The goons who have spent the last few years claiming that film critics are bribed by Disney have now taken to claiming a new conspiracy theory: That the box office results themselves are rigged.
Fans have been increasingly calling for DC and Warner Bros. to #releasethesnydercut of 'Justice League' but let's pump the brakes and resist giving in to the demands and threats of toxic fandom.
I’m talking about the rise of what I’ve deemed “meta-entertainment” and how movies are becoming collective, almost communal creative endeavors, and how this practice needs to stop.
The denunciations of Scorsese have been pretty hilarious and what has followed is the ridiculous notion that if someone doesn't like Batman or Iron Man as much as you do, it's the equivalent of actual prejudice or discrimination.
Fandom, clearly, is broken, in a lot of key ways and it really needs to get back to loving the movies, and getting joy out of them, and not using them as a platform for irrational hostility.