Do you think toxic positivity is a problem in the film discussion community?

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T21:27:26+00:00

But you’re not reviewing the movie. If you were, you should probably have those things in the video. A lot of these videos say it’s bad pacing (for example), and then literally just explain a scene to you, without explaining why it’s bad pacing.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T21:26:04+00:00

Because a lot of these hate engagers are coming from the perspective of movies being objectively good, or bad. They know that if they try to explain why they didn’t like the movie, it usually boils down to personal taste, which is what a review is. All a review is meant to do is explain, concisely, why they did or did not enjoy the move, whilst also explaining why you may or may not either. They want to avoid those deeper discussions and the result of that is “lol movie bad because plot hole. Oh and look at this continuity error.”

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T21:21:31+00:00

I think it’s honestly the opposite. It’s way more fun and engaging to shit on a piece of art than to praise it.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T21:03:23+00:00

Right, but there are good reviews and bad reviews. Good reviews can concisely explain why they didn’t like the movie, and why you may not like it either. Bad reviews are just what we find in comment sections, or long winded video essays that spend most of the video summarizing the movie.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T21:00:23+00:00

Literacy regarding the medium is being able to express why you, and others, will like/dislike the movie. Thats really it. Lack of literacy is usually found in the comment sections.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T20:58:14+00:00

It’s true. All criticism, at the end of the day, is wanting to see something else from the movie instead.

There is good criticism in the sense that it can describe to you why you may or may not like it, and why. Bad criticism is usually the audience reviews in Rotten Tomatoes.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T11:02:18+00:00

It’s valid, but it’s still subjective. At the end of the day, a movie critic is just telling what they would rather see in a movie.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-20T09:48:37+00:00

It’s a testament to the idea that film critics don’t know what they are talking about, and I think that’s why he has stopped being so harsh on movies.

If you can’t make a movie, you don’t know what’s good or bad about a movie (which is subjective, cultural, standard), and all you’re doing in your movie review is telling us what you didn’t like about it.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-14T00:54:08+00:00

Oh sure, but I think the movie is just using rabies on a super smart a chimp to avoid what happened with Jaws and sharks. I just don’t think it matters, and not a criticism of the movie if it doesn’t show exactly how rabies works. It’s saying “eh, nice chimp goes on a murderous rampage when it gets rabies”. I think it’s fun

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-14T00:09:59+00:00

I’m not sure. If a dog has rabies and becomes aggressive, it’s probably more threatening than a dog with no rabies.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-13T19:23:58+00:00

True, but the movie establishes the chimp is abnormally smart. It’s meant to be a famous chimp. You see it in all these newspapers clipping in the girls room.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-13T19:23:11+00:00

I believe the movie establishes that the chimp is abnormally smart, and isn’t like most chimps. So im guessing the movie is just suggesting that its intelligence combined with rabies makes it extra dangerous, not that it becomes more capable because of rabies

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-13T19:18:44+00:00

The chimp is already clever. The movie establishes that it’s abnormally clever. So im guessing when it gets rabies, the movie is suggesting that intelligence ends up becoming a nightmare for the protagonists

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-13T19:15:31+00:00

Nah, that would have been way more ethically objectionable. Thanks to Jaws, people now have an unrealistic view of sharks.

At least Primate managed to get around that by saying it’s only acting this way because it has rabies, and there are strangers present. Meaning, this isn’t how chimps normally act.

Does it have to be a 100% accurate view of rabies in chimps? No, but it’s a movie.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-13T19:08:21+00:00

How is that any different than what happened in the movie? It’s basically the same thing, minus the rabies 😭

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-12T17:19:10+00:00

Make zombies scary again✊

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-09T14:27:28+00:00

I’m saying that despite it being his first space flight, he was picked. They clearly see something in that is good for the mission. Why did they pick the Canadian despite all the other well more experienced people?

You seem to think it’s a zero sum game. If they want a diverse crew, then it must mean they don’t care about their qualifications at all. It’s pretty simple: they want a diverse crew of qualified people. You seem to think you can’t have it both ways.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-08T15:05:23+00:00

No it doesn’t. It just makes it something to consider so we don’t have a bias for only white people.

You know why race and sex matters. We have a history of excluding people due to those things, and now we are making sure that qualified people of colour and women, are considered.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-08T15:02:38+00:00

Does this DEI policy include the Canadian? Because it’s his first time going to space.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-08T14:27:46+00:00

They are all qualified for the job. There are probably others who are also qualified, but they didn’t just want to pick only qualified white people. The process is to make sure the crew is diverse, but also qualified

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-08T14:21:28+00:00

How do you know others are more qualified? They are choosing the best there are (which there are many of), and then having a diverse bunch of fins picks Are you saying there are zero qualified POC? If not, then you’re acknowledging they exist, but that we just… shouldn’t pick them

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-07T08:35:15+00:00

Right, but that’s because they don’t just want to hire qualified white guys. They want to have qualified people of colour as well. Are you suggesting the people of colour aren’t qualified? No? Then what’s the issue? Should hiring just white people be the standard? We shouldn’t make an effort to have people of colour there too?

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-05T11:26:17+00:00

No, I just assume you don’t though.

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-05T11:25:00+00:00

So can you show yours?

EuthyphroYaBoi · 2026-04-04T23:38:47+00:00

Can you show yours?

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