Media Made to Prove the Haters Wrong

[u/Ultrimus-Prime]

Tunak Tunak Tun (Daler Mehndi) Critics claimed his music videos were only popular because they featured attractive women dancing. Mehndi responded by making a music video featuring nobody except multiple green-screen versions of himself. It became a massive hit and his most famous song.

Five Nights at Freddy’s - Scott Cawthon previously made a family-friendly game called Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. Critics complained that the characters looked like creepy animatronics. Rather than abandon that visual style, Cawthon decided to turn them into an actual horror game using scary animatronics.

Superman Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross were reacting to the 1990s trend of increasingly violent, cynical superheroes.

Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated. It portrayed the consequences of abandoning heroic ideals and argued that compassion, restraint, and morality were still essential to superheroes.

[u/demonsdencollective]

Sometimes I mentally slip into toxicity and start hating on everyone and everything. Then I remember how fucking dogshit The Boys is and correct myself to be more open minded and positive again before I start ruining the things I'm passionate about too.

[u/Motivated-Chair → u/demonsdencollective]

Series so dogshit made you a better person.

[u/demonsdencollective → u/Motivated-Chair]

It's incredible. I hope it leads to some golden age throwback hero movies. Maybe we could call those types of movies Incredibles. Wait...

https://giphy.com/gifs/g0Ub5PgMoLqaNKBpDH

[u/counters14 → u/Motivated-Chair]

Wait I'm confused here. Don't people widely love the series? I thought that the criticism was mainly about how the fans were media illiterate and didn't understand the narrative so they ended up idolizing the bad guys? I never watched the show or kept up with the hype but I thought people genuinely liked it?

[u/Motivated-Chair → u/counters14]

It got worse in later seasons even for people that got It. With the finale being disliked. Honestly not surprised considering the production pipeline these shows are force into.

[u/chronoflect → u/demonsdencollective]

Had a similar realization when I was watching Toy Story 3 with friends and they asked me to stop being a cynical asshole, constantly pointing out "mistakes" and such.

Permanently stopped watching cinema sins after that.

[u/jobforgears → u/chronoflect]

Cinema sins and rotten tomatoes I think did a lot of damage where people started to channel and internal critic that they really didn't have before. Most people rate movies better than critics because they watch them to have fun conversely, critics have a nagging sense that this is wrong/cheap/overused/etc. These are way more accessible than talk shows like siskle and ebert and aimed at teenage/young adult audiences that are still forming their judgment. That being said, I'm also more educated on physics and engineering than I was when I was a teenager and so I know when things are wrong whether I want to give the movie a chance or not.

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/chronoflect]

Nowadays they're doing better with Cinema Wins. They honestly were a good recommendation for some films I overlooked.

[u/Federal_Waltz → u/demonsdencollective]

Are we talking about the comic or the tv show? The tv show is pretty decent, and that's coming from someone who hates the current marvel pump and dump 20 shit-tier movies a decade approach.

The boys is probably one of the best superhero digital media (tv/movies) in the last decade.

No clue about the comics though

[u/Goodmindtothrowitall → u/Federal_Waltz]

They are 100% talking about the comic. The tv show is quite different in a few very important ways… which is why it’s good

[u/gprime312 → u/Federal_Waltz]

did you watch the last 2 seasons?

[u/ExternalPromotion542 → u/demonsdencollective]

It started out good. The first few seasons werent too bad.

[u/knightmechaenjo → u/demonsdencollective]

When you see something so cynical it makes you wanna be better

[u/Affectionate_Yam1654 → u/demonsdencollective]

Hell yea homie. I dunno if I’m just getting old and tired but I can’t stand to be so negative anymore. I spent 20+ years shittin on and being critical of everythin. It’s exhausting. Let people enjoy things. You don’t make great art without making trash art first. Just because society has changed it doesn’t mean things that aged bad and are shit today that they wasn’t fun in the when they happened. I mean we still gotta have standards so fuck AI soulless theft of humanity, but just because Trump bombs schools full of children today doesn’t mean I can’t fondly remember Kevin McCallister meeting the dude I thought had to be the richest man in the world when I was 7.