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Delta-Wye posted:its not tone deaf, its just the only tone they're hearing is the sound of money being printed in china. I've heard corporate people say it's because of the faux spiritually and that the government doesn't give Star Wars what it gives other franchises. But really all the modern movies are steeped in lore that most Chinese didn't see. Plus if your first exposure to the franchise was the prequels ...
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it's because star wars isnt good lmao
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Gripweed posted:If Black Panther 2 was about Black Panther falling through a time portal and landing in Manchuria in 1937 and using his Black Panther powers to annihilate Imperial Japanese soldiers for two and a half hours it would make three billion dollars in China no matter how black the Black Panther was. I.P. Man
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General Dog posted:I.P. Man ... was in Rouge One. do not ask me if this worked out in Disney's favor
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General Dog posted:I.P. Man i know its a movie (ive even seen it!) but every time it's mentioned i imagine the worlds corniest super hero who busts through the screen and warns you about piracy before the movie starts.
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china is a great control for a culture that hasn't been barraged by the exact same nostalgia as us for literal decades, turns out it's just bad
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Gripweed posted:If Black Panther 2 was about Black Panther falling through a time portal and landing in Manchuria in 1937 and using his Black Panther powers to annihilate Imperial Japanese soldiers for two and a half hours it would make three billion dollars in China no matter how black the Black Panther was. That Sony email leak in 2014 revealed a bunch emails where the execs were shutting down an "Equalizer" sequel because supposedly the racist markets overseas wouldn't see it. I remember someone did a data dive on it and proved it bullshit, black leads do as well as expected overseas. Can't find the study Googling around though. White Hollywood's just cloaking its racism by blaming other races.
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Delta-Wye posted:i know its a movie (ive even seen it!) but every time it's mentioned i imagine the worlds corniest super hero who busts through the screen and warns you about piracy before the movie starts. 
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The Grubstakers this week with Glenn Greenwald is super good. He does not do much of his usual shtick of "woe is me I personally am so oppressed" and really digs in on the post-9/11 world and how the neoliberal order is shaping things.
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Gripweed posted:Disney has tried everything to break into the Chinese market. They gave a Chinese person a 30 second cameo in Avengers 2, they removed black people, that's it that's literally the two things Disney thinks Chinese people want from movies. They tried to promise China-specific content in one of the Iron Man movies and wound up just inserting an unironic version of  quote:HONG KONG -- As the houselights dimmed in cinemas across mainland China at around midnight on Tuesday, audiences attending the first wave of public screenings of Iron Man 3 fell silent with apprehension as a question appeared on screen: “What does Iron Man rely on to revitalize his energy?”
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Lasting Damage posted:People just really like the old man. The whole thing even got a conservative acquaintance and another libertarian friend I know say that they were disappointed Sanders lost the primary. Edit Vasukhani posted:it's because star wars isnt good lmao T. Bombastus fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jan 24, 2021 |
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T. Bombastus posted:The top grossing American films in China are all either 1: Marvel or 2: Fast and Furious or 3: Warcraft, so the issue definitely isn't that Chinese tastes are just too refined for poo poo like Stat Wars I think Transformers is big over there, and those movies are all just spectacle mixed with who-could-possibly-give-a-poo poo lore
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T. Bombastus posted:Not to get psychological, but this is definitely a big reason why the KHive hates him so much. Nobody likes their weird wooden idol. honestly it is kind of interesting because Bernie's platform was supposed to be "this isnt about me as a person, this is a rally cry for us to organize for something better" and it almost seems like the hero worship kinda works against that, though I get that that's just how people work and he does seem to be a nice old man who generally believes in good things
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Stutes posted:They tried to promise China-specific content in one of the Iron Man movies and wound up just inserting an unironic version of whoever came up with that deserves to be loving fired
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Jan 24, 2021 09:09
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normal people don’t have coherent political beliefs because they don’t follow this poo poo closely at all, that’s why there were all those polls that said self identified centrists were strongly in favor of bernie, because they think centrist means ‘not like republicans or democrats’
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Shipon posted:honestly it is kind of interesting because Bernie's platform was supposed to be "this isnt about me as a person, this is a rally cry for us to organize for something better" and it almost seems like the hero worship kinda works against that, though I get that that's just how people work and he does seem to be a nice old man who generally believes in good things its only anecdotal, but the right leaning or left-skeptic people I know that liked bernie did so because he did appear to be very consistent on his beliefs. everyone was aware of the stuff they were putting out showing him saying the exact same poo poo for like 35 years, so these people would say they think he's telling the truth when he says that he wants to make your life better. the important implication, i think, being that it went without saying that democrats were liars and just saying similar stuff to dupe voters. they of course don't apply this same reasoning to their own team, but i think its still impressive that bernie could actually cut through that fog.
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:https://twitter.com/BitchAssBowie/status/1352865190614806529?s=19 calling china racist because of the actions of an american company lol. incredible.
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Yeah that's one of the reasons Bernie didn't win; he convinced everybody that he was telling the truth, but he never got Dem primary voters to realize that all the others were lying.
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crepeface posted:calling china racist because of the actions of an american company lol. incredible. also those are just alternate posters that also existed in english  china racist, but wait til you hear about america wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Jan 24, 2021 |
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a delusional pipe dream of mine is a chapo episode about the Japanese left/unions and just about the animation Industry there as an actual Labor https://twitter.com/yabshu55/status/1352366987318489088?s=19
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also crunchy roll only pays translators $80 per episode
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:a delusional pipe dream of mine is a chapo episode about the Japanese left/unions and just about the animation Industry there as an actual Labor Shirobako, an anime about cute girls working in the anime industry, gave a surprisingly stark look at the working conditions in anime between the references and jokes.
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Jan 24, 2021 17:51
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are sea shanties a forced meme
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They are only a meme on TikTok, if you aren’t on TikTok you missed the entire meme cycle except for idiots on Twitter trying to have hot takes about a meme cycle
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MonsieurChoc posted:Shirobako, an anime about cute girls working in the anime industry, gave a surprisingly stark look at the working conditions in anime between the references and jokes. this but clerks the animated series
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Bust Rodd posted:They are only a meme on TikTok, if you aren’t on TikTok you missed the entire meme cycle except for idiots on Twitter trying to have hot takes about a meme cycle drat, missed my chance to unload my old decemberists records
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Many millennials at the time basically said that Zoomers only think sea shanties are cool because they didn’t have to live through that band being popular
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Bust Rodd posted:Many millennials at the time basically said that Zoomers only think sea shanties are cool because they didn’t have to live through that band being popular You mean "get" to live through that band being popular. The Decemberists are good.
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yeah the same way poetry is “good”
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Some poetry is good, just that none of it has been written in the last 60 years or so
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Bust Rodd posted:Many millennials at the time basically said that Zoomers only think sea shanties are cool because they didn’t have to live through that band being popular are they the ones where they're all dressed like it's the late 19th century and they clap and stomp instead of having drums and there's a guy on a washboard
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Heath posted:Some poetry is good, just that none of it has been written in the last 60 years or so "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is good. And "Ozymandias". And the one that got interrupted by a person from Porlock. I think that's it.
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prefect posted:"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is good. And "Ozymandias". And the one that got interrupted by a person from Porlock. I think that's it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTnnu3XLFk
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I had to get my parents to buy "The Day the Laughter Died" for me, because we were in Oklahoma at the time, and the record store had age restrictions. :jerkoff:
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prefect posted:I had to get my parents to buy "The Day the Laughter Died" for me, because we were in Oklahoma at the time, and the record store had age restrictions. :jerkoff: should have bought the clean version at walmart lol
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Rapping is poetry, and I think it's good
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posting is poetry
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:a delusional pipe dream of mine is a chapo episode about the Japanese left/unions and just about the animation Industry there as an actual Labor this would rock but people would hear "anime" and flip out
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Rapping is poetry, and I think it's good the only time I hear people say this is when they’re talking about hamilton
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