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antsamthompson9

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I think Jarrod is calling out D'Snowth here, and to be honest, he's right (no offense).
Jarrod Fairclough: Before you saw the film, what were your views about Melissa McCarthy?
Steve Swanson: I didn't know who she was.
JD Hansel: Mine were sorta mixed, because I knew she could be funny. Based on SNL with her Spicy, I knew she could be hilariously funny. But I also saw her in Ghostbusters, so I knew she could also be very unfunny and I might hate her in this.
Jarrod: See, she's a very divisive figure when it comes to comedy. And comedy is a very subjective thing. Personally, I've always really liked her, even her crappiest films, I'll still find something to laugh at. But, because she's been so divisive, a lot of people went into this film, and I've seen comment sections where people said "As soon as I saw Melissa McCarthy, I decided this film was ****."
Steve: Well, that's too bad.
Jarrod: I think that's such a dangerous attitude to have and an awful attitude to have. And critics are the same, a lot of critics said "Oh, Melissa McCarthy's just doing her thing." Yes, she does her one-liners and physical gags. She's built a giant career out of it, obviously there's an appeal to it. Just because you don't understand the appeal of something doesn't mean it's awful. And that's why I think movie critics are really dangerous. And it's so easy these days to go online and find opinions that validate your own opinion. So a lot of people are going on and reading reviews, and just looking for the ones that trash Melissa McCarthy in this film. Where I thought she did a great job considering she was essentially a straight man to a bunch of puppets, but she still manged to get in her moments. And I think it's so unfair that so many people and critics out there have written this film off purely because she's in it.
JD: That's wrong.
Steve: Yeah, that's a dumb reason to do that. I don't even know who she is, so I had no preconceptions of any of that going into it.
 
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Y'know, I get reproached so much about my unpopular opinions, that honestly, my only response to it is simply this:


I get people don't like that I don't conform to their opinions and that my opinions are unpopular, but my opinions are my own. As I said, Jayden Libran gave me a big lecture about this, about how, as a puppeteer myself, I'm obligated to see this movie, if nothing else, to support the puppeteers who were given steady work to be perform in this movie. I get that, I really do: puppetry is hard work to get . . . I know, because I'm a struggling puppeteer myself, but you know what? I don't lecture people that they should subscribe to my YouTube channel and watch my work, because its their decision if they want to or not, and I shouldn't have to influence them or make them feel obligated to do me any favors . . . I wrote about this a time or two on my Scarblog: this is why I never advertise my channel, or my work in general: I learned the hard way in years past that it does nothing but **** people off who think you're just desperately crying for attention. It's their decision to follow me, just like it's my decision if I want to see this movie. The puppetry is the only reason I had for wanting to see this movie . . . there were otherwise too many other reasons for I had for not wanting to see this movie, and yes, Melissa McCarthy is one of them, because I'm not a fan of hers at all; that doesn't mean she's the only reason I didn't want to see the movie.

But, I digress. If my opinions bother you so much . . . then, in the words of Channel Awesome responding to the mass exodus of their former producers calling them out for their unprofessional and misogynistic behavior: I regret that you feel that way.
 
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Alright. Your point's been made: Unless someone is able to edit McCarthy, McHale and the two sexual parts out of the film, you'll just never see it.
 
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You know what this is all reminding me of? Years ago when I took issue with people who refused to watch episodes of WHOSE LINE? where Kathy Greenwood was the fourth seater because they hated her.

And somehow, I was still the one with the unpopular opinion and reproached about it. :rolleyes:
 
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My next series of quotes are from a Sesame Street DGA event from 2011.
Murray: Actors have no control at all! They just go where the director tells them to go, and do whatever the director tells them to do.
Elmo: That's terrible!
Murray: It is. It's like we're some kind of puppets.
Elmo: Puppets? EW! Elmo doesn't like puppets!
Murray: Neither do I. Puppets are worse than clowns and mimes combined!
 
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