• canthidium@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Focusing on profits just shows that Russo has lost touch with cinema as an art form and is rationalizing away his selling out, while just strengthening Scorsese’s argument.

    You guys take things way too seriously. He’s just poking fun with a light hearted clapback. A silly joke means he’s lost touch with cinema as an art form? Don’t people know how to take things in stride anymore?

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      1 year ago

      People taking things the wrong way and turning everything into an argument has always been a thing, though it feels approximately 1000000000000 times worse in just the last few years.

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        1 year ago

        It’s why I rarely commented on Reddit. People seemed to take the worst interpretaton of everything you say and want to argue about everything. It’s so tired.