Brie Larson and Marvel hate you.

Maybe that was necessary forty or fifty years ago, but we literally live in a world where a disabled kid in a basement can start a movie review YouTube channel and get half a million subscribers. It is talent that determines the market now. Men are not gatekeeping movie reviewing jobs, you unmitigated ass!

Yes.

This is Harry Knowles. He started one of the first film/comic/pop culture online websites called AintItCoolNews. He's a fat pervy weird fuck. Literally a neckbeard. Who started tapping out film reviews, and built a following. And got rich off of it.

So i don't want to hear any more bitching from women about how they can't get the word out, how they can't become film critics. Bullshit. The main reason most women don't become film critics is because they don't want to do the work and because they're just not as good at it as men are. Men are by and large better writers, more intelligent, more business savvy, and better at understanding popular, film, and business trends. So what the Brie Larsons of the world say is give more women more "seats at the table. I say "no, let women EARN their seats at the film criticism table."

You know what this is really about? Brie Larson not liking the fact that she's in a movie that mostly white men will see. That, mostly UNATTRACTIVE white men will see. Comic book heroes and the popular media they get set in in the DCEU and the MCU - you know who consumes that media? Bottom 80% white men between age 13 and 50 with some overlap into the age 25-54 demo (including men of all races). And this is about the fact that Brie Larson doesn't want the weird smelly cheeto-stained Mountain Dew swilling basement dwellers reviewing her movie and.... GASP.... judging her.

It’s astonishing how there isn’t a “shut the fuck up” clause in an actor’s contract

No shit. Hey, Brie Larson.... you are an ACTRESS. You are paid to look hot and say the lines you're told to say. Wear this costume. Get into hair and makeup. Stand here, walk there, say this. That's your fucking job and we're paying you a shitton of money to do it. So shut the fuck up when you're off set. You go to the press tour. You say what we tell you. You talk up the film and you help your investors make money. You do your job and then in your off time you can work out, do Pilates, drink Courvoisier, and eat your egg whites and sharp cheddar. And keep your mouth shut.

You are not an activist or an advocate. You are not being paid to think. You are not being paid to change the world. You are not being paid to "make a statement" or "take a stand" or "help" anyone. You are being paid to portray a comic book character created by men, for men, that men are interested in, that men want to see, and that men brought to the big screen. So fucking do that. Stop opening your stupid mouth and torpedoing the efforts of the MEN who think, plan, prepare, direct, spend, invest, and lay the groundwork for you and provide you with your living.

And for the love of God, stop pissing off the core audience of the film. This is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The biggest juggernaut film franchise going right now. It's made, like, what, $3 billion and counting, domestic box office alone, not counting merchandising, home video, and overseas intake? And you are about to sink it. You're about to slice open the biggest cash cow in fucking FILM HISTORY. So would you Please.... Shut. The. Fuck. Up.