Straight guy here. This movie is awesome and very underrated as a Zemeckis picture. It’s very fun. Sure, the satirical targets are very old (like Madeline and Helen get) but you get involved because of these delectable characters and the story’s sheer entertainment value, which includes a fantastic production design,…

This is like when Tumblr declared that drinking coffee was queer culture.

I can’t speak for all Japanese, but my experience visiting Japan with a Caucasian, blonde wife (I’m descended from Japanese) was that they were just happy to share their culture with us. And I’m not even talking tourist traps, but just regular businesses.

“cultural appropriation” is limited to America.... Go to Japan and wear a traditional kimono as Caucasian, and the Japanese will celebrate sharing their culture with you. Wear on in America as a Caucasian and all of a sudden you’re racist, even though not a single Japanese national would be offended...

It’s wrong, but it’s on-brand from the same site that said that using a 1920s animation aesthetic means you need to use it to make a statement about racism, nothing else is acceptable.

Does the Kotaku office just have a “wheel of outrage” they spin in slow news days?

Every time a writer here types the word “orientalism” in article they should consider that fact 

I get everything you’re saying, agree with the general idea there, and think its absolutely worth exploring but I think there’s something that’s missing with it.

What even is your point. Do you think other settings don’t have baggage? If this games setting was the U.S.. Would this game have to educate us on the Native American genocide and slavery? If it was set in Germany would the story have to be about the holocaust. Why do people pretend that the U.S and Europe are the…

but not all depictions of non-white people have to automatically be political.

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

Yet this site name is Kotaku. If there is a sense of irony about “appropriation” being ignored here... *shrugged*

“We’re referring to Gordy’s Home!, a fictional ‘90s sitcom in the universe of Nope that got good ratings and pretty good reviews in its first season but ended—and became a morbidly fascinating artifact for freaks who want to sleep in a room full of Gordy’s Home! memorabilia—after one of the chimps playing Gordy…

I actually felt Gordy’s freak-out was less thematically about the making of movies and moreso about the theme that runs through the movie where you can’t tame nature because they’ll kick wildly (like the horse) eat your face (like Gordy) or suck you up into the sky and spit out the non-organic matter (like the UFO aka…

I get why this is being reported this way, but Thor is crossing the $600 million mark this weekend globally and did so without a Chinese release. Trying to force the narrative that it’s a major flop especially in the current theatrical atmosphere.

I think Us is a very good film; it’s unfortunate to see so many commenters hating on it. You have to watch it more than once. The desire for repeated viewings used to be a standard of excellence (for all forms of art). Now audiences are just lazy. If you need everything explained for you just stick to Marvel…

I saw it last night and loved it. It was incredibly bizarre. I’d rank it as one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, second to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Sorry, isn’t a cult hit a property that fails to gain mainstream attention but is popularized by a narrow group of dedicated fans?

Yeah, that cult show from the 90s that peaked at 27 million in 1997 and managed 16 million when its revival premiered in 2016.

According to Howard, math *is* all wrong...