This movie was boring. No, I haven't seen Old yet. Maybe soon.

Yeah, and he read that story and thought, "OMG! This will win me cool points with Hollywood!"

What I think is funny about it is that Hollywood is trying to be inclusive and cater to China viewers so much, but then China goes ahead and bans a lot of releases anyway, on account of gays and trans stuff. Hollywood can't win, and I love it.

You know what, zed? YOU'RE bullox. I love how you think you're an expert on the USA by posting a bunch of stats you pulled out of a hat.

Hollywood is almost entirely liberal, and they are NOT discrete about it. It's fucking California for fuck's sake. They always want to push some stupid agenda or another. May I point out again that a Disney exec vowed to make 50% of their characters trans/ ethnically diverse? And stupid John Leguizamo recently complained that he wouldn't watch the damn Mario movie because "they fucked up on the inclusion".

Whatever your stats are may apply for the bulk of Hollywood's tenure, but this woke movement is still very recent.

Avatar 1&2... There's probably a metaphor for sexual/gender-identities in there somewhere. Can't keep on excluding the blue people from movies, can we?

Doctor Strange 2: They knew China's stance against homosexual depictions, but they put in a few seconds of lesbians anyway. Got banned in China for it and lost their would-be massive box office.

Black Panther 2 also got itself banned in China for some time. Same for Thor 4 and a few other recent Marvel flicks. If it's all about the money, then I wonder why Disney would be so casual about losing all that money from the second most populated country in the world. That's 1.4 billion potential viewers they're throwing away because they're so altruistic and without agenda.



Wokeness is a thing. Whether it ought to be or not. It's like a whole subculture now, and it's weird. I'm sorry you're having a hard time wrapping your head around the idea, because yes, it is hard to understand, it is stupid, and it should not exist. But it does. I think the confusion lies a lot in the hipocracy and double standards of the movement, and by how suddenly it emerged. It's jarring, to say the least.

I can't quite imagine how that would work, but I'm sure it would've been a better movie. I guess there is an apocalypse theme in two out of three of these movies. Maybe the two girls try to pull their same con, only in a haunted cabin? And some voyeur scientists jerk off to them.