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i'm guessing they're going by her Nikia role, idk, i saw that horrible designated survivor and her acting is as shitty as scarjo's
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Scarjo is preferable because of her name recognition. Pacific Rim did not succeed here thanks to no name actors left and right. Just broke even. Probably saved because of Asian market.
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Thank god.
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Noticed earlier from the credit some of the companies associated with production were Chinese. Kind of interesting. Maybe that is why this movie had an odd mixture of chinese and japanese actors. And....just 100 million dollar production budget. Holy shit....this movie feels more like 200 million dollar movie...
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Japanese Fans React to ‘Ghost in the Shell’
"I heard people in the U.S. wanted an Asian actress to play her," he said. "Would that be OK if she was Asian or Asian-American? Honestly, that would be worse, someone from another Asian country pretending to be Japanese. Better just to make the character white."
"I heard people in the U.S. wanted an Asian actress to play her," he said. "Would that be OK if she was Asian or Asian-American? Honestly, that would be worse, someone from another Asian country pretending to be Japanese. Better just to make the character white."
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lol japs still salty Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - IMDb memoirs of a geisha were Chinese cast, cuz there aren't any good Japanese actresses (i'd argue for Nanako, but that's it)
also japan is racist as fuck towards other asians
japs hate koreans with a passion, it's like a past time
You could be a forth generation Korean in japan, speak fully japanese, and you'd wouldn't have japan citizenship
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Not gonna save this one. Pacific Rim had about more than twice the opening weekend, more staying power and was cheaper to make in the first place.
This one's in deep red accounting territory.
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we'll talk about even far more racist koreans when they fuck up another Samsung phone.
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It's because China only let's about a dozen or so foreign movies get released legally a year. It's why movies are now featuring more and more Chinese cast and locations. Because of that we are getting useless Chinese characters thrown into movies, like that scientist sidekick in Kong or pilot in independence day sequel or transformers 4 in Hong Kong.
No idea how the hell the WTO allows that.
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naw they weren't, it's like saying, all those 12 years a slave and black slave shows, shoulda used real africans named Adebowale, and he better bring along his birth spear.
Jap bitches, 10 years ago, even now, dont' have anyone even remotely comparable to Gong Li
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This is a movie that really wants you to like it, and in some ways, I really want to like. It's sort of a retelling and a prequel to a retelling all in one, with scenes from the original shoehorned in. Ironically, the re-used scenes where by far the best, and most coherent, in the movie. The pacing of almost every non-homage scene was absolutely all over the place, making it feel like either they deleted half an hour of movie or (more likely) re-wrote half an hour of script out.
There's good bits, there's bad bits, there's pretty bits, there's ugly bits. Scarjo is way better and way more Major than I was expecting them to ask of her, which is why the bad bits hurt the most. Overall the casting was pretty on point, in my opinion. The bad parts stand out so much because of the good sprinkled in between. I think it could have been (and was not exceedingly far from being) a fantastic movie, but someone or someones somewhere along the line fucked it up into solid mediocrity.
If an extended cut comes out, I will give it a round 2, but otherwise I doubt I'll ever care to re-watch it.
There's good bits, there's bad bits, there's pretty bits, there's ugly bits. Scarjo is way better and way more Major than I was expecting them to ask of her, which is why the bad bits hurt the most. Overall the casting was pretty on point, in my opinion. The bad parts stand out so much because of the good sprinkled in between. I think it could have been (and was not exceedingly far from being) a fantastic movie, but someone or someones somewhere along the line fucked it up into solid mediocrity.
If an extended cut comes out, I will give it a round 2, but otherwise I doubt I'll ever care to re-watch it.