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This isn't really a Snyder positivity thread though, is it. His daughter is dead, I don't think you loving Sucker Punch really matters at all honestly.

Hollwood pumps multi-millions of $$$ into hot white nobodies to make them stars and they do it for far less talented actors than Oscar winners.

Alas, she was born too early to ride the 'women of any colour get leading roles' wave. But there's your intersection with Hollywood ageism too see.

She also said she retreated to theatre because the roles for black women were there, where in film they were not.

She's not great though, is she? Lupita won an Oscar. Gal was in Fast and Furious. Not knocking Fast and Furious, but Gal is never going to come close to being the calibre of actor that Lupita is, and the point is that Gal has a franchise and Lupita does not.

Yep. And yet winning an Oscar is pretty much a guarantee you will be leading a franchise the second you're off that red carpet if you're white. Other white actresses just have to be standard issue hot (ie: white and under 30 and preferably blonde) to achieve that.
It's criminal that someone as talented and stunning as

Explain.

Literally because she is a dark skinned black woman. She is that ridiculously beautiful there is no way in hell Hollywood wouldn't be showering her with leading roles if she were white and blonde.

Same. She was on the Dior carpet covered in real fox fur the other day and just…fuck her. But more Lupita is ALWAYS a plus. What a queen.

Bless you Netflix gods.

Javier Bardem can stay. He's a great actor. It's the fact that it's ALL of them and it's not justifiable.

Can we just cross out all of those people except for Sophia Botella and Javier Bardem and start over please? Because what is up with that pushing-pensioners boys club. Yet again.

Warner Bros was strangely poor on their marketing with this movie and was apparently applying a lot of their internal focus on their upcoming DCU plans and slate at the time. They didn't even submit it for Chinese film board approval, so it didn't get released there.
It didn't do gangbusters, as non-superhero

Ew no.

Again, define "blockbuster", because easily it's a term pretty much interchangeable with "big budget movie", ie: usually over 100 million-ish. An indie movie with a small budget that make a huge amount of box office is not suddenly crowned "a blockbuster" for doing so.
And the movie was a hit. It didn't flop

Warner Bros are constantly funding riskier passion projects in between their money-printing garbage thankfully. That's why they'll be distributing the even more risky Blade Runner 2049, another R rated sequel to a very old cult classic.

It was a blockbuster movie in that it was a large budget movie with a summer release. It did okay financially, but won massive critical acclaim, making it "a hit". What are you getting your panties in a bunch over here?

What is your totally subjective cut-off point for "blockbuster" and why the does it matter in any way. You're being weirdly pedantic about this detail, like it somehow devalues the movie's existence. You must be Michael Bay's biggest fan.

Christ you are really hung up on the money aren't you? Thank god you're not a studio executive, or the only thing you'd be greenlighting is more Michael Bay movies.

I genuinely don't understand what point you're making? You really think anyone thought this movie could possibly make the kind of money Avengers does?