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SlimGoodbody posted:I know some of it will be the blatant and virulent racism of China, which borders on our own in the U.S. but with the added snag of waaaay more cultural homogeneity, but I wonder if some will also be due to its message that being a weirdo hermit kingdom that's only interested in its own self enrichment is a bad thing. Similarly, they don't like Star Wars in China because it a lot of casual viewers aren't sure why the military dictatorship which undertakes massive public works projects are the villains. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Similarly, they don't like Star Wars in China because it a lot of casual viewers aren't sure why the military dictatorship which undertakes massive public works projects are the villains. Oh jesus, is that why the racist yellow peril caricature trade unionists trying to manipulate exchange rates were the villains of the prequels
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I hope they're not completely ditching the semi-unique costumes from the end of Apocalypse. I don't think the movie even had a full body lit shot of those.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Dark Phoenix X-Mans I am tentatively looking forwards to this. Apocalypse was a misstep but the other recent XMen movies have been pretty drat good, so I’ll forgive them this time.
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Mar 10, 2018 01:22
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SlimGoodbody posted:Oh jesus, is that why the racist yellow peril caricature trade unionists trying to manipulate exchange rates were the villains of the prequels No, the Chinese market didn't matter yet at that point in time. That was just Lucas being Lucas.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Dark Phoenix X-Mans Those look like the unis from Morrison’s New X-Men run. I’m guessing it’s set in the 90’s? Those are almost certainly either early 90’s shuttle LES suits or late 90’s ACES suits.
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Yeah this one jumps ahead to the 90s.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Those look like the unis from Morrison’s New X-Men run. I’m guessing it’s set in the 90’s? Those are almost certainly either early 90’s shuttle LES suits or late 90’s ACES suits. I didn’t even think of the fact that this will be the X-men that made me into a Marvel fan. Yep, gonna see this.
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah this one jumps ahead to the 90s. Hopefully they do more with the setting than Apocalypse did with the 80s.
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Samuringa posted:Is that JenLaw or did she finally break free of the Makeup Curse? Probably Lawrence, her movies as of late have been pretty mediocre to crud. She's starting to need the franchise more and more.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I didn’t even think of the fact that this will be the X-men that made me into a Marvel fan. Yep, gonna see this. It won't be 90's X-men without Big Hair Rogue.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Dark Phoenix X-Mans They look like a Star Fleet engineering team.
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Beachcomber posted:They look like a Star Fleet engineering team. They’d look better if the X wrapped around to the back like the design they’re based on.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Dark Phoenix X-Mans I for one am glad we got five seconds of the 90s cartoon costumes everyone actually wants to see and then skipped them entirely to go straight to New X-Men costumes.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Dark Phoenix X-Mans Wait, what the gently caress? Actual X-men costumes in an X-men movie??????? I also like that Mystique actually has comic hair. I wonder if she has the weird skull headband thing. Maybe Fox went to the Director and said "people don't want grounded super hero movies, they want super hero movies that are like the comics they liked".
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Jiro posted:her movies as of late have been pretty mediocre to crud I'll rewatch Mother! a thousand times before seeing X-Men Apocalypse again. Red Sparrow's good too.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I'll rewatch Mother! a thousand times before seeing X-Men Apocalypse again. That's like saying you'd rather be punched in the balls than kicked in them.
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Hey, some of us actually like mother! https://imgur.com/JqYTmjn
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Chickenwalker posted:I for one am glad we got five seconds of the 90s cartoon costumes everyone actually wants to see and then skipped them entirely to go straight to New X-Men costumes. We're never going to get real, fun, colorful X-men costumes in live action. Never, ever ever.
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Retro Futurist posted:Hey, some of us actually like mother! Pervert.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Black Panther crossed the billion dollar worldwide mark. I'm kind of fascinated by the narrative around Black panther's debut in China: it did surprisingly well in its first weekend but is reportedly getting very negative word of mouth in China and is expected to tank heavily in its second weekend. Obviously, everyone's first instinct is to point to Chinese racism, which is a definite thing that exists, but that doesn't really explain the phenomenon, since pre-sales and first weekend ticket sales were higher than expected. I know, famously, that the Chinese posters were issued with a masked-only version Black Panther, which caused a bit of a stir back in February, but is it really the case that Chinese audiences were fooled into thinking there weren't many black people in Black Panther?
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I'm kind of fascinated by the narrative around Black panther's debut in China: it did surprisingly well in its first weekend but is reportedly getting very negative word of mouth in China and is expected to tank heavily in its second weekend. Obviously, everyone's first instinct is to point to Chinese racism, which is a definite thing that exists, but that doesn't really explain the phenomenon, since pre-sales and first weekend ticket sales were higher than expected. I know, famously, that the Chinese posters were issued with a masked-only version Black Panther, which caused a bit of a stir back in February, but is it really the case that Chinese audiences were fooled into thinking there weren't many black people in Black Panther? I've only seen stuff about Black Panther getting negative word of mouth from that one twitter guy based in New York quoted up in the thread.
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Fangz posted:I've only seen stuff about Black Panther getting negative word of mouth from that one twitter guy based in New York quoted up in the thread. Forbes also said it had bad word of mouth, but I don't know what their source is.
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Googling, well, it's on 6.8 on chinese IMDB (douban), mostly due to a lot of 3/5 reviews. quote:A bit disappointed, the pre-marketing is doing a good job. What is the best man-made game in the country? There may be zzzq in North America. There is no resonance in the country. The storyline is old and can always guess what will happen in the next second; the action movie is pre-empted, and the two Panthers play for a few minutes at last, and it is simply not fun. The hero has set a bug, and it feels like the wing is stronger than the Iron Man (ー_ー)!! quote:"Panther" is full of expectations before release, and super heroes supported by a nation should not be worse than Iron Man's. But after watching the premiere of "The Panthers", it was a bit disappointing. In the last tribal war, where did the black technology go, and the samurai ran the confrontation with a sword and gun? The strongest force in the villain is just a rhinoceros in armor? Uh. . . 3.9 In the evening, I was sitting in a gorgeous Chivas leather chair and screaming gorgeously. quote:Still too routine, but the protagonist changed to black. Another piece of work that expands the layout is limited, and the action scenes and story highlights are limited. Some political ambitions have been inserted in the middle. Actually it is boring. I don't know if this counts as tanking though. It does have a better rating than Justice League, which didn't do too bad in China. Fangz fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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My girlfriend made me watch Wonder Woman last night. "Made" is a bit strong, as I've been meaning to, just haven't gotten around to it. Anyway, I really enjoyed it!
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Endless Mike posted:My girlfriend made me watch Wonder Woman last night. "Made" is a bit strong, as I've been meaning to, just haven't gotten around to it. Anyway, I really enjoyed it! Hah with the way this post started I was not expecting the twist ending.
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quote:I was sitting in a gorgeous Chivas leather chair and screaming gorgeously. This guy's living the life.
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Fangz posted:Googling, well, it's on 6.8 on chinese IMDB (douban), mostly due to a lot of 3/5 reviews.
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Nessus posted:If these are typical then I suppose it may just not have sung as hard for them as it did here, these don't seem like they're hateful given that I assume you're translating them from Chinese. Don't get me wrong, there are a few racist ones, but I think the impression I'm getting is that the difference relative to the more popular MCU films is a lot of people giving it 3/5 instead of 4/5. I like this fan quote:The second preemptive synchronization between North America and Hong Kong. In the war of the throne, the Panthers and the women's squad are very cool and handsome. High-tech and tribal traditions coexist with rich countries and rich countries Vacanda. Want to touch the breasts of the brothers (.) (.) ( ̄┍ ̄)! Action show design is mediocre, the final battle ended a bit failure? Michael B. Jordan's villain is so cool! ! Your sister looks like Riri... The last egg actually shows my husband! ! Fangz fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Endless Mike posted:My girlfriend made me watch Wonder Woman last night. "Made" is a bit strong, as I've been meaning to, just haven't gotten around to it. Anyway, I really enjoyed it! Being "forced" to watch Wonder Woman but secretly wanting to seems appropriate for the history of the character.
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Fangz posted:Don't get me wrong, there are a few racist ones, but I think the impression I'm getting is that the difference relative to the more popular MCU films is a lot of people giving it 3/5 instead of 4/5. I don't know who this guy/gal is but they're on the level. 
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