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jackliu

Banned Idiot
plawolf said:
You guys remember how we were just talking about all the MIB III and Red Dawn rip-off cut scenes and changes like it was ancient history? Well, apparently nobody told the BBC and they are running it like it's some new revelation. It's funny how life works out sometimes.

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It just seems like such a random 'lets bash China' piece for the BBC to run. There is absolutely nothing remotely new about anything they are reporting to prompt or justify this piece. The ranting bloggers at least had the good grace to blog about the stories when they actually happened. The only rationale for that story seems to be, 'Oh look, Chinese leadership change immanent, must rain on that parade so how can we bash China today? Nothing remotely recent? Well just find something, anything!'.

It's interesting that the producers decided to include the old hat stories about cut scenes and changed baddies, yet they neglected to mention the fact that China just more than doubled the annual quota for foreign films, which actually happened after both MIB III and Red Dawn rip-off. Presenting an up-to-date assessment of the Chinese movie scene was clearly not what the producers had in mind when the made that piece.

The production value of that piece was also laughably bad, since they managed to get a shot of just small group of Chinese people apparently sitting with a sea of empty seats around them to illustrate the point that Hollywood movies are more popular in China.

Is it just me, or is the BBC actually getting worse? Because it seems CCTV no longer holds a monopoly on hapless and obvious propaganda pieces.
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All of Western media are hapless obvious propaganda pieces. However they are SO much more effective than CCTV, because CCTV actually admit they are controlled by the government, however all the "free media" here are "free", so people actually listen to them and think they give you the truth, I wish I can have a portal going back 2 weeks before the Iraq invasion, every single channel on TV, CNN, BBC, CBS, NBC, ABC all freaking warmongering like crazy, and shooting down anyone that remotely ask any questions and label them as "unAmerican" "Unpatriotic"

There is NOTHING about "Free media" is "free". Although they don't lie very often, what they do is they only report one side of the news that support their agenda while completely ignore anything else the other side have to say, this does wonders to brainwash people into whatever they want to believe, and yes... people believe in them like they are addicted to crack.
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
All media is propaganda. The idea that Hollywood movies do well in China doesn't translate to Chinese yearn to be Western like they believe. It's just like my Republican friends who think every movie from Hollywood that fails in the box office is because people are sick of watching liberal movies. Not every Hollywood movie in China does better than Chinese movies. If what they say is true that would be the case. And what movies do well in China? Mostly movies that critics in the US hate as being brainless action. The real propaganda is this and other similar reporting which is all about getting Western citizens to think they're superior which has been the glue to get average joe citizen not to go against the establishment that brought their present financial crisis. It's very much like back during slavery times much like outsourcing today the non-rich complained they had no jobs to make a living because of slavery. All the rich had to say was charge all these people complaining are as low as slaves because they want to do the work of slaves. That was enough to shut them up and not complain about how slavery was taking away jobs from them. The 2008 Western financial crisis exposed massive corruption but of course they're not going to call a spade a spade because corruption only happens in non-Western underdeveloped countries as the propaganda goes.
 
Equation

Equation

Lieutenant General
plawolf said:
You guys remember how we were just talking about all the MIB III and Red Dawn rip-off cut scenes and changes like it was ancient history? Well, apparently nobody told the BBC and they are running it like it's some new revelation. It's funny how life works out sometimes.

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It just seems like such a random 'lets bash China' piece for the BBC to run. There is absolutely nothing remotely new about anything they are reporting to prompt or justify this piece. The ranting bloggers at least had the good grace to blog about the stories when they actually happened. The only rationale for that story seems to be, 'Oh look, Chinese leadership change immanent, must rain on that parade so how can we bash China today? Nothing remotely recent? Well just find something, anything!'.

It's interesting that the producers decided to include the old hat stories about cut scenes and changed baddies, yet they neglected to mention the fact that China just more than doubled the annual quota for foreign films, which actually happened after both MIB III and Red Dawn rip-off. Presenting an up-to-date assessment of the Chinese movie scene was clearly not what the producers had in mind when the made that piece.

The production value of that piece was also laughably bad, since they managed to get a shot of just small group of Chinese people apparently sitting with a sea of empty seats around them to illustrate the point that Hollywood movies are more popular in China.

Is it just me, or is the BBC actually getting worse? Because it seems CCTV no longer holds a monopoly on hapless and obvious propaganda pieces.
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The BBC is doing this probably to distract the audiences from the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal that's plaguing them.


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solarz

solarz

Brigadier
airsuperiority said:
very agreed, especially first point. AND my parents love to watch those and call it QUALITY stuff! my parents really don't understand the definition of entertainment(quite like how my dad loves to watch 2012 simply because of all those retarded special effects that i can only roll my eyes and say "pul-lease land plates can't sink like they're titanic!"
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LOL, yes they do, if Earth's core has been liquified by "mutant neutrons"!

Oh and 20 years down the road, you're gonna be on here complaining how your kids keep watching the stupidest shows. :D
 
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jackliu

Banned Idiot
Everyone watched Total Recall? The 2012 version.

It is a good movie, and it is very interesting they show A LOT of Asian architecture and Asians people in the movie. They did a interesting job mixing the old Hong King alley with Western style.

And yes as other have stated, Hollywood movie starting to employing a lot of Asian now, however so far just like in this movie, they are mostly background characters with hardly any word spoken.

Oh and it did going into that Asian fetish stereotype a bit, as one of the few spoken word by an Asian character is a 3 breast Asian hooker.
 
Equation

Equation

Lieutenant General
jackliu said:
Everyone watched Total Recall? The 2012 version.

It is a good movie, and it is very interesting they show A LOT of Asian architecture and Asians people in the movie. They did a interesting job mixing the old Hong King alley with Western style.

And yes as other have stated, Hollywood movie starting to employing a lot of Asian now, however so far just like in this movie, they are mostly background characters with hardly any word spoken.

Oh and it did going into that Asian fetish stereotype a bit, as one of the few spoken word by an Asian character is a 3 breast Asian hooker.
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How was it compared to the old Arnold Schwarzenegger version?
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
jackliu said:
Everyone watched Total Recall? The 2012 version.

It is a good movie, and it is very interesting they show A LOT of Asian architecture and Asians people in the movie. They did a interesting job mixing the old Hong King alley with Western style.

And yes as other have stated, Hollywood movie starting to employing a lot of Asian now, however so far just like in this movie, they are mostly background characters with hardly any word spoken.

Oh and it did going into that Asian fetish stereotype a bit, as one of the few spoken word by an Asian character is a 3 breast Asian hooker.
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That was originally Shanghai. That's why it looked Asian. Apparently they changed it to Australia because they wanted the movie shown in China and thought Beijing would reject it because it made it look like China was the slum of the world in the future for that reason.
 
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jackliu

Banned Idiot
AssassinsMace said:
That was originally Shanghai. That's why it looked Asian. Apparently they changed it to Australia because they wanted the movie shown in China and thought Beijing would reject it because it made it look like China was the slum of the world in the future for that reason.
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That was a bit too sensitive from China, I didn't think it was a slum, they had shops everywhere, and all houses had modern appliance etc... it is more like old style Hong Kong.

Great movie overall, very beautiful scenery done with CGI, and not just the stupid kind like in the Transformers, I can see a lot of thoughts and imagination have put into those effort.
 
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