Agreed, and I’m not bemoaning the dearth of Muslim antagonists, particularly in action movies more recent than BttF. I’m just advocating for some reality-based perspective on how common such depictions really are.

Not a personal attack at all, and that’s a great point I hadn’t fully considered. I just think the reality is, action movie stories are going to portray foreigners as antagonists more often than not, and, no doubt due to liberal sensitivities, Muslim villains are actually exceedingly rare. For comparison’s sake, how…

Oops, I meant to specifically cite 24 as the show that “had a diverse roster of antagonists,” but forgot to type that title. And that second season was over 20 years ago now, right? So, I’m not exactly seeing an overwhelming proliferation of Muslim villains in pop culture.

“harmful stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims”

Evans wanting to move on from Cap was understandable. But to follow that role with Ghosted, The Gray Man, and this? Less understandable.

They canned Barsanti, but somehow, there’s been no discernible mprovement to Newswire...

Fair, but this “boring and unnecessary” Newswire got far more comments than most, so... Kinda suggests it’s at least somewhat interesting to most.

It’s not naivete. It’s trollery, and contempt for the readership.

A second Cheeto Administration, if the timing of the announcement worked out.

People should be able to choose their gender identity and pronouns and be respected for that, but the vast majority of humans, and not just cishet people, are completely comfortable with identifying as entirely one gender, so the insistence that “gender is a spectrum,” while not outright false, sure seems like an…

Yeah, rehabilitation is bad! Once people admit to doing bad things, they should never do anything again! They should just become online accountants, and never leave their homes, ever!

“The series premiere, The Heirs Of The Dragon, came out swinging with a bloody, satisfying jousting sequence.”

If you don’t think the lower classes aren’t saving as much scratch as they can to live large at the Disney parks once or twice a year, I don’t know what to tell ya, lol. And there’s a lot more of them than there are rich folks.

“For reasons I can’t explain, rappers haven’t aged as well as rock stars, jazz musicians or blues, pop, or country artists.”

I’d bet that the lower/working class actually spends more money on Disney products in total terms... and if they’re indeed the “core audience and consumer,” I can see why they’d be fed up with Pixar’s middle/upper-class pap.

No, obviously, the problem isn’t that Pixar movies aren’t all anti-corporate parables. The problem is that no Pixar movies since Wall-E have had a message that feels the slightest bit rebellious or risky, and thus a feeling of banal sameness has set in. The characters’ ethnicities and cultural specificities may vary,…

That’s what creativity and metaphor are for. Stalin is long gone, but Animal Farm is still a gripping, timeless story.

Then can we at least retire the fatuous notion that Pixar makes movies for adults?

Then can we at least retire the fatuous notion that Pixar makes movies for adults?

Agreed. I haven’t seen many Pixar films overall, but I always get the sense they’re just so blandly safe. Yes, they feature life lessons that may be subtler and more nuanced than the pap other studios put out, but none of said messages have any kind of rebellious spirit. To wit: