I know that streamers have to pay actors more upfront because they can’t offer box office percentages or other residuals but $150m for any romcom is way too much. Nancy Meyers has a good track record but what theatrical release of hers would justify that budget?

Lol.

ah yes, the only place institutional racism existed was in college admissions, and that’s been solved, so yeah! no more racism! did your mother have any children that lived?

If I argue that institutional racism has been effectively outlawed and eliminated, that makes me a racist?

If I argue that institutional racism has been effectively outlawed and eliminated, that makes me a racist?

This is the ratchet effect. It’s worth noting that the last ten years of the Academy were more racist than the previous ten years. The whole point is so white people can go, “But this year we weren’t as bad as we were last year!” and then proceed to be worse than they were in the previous ten years so they can be…

For clarity, Jr. NTR and Ram Charan were in town. Charan had been for weeks, as we saw him along with Rajamouli and the cinematographer and composer do a Q&A at a screening a couple of weeks earlier, although NTR came in much later due to a death in the family. It’s less that they couldn’t be flown out, and more that…

I’m not sure that alone makes you racist, but arguing that certainly demonstrates that you’re incredibly ignorant and out of touch with reality.

It feels a lot like “but we elected a Black president, so clearly we’re not racist.” Is it an incredibly awfully egregious example of the worst of racism in the Oscars? Gosh no. Is it something that people should bring up so we do better in he future? Absolutely.

Note that “Steve” never said what side he was on in those civil rights protests.

“I’m still the same idealist, but online crust punk ‘anarchists’ made fun of me one time so leftism is clearly the problem here.”

If I argue that institutional racism has been effectively outlawed and eliminated, that makes me a racist?

If I argue that institutional racism has been effectively outlawed and eliminated, that makes me a racist?

As I understand it, a big part of the problem is that all the “top” casting agents in Hollywood simply don’t bother to represent minorities.

You rolly have bad, shallow takes and then go “ur dumb n emotional n have mental disease” for lack of having any deeper elaboration on your bad, shallow takes, don’t you?

I was talking to someone literally today who said Bollywood dancers are sometimes only given a few hours to learn the dance they’ll perform in a given scene. The professionals are that good at nailing the choreography.

I don’t see race. I just see my friends, neighbors, and coworkers, and then the people working the register when we go out.”

The racist commentators have come out to play on this one. Oh, I don’t mean racist, I mean the “I don’t see race” and “It’s a celebration of their song” and “they should just be grateful for acknowledgement” crowd. Totally different.

There are plenty of dancers of south asian descent around LA. The problem is that not being able to fly out the OG dancers on what appears to be unusually short notice (which is also super-suspect), they apparently didn’t even fucking try. They could also have found plenty of south asian dancers that in India itself.…

Do you folks get tired of thinking people are fooled by randomly picking one out of the three canned responses you have for everything, or is this another of those “making a joke” things where you type through your tears and then say you made a joke?