I think there are plenty of non-American "It" women too, like how it feels that Alicia Vikander and Margot Robbie were suddenly in everything.

Yeah, he was pretty affable in What Woman Want even if basically everything else in that movie felt weird and regressive and pointless. As someone pointed out though he's probably been in a lot of other stuff I've enjoyed more than that random sampling, I just didn't remember or realize it was him.

I kind of got yellow peril vibes so I assumed it was going to be hella cringey for me plus all the 80s maschimo stuff I sort of gleaned from the poster didn't make me think it would have been my kind of thing. Based off all the merchandise I've seen I guess it veers more comedy though?

That's not really censorship in my opinion, they could have just as easily gone forward and try to stand in the face of the boycotts and/or bad PR, or possibly go ahead and cave and try to get more non-white actors involved.

I was probably too young to recognize him in a lot of his earlier work but I'm not quite sure I fully get his appeal. Granted the movies I mostly recognize him from weren't that great. (Off the top of my head he was sort of a disconcertingly older looking love interest in Flying Daggers, especially against someone as…

I never got why they decided that Sue Storm still needed to be white if they really wanted to get Michael B Jordan in the reboot as Johnny. While it's clear why they wouldn't necessarily want him to be the rocky punchy dude replaced with CG, why not have him play Reed and see if he could make that character remotely…

It seems like 60% of the protagonists in American movies are already British diaspora and there basically aren't that many major projects where the lead is an ethnic minority and not American. (I think Quantico is doing pretty well and I think Priyanka Chopra was probably born overseas?)

I've been a bit confused on this front when it seems like they're sufficiently big coproductions.

Zhang Yimou did a movie with Christian Bale set around the rape of Nanking (I think) and I would assume it had to be based on a true story?

There's like literally no Asian politician you can praise that won't anger various other Asian groups— that's one of many reasons why it's a bit harder for Asian Americans to mobilize as a political entity.

Until looking it up just now I didn't know there were more than two Asian people in Big Trouble in Little China since all I've had to go off of, aside from the occasional screencap, is the poster.

I lived there for a few years but didn't really go around exploring. Isn't there like a bougier part of town south of I-90 and somewhere up the hills where some of the houses better matched the architectural style featured in the trailer?

If I remember correctly as a person who hasn't been to the theme park since it was Back to the Future, I think the gag is that the Bort stuff is so popular they're always out of it or there are such fans of the show that they always sell them out before they can restock. (Either way they do have a space for them)

I think they're going for unilateral influence where the films impact the TV but never the other way around. They get so evasive about crossovers that even with Infinity War's 70 something named characters it doesn't seem like they have plans for the TV characters to get involved.

Is the real Jake Gyllenhaal actually a musical theater nerd or does he just make very weird career choices? Last year I remember hearing he was doing a concert presentation of Little Shop of Horrors with Ellen Greene reprising her role as the romantic lead about 30 years after the original production/film.

I think that angle came up three for three duels so it's kind of fair to see it as an actual stance the show is taking.

He isn't/wasn't in the show either but yeah, I expect that to be a little too much nuance.

People other than me are anticipating Riverdale?

I think Lachman and Acker did pretty decent jobs too even if they didn't get the same range of material he did. (Also whoever played November did reasonably well even if the focus on her origin story was kind of boring)

I think it would have been the exact same thing verbatim. (Also since Amazon would have had the rights to stream the first three seasons.)