Ty Wants to Applaud the Incredibly Awesome Meryl Streep

Cheers to you , Ms Streep

Almost a year ago, I wrote on this website how fed up I was with Meryl Streep movies. I thought that they did not get the same criticism and same harsh reviews that some similar movies did, and do. This was just coming off seeing "Ricki and the Flash", which I still think is pretty bad.

Today I need to unequivocally apologize and say that, not only do I think that Meryl Streep is NOT overrated, I know that she is one of America's greatest actors of all time. Her movies just aren't for me. Look, I'm not stupid. I can watch her in a movie and realize how great of a talent she truly is. She is the greatest actress of all time. I have no doubt in my mind about this. After seeing "Ricki and the Flash", I was just in the moment, and I wrote what I felt at the time. Had I slept on it, I probably never would have written that piece. But, that is how it goes.

Take "Ricki and the Flash" out, I can watch movies like "Death Becomes Her", "Julie and Julia", "Doubt", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Angels in America", "Adaptation" or "Marvin's Room", all of which I have seen, and realize she is the best actor on the screen. She has been in those movies with super duper stars like Goldie Hawn, Amy Adams(twice), Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Anne Hathaway, Jeffrey Wright, Nic Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio, and she is the best actor on screen by a wide margin. She is well deserving of all the accolades that she gets. She has earned it. She has been pretty incredible in everything she has done, so I get it now. She is above criticism. She is that level of star.

Same thing can be said for some of her former co stars. DiCaprio has been in some crappy movies too, but he never gets the bad exposure. Amy Adams is the new big thing, and for the most part, she is pretty good in everything she has been in lately, regardless if the movie is good or bad. George Clooney is another guy like that. He is so far removed from criticism, he can be in a movie like "Tomorrowland", and while it was critically panned, Clooney was never panned. It all makes sense now.

It is the same with star athletes. Michael Jordan's Wizards years are looked at as successful, but truth be told, he looked old and tired. Serena Williams may be the greatest tennis player of all time, but she recently had a poor performance and people just shrugged it off, as they should. It was a blip on her tremendous career. Nick Saban just got beat in the title game, but I do not think people will suddenly say he is overrated.

This all leads me to my 2 main points for today. First off, I was wrong, and I have learned to sleep on things before jumping to conclusions. Sure, I did not like "Ricki and the Flash", but that does not mean that Meryl Streep is "overrated". As I have said, she is probably our greatest living actor, and I do not think it is even close. I'm sorry for writing that Meryl Streep, and I take back all the negative things I said back then. You are a treasure, and I cannot wait to see what you do next.

Second, when accepting her Cecil B Demille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes the other night, she gave one of the best speeches that actually gives me hope we will get through the next 4 years of this abomination of a government that we now have. I know I said I was done with politics, and I am, but I have to talk about this incredible speech that Streep gave.

I do not watch the Golden Globes. I do not watch any awards shows. I find them boring and useless. This goes for everything involving awards, be it movies, music, TV or sports. I cannot stand awards shows. So, I saw Streep's speech the next day on social media, and I was moved. She came right out and called out that monster that only 46 percent of the country voted for. Some people called her out with claims that she "lives in a glass house" and she doesn't know what the working class really thinks. I say to those people, shut your god damn mouth. She was speaking for the people that voted for Hilary. We all feel the same way as Streep. She was right. For that pig to mock the disabled, then lie about not doing it, then go on Twitter to rant about Streep, I mean, he is a train wreck, and Streep was just pointing this out.

I know that some people, Trevor Noah being one, and I really like Trevor Noah, said she didn't have to do this, but I disagree. People like me, my wife, 99 percent of my friends and my family, we do not have a platform to the whole world to call this monster out. Streep had that platform, and she not only used it brilliantly, she used in perfectly. Everyone was talking about it the night of, and are still talking about it today. I have loved the people on social media coming to her aid as well, not that she needs help, Streep can more than stand up for herself.

When idiots like Meghan McCain, who was born and raised with a silver spoon in her mouth, and knows nothing about the glass ceiling, comes out and says that Streep's speech is one of the reasons that Voldemort got elected, I loved seeing the response she got from famous people like Billy Eichner. He roasted her on Twitter, and it was glorious. I highly recommend going to read that thread. It is awesome. I already loved Billy Eichner, and now I respect and love him even more. I hope his defense of Streep gets her attention and she agrees to be on "Billy on the Street", which would be his dream come true.

I applaud Meryl Streep for using her platform to speak her mind. We live in a country that was built on free speech, and she used it the absolute correct way. This also shows these dipshits politicians that the "left" or "democrats" or "liberals", whatever you want to call us, are not going to be silent during this atrocious administration. As I have stated, I am going to fight the fight as quietly, but as hard as I can as long as this injustice goes on, and I'm more than thrilled that I, and at least 54 percent of the country, AKA the majority, have the wonderful Meryl Streep on our side. I love you Meryl Streep.

I am so sorry about my previous article, and I offer you my humblest apologies. You are a national treasure, and just like I'm ready to go to war with Run the Jewels, I am also ready to fight the good fight with you. Thank you for all you do, and all you will continue to do. You are one of a kind Meryl Streep. Thank you.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. Meryl Streep joins Ina Garten as something Ty, and all women over the age of sixty, can agree on. Follow Ty on instagram and twitter.

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