This is a really bad take and just as disingenuous as jalfrezi.
It’s not fake pretension we don’t like them any more than it’s infantile you do.
Explain my disingenuousness.
Still a kids movie, but it was pretty good. Nanodaughter loves animation (might aim for a career in it) and I did see it in the theater with her. The animation was really good.
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I dont think you’re fake at all for your pop culture tastes. I clearly think jalfrezi tries too hard to only select things that seem high brow and his ability to condescend to people who enjoy things he considers lowbrow is part of his online personality however.
Black Panther was obviously not anti African, no matter how many times jalfrezi wants to repeat a paragraph from an article he read an hour ago from a movie released years ago he has not seen a minute of.
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Damn this fucking software.
All I want is to be able to ignore a mod’s shit taste that’s everywhere lol.
Oh I love lots of “shitty” things, believe me, though none of them childish I’m sorry to say.
Youve got me mixed up with @clovis8, who is the cultural snob here 
That’s fine. There’s an easy solution. Don’t watch the movies. Same for first person shooters. Don’t play them. Just don’t try to convince other people that they are wrong to enjoy them.
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I really get bored with sex scenes. If I’m by myself I usually skip through them.
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I don’t think anyone’s doing that.
It’s perfectly valid to criticise a work of “art” and not care whether others like it or not (unless there’s hypocrisy or double standards involved).
You’ve said skydiver has “shit taste” and questioned her morals/politics for liking Black Panther, the 4th highest grossing movie of all time.
Just shoot her an apology and take a few hours off.
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When you use words like “infantile” that’s you telling us we are wrong to like it.
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nah, that’s not necessary. I’m not offended at all. More amused than anything.
I know that nerds are cool now. I can just go back to paying my cRPG that I’ve been working through and enjoying the entirely fantastical and utterly unrealistic plot and characters, knowing that there’s no social commentary intended.
It’d not “wrong” at all. Some of the societal changes that have taken place over the past decades have extended “youth” into what previously was middle age and middle age into dotage.
It’s unremarkable now to see people in their 40s playing on mountain bikes or go karts, for instance.
This doesn’t counter my main argument which is the outsized impact they have on pop culture and the economics of movies. Two thing I love.
For the record, the last superhero movie I saw was spiderverse and I thought it was amazing.
I stated my opinion on them, including a possible theory as to why they’re popular, in a conversation that someone else started.
It is fun to talk about popular movies and TV shows with friends, or on social media. That’s a component of it. One reason I didn’t get into GoT was I was trying to start watching years after the first episodes came out. So the social component just wasn’t there for me.
For the record I’m not the guy who jumps into a conversation of Avengers or GoT fans discussing the show and says “lol this sucks”. I just don’t participate.
Dude, infants are children under the age of two who possess only rudimentary cognitive functions. So don’t try to spin it now.
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I’ve kind of painted myself into the corner as the superhero defender on here, but I would really only put Spiderverse and Black Panther as good stand alone films of the last 5 years. Every other one requires you to have seen another film for context or is mediocre.
Do we have to keep doing this?
If you hold one set of standards for films portraying black life in the US and another set of standards for black life in Africa you should probably expect to be picked up on it,.
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I’m not even trying to defend you as much as this place imo is supposed to be above these kind of attacks. We’re supposed to have better discourse. Its about the community being better than what came before.
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