Category: Destroy All Monsters
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Destroy All Monsters: The Toxic Masculinity of Shaming the GHOSTBUSTERS Haters
The cadre of solipsistic, misogynist Ghostbusters fanboys executed what one hopes would be their final coup de grace against Paul Feig’s imminent Ghostbusters reboot this week, by spamming the IMDB (and Letterboxd) with disastrously low user ratings for a movie which, to the last man, none of them have seen yet.
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Destroy All Monsters: Gazing At THE NEON DEMON
Looking is everything in Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon. Besides being the kind of cinematic scopophilia masterpiece that we only seem to get every couple of decades (Blow Up; Peeping Tom), its narrative turns on two different definitions of the word “look.” How good do you look? And who is looking at you?
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Destroy All Monsters: Movie Brands Are Ads, Not Outcomes
Independence Day Resurgence had all the makings of a mega-hit (in North America, at least): apocalyptic action, big(ish) returning stars, and most importantly in terms of what properties have netted huge returns in this decade, a nostalgia-friendly recognizable brand. So why did it crash and burn?
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Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn’t
New site! TwitchFilm has become ScreenAnarchy, and Destroy All Monsters continues. This week I come not to bury fantasy, but to praise it (but bury WARCRAFT tho).
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Destroy All Monsters: THE PHANTOM MENACE Started The Conversation On Fan Entitlement
We are in the midst of a renewed conversation about fandom’s relationship with the properties they cherish. This is thanks in no small part to (of all things!) a white male internet dweeb proclaiming to all who would listen that he is putting his foot down and not watching Ghostbusters this summer. Honestly: if you…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mad As A Hatter And Half As Fun
As of today, we cleanly divide Depp’s career into two parts: before Jack Sparrow, and after. Certainly, for my generation and and a lot of other people, Johnny Depp before Jack Sparrow (and, arguably, including at least the first instance of Jack Sparrow) was one of Hollywood’s rarer, braver gifts: an idiosyncratic, deeply committed performer…
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Destroy All Monsters: Woody Allen And Rape Culture
Well, here we are again (inasmuch as the word “again” can be applied to a problem that never went away, and which we’ve all known about for as many as twenty years). The subject of a blistering indictment penned by Ronan Farrow (plus one jaw-dislocatingly savage jab in an opening monologue at Cannes), Woody Allen,…
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Destroy All Monsters: Ideals Will Destroy Us All, And Other Things I Learned from CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Hard to believe I’ve been writing this column for 3 years – literally feels like I just got started. Naturally, this week, the conversation turns to Civil War.
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Destroy All Monsters: Hey Disney, We Need To Talk About The Shitty Experience Your Release Strategy Is Giving Your Customers
Isn’t the movie being fun, for a movie called Captain America, and as the creators of Batman v. Superman very recently discovered to their detriment… kind of the point? Isn’t that aspect – the movie’s fun – the only marketable product that Disney is selling, i.e. the secret sauce; the finite, non-replenishable resource that they…
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Destroy All Monsters: GAME OF THRONES Is Better On TV. Who Needs The Books?
I swear to you – I thought I was OUT of this whole thing. The last year and a half really sucked the will to Thrones right out of me. Last night’s premiere, though – the first “post-books” episode – had an intriguing sense of purpose.