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Atrocious Joe posted:this always seemed like such a bullshit "foreigners are dumb" piece of conventional wisdom  for making my super smart franchise movies dumb.
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Atrocious Joe posted:this always seemed like such a bullshit "foreigners are dumb" piece of conventional wisdom I think it's based more on the idea it's hard to translate poo poo so just make everything simple, Kung Fu movies but in reverse.
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Oct 7, 2019 01:56
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There's probably still a bunch of neckbeards on the internet who are super mad that the 2016 Warcraft movie made money in China.
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Oct 7, 2019 02:01
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Probably Magic posted:Joker correctly diagnosing Bruce as on the spectrum is a good thing, as for as I'm concerned, since that's probably the only way good way to portray Batman going forward lest you just have people pretending he's a libertarian shithead instead. most parents (whether they have money or not) teach their kids not to speak to strangers, not to get too close to strangers, not to take things from strangers, etc. parents that are inordinately wealthy definitely teach their kids that same poo poo, on top of the fact that they can pay staff to mind the kid 24/7 and ostensibly make sure nobody is harassing them. for kid-bruce to just slowly amble over to the fence and then allow phoenix to jam fingers in his mouth and only after that did alfred appear to halt the interaction is just incredibly dumb. it's why the elements that related the plot to batman lore are the weakest parts for me. you could do the exact same plot minus the batman references and then the director wouldn't have felt pressure to answer some theoretical neckbeard complaining "but if it's THOMAS WAYNE then where's bruce this is bullshit" also batman is an extremely anachronistic relic of the decade(s) in which he was conceived and he translates increasingly poorly as time moves forward and people become more sophisticated about concepts like wealth inequality and how that directly correlates with crime among people that become disenfranchised. IMO batman as a character shouldn't be presented in any media that is supposed to happen after the 1930s or so
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Oct 7, 2019 02:15
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MasterSitsu posted:, the parents took a couple "Baby's first movie!" selfies mid-film. if that is a real thing people do it's going to cause far more movie theater violence than Joker, the most dangerous movie ever made
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Oct 7, 2019 03:27
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i agree batman needs to go back to his roots killing vampires with silver bullets in a haunted castle
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Oct 7, 2019 04:13
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Hey it worked for Immortal Hulk
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Oct 7, 2019 04:16
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Atrocious Joe posted:this always seemed like such a bullshit "foreigners are dumb" piece of conventional wisdom its also in this case demonstrably untrue joker is doing gangbusters at the international box office
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Oct 7, 2019 06:49
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there were a few movies a few years ago that transparently pandered to chinese people like independence day 2 but i dont think they worked that well so they gave up
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Oct 7, 2019 11:45
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Farm Frenzy posted:there were a few movies a few years ago that transparently pandered to chinese people like independence day 2 but i dont think they worked that well so they gave up pacific rim 2 pandered so hard it became hilarious, like getting charlie day to speak half his lines in mandarin
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Oct 7, 2019 12:33
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That's been going on for a while - "2012" had the Chinese saving the world because they were the only ones who could build the arks
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Oct 7, 2019 12:43
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hilariously this kind of pandering never actually works the at best chinese viewers just ignore it and at worst the obvious toadying just results in the movies being mercilessly mocked all over the chinese internet pretty much the only successful example of chinese pandering was the warcraft movie but you might have noticed that movie didnt contain clumsy references to oriental ninjas who save the day by brewing green tea to calm the orcs down it was only pandering in the sense that warcraft is an intellectual property that chinese people have heard of
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Oct 7, 2019 13:05
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remember how god awful the acting is in the opening bank heist scene in the dark knight "i know why they call im the joker!" "wh wh wharrr did you learna count??"
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Oct 7, 2019 13:12
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christopher nolan like most allegedly good modern hollywood directors actually really sucks at evoking good performances from his actors but gets away with it because he casts just enough genuinely talented people who dont need direction that everyone ignores how all the other ones obviously have no idea what theyre doing sequels are one good way to mask this since actors who reprise old roles generally dont need that much direction to play them correctly although this still leads to comically egotistical situations like rian johnson doing such a lovely job of explaining what was going on with luke skywalker that mark hamill just had to pretend like he was playing a completely different character in order for his performance to make any sense at all
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Oct 7, 2019 13:30
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nolan is like blomkamp in that he's a talented cinematographer but has no idea how to write
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Oct 7, 2019 13:33
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Often, whining about Chinese pandering comes off not as "capitalism sucks" but rather "Chinese people should not be in movies." Maybe not here, where cspam's skepticism of Hollywood is credible. But like, YouTube comments and reddit, and many supposed apolitical spaces where the subject of some Asian character in some commercial product comes up.
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Oct 7, 2019 13:38
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like seriously nolan managed to turn christian bale into a punchline because his batman is just such a huge dork christian bale the guy who was probably the most up and coming star in hollywood at the time he became the new batman almost immediately reduced to joking self parody roles because after batman no one could take him seriously anymore the weird thing is that this never ever comes up in retrospectives about just how brilliant the nolan batman movies were even though bales batman is so iconically goofy even the tom holland spider man could make fun of him
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Oct 7, 2019 13:55
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"I won't kill you... but I don't have to save you" - christopher nolan on his role in the batman franchise
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Oct 7, 2019 14:18
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the gradual rising consciousness of how lovely all the nolan batman movies actually were makes me happy
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Oct 7, 2019 14:20
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reading Felix Biederman's review of Joker confirmed the thought i've been having for months about it: it's a profoundly OK movie that won't be remembered after Thanksgiving. you know, the same thing that happened with Wonder Woman and Ghostbusters 2016 before itSome Guy TT posted:hilariously this kind of pandering never actually works the at best chinese viewers just ignore it and at worst the obvious toadying just results in the movies being mercilessly mocked all over the chinese internet
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Oct 7, 2019 14:24
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get that OUT of my face posted:reading Felix Biederman's review of Joker confirmed the thought i've been having for months about it: it's a profoundly OK movie that won't be remembered after Thanksgiving. you know, the same thing that happened with Wonder Woman and Ghostbusters 2016 before it i'm partial to the idea that some amount of the online outrage over joker was intentionally manufactured / astroturfed to try and leverage the power of outrage porn to increase ticket sales of an otherwise mediocre and forgettable film Farm Frenzy posted:the gradual rising consciousness of how lovely all the nolan batman movies actually were makes me happy the dark night was lightning in a bottle and both the origin movie and the bane one were underwhelming. it's funny because when they were being released, i was super not interested in the 2nd one after watching the first, but saw it and obviously enjoyed it, so then my hopes were higher for the third and that made it even more disappointing
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Oct 7, 2019 14:36
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remember when rotten tomatoes had to put their site on lock down against DDoS attacks and critics were getting death threats for not giving dark knight rises 10/10. first time i was consciously aware of how hosed the concept of fandom is.
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Oct 7, 2019 14:40
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i'm partial to the idea that some amount of the online outrage over joker was intentionally manufactured / astroturfed to try and leverage the power of outrage porn to increase ticket sales of an otherwise mediocre and forgettable film probably a combination of astroturfing and media libs with incel hot takes. ofc now it seems like they were doing that to distract from the class war imagery in the movie
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Oct 7, 2019 14:42
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get that OUT of my face posted:i've been wondering for a while if the chinese moviegoing public actually enjoyed the kind of obvious pandering Hollywood puts in their movies. another example is The Emoji Movie taking place in WeChat the great irony of hollywoods excessive pandering experiment is that it probably cost them the chinese market chinese people can and do make their own generic bad movies the main big hollywood successes in china are the ones with weird gimmicks that chinese filmmakers cant easily recreate like marvel smashing its toys together or badass multiethnic american street thugs going on increasingly improbable adventures involving spy satellites and super cars
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Oct 7, 2019 14:50
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Serf posted:probably a combination of astroturfing and media libs with incel hot takes. ofc now it seems like they were doing that to distract from the class war imagery in the movie I don’t see why a movie about a mentally ill man leading a vague revolution should be the most lib movie
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Oct 7, 2019 15:06
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thing is i came up woth the idea for this movie back in 08, me and the boys left a screening of the dark knight, and i said it would be cool if they made a prequel about joker rising to infamy. and what do you know 11 years later here we are.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:15
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t see why a movie about a mentally ill man leading a vague revolution should be the most lib movie libs love licking boots so seeing cops get killed and beat down makes them feel bad
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Oct 7, 2019 15:18
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Farm Frenzy posted:the gradual rising consciousness of how lovely all the nolan batman movies actually were makes me happy Serf posted:probably a combination of astroturfing and media libs with incel hot takes. ofc now it seems like they were doing that to distract from the class war imagery in the movie
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Oct 7, 2019 15:19
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Serf posted:libs love licking boots so seeing cops get killed and beat down makes them feel bad I mean yeah but even with the most sympathetic angle the joker is still a bad guy who is mentally ill. like getting sad when a cop bites it in an action movie
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Oct 7, 2019 15:23
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean yeah but even with the most sympathetic angle the joker is still a bad guy who is mentally ill. true, but the movie is about the systemic failures that lead to him doing all the stuff that he does. if they hadn't cut funding for mental health programs and if the nastiness of capitalism hadn't hosed him over so badly nothing would've happened also its funny that we're discussing nolan and todd phillips because they're the only two directors that warner brothers gives blanket final cut permission to
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Oct 7, 2019 15:25
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get that OUT of my face posted:reading Felix Biederman's review of Joker confirmed the thought i've been having for months about it: it's a profoundly OK movie that won't be remembered after Thanksgiving. you know, the same thing that happened with Wonder Woman and Ghostbusters 2016 before it
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Oct 7, 2019 15:26
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Serf posted:true, but the movie is about the systemic failures that lead to him doing all the stuff that he does. if they hadn't cut funding for mental health programs and if the nastiness of capitalism hadn't hosed him over so badly nothing would've happened
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Oct 7, 2019 15:27
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people talk about black panther a lot here. but in like the Phil greaves way
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Oct 7, 2019 15:27
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Farm Frenzy posted:is it like a fight club type situation where the director might've meant one thing but the actual filmmakign suggests something else? from what I’ve seen from reviews it’s pretty blunt and kind of shallow with its criticisms.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:29
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Farm Frenzy posted:is it like a fight club type situation where the director might've meant one thing but the actual filmmakign suggests something else? my opinion is that the movie has a pretty radical message because phillips is a huge moron. he wanted to play with the themes of anti-capitalism and revolution, but didn't do the typical hollywood thing of showing the revolutionaries doing bad stuff. given his comments about the far left i gotta assume this was pure incompetence
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CharlestheHammer posted:people talk about black panther a lot here. but in like the Phil greaves way
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Serf posted:my opinion is that the movie has a pretty radical message because phillips is a huge moron. he wanted to play with the themes of anti-capitalism and revolution, but didn't do the typical hollywood thing of showing the revolutionaries doing bad stuff. given his comments about the far left i gotta assume this was pure incompetence phoenix's dialogue with de niro at the end is basically laying out all of the subtext on the table and slapping the audience in the face with "HEY IN CASE YOU DIDN'T PICK UP ON ALL OF THE TERRIBLY NOT-SUBTLE CLUES IN THE MOVIE, HERE'S THE MAIN MESSAGE I'M TRYING TO CONVEY". if somehow that scene was included and philips thought it wasn't surfacing an eat-the-rich agenda, then the dude is astoundingly incompetent.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:23
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am i just being jaded towards modern-day pop culture, or are modern-day blockbusters even less subtle than ever when it comes to messaging, particularly of the pro-capitalist/neoliberal variety?
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Oct 7, 2019 16:26
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Freaking Crumbum posted:phoenix's dialogue with de niro at the end is basically laying out all of the subtext on the table and slapping the audience in the face with "HEY IN CASE YOU DIDN'T PICK UP ON ALL OF THE TERRIBLY NOT-SUBTLE CLUES IN THE MOVIE, HERE'S THE MAIN MESSAGE I'M TRYING TO CONVEY". if somehow that scene was included and philips thought it wasn't surfacing an eat-the-rich agenda, then the dude is astoundingly incompetent. i'm just trying to reconcile that being in the movie with his dumbass comments about how the far left is responsible for the backlash (that led to it having a record-breaking opening weekend lol)
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i think it's possible he was trying to do a sorta radlib thing about how if you treat the poor badly they'll do stupid things like start a revolution maybe? idk havent seen it
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