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re: What was once a cineaste, film-loving community has been co-opted by corporations
Posted on 7/10/21 at 4:05 pm to DaleGribble
Posted on 7/10/21 at 4:05 pm to DaleGribble
Adding another interesting and prescient quote I had been searching for and finally just found with possible ties into this discussion. It's from the 2009 Roger Ebert review of the movie Fanboys.
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A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies.
Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad-lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:25 am to shutterspeed
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from the 2009 Roger Ebert review of the movie Fanboys.
What a crock of shite from an elitist blowhard. You think this guy has ever been to comic-con and actually talked to people? He puts down an entire genre of fans because *gasp* they really like movies. But just not the movies that he deems to be good enough for polite society. frick this guy.
If this were about books it would be like a woman who looks down on trashy romance novel readers as she finishes her 6th reading of Wuthering Heights.
If this were about ice cream it would be like some fat diabetic a-hole talking shite about people who eat plain strawberry while he stuffs his fricking face with a tub of sweedish pistachio.
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 4:52 am
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