And usually with big noses when compared to the non-white characters. White = blond, blue-eyed, and big-nosed in anime, essentially. Oh, and I guess large-breasted if they're going the skeevy route.

You're equating appropriation and representation. Besides the fact that racism is still a thing in the US, and thus we can't really say that Japanese or Asian Americans aren't oppressed, there's the issue that there are essentially no Asian leads in Hollywood. There's such a gigantic lack of representation that even…

The US population is maybe at most 3% Jewish (I'm being generous since wiki says 2.6% maximum) and yet I'm sure you could name numerous Jewish leads in Hollywood movies. The imbalance is even more egregious when you consider that the majority of lead roles is probably for twentysomethings, for whom the proportion of…

I promised myself I'd only watch Ghost in the Shell until after I'd read Deleuze & Guattari, since I'm told that the franchise is basically their books in anime form. Coming on two years now and I've still only read the table of contents to Capitalism and Schizophrenia. I should really get on that this summer.

That's basically a self-fulfilling Hollywood prophecy though. They keep not giving leading roles to Asian actors then defend their decisions by claiming there are no Asian stars in Hollywood.

In the sequel we find out that Gwen Stacy had sex with Willem Dafoe.

They also portrayed that in the 90s cartoon. In a parallel universe Ben was alive, Peter was a jerkass millionaire celebrity, and he was dating Gwen Stacy (or maybe Felicia Hardy, I just remember the girl was blonde).

To be fair, she probably spent hours getting high to Law and Order reruns.

You know, if there was ever a live action Battle Angel Alita I would like Grimes to have a small cameo. Maybe she can be in the crowd during the murderous Rollerball tournament.

The key word in your comment is "if". You're presumably a grown adult, which means teenagers think your idea of cool is lame and outdated.

As which character? He's too old already for Kvoth.

It's because the originals and even the prequels were shown before China's modern movie market was set up. Force Awakens relies on nostalgia for the original films a lot, which is meaningless to an audience who hasn't seen them.

Edge of Tomorrow is actually the title of an Asimov book, so there's some genuine classic sci-fi thing going on with that name.

Isn't she like 14, or is she aged up enough for dudes to legally perv on?

The especially dumb thing was that Logan's brother had spent 200 years doing nothing but spying on Logan, whereas old Patch had had like 12 different careers and went into space and dated hot spy babes and whatnot.

Yeah, if Gwen Stacy hadn't died she would just be another girl Peter had dated back in the day. She'd be an answer in a comics trivia question about Peter's ex-girlfriends, right alongside Liz Allen and Betty Brant. Being dead made her memorable in a way she wasn't when she was alive.

Sounds like they got that from the KOTOR video game. Incidentally, I believe the KOTOR appearance was the first time Dantooine was ever shown in the Star Wars franchise.

That website claims domino theory was objectively true, though. It could at the very least mention there's still debate about the matter. And it even considers the Indonesian massacres of suspected Chinese communists to be a good thing.

That Icelandic guy tried to weasel out of the consequences up to the last second. It's just that Iceland got incredibly screwed by rich assholes when the world economy crashed and the people still remember who did it. Politically, it was impossible for the PM to stay in. So he stepped aside (he refuses to call it…

I assume it was supposed to end in a climactic showdown between L and Light. That was basically the central conflict of the story in the first place.