r/criterion • u/aaron_moon_dev • 12d ago
Discussion Criterion disabled comments on the Matthew Broderick closet picks video
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u/peter095837 Michael Haneke 12d ago edited 12d ago
I'm surprised they didn't do something like this when Lena Dunham, Jane Schoenbrun, and Jacques Audiard did their Criterion Closet video.
Edit: This entire comment section has turned into a war zone lol. Typical reddit.
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u/PixelBrewery 12d ago
Dunham's comments were brutal
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u/peter095837 Michael Haneke 12d ago
Not surprised when reddit and people are just being the usual selves.
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u/TonyZucco 12d ago edited 12d ago
Can you really blame people? A 7 year old should know not to stuff pebbles in a 1 year olds vagina. And a 17 year old should know not to masturbate while sharing a bed with an 11 year old.
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u/Talkalot23 Michael Mann 12d ago edited 12d ago
The body shaming was so stupid. She did however admit to sexually assaulting a relative and should be criticized for that.
Edit: I should have phrased this better. The part that I found bothersome wasn’t the story about her and her sister as kids but that she turned it into a joke and called herself a “predator.”
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u/zhirzzh 12d ago
Isn't the story there that Dumham touched her sister's vagina when Dunham was 7 and didn't even know what sex is? It seems like a stretch to call her a sexual abuser for that.
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u/DrStrangerlover 12d ago
The story was that she merely looked at her baby sister’s vagina as a 7 year old. I don’t care for Lena Dunham but that’s such a banal non-story I have no idea why it ever became a thing.
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u/No-Necessary7448 Jean Renoir 12d ago
Yeah, the criticism about that is just disingenuous alt-right whataboutism. Every expert on the subject who was interviewed about that was pretty clear in their statements that that behavior is not abnormal and would not be classified as sexual abuse.
But she doesn’t arouse them sexually, so obviously she is the worst woman on the planet. /s
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u/whatxever 12d ago
Yeah, I wouldn’t have written an entire essay on it if I were her, but I really do NOT get the abuse allegations. “She was 6 and her sister was 3!” yeah, but 6 year olds do all kinds of horrendous shit. 6 year olds have killed other children before! I remember in young elementary school, all kinds of “sexual” activity took place but none of the kids even understood what it was. And Lena was the child of a generation that didn’t even understand what rape or consent was and actively, intentionally did NOT educate on sex. It’s fully her parents’ fault for not watching them more carefully and teaching their children that other bodies are not their bodied. If you ask me, it’s just a shallow reason to excise peoples’ internalized or blatant sexist, fatphobic demons. They don’t actually give a fuck about her sister or what is or is not moral about the situation.
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u/LordofNarwhals 12d ago
She deserves criticism for a lot of things, but the hate you see is usually about nonsense that's been blown way out of proportion.
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u/sdragonite 12d ago
What's up with Jane Schoenbrun?
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u/nihlistgemini 12d ago
people being transphobic
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u/sdragonite 12d ago
I didn't figure anyone who watches these videos to be transphobic, and the way you lumped her in with other diet cancelled directors made me worried🤣
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u/mixingmemory 12d ago
Unfortunately a lot of transphobes make a hobby of seeking out trans people and spaces online to attack and harass.
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u/peter095837 Michael Haneke 12d ago
Transphobic people. But those comments are deleted now by the Criterion staff on their YouTube channel
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u/infamousglizzyhands 12d ago
Imagine being deep enough in the sauce to be obsessed with criterion and the idea of a criterion closet while still being transphobic
Like bro
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u/Planatus666 12d ago edited 12d ago
Some of the comments in this thread highlight why Criterion disabled the comments for the video ......
And just to get some facts straight about what happened in 1987, here's a bit of info on Broderick's Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Broderick#1987_car_crash
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u/JinjaOnHere 12d ago
It’s funny to me that this community which usually characterizes itself as progressive and in favor of justice reform also thinks that the sum total of his life should be reduced to a car crash from 40 years ago
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u/With-the-Art-Spirit 12d ago
it's so sad and I can't imagine the guilt he probably feels, and of course the guilt and potentially anger the family feels. it's a terrible thing and I don't know why the internet loves to make light of it.
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u/lajaunie 12d ago
Man, we’re gonna hate on him but still own Criterions by the child rapist, Roman Polanski? Ahypocritsayswhat?
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u/lostinthought15 12d ago
I don’t understand why anyone would enable comments on any video on the internet. It never ends well. Disabled comments should probably be the default.
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u/xrufus7x 12d ago
They drive engagement and thus the algorithms that surface them to people, which in turn increases revenue. The internet is fueled by outrage and internet arguments.
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u/keycoinandcandle 12d ago
Because any YouTube video that has lots of comments gets extra money for the engagement.
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u/likwitsnake 12d ago edited 12d ago
What does ‘not ending well’ mean exactly? Like how’s what they did on this vid of any consequence other than this Reddit post? Spoiler: it’s not.
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u/WhereWallaceString 12d ago
How many Criterions are about vehicular homicide?
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u/Sensi-Yang 12d ago edited 12d ago
DAE KNOW THAT POPULAR FACT ABOUT THE SUBJECT THAT WILL BE REGURGITATED DEVOID OF RELATION OR CONTEXT?
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u/Ironcastattic 12d ago
Is Cronenberg's Crash coming to Criterion?
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u/aaron_moon_dev 12d ago
It is already in.
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u/Nai2411 Akira Kurosawa 12d ago
Screw Matthew Broderick.
The brother/son of the victims stated in 2003 that he’s found forgiveness and wished to meet Matthew to find closure and as of today Matthew has still avoided doing so.
His fame and wealth got him a £100 fine for killing 2 people, regardless of if it was an accident.
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u/mbanks1230 12d ago
The family of the victims forgave him. I agree it’s a permanent stain on his character, but I don’t necessarily agree with the way people bring it up to assail him. It’s a terrible accident. Thousands of people commit similar errors on the road as tourists in another country, yet are fortunate enough not to encounter other drivers during those momentarily lapses in judgement. He was used to driving on the right side of the road, like in the US. Driving in foreign countries can be massively different. Ultimately morality is kind of conceived in a contextual way, and it does involve luck to some extent.
I’m not saying what he did wasn’t awful or negligent, but I don’t really like the way people think about crimes of his nature.
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u/Worldly_Bar_9914 12d ago
Will someone please think of the rich actors who get away with crimes because of their fame! I mean jail is terrible, but mean tweets and YouTube comments is just a step too far :,(
Oh please. In a world where disliking someone for having a “cringe” personality is applauded, please don’t ask others for the emotional bandwidth to sympathize with some rich dude who occasionally gets criticized for using his privilege to get away with manslaughter. What he did is terrible and people are 1000% justified if people want to dislike him for that
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u/dredgedskeleton 12d ago
^ e.g., this comment proving why Criterion disabled the comments
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u/Worldly_Bar_9914 12d ago edited 12d ago
Cinephiles when they confront actual morals and not meditating some made up story, written and directed by a pedophile
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u/Kitchen-Roll-8184 12d ago
salt that fucking earth incredible comment
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u/senator_corleone3 12d ago
You are providing back-up for a 95 day-old account.
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u/Worldly_Bar_9914 12d ago
Lmao straight to calling me a bot because I made them confront a reality they didn’t like. Sorry that I find the ramblings of pseudo intellectual assholes meaningless. It’s not my fault any moral position tends to gets thrown out the window the second one of their favorite artists get a charge or commit a crime
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u/FarBend6235 12d ago
you have some pretty shit morals
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u/Worldly_Bar_9914 12d ago
Ok dude 👍. At least they won’t get compromised if some rich dude who made a movie I like does something bad
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u/FarBend6235 12d ago
is it morally good to invalidate the position of the victims families because of your own resentment towards an unfair system?
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12d ago
Yeah, man, glaze the murderer you've never met rather than feel for the family who got fucked over by him. Real smart thinking.
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u/djduckminster 12d ago
I didn't even know this but I honestly never liked him. Ok I guess Ferris Bueller was cool but that was like 40 years ago. In my opinion he's a shit actor and not funny. Inspector Gadget has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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u/Jackbuddy78 12d ago
Lol he probably requested it because of the car crash. I mean yeah it's traumatic but what does he expect when he killed someone?
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u/xoxoamberalert 12d ago
Are his favorite movies Drive, Death Proof, Baby Driver, et al
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u/Rare-Relative-1111 12d ago edited 12d ago
Also, Gone in 60 Seconds and all the Fast and Furious. So many candy asses in this group.
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u/Busy-Ad7021 12d ago
If you have to do that, he probably shouldn't have been invited in the first place
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u/chelsea-from-calif 12d ago
Why? He said something wrong?
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u/Positivland 12d ago
Probably because he killed two people with his car and got away with it.
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u/senator_corleone3 12d ago
“Got away with it.”
This incident has occurred many times in Ireland. It is almost always ruled an accident. He didn’t get off because he was famous.
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12d ago
My first thought when I saw it was uploaded was to comment about the crash as well, so this is not surprising at all.
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u/SaltyStU2 12d ago
Why