The Box Office Guy

It’s honestly beautiful watching film Twitter come together to clown on the Critical Drinker and the rest of the rage-bait grifter ecosystem after THE ODYSSEY. These people claim to love movies, but all they do is attack them. Every casting choice is woke. Every studio decision is proof Hollywood is dying. Every movie is declared a failure months before release because outrage is easier, cheaper and more profitable than actually engaging with the art. The Critical Drinker is the top of the funnel. He packages the resentment in a cleaner, more respectable way, then the algorithm leads people toward creators who are far more openly racist, sexist and bigoted. The entire business depends on keeping the audience “ignorant, ill-educated, and illiterate” about the movies and the industry they’re supposedly defending. They tried desperately to turn Christopher Nolan into another woke Hollywood disaster. They misunderstood the Academy rules, obsessed over tiny casting choices and predicted audiences would reject the film. Instead, THE ODYSSEY became a massive success, and every talking point blew up in their faces. That doesn’t mean the grift is dead. Their audience wants confirmation bias and will happily follow them into the next manufactured controversy. But defeating this stuff requires vigilance. Mock them. Correct them. Show everyone that they hold no real power beyond the attention people hand them. THE ODYSSEY may be the first step on the journey toward showing just how foolish these fools truly are. Nature might finally be healing.