As a Canadian born Chinese who grew up with English as my first language, I can safely say that learning Cantonese is harder than Mandarin, but neither are really that hard to learn to speak. I see non-Chinese doing it fluently all the time. Writing/reading however, is pretty much impossible.
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There’s a reason all the pre-season warm up friendlies and tournaments are held there - soccer in Asia is HUGE, almost on par with SA and Europe in terms of popularity level. I have friends and family that literally wake up in the middle of the night to watch World Cup games because of the time difference, nap for an…
I think the correct term is Littlefinger’s gotta finger. Ugh.
Thoughtful exposition has no place in a tentpole movie, and I’m only half-kidding. Even the TNG movies couldn’t really get there and they had 7 seasons of excellent character development to work from and lean on. I went into the JJTrek movies knowing what I would get, and I got heaps of it. If I want character…
You’re probably right, but with the sudden influx of 80's nostalgia lately (like X-men Apocalypse), I’m not sure they couldn’t get away with at least a bit of 80's design aesthetic in there.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, and certainly, design aesthetics are such an individual thing, but people seem to forget that the NX-2000 was an experimental ship using (failed) transwarp technology. It makes (somewhat) sense that if the technology was so different from traditional warp technology, that the ship…
While it could happen, CBS and Paramount playing nice seems unlikely (money solves everything of course, but good luck trying to get them to agree on that). Disney/Marvel can’t make Agents of Shield work within the MCU and that’s the same company. And other than Kurtzman, all the other writers/producers are OG Star…
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If you’ve truly spent half your life thinking about and dissecting TV/movies/fiction, and you’re not getting paid by someone to do it, you’re doing life wrong. Its nice to be passionate about your interests, but goddamn, its just a TV series fercrissakes. Watch it, enjoy it (or not), file it away and move on with real…
Not sure if trolling? Scots = Brits, just as English = Brits and Welsh = Brits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_p…
So FC Barcelona is a stupid name? Manchester City FC? Liverpool FC? Because its literally the same thing. I’m cool if you think those are dumb too, but if you don’t, just wondering why those get a pass, but NYCFC doesn’t.
Its 6 months away. Check in around October, and the hype machine will be out in full force with all the Mouse’s marketing muscle.
Its fine to be critical of the prequels, just as it is fine to be critical of the original trilogy. The problem is, most of what I hear on the internet (typically) isn’t constructive, considered and thoughtful criticism, its HOT FLAMING HATRED DESTROY IT WITH FIRE!!! So no wonder people take it personally. Its like…
So your shitty experience invalidates the happy, wonderful experiences of millions of other people who grew up with the prequels and love(d) them? You’re entitled to your opinion, as they are, but it doesn’t mean you get to dictate how other people experience Star Wars (or any other piece of art, for that matter)
The funny thing is, that’s kind of the point. That’s how it works in real life too, which might hit people a little to close for comfort. We (generalizing here) all spend our time with trivial details of our lives, worrying in our teenage years about who likes who, and which clique you want to belong to, who has a…
I presume you are trying to put a box around the argument as “Asian actors/actresses who have been in Hollywood features”, but there are literally a dozen famous actors or actresses that I can think of, without even trying, from either Mainland Chinese cinema or Hong Kong cinema, that could easily do the role and…
It doesn’t sound like (from the quote) that he necessarily got into acting for the money. But he is acknowledging that money plays a big part in his enjoyment of the “craft”. They way I understand what he’s saying is that he’d be likely to take a part for the massive pay cheque while some other actor might turn up his…
What if you are GMT + X rather than - X? The time would be ADDED onto t = 0 and it wouldn’t brick. Unless literally everyone who is bricking is in the Western Hemisphere?