Why some people who dislike horror call it stupid?

[Rev. Rye]

90% of Theodore Sturgeon was crap.

Yeah, and that was kind of the point Theodore Sturgeon was making when he said that. He was at a con and someone said 90% of sci-fi was crap, and he responded 90% of everything is crap.

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But seriously, some folks call comic book movies stupid, some say the same about romcoms. Fuck 'em.

Yeah, and it's remarkable how bizarrely arbitrary the standards for willing suspension of disbelief can be. Case in point: as much as I liked Black Panther, I have to say that so much of the basic premise is utterly ridiculous; Wakanda managed to totally escape unscathed in the Scramble For Africa, due to apparently having no resources; despite this, due to its Vibranium reserves, is actually the wealthiest nation on Earth and managed to hide this from the rest of the world until the end of the movie; its ruler, an absolute monarch, mind you, despite having his vibranium reserves alone dwarfing the rest of the world's GDP, and also having to deal with running this country and keeping the masquerade alive (even Bruce Wayne seems to be very hands-off in running Wayne Enterprises), still moonlights as a superhero. Good thing virtually everything else was stellar.

And, of course, somehow, people seem to dismiss the idea of people dancing and bursting into song on camera is far too much to take.



It looks like the decline and fall of the musical in the cinematic imagination seems to correspond with Stonewall and the subsequent visibility of LGBT identity. This may need more research.