Believe me, none of us media people want to do it, but...bills. And now that most media has laid off most of their writers and offered them only freelance jobs, you are going to see a LOT more of this. The editors are choosing the writers’ opinions now; and those editors are being told they need to get more…

Having written for A.V. Club myself, I can tell you with fair accuracy the writer scored a few hundred dollars to pay rent, and he doesn’t agree with the take he was asked to write.

It’s Breaking Bad syndrome.

This website peaked with the Contract to Kill review.  That and History of Violence/When Romance Met Comedy.  

Yeah, I believe that.

You know the “That’s bait” meme with Mad Max pointing upward.

Alternate (more accurate) article title: “Another boring Scorsese vs. Marvel piece veers into weird ‘akshually, Scorsese always sucked’ screed”.

Seeing where the AV Club is at now when it “tries” to discuss film, it’s incredibly hard to believe that someone as thoughtful and knowledgeable as Ignatiy Vishnevetsky once wrote for this site.

Blaming the state of cinema on Geoege Lucas and Star Wars is historically ignorant, as if that movie’s fate as as the executioner of arthouse cinema was baked into the movie.

I don’t have much to add that hasn’t been said here already.  Such a braindead, corporate simping take.  I hope Ray Greene is a pseudonym because I’d be utterly embarrassed to have this in my byline.

The problem isn’t that Scorsese is against comic book movies. If anyone has a right to comment on the state of cinema and have an opinion, it’s him.

Thinking of writers like Ignatiy, Sean O’Neal, Emily Vanderwyff, etc trying to wrap their heads around an article minimizing the importance of Martin Scorsese...  it just doesn’t compute.

The writer is also doing the thing that’s bizarrely common these days and conflating depicting something with endorsing it. You are not supposed to think Travis Bickel is the good guy. You are not supposed to think the characters in Goodfellas are good guys. 

The problem is that Greene probably hasn’t watched any Scorsese movies besides the hits and feels that that’s enough to evaluate Scorsese’s entire body of work.

It’s a particularly bizarre criticism as Scorsese has always interrogated toxic masculinity—before that term was even coined and long before the topic entered the popular consciousness. He has never celebrated male violence. Or is the problem supposed to be that because it’s a recurrent theme in his work he was…

Yeah, this is just the author couching flaccid criticism of Scorsese in Social Justice lingo to try and sound deeper than whatever the point seems to be. Like we’re not talking about nuanced takes of masculinity like Scrader’s films that can oftentimes feel like they’re elevating bad men. The men in Scorsese’s films…

This site used to be such an important voice in film and television. Very sad to see where it is now.

This person CLEARLY didn't see Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore which is a fantastic feminist film.

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Honestly, the roasting this piece is getting on Bluesky right now is some of the best stuff I’ve read today. But still not worth the pixels this take took up.