There is a TikTok trend with people telling stories about the rudest celebrities.

Can you take a wild guess who’s getting dragged the most? 🥴

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) December 13, 2022

JLo - many such cases:

This one right here.

Every time I go to LA and ask the studio workers who is the worst person to come to the lot, they all say her name. Years ago, at the Beverly Hill mall, I asked sales clerks who was the worst, and they said her name. She is the worst 🤷🏾‍♀️

Told to me by a friend who was there. Circa Bennifer 1.0. Ben’s mom’s house. Dinner’s over, everyone gets up to clear table, load dishwasher, clean & hang out in kitchen. J moves to the couch & doesn’t lift a finger. Not earth shattering but it tells me she has no home training.

Das racist:

It’s always “a friend of mine” or “I know somebody personally” when y’all just straight up fabricating LIES. Not to mention the white man tips generously but the woc takes back the tips and y’all don’t see the prob w: that narrative. Also when her net worth is ~3x his? Bffr

Lizzo isn't fat, she's storing extra spite:

I met Lizzo in Milan Italy after the release of her first album. She was staying in the same hotel, she was nasty and rude to me, her team, the driver and the hotel staff. I deleted her album that same day. Awful.

Adorb mentions -

50 Cent is worth more than loose change when it comes to manners:

I have to second this. He’d had an event at Spec’s for his cognac brand & had already been taking pictures with people for a hot minute. Mom, aunt and I were just gonna hop in one altogether (and we did) but then HE asked if we each wanted individuals. (& he smelled so good 😭)

We stan our mentally imbalanced queen:

I used to go to Caesar’s in Vegas twice a year for work. Always went to their spa. The ladies said Britney was lovely and all “please and thank you, ma’am.” JLo was hated with the heat of a thousand suns.

Batfleck gambled and ended up losing a real one:

She's the superior Jennifer. Two of my friends, one who worked crew on one of her films and another a Starbucks barista at the time both said she's genuinely warm and polite.

The man in black didn't have a black heart:

A great experience i had with a celebrity was with Johnny Cash. I was 16 volunteering at the Nissan Family Fun Day in Smyrna TN. I had had a rough day and he approached me to give kind words and a kleenex to dry my eyes. He was such a kind man

I told by brother in law that I'd go if he did back on Christmas Eve 2019. Son of a b-word called my bluff.

Currently there's not much going on, but as soon as the movie reaches theaters one side will start whining heavily. Either Marvel wins this one and cinema is forever ruined or the man children will have to face the reality that their favorite movies are just Disney slop!

Slight background, people that are fed up with the endless Marvel movies dominating the box office were hoping that Avatar 2 will become the highest grossing movie ever and will humiliate the MCU once and for all. Marvel fans, hearing this, decided that Cameron's latest too-long-video-game-cutscene movie is a deadly threat to their beloved franchise and declared war. The internet is now convinced that the future of cinema hinges exclusively on this movie and it's sequels. The movie has an absurd budget and apparently needs at least 1.5 billion to break even, but some estimates are even more ridiculous. So it needs really good reviews and word of mouth to even start making profits. The problem is the reviews aren't stellar but they aren't bad either so our brave warriors don't know hot to react.

Smug cinema goers are coping right now:

David Elrich has given it an A-, said that it is exactly what a Theatrical experience should be.

Hollywood Reporter only major criticism seems to be that the dialogue is a bit eye rolling but otherwise the movie delivers on all the visual and spectacle and emotions you want from Avatar.

Variety is a bit more critical praising the visuals but saying the story otherwise is cliche.

Empire Magazine has given it 5 out of 5 stating that James Cameron is still ahead of the pack in the blockbuster game.

Rolling Stone has called it Camerons must stunning film so far and said that the climax especially is great.

T-they gave the movie good reviews, that's a good sign, right guys?

One review said the characters cant refrain from saying “bro” over and over

Lmao

Bruhhhhhhhhhh don't focus on critic scores so much only audience reception matters. Look at joker, had arguably one of the best WOM for a blockbuster in the US and middling reviews

People that complain that capeshit ruined cinema can only compare this movie with other capeshit

So far, it's surprisingly lower than I expected. I think this has to be a 90%+ movie to properly launch the rest of this series given me that it doesn't have the benefit of having a devoted fanbase who will look past the flaws because of the love they have for the characters, the story, and the franchise.

"Maybe Marvel was right after all?"

Can we take IGN out of film reviews specifically? Their takes always read like the already established consensus of chronically-online people with no real understanding of movies.

Seriously if I have to hear people bring up “not an entirely original story” as a detrimental point again; as if any film nowadays is entirely original. It’s impossible.

A month from now they’ll probably be acclaiming some Oscarbait that was done better in 2012.

Stop criticizing the cgi movie!

Some are still smug and confident:

This isnt Marvel lol where most of the audience is limited to 3 days. It will have a very long run.

The cycle will be the same as every James Cameron movie:

Preproduction: It’s behind schedule! Costs are too high!

Opening weekend: It’s performing weaker than expected! Flop incoming!

Weekend 11: I can’t believe this is still #1!

Zoomers are about to learn the lesson we old timers have already learned 13 and/or 25 years ago.

It's a 3 hours long movie, can zoomers even focus this long?

Everyone remember to screenshot the haters below. “Flop” “bomb” lol

I can’t wait for the James Cameron haters to eat thier words when this movie ends up breaking all of the records

They’re mcu fans lol

This isn't even the only comment that attacks Marvel fans directly in the /r/movies thread

If I know the mods of this cesspit as well as I think I do, this thread is getting deleted for sure.

They are even attacking the mods now! How long before the thread gets jannied?

Some Marvel fans are starting to get smug about it:

HA!

Its doing worse than Puss in Boots lmao

This movie will flop. The only reason the first one did so well was because 3D was all the rage 13 years ago. Nobody cares about that anymore

This started some coping!

Throught Avatar 1 was one of of the worst movies I've ever seen the acting was terrible the dialogue was even worse how it got so much praise is beyond me so I will be giving this a miss but that's just my opinion.

The only cultural effect this movie will have is being shown on TVs at Best Buy,

One capeshitter started to write one of those weird essays about kino cinematography that appeared after Batman vs Superman:

To a review, each one of these outlets is essentially saying this is fundamentally no different from any of the Marvel films that have paraded out promising nonstop visual spectacle hung on thin story and characterization in the preceding 10 years. They're describing functionally the exact same moviegoing experience.

The thing that differentiates those experiences from this one is that James Cameron made it, so they have permission to enjoy that spectacle the same way they didn't give themselves permission to enjoy the other stuff. This isn't an inaccurate, ungenerous read, either - almost every single one of these reviews has the author making that case themselves, in the text of the review.

The comment is longer, but the gist is that Avatar and Marvel are the same but since Avatar was made by Cameron critics can finally admit that they like mindless entertainment.

He's doing this in the r/movies thread too for some reason.

Also redditors can't stop being redditors:

Hmm, the massive dissonance between most reviewers, and writers for the British papers, is pretty clear--bodes well for the anticolonial message at a minimum.

"How can I bring race in a movie about blue aliens?"

My theory is that Avatar is marketing chiefly towards women and families. Two groups that Reddit main sub moderators can't stand.

The wokies might be turning against capeshit!

I don’t think this will make as much money as TGM tbh.

This might be the best take on the whole fiasco. Hopefully Top Gun will reign eternal!

lol

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 13, 2022

I tried watching it but then had to turn it off when it portrayed 70 year old Italian gangster that just got out of 25 years in prison as violently anti-racist in the name of protecting random black dude he just met. I like my Italian gangsters to be racist. Anyone else? Was this a front? Should I continue watching? Does he get more racist?

So much for your incel icon, chuds

LGBTSisters no, when will chuds stop winning?!

If you haven't seen Gran Torino, frick you go watch it. There's lots of fun racial slurs, a little moralizing, and all in all it's a good film for millenials and zoomers to see how compromise and communication is better than yelling when it comes to winning people over. From here on I will assume that anyone who is reading on has seen the film, or at least read the wikipedia plot synopsis so I'm not going to do a total rehash of what happens.

Clint Eastwood, his car (the eponymous Gran Turino) and Detroit are a stand in for mid-20th century white America. Clint is a Polack war veteran who flies the flag and keeps his yard picked up. His wife has died, his kids and grandkids are whiny, entitled shits, and all his white neighbors have left. This is obviously meant as a stand-in for White America. Detroit used to be an industrial hub, a symbol of American manufacturing power and now it's a shithole. White Americans used to be seen as industrious, hard-working, and powerful. But they have abandoned their birth right, and now want to put the olds out to pasture as well. Clint's kids and grandkids are a metaphor for the current and next generations. They don't really like the old people who made this country a world power, they just want the benefits (symbolized by the Gran Turino), while putting old fricks like Clint out to pasture in old folks homes.

Now Clint in this film is a Korean War vet, so he HATES Gooks. Probably because they tried to kill him a bunch. And he uses the language of someone who fought in Korea, and he uses it to his Asian neighbors' faces. Anyway, after the initial conflict with Toad the Asian Boy, he starts to actually interact with them. He puts the would-be car thief to work, and eventually comes to see that the little shit is actually pretty hard working, motivated, and respectful. He also finds that the Hmong (see Jungle Rat) community appreciates what he's doing, and has his back. He begins to see that he has more shared values with these Zipperheads than he does with his fellow whites.

The only whites that are worth a shit are a Polack priest and an Italian barber. This is important, because Southern and Eastern Yuros didn't use to be "white". Once upon a time only Anglos were in the club, and Irish, Italians, and other yurotrash had to earn their whiteness. What we see through the character of Toad, is the Asians earning their whiteness in the same way that the non-Anglos once did.

Some might say this movie is anti-racist, but that's a lie. There's like three black people in the whole movie and they try to r*pe the female protagonist (who isn't protected by her wigger friend). And they only back down because Clint pulls a 45 on them, which goes to show that when dealing with the Urban set you need to stay armed and not back down or they'll just take your shit.

Anyway across the film the Asian Boy slowly becomes stronger, and gets a construction job. Like a good American teen without prospects would do. The foreman is a Person of Potato, once again reinforcing that whiteness was earned by Micks through conforming to White American ideals.

In the end, Clint sacrifices himself to save the Swamp Rat community from their own gang problems, and then leaves his car to the kid he's been turning into a man the whole movie.

Ultimately his leaving of the Gran Torino to the kid is the crux of the film, that Asian-Americans are the true inheritors of the American dream. Gooks are industrious, community-focused, and respectful of their elders. They have the ideals of mid-Century white America, and they are the ones who most deserve to inherit that legacy.

Why is this relevant? Well, Asians are the fastest growing racial group in the US. White people are losing their shit about the US becoming a majority-minority country. How can they prevent this? It's not by having more kids, so they'll have to find another way and Clint gives the Mayos a path forward. The key is to integrate Asians, and make them White.

The fun thing is we see this happening in real time. Black-on-Yellow violence has driven a wedge between Asians and the rest of the minorities. Also the fight over racial bias against whites and asians in higher education has put Chinks and Cumskins on the same side again. Their values really do align for the most part, and it's a natural alliance. White teenage girls simp for K-pop stars, and white incel men all have yellow fever. And on the other side of the fence, most Asians are very much on team White People. Asian women love white men, and Asian men simp hard after mayo foids.

In the end it becomes obvious that Clint was prescient, and Asians will soon be considered White.

Opening sequence of my AI Cthulhu movie pic.twitter.com/RZIpjkTo1O

— 𐌖𐌉𐌊𐌀𐌃𐌄 (@vikare06) December 8, 2022

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— Weird Ai Generations (@weirddalle) December 7, 2022

I’d much rather share an Elvis Perkins song, but no one will click on that for ten years. I think we are on a pop culture cusp of new folk songs, because I cannot remember the last “Sheryl crow” or whatever person to write one in like 15 years.

We are riding a cycle, times up

What are your top kinos of 2022?

I may do an effortpost later with an actual review in support of each of my entries, but I'm waiting for a Jenkins pipeline and wanted to do this now

Movies:

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once

2. NOPE

3. The Northman

4. Crimes of the Future

5. Top Gun Maverick

6. Don't Worry Darling

7. The Batman

TV

1. (tie) Pachinko & Station Eleven

2. The Rehearsal

3. Severance

4. Under the Banner of Heaven

5. The Bear

6. Better Call Saul

7. Barry

8. The Dropout

9. Andor

10. House of the Dragon

11. We Own This City

12. Atlanta

13. Fleishman Is In Trouble

14. Dexter: New Blood

15. WeCrashed

16. Pantheon

Honorable mentions:

• Yellowjackets

• Reacher

• The Terminal List

• American Gigolo

• Outer Range

• Slow Horses

• The White Lotus

• 1883

• Winning Time: Rise of the LA Lakers

What were your favorite kinos of the year?

It's confirmed that Rose married and had kids but instead of thinking about the man she had been married to for DECADES, she is still thinking about that one guy she fricked once in her twenties

The Russo Brothers have shared new AI-generated art depicting an #Avengers movie directed by Wes Anderson... More photos: https://t.co/CA43shYW4e pic.twitter.com/2FX8WDaDDU

— MCU - The Direct (@MCU_Direct) December 5, 2022

What if a bear did cocaine?...

THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE (1986) pic.twitter.com/OjfHP5YVFd

— ULTRA🛸BLAST (@ultrakillblast) December 1, 2022

If you don't have the 127 Hours and Social Network soundtracks you missing ain't with it.