TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

Generally all black cast movies don't become major mainstream fare, no? Despite Mr. Perry's best efforts.

[crazy canuck]

I am glad every passing comment I ever make isn't parsed by people looking to find something to be offended by...

If you said something that silly you can be sure Languish would be there for you 

[The Brain]

The movie where Dr. Michael J. Fox gets stuck in a small rural town is on TV. I think him being white was for the best, really.

[Razgovory]

I am glad every passing comment I ever make isn't parsed by people looking to find something to be offended by...

It's a moronically tone-deaf thing for someone to say, even an old person, "when asked about the representation of minorities in the film industry."  It's an innocuous, maybe even praiseworthy, comment in some other context; but if her response to a question specifically about black representation in film was "We're all Africans!", thereby denigrating the problem in a ridiculous, frivolous manner, then that's not "parsed by people looking to find something to be offended by," it's patently offensive.

Of course it is, because you can come up with a way of being offended, hence it must be offensive.

Obviously she is a racist, and probably a secret Grand Dragon of the KKK.

This may sound somewhat politically incorrect, but isn't the obvious answer not that the film industry is racist but that it is painful and shamelessly pandering to its audiences? Outside of period drama and indie cinema etc., people are generally interested in watching stories of people like them, having similar experiences to them. Perhaps US whites are more likely to go to cinema, so the industry is making films about people who are like them?

I'm not sure if it's shameless but the vast majority of people in the US are white so the vast majority of American stories are going to involve white people.  Most of the talent is white.  I imagine that in China the majority of films involve Chinese people.  Hell, I image that a lot of the Polish films are made by Poles and have Polish actors!  I suspect there is a serious dearth of Polish films about Afro-Brazilian fisherman.

[dps]

Generally all black cast movies don't become major mainstream fare, no? Despite Mr. Perry's best efforts.

Pretty sure that I've posted this before, but my then-gf and I went to see The Preacher's Wife when it came out and we were the only white people in the theater.

[celedhring]

The Fast and Furious flicks have a very diverse cast and are very successful.

[11B4V]

The Fast and Furious flicks have a very diverse cast and are very successful.

just ask Seedy, the president of the Vin Diesel fan club.

[Ideologue]

The Fast and Furious flicks have a very diverse cast and are very successful.

They even wrote out the one white guy.

[Liep]

Danish Eurovision is on and as per usual the production value has increased a bit and the song quality has decreased dramatically from last year.

[The Brain]

The Fast and Furious flicks have a very diverse cast and are very successful.

They even wrote out the one white guy.

[Liep]

Danish Eurovision is on and as per usual the production value has increased a bit and the song quality has decreased dramatically from last year.

The liberals are complaining on twitter about a scene where the children take over the stage in black clothes and balaclavas and sing a song from the children's eurovision. Why? "It's too close to the 1 year-day for the Copenhagen attack to joke about terror" which is tomorrow.

[Queequeg]

Occupied, a squarehead drama about a Russian occupation of Norway, is the best drama I've seen in a while.  It's brilliant. 

[celedhring]

Crimson Peak. Dull and very predictable. The big mystery is pretty much obvious from the get-go and it's not like they do anything interesting with it.

[Maladict]

The third X-files episode is hilarious. I did not expect that.

[Josquius]

Occupied, a squarehead drama about a Russian occupation of Norway, is the best drama I've seen in a while.  It's brilliant. 

Sounded cool so I read a synopsis. ..... the EU is the one who got Russia to invade Norway?
Err.....sounds like europhobic silliness