The Scots, the Welsh and the Irish are gonna be pissed when they see that the whole of the UK is ‘England’ and that Ireland is just not there.

I mean, famous people in the public eye should be... saying racist things... including... the N-word

Regardless, the decision to perform the song wearing dark face paint was ill-advised,

I’m not so sure about that, to be honest with you.

No worries, I’ve made similar mistakes recently. Modern-day AV Club has fallen so far, it’s usually a safe bet to assume that any given article is missing some key info.

On the one hand, I can’t bring myself to scorn any mockery of the CCP, no matter how inadvisable or unnecessary it might be - and in fact, the complete gratuitousness of this joke kinda makes it funnier IMO. But yeah, you’re 100% right - from a studio’s perspective it’s absolutely not a topic you want to be going…

It explains it above the tweet.

When I heard the movie had done this, I thought it sounded like the absolute worst, most craven example of Hollywood sucking up to the CCP - like, in what scenario would you need to include any maritime boundary on a map, let alone this one?

I’ve been wondering what’s up with the black and white Giedi Prime in these trailers. If it’s a stylistic choice then it’s a bit much for me, hoping they just didn’t have time to grade it. Looks like they forgot to give Zendaya blue eyes in a few shots as well...

In hindsight, them charging Baldwin was a pretty clear signal that they had no idea what they were doing.

Voulez-vous Ken avec moi, ce soir?

The lesson I’m taking from this story is: if I buy a load of drugs, find a landlord and get him hooked, I might actually be able to own property one day.

Quantum of Solace, too - alludes to the Bolivian water utilities scandal that happened back in the day.

Yeah, exactly. It’s not quite as bad, but I would also tentatively bring up X-Men here as an allegory for gay rights. Given that multiple mutants (i.e. LGBT+ activists) have the capacity to literally end the world, and frequently try to, I’m not too sure that these things map onto each other, really.

Also, municipal water management plays a big role in the plot but the water people aren’t accountable for it.

Artificial intelligence (at least in its current form) can’t create; it can only re-create based on art that already exists.

Marketing for Elemental focused on the fantastical setting and simplistic Romeo and Juliet love story, without ever letting on that it’s also an allegory for the immigrant experience

I’m glad I’m not the only one who was a little flummoxed about the books being portrayed as incredible science fiction.

I wondered about that too. But it does kind of make sense - this way, if the replicas fail, or the link is severed or something, the humans can keep going with the mission. Whereas the other way round, the mission would be screwed. You can also imagine that maybe when they get to the dark side of the moon (or…

If only there was someone around who could explain why it is terrible or misogynistic. Then maybe I’d be less inclined to ‘double down.’