#591 - Critical Drinker - Hollywood’s Message Is Dead

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Critical Drinker is a movie critic, an analyst of modern entertainment media and a YouTuber. Cinema is no longer just about entertainment, it's now a platform for social and cultural ideologies to be pushed through. If you don't like what Hollywood's execs tell you to like? Too bad, that's your prejudice showing, you bigot. Expect to learn why there are no more positive heroic role models in movies, the problem with Velma getting naked on a cartoon, why Rotten Tomatoes reviews are diverging more than ever before, why Matt Damon was always right, just how destroyed Rick & Morty is as a franchise and much more... Sponsors: Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 20% discount on House Of Macadamias’ nuts at https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Go to my sponsor https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help Extra Stuff: Subscribe to Critical Drinker on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker Follow Critical Drinker on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheCriticalDri2 Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I guess I just have to accept now that all white men are just awful at everything and they suck.
0:05.1	And myself included, I should just hang my head in shame for the rest of my life.
0:08.7	It's a strange sort of offering that they're giving us now where we're going to actively hate you as an art form.
0:15.4	We're going to make it our business to make you feel awful about yourself.
0:18.4	And if you dare to push back on that and reject the offering that
0:21.6	we're giving you, then we just label you as a bigot or a reactionary or whatever stupid term
0:27.0	we label people with these days.
0:30.7	What is your background? Tell me how you end up getting interested in critiquing movies.
0:38.1	Oh gosh.
0:40.3	Right.
0:40.9	What's the short version here?
0:43.3	Yeah, I mean, I guess from being a young kid,
0:46.4	I was always just fascinated by movies,
0:48.5	and I was fascinated by the way that the stories worked.
0:51.9	You know, the way that they would introduce us to the different characters, the way that they were structured so that, you know, you had that well-defined, like,
0:58.6	build-up of action, and then the sort of catastrophe that leads you to the lowest point, and then
1:03.9	the big resolution at the end to give you that dramatic high that finishes it off. Like, I remember
1:08.8	being, even as a kid, I started to recognize that pattern in movies,
1:12.2	and it was something that kind of interested me.
1:14.3	And it led me into wanting to do storyteller of my own eventually.
1:18.4	And so I got into writing novels, that sort of thing.
1:22.3	And obviously, YouTube came along, and, you know,
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