"Nothing positive" does not equate to 'Only negatives' when as you've mentioned before the imagery evokes Top Gun specifically so folks aren't thinking about what the USAF was ACTYUALLY doing during the time. And it's irrelevant when it's free advertising for em.
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Replying to @KirifudaRed @AlexJThomas and
Okay You're telling me you think it's unacceptable for a movie to try to be "neutral" and not be openly critical of US military action when it involves the US military And since the US military demands that movies be "neutral" at worst, this makes all these movies unethical
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
That's fine I accept that that's a logical stance to take, maybe even one I should take but have not What I am resisting is the perception that this particular movie particularly needs to be criticized when people say they like it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
The narrative that I'm perceiving in this thread is that MCU movies and other action movies are generally understood as problematic by critics but Captain Marvel gets singled out and protected because of shallow liberal feminism This seems like the exact opposite of the case
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Like, the criticism is happening Right now Captain Marvel is the MCU movie you can *least* talk about without getting criticism over it It is one of the most disproportionately heavily criticized popular media on the Internet in 2019-20
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
Right, so now we're also going to ignore a whole other swathe of context and pretend there weren't six months of literally tens of thousands of YouTubers making "Captain Marvel is the nadir of American liberal ideology" into its own thriving cottage industry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Like (I feel bad about bringing her up again but sigh oh well) Lindsay Ellis tweeted that she specifically did NOT review this movie because she disliked it but did not want to be roped into the "team" of people "speaking against" the movie to "defeat idpol libfem ideology"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And also because she was a white American so it would have been distasteful? Again, anyone pointing out that the movie using feminism to leverage for US military recrutiment isn't same as people who think that women onscreen is the end of cinema. It's disingeous to pretend so.
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As I recall, she wanted to be able to talk about the movie as a movie, i.e. about the structural issues and acting and writing choices she disliked, etc., and not get involved in a culture-war debate over whether the movie should exist and be singled out as uniquely problematic
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
I have no opinion on whether you personally hate women, I just strongly feel that the argument that CM is *particularly* problematic and has advanced the interests of the US military-industrial complex more than any other Marvel movie is obviously false
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