• Rhaedas
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    451 month ago

    Before looking I remembered when this happened and thought, yeah, they shouldn’t have caved and cut Finn out. Then I looked. Those bastards dropped Chewie from the poster???

    • Riskable
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      261 month ago

      Too much like Winnie the Pooh 🤷

  • @[email protected]
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    431 month ago

    I wish the West had some perspective on how much better they are handling social norms than the world is when it comes to matters of humanity. Most of Asia is racist as fuck and will eagerly punish people who are different.

  • @[email protected]
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    421 month ago

    Disney’s treatment of Finn was the second most painful part of the echoes of the force trilogy

    • Echo Dot
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      81 month ago

      Yeah but presumably they watch the film, so what’s the point in changing the poster

      • @[email protected]
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        161 month ago

        Once they bought the tickets, Disney doesn’t care if they hate the characters. They got the money. They don’t need people to enjoy the film or the characters. They just need tickets sold.

    • @[email protected]
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      There are a bunch of English posters without his face as well.

      The west prioritises showing the faces of actors and China apparently doesn’t or they do with stars that are known in China.

      If he was a nobody in the USA it’s much more likely that he would have a mask.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 month ago

    Companies don’t get enough flak for pandering whoever lines their pockets.

    It happens to be popular today in North America to appear inclusive and progressive and they feign it and it somehow works.

    These companies don’t give a shit about you or your issues. They just want to cash out on you thinking that they do (and you thinking that they deserve your support).

    (And yes, I get it, any support is good support) just keep in mind that these companies care more about the money and will always pander to their audience.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      The boys at Red Letter Media coined a term for this: “Passive Progressive”. Hits the nail on the head for me!

  • @[email protected]
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    251 month ago

    Besides that being a racist change, sm I the only one who despises movie posters with dozens of people looking in random directions? Can we just have nice artistic posters, please?

    • @[email protected]
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      What would you say if I told you they are artistic, it’s just not a style you like

    • @[email protected]
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      They do make the kind of posters you like you just don’t see them outside of promotional material.

      The reason being is that the many faces orange blue posters literally are gaming (most people’s) brains into engaging with the poster.

      Humans like faces and are drawn to them.

      That being said, I’ve seen some really nice dune posters where it’s like a backdrop of the desert with the mc and lots of negative space

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Yes, love those posters. And with dune, for example, they’re much more prominent. You’ll really find that one. For Disney stuff? No chance.

  • CubitOom
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    141 month ago

    To be fair, Finn is a throwaway character despite decent acting. Not important to the plot really at all. The same can be said for most of the characters in the movie.

    Moreover, the whole movie is something that should be thrown away, but not forgotten. It needs to be archived as an entry in the museum of the failures of Disney.

    • @[email protected]
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      241 month ago

      John Boyega was robbed. He was excellent in TFA and his character was actually interesting. Then Disney fucked him over.

      • @[email protected]
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        227 days ago

        Ehhhh… He goes from being shellshocked about his fellow soldier dying to whooping and cheering about murdering his former friends so fast it made my head spin.

        Boyega was robbed, but they didn’t use him very well even in TFA, in my opinion.

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      It was an alright to very mediocre set of movies that people feel way too many emotions about.

  • The Pantser
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    91 month ago

    Disney is racist but so is China, it’s always strange how much screaming about racism in the USA but China is 1000x worse. But we keep buying their products and sending production jobs over there. If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries. But money talks.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries

      OK, but which ones aren’t racist?

  • HEXN3T
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    81 month ago

    I don’t know why, but both of these posters look oddly proportioned. The balance is just off.

    • DaGeek247
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      151 month ago

      Government mandated racism is still racism. Worse than normal racism, even.

      • TurtlePower
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        41 month ago

        No shit. But op is trying to pass it off as Disney being the sole problem here. These fucking wumao try to gloss over the fact that it is because of China’s racist government that the poster was altered, and try to pass it off as the west being racist.

        • DaGeek247
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          61 month ago

          You’re overthinking this and ascribing way too much intent for a basic complaint about disney being complicit with racist policies.

          How does the saying go? If you have 9 Nazis in a room and one regular dude, you actually have ten Nazis in a room? Disney is that tenth dude in this picture.