Filmmakers against criticism

'''Disclaimer: We do not support any harassments against filmmakers as this will make it worst. Also just because they do that type of behavior doesn't automatically make them pure evil/heinous. That only makes them more human like the rest of us. After all, nobody's perfect.'''



In films and TV shows, they usually shouldn't be expected to be a masterpiece all the time because a filmmaker made some mistakes over many years. But regardless of quality, no filmmaker, being either a professional or an "amateur", is supposed to be immune to negative criticism, especially if the film is being sold for real money and sold on major movie platforms like Disney+, Crunchyroll, Netflix or in movie theatres.

In the recent years, not only have some indie filmmakers shown their hostilities against criticism, but some larger studios or directors with high budgets also attempted to silence negative reception as well.

The Situation
While it is understandable that people don't like receiving negative criticism, it usually is not meant as an attack against the product or the director. Negative criticism is meant to inform audiences about a poor quality product and to help the directors, screenwriters or producers understand the issues with their product. However, some creators see negative criticism as a threat to either their business or to their fragile, over-inflated egos and will do anything to try to stop said criticism.

Likewise, not everyone on the internet knows that constructive criticism needs to actually be constructive and instead mock the film, the director(s), the writers, and sometimes, even people who like the film they are "criticizing". It's very easy to be a target of this type of critic, especially on Metacritic, which generally lacks quality control for reviews. Being a target of bad critics or trolling, however, does not excuse toxic behavior (see examples below).

Silencing Criticism
When these filmmakers receive negative criticism towards their work, they usually either respond by censorship, attacking the critic under the excuse that they are hurting their business, sending threats or by whining and calling it "harassment".

YouTube
When it comes to YouTube videos, they will often resort to filing frivolous DMCA takedowns on them, under the unsubstantiated excuse of "copyright infringement". This is particularly dangerous as the YouTuber in question is at risk of getting removed from the platform after three DMCA takedowns.

Not only are film reviews protected under Fair Use, but it should also be noted that filing a false DMCA is a crime. Thankfully they usually fail and the target only ends gets called out on it by big-time YouTubers and other people whose messages reach as many people as possible.

Notable Examples

 * 1) Paul Feig and Elizabeth Banks: Accused haters of the film of being misogynistic towards the cast with the latter plays the victim card.
 * 2) Raye Rodriguez: While not as bad as the one above he tried to excuse the bad writing by saying his show High Guardian Spice is like this due to low budget.
 * 3) Maïmouna Doucouré: Gave poor reasons of defending her film Cuties as a promotion to feminism, diversity, and presenting how Senegalese and French culture is like when it really isn't. Like Paul Feig and Elizabeth Banks, not only does she accused the haters as misogynistic but also calls them racist and sexist, when the film is had scenes of sexualizing children in reality. In other words, her justifications are already thrown out of the window.
 * 4) Derek Savage: Has harassed I Hate Everything from his negative review of Cool Cat Saves the Kids (despite IHE liking the film ironically).
 * 5) Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic: Made episodes of Teen Titans Go specifically to jab at criticism, as well as fans of the original series, such as "Let’s Get Serious," "The Return of Slade," and "Teen Titans Roar!".

Why This Practice Sucks

 * 1) The major problem with this practice is if they can't take criticism, this can not only damage their reputation as a filmmaker as people will turn against them, but shows they don't care about working in the entertainment industry ironically.
 * 2) They may also tried to play the victim card to blame on other on failing with the examples with Paul Feig and Elizabeth Banks shown on the examples list.
 * 3) They may uses excuses as shown here:
 * 4) * "It's made for kids." (the most common excuse)
 * 5) * "We don't had enough budget." (not as common)
 * 6) * "It's nature."
 * 7) * "If you don't like it don't watch."
 * 8) * "If you hate that your (insert any out of context point here)."
 * 9) * "It's not made for you"
 * 10) In cases like using DMCA takedowns, you can actually get arrested if you attempt on doing that.
 * 11) This plays the major factor why the The American film & TV industry's as whole went downhill.