That's disappointing to hear. I guess their Ghostbusters review wasn't a one-off.
Their Force Awakens review suggested that kids don't give a shit about representation so the concern about increasing it is a false one.
They 100% believe that inclusivity in genre filmmaking is a fabricated, trendy,
fad being pursued for no other reason than it might increase corporate margins, and as such, pursuing it can only do damage to the purity of whatever story is fighting to get through the machine and into your waiting, loving arms.
(basically, their status as failed independent filmmakers in the View Askew vein pretty much colors the large majority of their views & commentary on the business side, which instead of ignoring or minimizing in their critiques, is now almost entirely the standpoint from which they launch almost
all of their criticisms)
They don't really review movies as much as they watch movies as a means to reinforce their myopic/cynical views on how the industry works. The films succeed not for how they do what they do, but for how the people who made them managed to defeat the studio process.
It turns watching movies into fantasy football, basically.
Do something new and let new people who actually have ideas of what constitutes as good comedy beyond getting whatever washed up famous person you can get to sign karaoke in the middle of a cocain bust or something.
I feel like comedy
might be the genre that is most being hurt by "Peak TV" or whatever, because there is so much inventive, interesting, incisive, and flat-out-fucking-
hilarious shit showing up there that it almost seems redundant & unnecessary to try and replicate it on the big screen.
Like, when you have stuff like Master of None, Fleabag, Chewing Gum, You're the Worst, Broad City... why would you watch a stretched out, watered down lesser version of the goods at 12 bucks a whack?
