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*cue the Family Guy scene where Peter traps Meg in the car as he lets one rip*

And for nitpickers who will inevitably try to argue in the comments down below that "well Snow White has more dislikes", this tweet is talking about The Odyssey being the most disliked modern movie trailer since the live action Snow White movie that nobody similarly asked for.

Not that it has more dislikes per se than Snow White, though I'm sure that's subject to change as we inch closer to the release of Christopher Nolan's take on the Greek epic based on a modern feminist's "translation" of said epic, because of course it is.

Hard to imagine the same guy who was known for taking risks as a filmmaker has stooped to making a blatantly woke version of The Odyssey, namely by making Helen of Troy a black woman, which she most certainly would not have been had The Odyssey existed in real life.

(And to likewise counter anybody who will try to erroneously claim that I'm using the word "woke" wrong, no, I'm not using it in the sense of black people telling their communities to be alert about bad faith actors doing messed up shit to others as per the original definition of the word, I'm using it in the modern online culture war definition of the word as in the sense of Hollywood's senseless corporate-funded attempts at appearing "diverse" to appease Blackrock shareholders who have as much creative sense as Peter Griffin did in that episode of Family Guy where he took over production on a theater adaptation of "The King and I" play until it resembled a blatant sci-fi in name only adaptation much to Lois's disgust.)

This would be like making George Washington Hispanic or gender-swapping Albert Einstein in a movie about either man's life.

(And why is it predominantly white culture that gets treated like this in modern Hollywood?)

Either Christopher Nolan has grown soft in his old age at 55 going on 56...

Or, dare I say, perhaps the woke virus finally came for his once brilliant mind?

Dude could have consulted and worked with the people of Greece themselves down to the last detail and made another smash hit film to add to his mostly impressive resume, but I guess it was easier to blackwash Helen of Troy, to cast Zen-fucking-Daya in the film as Athena because of course that charisma vaccum of an actress is in everything after hitting it big as "MJ" in the Tom Holland Spider-Man films, and to cast Elliot Page as Sinon rather than give an unknown Greek actor their big break, or really, to give any Greek actors/actresses their big break.

Bravo, Nolan, you marvelous, ethnically and sexually tolerant film director.

I'm sure all women, blacks, and queers here in North America (and maybe Canada and parts of Europe too) feel empowered right about now with your American-centric casting choices for your take on The Odyssey, as do the aforementioned actual Greek people you conveniently snubbed in the name of DEI, because who gives a damn about anybody besides who our corporate overlords tell us to give a damn about amiright? :)

And for the record, you peaked with Inception as a filmmaker, though Oppenheimer is admittedly your best film since that one in recent years.

Obviously, you can tell which way this person leans politically (and fun fact, they are a film Youtuber as I found out by glancing at their Twitter bio, no I'm not going to link their YouTube channel in this post, but trust me, you'll be able to find this person on Twitter if you hang around in anti-woke spheres, don't worry), but that aside, why even bring politics into it at all?

Are people not allowed to like James Gunn DCU thus far because it's a sad desperate last ditch effort from DC and Warner Bros to have their own MCU after a decade of the Snyderverse and...whatever the fresh hell all those light hearted films in the DCEU were about?

Oh, and this same person decided to pay for a "ROUND 3" as they call it meaning they are willingly paying money not twice, but thrice to see Supergirl 2026 in theaters.

Think he might have taken the conSOOMer meme too literal smh

Been casually reading through the Twitter discourse regarding Supergirl 2026 when I stumbled across this gem of a person.

Somebody who thought Supergirl was so good, he's going back for thirds, yes THIRDS.

Not for seconds, (though even then I'd question this person's sanity), but for thirds.

I don't think I've ever seen the conSOOMer meme reach this level of unashamed corporate consumerism before.

Oh, and of course this guy is a film Youtuber as you might have guessed from his online handle.

Don't think Mauler and the boys know that he exists, should we tell them for next week's EFAP? ;)

Can't tell you the amount of times I've seen modern animators huff their own farts and be so far up their own pretentious narrow sized buttholes on social media when people rightfully point out how homogenized modern western cartoons all are in terms of style, with parroting the same pre-approved ultra left leaning messages that aren't saying anything particularly profound, or when people pick apart the shallow trauma dumping that passes for "writing" nowadays combined with quippy same-y unfunny Millennial humor that permeates all modern cartoons, especially with "indie" animation these days that may as well be corporate under a different alias jfc.

I wonder if it would blow this person's mind to know that good cartoons have NOTHING TO DO with your political ideology.

There's a reason why all the Cartoon Network Tumblr-approved slop of the 2010s faded into the ether.

There's a reason why "anti-woke" adult cartoons fail to make a splash in the long term.

There's a reason why cartoon shows like South Park or King of the Hill have endured for almost 30 years.

But staying on topic here, no, you don't need to be a "little weird" or "woke" to make a "good cartoon".

If anything, that's a red flag that anybody with common sense should steer clear of your cartoon show.

Be passionate about your craft, sure.

Be neurotic about prioritizing good storytelling, yes.

But I'm sorry, the vast majority of people out there don't want to watch your uninspired, safe-edgy, lazy-looking CalArts-esque animated slop that doubles as an impromptu self-therapy session that's not any different from all of the other Western cartoons released within the past 10 or so years that have all treaded the same exact ground dozens of times over.

I've only recently (as in a couple of months ago) begun studying and reverse engineering how it is acclaimed mangaka Oh! Great draws manga, but after casually reading through some of the Fairy Tail manga, I felt that Hiro Mashima's copy-paste way of drawing characters (particularly female characters) left a lot to be desired in terms of raw vibes and emotion, since in the Tower of Heaven arc, Erza states quite a few times how serious she is about stopping Jellal's plans at the cost of her own life, but it never felt to me artistically speaking that she was solemnly resolved to cleaning up what she feels is her own mess going back to when she and Jellal were kids.

Femininity comes in all forms, and the masculine side of it is but one of many.

One thing I've come to appreciate about Oh Great's art style, re-reading his manga series as a grown adult, is that you would NEVER mistake one female character (or male character for that matter) for being someone else.

No characters who look like they have the same mother, no cookie cutter one size fits all character designs, and unlike most mangaka, there's also a sense of realness in Oh Great's character designs.

Not real as in they are real people, obviously, but real as in it feels like a genuine vibe is emanating from them to the reader based on Oh! Great's meticulous posing, paneling, and raw facial expressions.

Anyway, I'm not at the drawing level of one of my favorite mangaka, nowhere near that level, I'd say, but I felt like posting this regardless. :)

Yeah, I think it's fair to say good ol Film Diabeto is going to get EFAP'd soon for seemingly being the only person on the internet who unironically likes Mandalorian and Grogu (thus far).

I mean, we've been down this same rabbit hole before.

Something that doesn't entirely suck gets praised to high heaven and back by fat balding middle aged manchild conSOOMers like MovieBob here, then Mauler and the boys (and if not them, then people like Jeremy Jahns) have to be the ones to go against the grain and say it like it is, before months later, everyone else is magically on the same page as EFAP. (Funny how that is)