@Robeatics I left this thread due to people going after my personal character. But hey, if you want to open this again, just don't go after me personally, and we'll be good.
Also, yes, it's a really stupid long post, because I'm really passionate about this subject. When I'm passionate about things, I have a lot to say about them.
You're going to counter me with a list of Oscar nominated actors?...
Okay. Except I think the Oscars are a place where a bunch of old white industry assholes go to pick each other as winners of a golden trophy that means pretty much absolutely nothing the next year. Can you name any of the winners from ten years ago from memory? I can't. Five years ago? Two? I only remember Leo winning one because the Internet went absolutely fucking crazy about it, but otherwise, I really couldn't tell you the name of
any Oscar winner off the top of my head.
I mean, everyone expected Leo to win an Oscar this year because he was "owed" an Oscar, and because he was "continually snubbed" for an Oscar. Everyone and their mom who has a casual understanding of the Oscars knows that they're a political game played by old people to verify their own tastes as "superior" to those of the plebs. Thing is though? I don't care about their opinions. You'll never see comedy films or anime win best picture, because the assholes who run the Oscars don't care about genres that don't appeal to them. Hell, there is an entire category of film called "Oscar bait." These are typically slow and/or extremely dramatic films that exist expressly so that actors, like Leo, can win an Oscar.
That's literally how rigged this system is. That's how stupid it is.
So why would I give a shit about their opinion? Their opinions suck.
As for Lone (Texas) Ranger, Exoderp, The Last Airtard, Noyawn, and Gods of White People? I only watched one of the films on that list. Because I
knew the others were going to be trash from their trailers alone. The one film I did watch was The Last Airtard, and only because I was dragged to the theater with less genre-savvy family members.
One might also want to note that all of these films were
lazy as fuck and generally did not perform well in theaters. The Last Airtard in particular was so horrifyingly awful that people still refer to it as a joke movie you should buy people that you hate.
Even if they did perform well? Doesn't matter. I don't like these movies. People loved the Transformers movies (as proven by their repeatedly high sales time and again) but I fucking hate those movies. I didn't even watch the last one or two of them, because I was so tired of them that I think I'd have fallen asleep watching them out of sheer fucking boredom.
You know what I like? Slow, plodding, intelligent sci-fi. You know what I'm watching Hollywood do? Slowly erase that genre and replace it with action-packed murder-ventures. Like the new Star Trek films, which are... Fucking terrible Star Trek films. There's no philosophy in them, no intelligence. They're just shooty shooty bang bang movies. It's not like the JJ Abrams movies set the trend for that either, pretty much all of the TNG movies followed the same dumbass shooty shooty bang bang formula. There's no fucking sign of another sci-fi show like Babylon 5 anywhere near the horizon. How long ago was Firefly cancelled now?
I'm pretty trapped to anime and cartoons and the indie movies
exclusively if I want to get what I want.
Hollywood doesn't fucking care. They're not going to give me anything I want just because I fucking hate how stupid most of their movies are.
Hell, I'm going to go full unpopular opinion puffin and say that, aside from Guardians of the Galaxy which was a really fun sci-fi movie that made me not want to kill myself (fucking DC Comics needs to pull it together), I have not really enjoyed any recent Marvel movies. I did not enjoy Antman. It was so painfully formulaic that I guessed every single fucking plot twist about 10-15 minutes before they happened. Every. Single. One. It's so bog standard that I at one point stopped watching it to go check on my bank account because
that was the more thrilling and unexpected experience. The first Avengers film was really neat. It was kind of unique, in how it tied together five movies, but I really couldn't be fucking arsed to tell you what happened in Thor. I don't remember. I have no urge to go watch it again, do you? How about Iron Man 2: The Derpening? How about the massive fucking endless pile of Spiderman movies that will never fucking stop telling his origin story every five years or so?
Hollywood is going full force into regurgitated samey comic book movies now, and I don't like most of them. I think they're generally fucking stupid. Why should I, as an adult, expect to be entertained by two dudes in costumes punching each other while yelling vaguely about freedom or how terrible humanity is/"moar power mwahahaha"? Why do they expect plots written for twelve year olds, to entertain me, as a functioning adult who likes intelligent fiction?
They don't.
They don't care.
Not even a little. Not even
slightly.
And they're under no legal obligation to care either. They'll just make the movies they want to make. My tastes and preferences by no means get to decide what is quality and what isn't. The majority of people who work in Hollywood are white and obsessed with chasing public trends. The public likes dumb superhero movies where "two guys punch each other until one falls down" as the climax. So, by no surprise, the majority of superhero movies are staffed overwhelmingly with white people, who overwhelmingly punch each other to resolve all of their problems.
Even
if they decided to suddenly make all roles absolutely even across the board tomorrow, so that you have a 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1 ratio on all ethnicity roles... Nothing would really change. The Oscars would still be run largely by old white people who don't give a fuck. The people who own the businesses would all still be old white people who don't give a fuck. The movies would still be bland and boring and filled with stereotypes and tropes so predictable that I honestly couldn't tell if the script was written by a professional, or if someone stole something I wrote off my desk when I was fifteen. The entire industry would still self-refer to an absolutely incestuous degree, where the majority of roles (especially leading roles) would always go to a handful of elites, instead of people who might be able to act in that role better.
Everything which is a problem now, would still be a problem. Only, the people who would lie to you constantly and treat you like fucking trash would be asian instead of white.
To me, that resolves absolutely nothing. The entire industry is so horrendously rotten to the core that the idea of outrage over a white person in an asian person's role is laughable. Largely because it's misdirected.
If you actually hate how Hollywood treats minorities, don't buy Hollywood movies. Tell your friends, not to buy Hollywood movies. And stick to that. Don't stop. Boycott their products, it's the only thing they know.
Except that most people here won't. Because they don't actually hate Hollywood. They just hate that the vain, greedy, corrupt as fuck people running in it are white instead of asian.
That's why I find it hypocritical, or racist, or both. If the race of the person sloppily fucking your favourite movie into a haphazard, unintelligent mess would be somehow made better if it was an asian, you're a racist. If it only matters because they're white, and you don't care about every non-race example of incestuous corrupt role selection for jobs in Hollywood, you're a hypocrite.
Doesn't make you a terrible person. Again, I'm no real judge of your taste. I just have my own personal opinion. A flawed opinion, from a flawed human being. If you enjoy the movie? Great! If you don't enjoy the movie? Great! It's none of my business to know or give a shit about how you feel about the movie. Just, at the end of the day...
It's a fucking movie. It's a piece of fiction. Nothing that happens in it is real. The original Ghost in the Shell still exists and is awesome, go watch that instead and go encourage people to watch that instead. It's completely unimportant. It's a fantasy to escape in. There are literally tens of thousands of them to choose from. Why get angry about this one being corrupt in its hiring practices when so many of them already are?
That's really what I don't get.
