Ew.  How about I don’t.

Nope. Thank you. 

To me, great movies are akin to great music: they are not diminished in terms of enjoyment in repeat viewings/listenings.

God I love that movie. Saw it for the first time last year, and I’ve watched it four times since. Giulietta Masina is such a pure beautiful spirit. The hypnosis scene wrecks me — such a perfect marriage (literally) of formal brilliance and a brilliant performance. 

Nights of Cabiria. Because she reminds me of someone.

They can’t go to Lowe’s to get their own wood moulding, it has to be the Tesla stuff?

I sold a car, and the dude showed up with $16,000 in cash. That is bonkers enough. The car was a 1968 Mustang. It was restored and beautiful, but it had manual steering and was really hard to get used. I told him so.

Yeah this movie is just a 2 hour Boomer circle jerk.

So did I. This movie is basically propaganda 

I’m reminded of a “The Last Samurai” thread from the old days of IMDB message boards. It started with the title “As a real life samurai, I have a few problems with this movie.”

Given her public statements, rat out her neighbors to the secret police.

It was a Chinese production that cast a famous white actor so that the movie would get a worldwide release (and, hey, it worked!). The movie was also accused of the white savior trope, except that Matt Damon plays a totally ineffectual and useless character in a movie that was otherwise essentially glorified Chinese…

If Mulan were in modern-day Hong Kong, what would she do?

It’s very difficult to separate what is the chinese state (Seriously, how could Tencent get all the money it has past chinese currency controls without the state allowing it) its people (whom must worship the state to be allowed a normal life) and all asians from the area (who are often the victims of CCP)

I have no…

“I can understand releasing an edited trailer in China, because the CCP’s strict controls over foreign media (and local support of this) is the price you pay for doing business there, but changing everyone’s trailer is a bit much.”

Because China uses their giant market to force companies to do their bidding. If they…

This is the Chinese government’s MO. It’s not enough to censor media in China -- they demand censorship across the globe. Shame on Activision for once again caving to tyrants to make a few more bucks.

Goddamn cowards. Capitalism makes us such pushovers

Xenophobia is a fear of something strange or foreign. Anti Chinese skepticism isn’t xenophobia. They aren’t skeptical of it just because it’s foreign. If that was the case then the same would apply to any other Asian thing. Calling it xenophobia does a disservice to what it is. China does a lot of shady things. Being…

I’d argue that xenophobia when it comes to the CCP and Chinese government in general, is more of a safe default state. Being as they’re trying pretty hard to bring back Auschwitz and colonialism. But some struggle to draw a line between a people and their dictatorship... I mean... government. There’s little we can do…

I imagine that’s some of it, but it’s also that the GOP keeps making it clear that if you let too many of them come around or any one of them stay too consistently, they forget what all “good one” implies.