Frankly those movies have a disastrous impact on the malleable brains of 32 year olds and should be banned
What right does Disney have to show these movies there and why should I give a shit? Like fucking CHUDS in America are banning proLGBT books from school libraries and I dont see any serious outrage from the liberal class or the media. And those books actually might help some poor kid who is confused and alone and needing to know someone somewhere understands them. Who has even been helped by Disney's Capeshit mass violence spectacles?
Battle at Lake Changjin was shown in exactly one movie theater within a three hour drive of the major metropolitan area I live in
How is that movie ? I'm not into war movies that much but it looks interesting.
the build-up was a lot better than I expected. the actual combat scenes were a little bit hard to tell what was going on but there were some exciting set pieces. I'm glad I watched it. it's a different sort of experience to see a movie where America's military is plainly beaten, because of how well the American film industry is constrained by its security apparatus
I watched it on Youtube. Man great chinese movies are available there.
Don't Chinese companies own like 80% of movie theaters in the US too? By that, I mean they bought 3 companies that had already bought most of the US theater chains.
maybe someone somewhere in an office in China decided the multiverse thing was too confusing after their kid tried to get them to watch a later MCU film
ok I looked into it and basically all 4 got blocked independently for various reasons
I remember some news articles from a few years ago where the media claimed China banned time travel and ghosts? I mean :parenti: but it might have a grain of truth in regards to some guideline or another.
Considering that China has a long history of folklore involving animistic spirits and ghosts it's probably a good move: prevent superstitious stuff from flourishing in the countryside and promote scientific materialism instead.
I think it might just be protectionism in order to benefit domestic film producers, this has been a policy of theirs for a while that they've recently doubled down on.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d6b6a4d786b444e/share.html
https://deadline.com/2021/11/china-outlines-14th-five-year-plan-for-movies-whither-hollywood-does-that-market-still-matter-1234875506/
Marvel movies: The CIA, FBI, and military genuinely have your best interest at heart and are fighting secret wars all over the world for your safety
Me: That fight between Dr Strange and Thanos was very anime and kinda tight.
Monopoly capitalism, evil twin of well known existing non-monopoly capitalism
Wow that actually rocks, thank you China.
This could change the profit calculus for a whole lot of movies, making studios avoid the US military in many cases. If they can't release the movie in China, they'll just CG the military equipment. Then the studios won't have a reason to interfere with writers and directors who are putting in something vaguely negative about the US/US military.
I remember reading about China sactioning companies that employ various rogue Trump admin officials, causing tons of them to hurt financially (the whole point is to grift after leaving your gov't position!!), which did more to punish the Trump sphere than anything the fucking Democrat losers are doing.
Sounds naive to think the fucking army/CIA/etc won't censor/shadow ban you anyways.
The censorship from the DoD goes way way farther when they can simply pull movie funding. They have to send the scripts directly to the military for literal approval, and it's all out in the open.
Sure if you sit around making blockbusters that own the fuck out of the US for a decade, you should watch out, but the CIA isn't going to drag James Cameron to a blacksite and tell him to take out the scene where the dad in the zombie apocalypse movie says to avoid the US military, or to make a soldier not swear in front of children or something.
Oh damn, well I guess since they’re banned in China anyway, Disney can stop queer-baiting and have openly LGBTQIA+ characters, right?
Looking forward to the first trans disney princess. 🥰
The duality of youtube reviewers: Disney can't put gay characters in their movies because of China, but they also need to stop putting gay characters in their movies.
