for You!

[@rickjohnson9558]

I fear Monsieur Disparu might actually hail from Gallic stock. Based solely on his hand gestures, of course

[@WillFredward7167]

Yeah… arrogance is a major turnoff. And many critics genuinely believe they are better than everyone else. Also, if someone calls me racist or sexist when they don’t know me or care to, there is no way I’m giving them money.

[@slothomatic]

Critics are like Flat Earthers. Having an opinion that differs from reality makes them feel smart.

[@ajward9112]

If I had to choose between a critic and a fan review - I’ll always choose the fan. Critic support can be bought. Fan support can not.

[@MovieHeretic]

I find a similar thing with the Predator movie Prey. Everyone is saying it's a huge hit, but no one is citing their source for this opinion. Hulu don't release figures, there's no disc to cater for the clearly millions of people wanting it, so how exactly is it a hit? Where are the actual legit, as opposed to pull the number out of their bums, sources that we can actually believe. This viewpoint started within a couple of hours of the movie dropping btw.

[@addeigloriam4844]

The audience score is no longer relevant. IMDB won’t let me read reviews less than a 5 on certain projects and I’d bet my house RT is skewing the numbers as well

[@olgacabak8381]

Green book is a good movie though, witty and trougly entertaining and while the topics adressed are "oscar baity" the storytelling feels light and even gives genuine laughs here and there. Good wnding is also added value for me cause i like good endnigs. Even the message is in line with what You are advocating: that enjoying one's life is very important and if You focus on preching to averyone all of the time You gonna miss what's valuable in all of this.

[@lal12]

Agreed

[@DouglasLippi]

"Give customers what they want" might seem obvious at first, but most customers don't KNOW what they want. You have to show them. I think Henry Ford said something like, "If I had given customers what they wanted I would have developed a faster horse." Additionally, not all customers agree. For example, the latest Top Gun movie was a big hit, but there's no way in fuck I'll ever watch that shit.

[@fionnaitsradag5152]

You nailed it!

[@capthavic]

This is why I'm fine, even happy, when stuff like Velma gets greenlit for more seasons. Let these companies burn all their money trying to pander to critics and activists, sooner or later they are going to have to either correct course or sink...and I couldn't care less which.

[@Yarblocosifilitico]

Rule of life nº 1: assume the opposite of the official narrative It won't work every time, but it's damn close. Great rule of thumb, sadly

[@farharbor3178]

The problem is that the unspoken criteria upon which the 'critics' are evaluating movies no long has anything to do with identifying and praising superlative craft in filmmaking or storytelling but much more on executing and advancing a particular set of sociopolitical positions. [The 'message']. If it performs the message -- it is 'good'. If it simply doesn't give enough service to the message -- it's 'bad' or 'forgettable'. If it eschews the message; it is hate speech and 'dangerous'. The problem is ... 'the message' in aggregate a) doesn't reflect reality-- it's just one groups prescriptive desire b) the lay audience doesn't particularly want it c) because of a) and b) it eats up narrative and development space inside a piece of fiction, so almost by definition --writing to fulfill the message is bad writing craft. So critics have created a situation in which to follow industry 'best practices' -- films must put out bad product so that it can be recognized as good. That's all a bit reductive for brevity ... but it's no wonder at all that audience and critic scores have never been more divided. People want to buy good product; The critics don't want to sell what people want -- they want to control and orchestrate what you think is good; what you think is real -- they want you to abide their prescription for reality.

[@michaelrhodes3285]

First😎

[@meinhausbrennt1426]

first on my hitlist

[@leifruneborn5485]

Second

[@michaeldominic3183]

Epic episode. I knew critics ranked for the producers not the viewers but I never could figure out why. You nailed it. It all makes sense in its sick, disgusting way. It's insanity of the highest order because I don't care how much money a corporation has, making crap that people will not pay to see is going to drain their coffers to bankruptcy. No other outcome is possible.

[@akoSi94]

Those critics remind me of that one episode from Southpark where everyone became a Yelper …

[@NopeNaw]

The old adage holds true: a movie critic's opinion on a film is inversely proportional to how enjoyable it is to actually watch.

[@darrylmars]

Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word was on this topic. Oscars, like a Harvard degree, once mattered, now worthless

[@euler4273]

It's come to the point, where when I see very bad critics scores, I end up being more interested in it, because it is far more likely to actually be good. If most of the critics really like it, that is often an indication to stay as far away from that as possible, as it is probably actually utter garbage.

[@Jim87_36]

Velma, ROP, other season of Picard, She-hulk: considered to be “adult” entertainment Puss in Boots 2: a “kids” movie that’s more mature and handles adult themes better than the shows above…

[@derrickcrowe3888]

On the one hand, yeah. But on the other hand, there's nothing wrong with making movies with limited commercial potential and/or only for a very specific audience. Not everything needs to be designed for mass appeal and maximum profitability. The only way to be wrong is to be a jerk to others for not liking the same things you do.

[@mrjackpots1326]

The sooner Hollywood is buried the better. All they do is make hugely expensive movies about comic book heroes and bad remakes of once successful IP's. There are many very good movie makers in the world, they just aren't in Hollywood. If you can convince people that a turd is art, then it is art.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

PG Wodehouse: "The intelligentsia notoriously like the most frightful bilge." (Speaking as fictional narrator Bertie Wooster.)

[@daybertimagni4841]

The problem is the critics are ‘paid for’ and many of them have become more concerned with their own celebrity than providing an honest critique.

[@tyraelpl]

"I can see what you see not. Vision milky, then eyes rot."

[@Katie-hb8iq]

Art has been a weird spot since the invention of the camera and then the video camera. Artists used to go to great lengths to make their art more realistic as talent and technology got better, but it's hard to compete with a camera, especially a modern day camera. This forced them to go more abstract but even that has limits of usefulness and entertainment value. These days, it's pretty hard to compete with video games, but it won't stop there. In some ways, Star Trek's prediction of entertainment might not be far off from the truth - it's easy to see that virtual simulations and holodecks and what not will dominate eventually. Movie theatres are definitely on the downturn - video games have long surpassed them - and this will only continue.

[@kevinjackson4464]

"Colonizing" - Fantastic! I'm going to use that a lot, thank you!

[@iemzaf]

I love how you're always able to articulate clearly, about thing I've been thinking about for ages.

[@titanicpat1275]

When these people say "Because, I said so" they are arrogant enough to be committing an appeal to authority fallacy.

[@Uli_Krosse]

This was well-rounded. Elegantly spoken where possible, crude and brutal where necessary. It did not improve my mood, but that's not your fault, mate. It's the fault of "critics" who seem to feel "the weight of history heavy on their shoulders" ... Thank you for digging through this humungous pile of dirt and for reformatting your findings. Cheers, mate.

[@racheljames7]

Disparu, you are so eloquent. Youre saying exactly what needs to be said. Frankly, i prefer watching you a million times more than modern Hollywood wank. I'm so proud of you. Keep up the excellent work.

[@halfkinrainbolt7041]

Thank you again Disparu. Your dialog is brisk, insightful, and entertaining! So much better than most movies these days.

[@DouglasLippi]

Misspelled "vertical" lol. Anyway, yeah critics and reviews in general can blow me. I look at trailers and talk to people I know.

[@friedmule5403]

True fact: I have been a film critic on a small radio and most of the time were I alone in the cinema on the press release date. And still did all the newspapers, TV and radio critics have singing praise to the movie. Often could we see why they wrote as they did, because the press gets to see special parts of the movie, a sort of trailers and most of the time were the movies all judged out from what was in these press cuts.

[@johng92]

South Parks episode “you’re not yelping” absolutely encapsulates the problem of modern critics.

[@_--JohnVK--_]

Exactly what I was thinking 👍