Tired of Demetri Panos and his smug attitude
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“I've been listening to this show for a long while - I've listened to easily more than a hundred episodes by now - but I may have to give up on this show, because it's getting so tiresome. The main host Demetri Panos's smug attitude and clueless comments have irked me for the last time. I'm shocked by how out-of-touch this guy is. He's not quite the worst host on the Popcorn Talk network (that would be Meet the Movie Press's horrible host Simon Thompson), but Demetri's up there. Demetri acts cheerful, but he's really kind of a jerk. For instance, I've seen him posting comments from his personal account arguing against other YouTube commenters, while bragging about what a great critic he is and boasting about his accomplishments as a critic, because a bunch of commenters happened to like good movies that he was trashing.
Demetri generally doesn't seem to like bolder movies that go for surprises or intellectual approaches - these movies, as he puts it when he doesn't like something, "make him angry" - and he instead tends to prefer formulaic movies. Over and over I see him jumping all over a movie for daring to be different, instead of following the same tired old formulas. This is the consistent pattern I've observed across all the movies he likes and hates.
Demetri is the most annoying when he flaunts his status as a great critic and overhypes his over-inflated view of the influence that critics have on the movie industry - unsurprising, considering that he thinks he himself is such a great critic - even though time and time again, it's been pretty clearly proven that critics' opinions don't mean squat as far as box office performance goes. It's fine to have an opinion, but the problem is that Demetri's views are so off the mark that they don't even align with reality and hard evidence.
For instance, in the Doctor Strange episode, Demetri was siding with Marvel and taking jabs at DC movies when he sarcastically asked did anyone even bother to go see Suicide Squad twice, as if low critics' ratings managed to make it fail at the box office. In reponse to this, the other ignorant hosts responded that only diehard DC fanboys went to see it twice. Okay... then how on earth did Suicide Squad make $745 million??? What alternate universe did Demetri and these other delusional hosts come from where everyone listens to critics and movies succeed or fail based on what critics say? You don't have to like a movie personally, but you don't get to act like the movies that you don't like are unsuccessful, when they actually were. Don't be delusional like Demetri and stop acting like critics are SO influential when they're clearly not.
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As for the other regular hosts of this show:
Zach Wilson is really annoying.
Marisa Serafini is probably the most tolerable of the frequent hosts. She's not too bad.”
NamHienNguyen via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/05/18
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