The Twitter takedown. Is this really the only way to prove a point?!

I created the “musings” section of this website as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. A place to write about something, briefly…but with a bit more space to breathe.

I rejoined Twitter a few weeks ago…ok…I never fully LEFT Twitter…I just didn’t go on the site/app for several months…and at first it was all fun and games…I was totally able to filter out all the negativity there…but this morning the vile culture of the collective Film Twitter sent me over the edge…and while I did tweet my frustration…I remembered…MUSINGS…that’s why I created this space.

SO…apparently Noah Hawley, the director of “Lucy in the Sky” is set to direct “Star Trek 4.” This has set twitter a-rage.

Something I have seen in the Oscar world for years…something I have even participated in…is this practice, intentional or otherwise, of taking down something in order to place a counterpoint on a pedestal…whether that be a film or a cause. An example of this in my own coverage is “The Kings Speech.” I remember leaving the theater after KS having truly enjoyed it. Come Oscar night I was practically calling it trash as it beat my favorite films of the year, including my absolute favorite, “Black Swan.”

Was this an intentional takedown? No. I was too deep in Oscarwatching to have any perception of what I was feeling or doing.

Ok…back to Hawley and what’s happening right now on Twitter/the internet.

Here is the very important cause. We need more POC and women directing movies.

Absolutely. No doubt.

What is not necessary is the collective takedown of Noah Hawley in order to say that.

With the immediacy of the internet, twitter, the need for likes and traffic, people don’t think…they don’t process…they expel.

I have friends who worked on “Lucy in the Sky.” I don’t know anything about Noah personally…but the fact that the collective internet lacks the ability to discuss an important issue without eviscerating this man, that film, well…I find it lazy.

I hope that one day Film Twitter implodes. I hate to say it, but I do. If not, we are headed toward bot-dom - the new age of the collective 280 character stroking basement dwelling cyber attacker.