Richard Fontaine

Second go at a Twitter account.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Imagine letting the culture war trick you into watching an Uwe Boll movie.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@Cave__Cowboy @TomcatJunkie You want millions to die because you don't like being exposed to homosexuality?

[a @calli0pe___]

Mfs stop giving star ratings on Letterboxd and think they auteurs all of a sudden

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@avidfilm @DerekPederson3 I like to see my films shot in real locations instead of studio sets, for the camera to move, and for the musical scores to not all sound copy-pasted. Classic Hollywood didn't like doing that.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@GerdVonBarb @DerekPederson3 Strongly disagree. Give me the undisciplined insanity of One from the Heart any day over The Maltese Falcon's static mids and wides.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@DerekPederson3 Hard disagree. 90% of Golden Age films look like stage plays, have incredibly generic music, and feature plots that lack any sense of true danger because you know the bad guys are just going to lose anyway.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@Beawesome42 @avidfilm "It's about the message not the director"

For half a decade alt-right grifters have been saying films are bad because they focus too much on their messaging, but the second a film comes along with a message they like, suddenly all love for film as an artform vanishes.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@HJM_1991 @pingasthedinner @big10enjoyer @polish_moron Took them fucking long enough to get through to them.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@UncWisdom420 @spbwe11_2k @Nirgal451 "subhumans"

Oh yeah, you're so much nicer than us.

Shut the fuck up. Your president is the rudest man alive and you love him for it. America has turned human discourse into a game of ragebait oneupmanship. You want us to treat you with velvet gloves? Stop acting like cunts.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@DaddyWarpig Politics is ideology in governance and practice.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@SunkenTower9 @DaddyWarpig If anything I'd say that is more mean-spirited than something like The Boys, because in the end chuds weren't the audience for that show. The Boys was for people who hate chuds, and those people got what they paid for (even if the execution faltered in the final two seasons)

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@SunkenTower9 @DaddyWarpig Take The Birds. Whole film about birds attacking humans out of nowhere. In the climax, our heroes try to leave a town overrun by birds, and... we don't see what happens after that. We don't get an answer to why the birds are attacking, or if our heroes live. Shit just happened.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@SunkenTower9 @DaddyWarpig In fact horror films only truly came into their own around the 50s or 60s when filmmakers started to get a bit nasty toward their audiences. One of the reasons 2000s horror is so great is its sheer viciousness.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@SunkenTower9 @DaddyWarpig Not all movie viewers are chuds, and if you think films haven't had spite for their audience until recently, you should watch the films of Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@DaddyWarpig One film from last year that I think DID let its politics hurt its story was Sinners. Technically an excellent film, and overall a great vibe movie, but it struggled to sell the menace of its vampires because they could not completely eclipse the danger of the Klan villains.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@DaddyWarpig At the opposite end was something like The Plague, which can be read as a commentary on the early stages of toxic masculinity but functions just as well as a more general drama-thriller about school peer pressure and bullying.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@DaddyWarpig And frankly I think a lot of films these days accomplish that well. One Battle After Another worked excellently as a political film because it embraced satirical exaggeration and character eccentricity.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@anonamouse58311 @big10enjoyer @polish_moron "And the US didn't almost get your Dad drafted, your politicians did."

Correction, you both did. Because of Vietnam I never vote for the Coalition. Still doesn't change the fact your government would have been pissed off with us if we didn't join your war.

[Richard Fontaine @RFontain3]

@MattDane552022 @polish_moron I mean what fucking retard sits down one day and says ''Humour' has too many letters in it'?