Oh, it's around. Still, you're a presumably Western commenter dismissing him and any reaction from the actual country of origin as a non-factor anyway.

Oh, I haven't done that and I'm pretty sure you know that, as you've read and replied to my other comments. But it's easier for you to go back to a general point than address the trickier nuances of this conversation. Such as the rejoinder floating around in some other comments here that amounts to: 'fuck what the…

Shock Twist: American Consumers Appropriate Cultural Ownership of Foreign IP

Please put that on my tombstone

You're right. He's not allowed to have an opinion about his work, because consumers of it in the West (who, it must be said, are not exactly predominantly Asian-American, but let's entertain that fiction a moment longer) are concerned about their sociocultural bonafides.

Oh, honey.

So who's right, the ones who are or the ones who aren't? Or is it, in fact, a more nuanced issue than the knee-jerk hot take at the jump might assume?

I like ScarJo. The director is a poor choice.

I don't disagree with the Godzilla issue in theory - the original still holds up - but that ship sailed long before we came along.

Rinko Kikuchi is talented, but she's wrong for this part IMO.

It looks iffy to me, especially in terms of how it seems they've simplified the plot, but I like some of the visuals and Scarlett (and Kitano) so I'll give it a whirl.

That's always the undercurrent of these pieces. We took Humanities, sir!

Today in the A.V. Club's latest edition of When Whites Know Better About Pop Culture: William Hughes makes the bold choice of just quoting the Japanese guy and walking away

The Japanese don't give a shit. The Chinese (who made The Great Wall themselves) didn't give a shit about that movie. It's always American critics who ride in caping for this stuff without listening to the people they claim to be representing or looking at any kind of existing context outside their own bubble. In the…

Season 2 is excellent until after the 9th episode (of Season 2), when the Laura Palmer story wraps. Then it gets mired in rewrites and mess until the final 5-6 episodes which really pick back up, but it's not unwatchable. Don't listen to naysayers. Just watch it all.

No.

She always does, but I think they all look pretty good for their age. Especially Sheryl Lee and Peggy Lipton (in her 70s?).

The Hot Takes on the cultural makeup of TP will be immediate and tiresome.

There's a lot of FWWM in the new show. But it's always had a fanbase that's only grown in streaming.

The last 5-6 are pretty good. The finale is masterful.