Like obviously the movie is bad, but my god what a fucking reach. Real yellow peril hours.

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    Oddly, the “Space Jam” sequel is not currently scheduled for a release in China — Warner Bros. didn’t respond by time of publication to the question of whether it would be — but it bears the sanded-down, quirk-free character of the global film industry for which the country increasingly sets the terms.

    Lol. The most hilarious thing to me is that the article in its conclusion is actually about the fact that the whole movie is obviously a product written by committee and algorithm and designed to be easily digestible and apolitical as possible. Putting aside the fact that you can say literally the exact same thing about the original, your issue with that isn't "china" bad, but rather that the demands of the market are completely and totally all consuming!

    Sidenote: I don't want to go too down the rabbithole since you can start seeing a CIA op everywhere but man...on reddit especially it seems like every single plotpoint/dialogue/character action anyone has a problem with in any movie somehow has its roots in placating china to the point of absurdity. I've never once seen a source but at one point it was basically universally accepted that the reason you didn't see more force ghosts in the last star wars movie is that China has banned depictions of them. I'm pretty sure that's nonsense but seriously...how does shit like that even get momentum???

    Like basically at this point if you don't like 'Revengers Ultimatum final act requiem episode 12' or whatever its because communist hollywood had to placate china and the SJWs. Really scary groupthink propaganda shit.