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After reading an absolute piece of fiction posing as a well-researched news article about the Star Wars fandom ( https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a25560063/how-fans-ruined-star-wars-the-last-jedi-2018/ ) as well as finally getting to watch Venom, a film panned by critics and enjoyed by the casual audience that made over 800 million dollars worldwide, I got to thinking.

Warning for millennials, pretentious wall of text to follow.

Ever since I was young I noticed a disconnect between the average viewing audience at the industry itself. I remember when Dances with Wolves came out in 1990. It won all the academy awards and a golden globe, and was register by Congress itself for being culturally significant. Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.

My family sat down to watch the 181 minute film. We got halfway through and my Dad shut it off. It was the first time ever my family was in unified agreement, it was awful. Worst pacing ever. Literal hours pass and absolutely nothing happened. It was one of the most pretentious, self-indulgent pieces of garbage we'd ever seen.

The point is that was the first time I realized that just because a film wins a bunch of awards and is hailed by paid critics nationwide as one of the greatest things ever, doesn't mean anything. Star Wars is another case. Sales are down, merchandise isn't moving, and the last film flopped hard. You can see the discrepancy in the ratings between the critics and the general audience with hard data. As fans on the internet continue with their harsh criticisms we get more articles from paid writers about how toxic the fans are.

But over the years I noticed it didn't really matter. For a film to be successful it has to sell and the industry can push their own politics so far before they start losing money and they have to course correct, or sell it to someone else who will. Was always a big fan of voting with my wallet myself. It's true that you can make arguments about the rule of greed or the stagnation of appealing to the lowest common denominator but we wouldn't have gotten Star Wars in the first place if it Lucas hadn't made enough doing just that to build his own franchise. The MCU exploded out of an already oversaturated market that saw a lot of films flopping (Fantastic Four 2, X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3, Electra, The Hulk) by taking a chance and making money for it. Then you get films like Deadpool and Venom that the industry never wanted to happen in the first place that wind up being successful because they make money.

My theory is that the reason the entertainment industry is trying to appeal to the Marxists in the far left is because they are hoping that by supporting redistribution they don't have to appeal to the general audience anymore. Films have to get federal approval to be released so "problematic" and "toxic" films like Venom wouldn't get released. Meanwhile if the general audience doesn't go watch the films that the industry supports, it wouldn't matter as the redistribution will cover the cost.

And if you think the gaming industry isn't leaning this way you are delusional. The last few years the Game Awards feature enough virtue signaling to rival the Oscars. There's the recent issue of Battlefield V literally rewriting history to claim a couple women accomplished a task that a team of men did. Assassin's Creed Odyssey rewriting history to claim women fought on the front lines and held political influence openly in ancient Greece. Unknown Worlds, the company that developed Subnautica, fired their sound designer Simon Chylinski when they found out he was a conservative and then slandered him publicly claiming he was a racist ( https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/02/subnautica-devs-capitulate-sjws-fires-employee-conservative-views/50890/ ). Marxist "progression" has saturated the entire entertainment industry.

I know this site is primarily far left so I fully expect to get called all the buzzwords.
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reviews and critics dont matter yes

dances and wolves is good

Im not reading this wall of text
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or maybe instead of your Marxist conspiracy theory that only makes sense to you, the industry is just corrupt and awards are just one big circlejerk. it's like how user scores are more reliable for knowing if a game is good over critic ones. same thing for movies and everything else
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