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Post by peoplefromibiza »

cr__ wrote: post #339
peoplefromibiza wrote: post #167

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> Contrast Galadriel who acts like a self righteous dickhead with Aragorn who was reluctant to accept his calling spent and three movies proving himself to be worthy of honor and love You mean three books, right? The difference here is that Aragorn was written by Tolkien, this show wasn't and has completely betrayed the original material. Race or gender swaps are not a big issue, but they become one if the purpose is…

I don’t think any fairies were ever seen in Tuscany either

They appear in a lot of stories, so obviously they were well known all over Europe at the time.

Maybe they lived among people, who knows?

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by Gareth321 »

appleflaxen wrote: post #348
pier25 wrote: post #338

I thought it was mediocre overall but Amazon is doing this to prevent review bombing. Presumably because the IMDB rating appears in the Prime app

> Amazon is doing this to prevent review bombing I think that's the complaint. Is review bombing somehow illegitimate? If so, what separates a "bomb" review from a legitimate review?

I now read "review bombing" as "I don't like the opinions of fans."

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Post by sjroot »

cainxinth wrote: post #242

Amazon, which owns IMBD, is pushing this thing hard. I have turned off every single setting in Alexa related to hunches, promotions, suggestions, etc. I loathe when I ask for the weather and she concludes with “…by the way, I can also…” But I still got a reminder that this show was available when I asked what time it was the other day.

The first time I heard one of those “I can also” lines, I lost interest in ever purchasing an Alexa or frankly any Amazon home product.

Shame the amount of engineering effort that went into that system, only for it to be destroyed by absurd business strategy. I’m sure a couple PMs got a “level 2 to level 3” promotion out of it or something.

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by mwint »

jeromegv wrote: post #369
samatman wrote: post #304

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Yes. An Italian was talking about an Italian story. They're Europeans. What did you intend this statement to contribute?

The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian. So watching a Disney movie, I’m not watching an Italian movie featuring an Italian story, just watching Disney. I’m watching a common fable. And in that case, I really don’t see why everyone HAS to be white. Not asking to change the original Italian book here…

“Pinocchio” looks like something that should be on an Italian restaurant menu. I’d bet a majority of Americans would guess it came from Italy

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Post by elorant »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #378
HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #209

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Matt Damon went into some detail about why movies are like this nowadays: https://youtu.be/gF6K2IxC9O8

Interesting, but the DVD vs post-DVD part of it doesn't make sense without more explanation or numbers attached. In the DVD era most people didn't buy expensive DVDs - they rented them from Blockbuster (then later Netflix) just as they had done before on VHS. In the post-DVD era there is still plenty of money coming after the theatrical release in the form of money from streaming services. How does this source of rev…

What I take from what he said is that the shelf life of movies has shortened. You either make it in the first couple of weeks, or you’re bust. While with the dvds the movie stayed relevant for much longer which could result in a reduced budget for marketing.

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

varajelle wrote: post #389
cr__ wrote: post #339

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I don’t think any fairies were ever seen in Tuscany either

A fairy that makes puppets alive. OK! A black woman in Italy: Impossible! Unbelievable!

> A black woman in Italy: Impossible! Unbelievable!

You're being overly dramatic.

But if you want stories with black women in them, why are you adapting a book where there is none?

I think that's because Pinocchio is a very good story and they know it, people.know it, and also is in the public domain.

Disney "modernizing" Italian literature for free to feed their money making machine? OK!

Disney adapting an African story about black women and black mythology?

Impossible! Unbelievable!

Which one is more probable, that Disney wants to use Pinocchio IP while also riding the inclusiveness-washing activism wave, or that Disney really actually cares about black women and their culture?

sometimes people priorities really surprise me...

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Post by LunaSea »

oblio wrote: post #261
peoplefromibiza wrote: post #224

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> she's a fairy, not a human .. what does her skin have to do with the time period or place in which she appeared? I mean, why can't we have a viking Black Panther and put Wakanda near Iceland? > The real problem is getting upset over the skin color of the actors and actresses playing fairies No one is upset for that, I, as Italian, am upset that some writer thinks that Collodi's story needed to be changed in ways th…

> The pale white skin is a well known proxy for ethereal/angelic beings In European and European derived culture...

You wouldn't want to encourage cultural appropriation would you know?

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Post by 29083011397778 »

jeromegv wrote: post #369
samatman wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. An Italian was talking about an Italian story. They're Europeans. What did you intend this statement to contribute?

The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian. So watching a Disney movie, I’m not watching an Italian movie featuring an Italian story, just watching Disney. I’m watching a common fable. And in that case, I really don’t see why everyone HAS to be white. Not asking to change the original Italian book here…

> The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian.

I love the contrast between being woke ("Be inclusive and represent all people") and being woke ("Taking another cultures history and erasing the cultural aspects of it, making it all white, is bad") on display here.

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Post by [deleted] »

vintermann wrote: post #322
matsemann wrote: post #236

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No, Tolkien-lovers aren't the core audience. Every casual viewer that enjoyed or have heard of Lord of the Rings are. Because that groups is about a billion people, not tens of thousands. Like me, I enjoyed the trilogy. I don't care if this new show isn't in "the spirit" of Tolkien (judged by someone far after his death, how much does that even mean?), I'm gonna watch it because I've heard of the IP before and want t…

Do you really go around talking about "the IP"? Then you're in a far smaller, far weirder minority than Tolkien fans.

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