E Unit

I wonder if any of those reviewers, you know....WRITE anything.

Ha! "Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe!"

fumanstan

IDrinkMolson

Goose the cat is Live right now (so far you're not missing much)

Dr. DVD

Looks like they got the character right. I hope it's fun . In terms of RT, I do agree that it's wrong to review bomb, but I also think that once you give someone the power to do something on your site it's wrong to revoke it in such a manner to make it look like you're favoring some product. I could care less about Brie Larson's political views, as long as the movie itself entertains. That said, I don't think they made the right decision to sign her for seven freaking movies.

Big Boy Laroux

So general question on how those contracts work - does that mean they HAVE TO use her in 7 movies? or just that she is contractually obligated to appear in 7 movies, if Marvel wants her to? I mean, we know she's going to be in 2. Just wondering if it is two-sided, or one-sided in favor of the studio.

dex14

Mike86

lopper

The cat has more charisma than Brie Larson.

dex14

She didn't tear anyone down.

Mike86

dex14

"She did essentially say". This is the problem. People apply their own interpretation into click bait headlines without context. "I don't need a 40 year old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle In Time. It wasn't made for him. I want to know what that film meant to women of color, to bi-racial women, to teen women of color" is what she said.

Additionally, she did something great and gave people who wouldn't normally have a chance for interviews and access to press junkets. "About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male," Larson responded. "So, I spoke to Dr Stacy Smith at the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, who put together a study to confirm that. Moving forward, I decided to make sure my press days were more inclusive. After speaking with you, the film critic Valerie Complex and a few other women of colour, it sounded like across the board they weren’t getting the same opportunities as others. When I talked to the facilities that weren’t providing it, they all had different excuses."

No where does it state that white dudes aren't going to still interview. She clearly said she noticed that press for her films had not included a variety of different perspectives.

Obi-Wanma

Yeah, I went looking for her comments based on this thread, because I honestly hadn't read them, and the site that I found it at summarized the above paragraph as "she stated she was looking to have fewer white men on her press tour." Which isn't what she was saying at all. It's ridiculous. It's about being more inclusive, not about excluding anybody. Why are fragile white dudes so triggered?

fujishig

I mean, this is a clip of what she said:
https://variety.com/video/brie-larso...wards-critics/

Near the end is what I guess you're referring to, when she says:
"I do not need a 40 year old white dude to tell me what didn't work for him about a Wrinkle in Time. It wasn't made for him. I want to know what that film meant to women of color, to biracial women, to teen women of color, to teens that are biracial." This is only after she gives the statistics of how 67% of the top critics are white males, and how only approximately 30% of the US population is white males.

So you can focus on the "I don't need" part, but she wants a better representation of the nation reviewing films, especially films made for a diverse audience. I don't see that as being a particular problem or something to get mad about. Who exactly did she "tear down?"

edited to add: darnit, I got sniped.

Mike86

dex14

And what is wrong with that statement? Look at the rest of the comment. Not just that part.

Taking what she said and creating headlines "Brie Larson doesn't want you reviewing her suphero movie, white males" and "Brie Larson is sick of being interviewed by white dudes" IS taking her words out of context.

Mike86

Obi-Wanma

And, as a white dude, I still don't see anything wrong with that statement. The point is, which she elaborated on in the next sentence she spoke (not backpedaling later) is that female critics and critics of other races were not getting the same opportunities, and she wanted to make an effort to include those people.

Why So Blu?

She wanted to make her PR days more inclusive to people of color and female critics.

dex14

Nope. It sounds like you're just reading into the clickbait headlines and not the actual context of the articles. You would never be able to say “I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white female”. That is the point. Because there isn't an overwhelming amount of press of that demographic covering the junkets.

fujishig

Please just watch the clip.

If you have and are still outraged, I'm not sure what to say.

Mike86

Obi-Wanma

In what industry are only females or or minorities getting opportunities that white men deserve? If anyone did say the opposite, it would be a ridiculous statement.

dex14

That is not her fault. That is the shitty fucking climate of this overly sensitive social media mob mentality.

fujishig

Who made this a controversy over her movie? Her? Or the people following clickbait? She wanted to include more minorities in her press junket, and she didn't bar all white men from it, she just wanted to be more inclusive. But she's being divisive?

She doesn't even say she wants white men reviewers to be a minority, just that she wants it to actively reflect society so that we can get different points of views, especially for films where the target audience is not white male. And she wasn't even talking about this movie, where a lot of the target audience is white male (although my daughter, who is neither white nor male, is super excited about it).

Why So Blu?

And this ramped up the stupid nerds on Youtube who started "V-logging" about it. In some cases not even because they believed it but because it got them views on their shitty channel that normally would not be there. "Wahhhhhhh, white men are under attack! Please click LIKE and subscribe at the bottom."