I was limiting myself to comics for the sake of the current discussion, but yes, you are 100% right.

Good lord. Did you actually read the conversation you jumped into? Wampasaurus said this:

Sigh. Please read the entire comment plase. Especially the last paragraph.

Magic fans have known this for about a year. The fact that all the racists are coming out of the woodwork now, when the mainstream announcement is made, tells you a lot about who is really getting angry at this: people who are threathened by pictures in a card game they don’t play. In other words immature, insecure…

It’s Sony, so I’ll believe it when I see a trailer. (Yes, that means I still don’t fully believe in Kraven the Hunter either). They have a habit of announcing a ton of Spider-project the minute one doesn’t bomb, and then most get stuck in development hell and cancelled. Or they get made, but then Sony panicks and…

I don’t disagree it’s not very good storytelling, but again, it all comes down to the fact that there are thousands of issues superhero comics out there. Spider-Man himself probably has close to a thousand, if you count all the series, miniseries, graphic novels, crossovers, event tie-in, etc. And a lot of them are…

Considering the money these remakes are making, I don’t think they are alienating anybody that’s really core to their audience.

So it’s an heroic sacrifice, and since we’re dealing with gods prophecies, she’s clearly going to be back sooner than later? Business as usual then, and at least she has some agency.

I dunno, I’m not a huge TMNT fan, but this look cute. Is Superfly new? I don’t know him, but he’s intriguing as a villain. And I like the arc they tease for the turtle. The only thing I'm not the biggest fan of is Alpril, because I've always preferred an older Team Mom April to teen April, but I can get over that…

Yup, and the American right wing had not gone full-tilt insane yet. The Tea Party was not yet a thing, Trump was a reality TV star and nothing else, Tucker Carlson was still on MSNBC, Breibart was still in its infancy, Daily Wire didn’t exist yet, Shapiro was confined to the college circuit, nobody had heard of Matt…

“I’m not the one that is trying to sort us into boxes, a very vocal minority of society is trying to. I’ve seen so many performances of various plays where the actor playing the role is “not of the correct ___” and didn’t care, because the performance was awesome.”

Ok, but how does that pertain to this article, about racist review-bombing of the movie?

While I agree with the larger point, and have no problem with Halle Bailey as Ariel - it’s not true that Cinderella or Little Mermaid don’t feature a specific culture. Of course those stories come from a specific culture and are absolutely soaked with cultural themes. It’s just that the culture they come from is…

I don’t know if any movie studios have done it, but I know some videogame companies have tied staff bonus to Metacritic scores in the past, yes.

A) You can’t plunder folklore. Folklore belongs to anyone. No one owns a story once it’s out there, no matter what neoliberal capitalism tells you.

My point is that casting an American actress to play a role originally voiced by an American is not appealing to another demographic. Halle Bailey is an American. She’s part of the same demographic yhat the animated film was targeting. The fact that you called The Little Mermaid a “white people fairy tale” is the…

And here tbey took an existing tale, adjusted some of the attitudes and underlying ideologies to better fit the current zeigeist, changed some details and some design, and added and/or rearranged catchy tunes.

Chappie is much more a descendant of Robocop than Terminator.

Like all successful work of art: 50% quality, 50% timing.

He’s an absolute monarch. I’m pretty sure sleeping around is in the job description.