r/killjamesbond

Dammit I just had to stop the episode to giggle

Hello November Kelly fans! I’m a writer and journalist who has been listening to TF and Kill James Bond for a while, and I wanted to know more about who November is and how she became the person she is today. I spoke to her and a bunch of people close to her, and here’s what I learned.

I didn't even know he was a horse.

I will be blunt- I have started skipping the SCUM sections, when I even listen to the podcast at all. I just do not think, on any level, it is a good or healthy way to view movies, judging complicated human art by, in essence, trying to find what you can, in essence, cancel it for, a little set of numbers to determine how much the film you're talking about has a right to exist or to be well regarded in any meaningful capacity.

It's not "critique" to say "this film is smarmy", it's just a crude, cruel takedown, one that's entirely incapable of dealing with depiction not equalling endorsement and one that turns the act of actually reviewing a piece of media into "how many things can I find wrong with this? What can I cynically wield to dismiss this entire movie as bigoted garbage?" If you looked up the definition of bad faith, you'd find the SCUM system in there, and if you think that it's somehow fair to think of art, actual art, in terms of "how high does this rank on the unprovoked violence scale, a thing you probably bought the fucking ticket for", let me ask you:

How do you think your favorite movie would rank on the SCUM scale? And if it's extremely low, is it a movie for adults?

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