Anonymous #2 11h

*that had

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Anonymous #1 11h

For the record I didn’t say this because I’m anti-intellectual, I’m not one of those people who’s like “the mario galaxy movie is good and you’re pretentious if you don’t like it!”. I like analyzing movies in depth and like when people write actual reviews on letterboxd instead of shitty one liners. I just said this because 99% of the time someone uses the term “media literacy” they’re going about intellectually engaging with movies in a cringe way and being a huge dick about it

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Anonymous #1 11h

lmao for what it's worth i have this person blocked so clearly they've been annoying about other shit but media literacy is real and is tragically lacking in a huge portion of the moviegoing audience. i'm talking like, people who cannot identify basic themes of something they just watched

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Anonymous #2 10h

Conceptually it’s a real thing. But as a term, it’s almost always used as a faux-intellectual buzzword by people trying to condescendingly assert intellectual superiority over someone else. It’s like the movie equivalent of people who use the phrase “basic understanding of economics” in a political argument

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Anonymous #2 10h

Yeah I agree with you here, I enjoyed Maximum Overdrive and I’m under no illusions that it isn’t a shitty movie lol

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