there are also front-facing actions to demonstrate his progressive views, like producing female-centric stories of rape and abuse She Said and Women Talking, launching a genderless skincare line, wearing a skirt to the Bullet Train premiere, and now, launching a collective art exhibition with Nick Cave and Thomas…

Also...Scorsese is right? Turning film into a multi-billion, multinational corporate affair that exists to maximize profits is shitty and has a negative impact on movies. In the same way that corporate control over music is a net negative. The issue is that it isn’t enough for a movie to be successful - a movie has to…

is this a hot take? doesn’t every director and writer rightfully hate studio notes focused on increasing the box office? reducing a movie down to its profitability seems by definition anti-art, and the movie business is about the capital and the art finding a middle ground. why would saying this be controversial? 

I think this is where the disagreement lies. One can look at today’s environment as no different from the normal ‘entertainment is a business’ idea, or one can be on the other side of the fuzzy boundary where the financials are exerting disproportionate influence over whether or not a movie gets made. I’ll say…

Do you think that Martin Scorsese is *unaware* of the business side of show business?

I don’t generally like coming at the site writers with hostility, especially over tone. BUT. Holy shit is this a deeply awful pile of trashy snark. Tangential as fuck to bring up the Marvel fracas. Weirdly “THIS guy, amirite?” about his praise for Pearl. (I mean, he also loves mother! and boy is that movie a p.o.s.…

“Wake up, babe: new Martin Scorsese hot take just dropped. The notorious Marvel-hater strayed dangerously close to reigniting 2019's biggest and dumbest Hollywood controversy on Wednesday night by taking on the thing superhero fans love most: spending a ton of money at the box office to see movies about superheroes.”

I also get the sense that he’s disgusted by the *audience’s* internet-driven preoccupation with the numbers.

This forced, clickbaity snark must be so demoralizing to write. Marty can be right about the economic realities of the industry and superhero movies can be good and fun too.

Nah, he’s right; up til the 60s/70s or so, movies were released in a roadshow format, touring for extended periods, and while box office numbers were still an important metric, a movie’s success was measured over its touring lifetime.

He acknowledges that:

Aronososky’s comments are a problem, but not an uncommon assumption. Also an offensive and infantilizing opinion.

Like when he would intrupt someone when they won a pointless music award over Beyonce. 

Katie Rife wrote some great criticism of this film and the issue she took with it wasn’t so much the use of a fat suit, as it was a misunderstanding of what it is to be obese, to portray his life as pure misery as if the obese cannot experience any joy. That the film doesn’t really seem to understand. That it is…

His disorders play a part in shaping his views, but he is still responsible for having them. As widely discussed recently, antisemites use backlash against extreme views as confirmation that those views as justified. His narcissism makes it difficult to accept ever being wrong, so he likes people things like Trump…

now, my takeaway from this nothing story was, the guy who didn’t get invited to prom is all “proms are dumb, only losers go to prom” LOL

They’re also notoriously insecure, petty, and vindictive towards those they’ve surmised have crossed them. Also usually on many drugs/deeply depressed

He’s salty cause no one wants to work with a abusive, bullying, sex predator who makes bomb threats. 

Yeah given the fact that even from TJ’s mouth it seems like some off the cuff, in character riffing, and the fact that Miller is notoriously a huge asshole, I’m not thinking there’s much here.

Ironically, the tone of this article isn’t nearly snarky enough - TJ Miller talked with Adam Corolla about how shitty Ryan Reynolds is, and the headline isn’t “Second-Worst Guy From Silicon Valley Dumps on Ryan Reynolds to Second-Worst Guy From Loveline.”