Yep; hiring POC actors in bad guy roles gets you diversity casting points with lefties, so long as you hire even more POC for the good guys, and keeps the righties comfortable that white supremacy isn’t being targeted. It’s a corporate win-win!
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Yeah, this whole article is one big “whuh”? In a universe where ethnicity among humans isn’t a thing, the ethnicity of performers can only matter to the audience, if at all. But, hey, io9 has to do at least one Star Wars story per day, apparently.
Seeing as this movie came out just two years after DoFP, I’m thinking not a lot of care went into the script...
“(including the “Oh fuck” look he gives when he realizes Superman can track him moving at super-speed)” - Which Apocalypse did first, to Quicksilver, in live-action movies, at least.
Yeah, if anything, Disney ethnically diversifying the Empire/First Order feels like a hedging measure more than anything.
“Good writing often deliberately uses simple words repetitively in order to effectively hammer home a point.” - Yes, but in this case, the meanings are different. The first time she uses the term “residential college” in the sentence, she’s referring to the realities of what the dorms will be like, whereas the second…
Revenue, or profit? Because food prep and building maintenance aren’t cheap.
To be fair, in terms of sheer spectacle, the big pile-up against Apocalypse, including the mental battle, is pretty badass, and the most use of various powers in the franchise up to that point.
“Colleges make a lot of money housing and feeding students.” - No, they mostly break even on room and board. They make money charging far higher tuition than junior/community colleges for the same courses, with the expectation that the quality of teaching and campus life will justify the markup. The fear here is that…
It sounds to me like an older person more concerned for their own health than being truthful. Everyone is of course entitled to reasonable concern for their own health, but being blatantly dishonest as a scare tactic, even for a good cause, is patently unprofessional, especially for a psychology professor.
“your residential college life will look more like a hospital unit than a residential college” - This isn’t “refreshing frankness,” it’s irresponsible hyperbole (not to mention crap writing - word repetition), given that the covid hospitalization rate for college-age students is a fraction of that of retirees. That…
Truly one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, from the nonsensical title quote marks onward. Constantly flitting from subject to subject (including a Catholic school, for some reason), shooting talking head subjects far too closely for comfort (check out those pores, brah!), and it doesn’t even bother making a…
But what about Agents of SHIELD S7?!
Carrie-Ann Moss is conspicuously back.
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“The Wandering Earth, released in 2019, earned about $700 million globally.” - You mean the international smash that made... less than $8m outside of China?
The only thing at all innovative about the “song” is how bereft of music and art it is. It makes “Boom Boom Pow” sound like “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” It’s a track the audience for “Ow! My Balls!” in Idiocracy would think is worthy of more than half a listen.
Not sure anything with this much auto-tune can be called an ‘80s throwback...
Go home, Disney+; you’re drunk.
Again, for movies shot on 35mm film, a 4K scan is pretty much useless when a Blu-ray captures just as much detail. IMO.
Nah, in this analogy, regular Blu-rays are 320 kbps mp3s, at least. Old-school DVDs would be the 128 kbps mp3s. And yes, thanks, the 320 ones do sound just fine, seeing as they’re CD quality already. :P