Mainstream audiences don’t want to hear about alternatives to Marvel, Star Wars or Pixar (all owned by Disney) about movies as free-associatively erotic as Neon Bull, or even as sharp and sensual and rowdy as Everybody Wants Some!!, because such projects are barely screened in cinemas anymore, unless you live in a big metropolis. But try telling people this sort of thing about a Marvel production and you’re a snob. Works of art are like people: to hate either, one must be accorded a glimpse of their personality first, and a failure to exhibit personality provokes a muffled, low-risk indifference. “Disliking” rather than “hating”, because to inspire such a passionate response as hate would require more than a preordained blockbuster usually offers. Contrary to a cliche that dogs film critics, I don’t enjoy disliking nearly every movie that earns a significant amount of money.
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