“Kind of in the way” - sounds like your typical white guy

I just spoke about this with another person on this thread. The problem was actually the marketing of the film. They shot themselves in the foot, if they didn’t hail Matt Damon as the focal point of the film, I think they would have had more success. The marketing/publicity team fucked up on that one. Hopefully, they…

I want to point out that The Great Wall was not whitewashing. It wasn’t even Hollywood. The film was made in China by Chinese. Just look at the cast on IMDB and tell me how this can even be considered whitewashing?

I agree - I saw it (husband’s idea!) and honestly, I did not get the outrage. Matt Damon is NOT the lead in it, and he’s not a white savior - he does very little. Yes, he does bring them the essential weapon, but it’s the Chinese people who figure out it’s usefulness. It also features 1.) a strong woman of color as…

This argument bothers me the most (along with “black doesn’t travel”).

Well, let’s break down the issues:

I still don’t understand how The Great Wall is supposed to be whitewashing. It’s a piece of Chinese cinema, with an initial release in China, casting a foreign actor whose race is a tiny minority in China.

Yup. Honestly, even setting aside the issue of cultural appropriation (which IS a big issue, and should be front and center here), just from a story perspective- I think it would’ve made Danny Rand a legitimately more interesting character to have him be Asian! I think they could’ve used that to underscore how he…

I could never tell what Ghost in the Shell was about from the trailer.

Yeezus I wish I had that kind of luxury being blind to my faults and still succeeding.

The whole reason these companies look to anime is because of the name recognition, but it’s still so obscure for a general audience that it might as well have been a new IP. And the fans of the source material don’t want a live-action version, so you’re not getting them either. It doesn’t make any sense.

That, and in the grand scheme of things, people have no idea what Ghost in the Shell is. The only place I’ve ever heard of it is on nerd sites on the internet: it’s never once come up in a real life conversation as some movie everybody has seen. Combine that with a very weird visual style, and there’s no chance in…

Considering GOP’s ruthless obsession of cutting taxes and services, one would think the GOP would applaud abortions as it would cut down the numbers of people using those programs.

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why this is happening in the USA. In 1990 there was an attempt in Canada to recriminalize abortion. After several women were injured/killed from amatuer abortions in the following weeks our Senate would not pass the bill. As Dr Morgentaler wrote in 1996 “Have all these people…

How come shit like this doesn’t hit Mar-A-Lago ?? I wouldn’t miss a soul.

I literally can’t imagine living in a state with only one clinic that provides abortions.

This isn’t “humor”. This is lazy, boring, nonsensical idiocy trying to take advantage of the naive and ill informed.

SOME people have a light-hearted sense of humour; & everyone else thinks they do but are actually unfunny & frequently kind of cruel.

April fools day is the absolute worst. I hate it. I know I’m not alone, so why do these idiotic trends continue?

Rocket League has changed it’s ranking system for the day: