No, you missed mine. A major film industry that is stifled by what it can and cannot say in regards to the state is doomed to fail internationally because it cannot by its nature address the compelling aspects of the world around us. Sure, they can make apolitical films until they are blue in the face but the fact of…

Iron Man; critical of the production and distribution of weapons of war. Transformers; routinely paints the government as inept. Avatar; critical of industry and the military destroying an ecosystem. Skyfall; critical of how governments handle members of the military. The Avengers; the government was going to nuke New…

Thanks for reinforcing my first three points, they have all the things in place to make good, wide reaching films, but if your content is dictated by the state then you will not be winning any creative arms races anytime soon. I understand the world seems to want to think that Washington tells Hollywood what to do,…

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, whats your point?

I keep seeing this phrase, "a place at the table," I'm past wondering if it is a reguritated state talking point.

That rings slightly of Independence Day but if that is the majority of US blockbusters, I must be really missing something. I've never once heard this "Murica" line you speak of in any film I've ever seen except for one that was pretty satirical towards American foreign policy. Care to bring things like actual facts…

In that time Hollywood and America will still dominate and own the medium, thanks for putting a point on my point.

How many are critical of the state?

Give me a list of films that are produced in China that are critical of the government and a list of American films that are the same of our own. Without doing the legwork myself, I'd bet my firstborn the ratio is close to 0-1.

Let me know if Paths Of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, Platoon, Apocolypse Now, and a myriad of films that crit American aggression would be produced in a state dictated film business rather than the free market model. Care to refute?

"Expect more of these films to get imported to the U.S. and become blockbusters stateside, within a few years."

I wouldn't call it the greatest film ever, but its one of a very few films that is nearly, if not entirely, flawless.

All I have to see is that Akira gets an "honorable mention" to know this list is bullshit.

The take off scene was really muddled but it was the only time I thought the dialog (aside from TARS) was badly mixed.

I know a bit about mixing and seemed like the track hadn't been mastered for the specs of sound system in the theater, high volume events were straining it, low volume parts had this odd hum, I was only able to hear/understand TARS half the time. It was definately distracting at points.

Saw this last night and I can confirm the sound mix was awful.

Of course the Juggalos still have no idea how it works.

Thats just dick.

If they can hash out a strong kernel to work from for each film (as Marvel clearly has) then there isn't a problem, but Marvel has nearly a century of material and characters to mine and Uni has a lot of work to catch up on here.

That is most certainly the exception but not the rule.