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I think we were doing well until you brought in some pap like Mulan.

Tell that to Hollywood, man. A lot of their movies now are being passed by Chinese censors first with the domestic market somewhat of an afterthought. Interestingly, though, China …

I think the new Mulan fail was due to some social media shitstorm about the lead actress or something; the spastic Chinese internet trolls had a feeding frenzy on something she sai…

That's ironic, because China hates strong female role models or protagonists in movies due to an endemically sexist culture

These foreign cinemas have their own industries. Plus, Marvel as an entity has been around for years before they started making those crap movies. It's just hollywood kowtowing to …

Movies (non-documentary) can moot and champion whole ideologies, psychologies, and philosophies, for example Fight Club (nihilism), Logan's Run (progressivism, anti-establishmentis…

Juxtapose this with a movie like Lost in Translation, where as much of the progression comes from just observing characters and actions as comes from dialogue and interaction. That…

We can blame a lot of the dumbing down on Hollywood's kowtowing to China

I smell a purge coming

I dunno, man. It's not a great analogy. You're assuming people have a near-infinite amount of time to learn outside of what they normally do. I'm not buying it.

Can you expand on what you mean by "investment is IN ourselves" ...

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