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It's interesting that you use her as an example, that character was originally meant to be a man.

Also, for all of the supposed woes of the white male lead, a great number of the top ten biggest grossing movies of 2021 starred white men: 1. Spider-man: No way home - white male lead 2. Shang-chi - Asian lead 3. Venom - white male lead 4. Black Widow - female white lead 5. F9 - diverse ensemble 6. Eternals - diverse ensemble 7. No Time to Die - white male lead 8. A Quiet place II - white male lead 9. Ghostbusters: after life - largely white ensemble 10. Free Guy - white male lead

Honestly I have never watched a movie and thought "I wish the lead wasn't black". I have watched a lot of movies and thought "fuck me, this is poorly written" or "the director cannot even properly frame a shot", or "who edited this, a crazy person?" As for the supposed "left-wing" nature of Hollywood, that is bullshit. Or if it is true, then it's a shared ideology that as shallow as a puddle. Everyone in that town is interested in one thing: making money. Hence why they pander to China to an embarrassing degree. Hence why they don't care if they have to tolerate a serial rapist like Weinstein in their midst, as long as they can make money off him. I don't think they personally care much about representation (the leaked Sony emails confirmed this). But it's in vogue right now to appear to care about that stuff, so they pretend to care. But it's pretty clear that this is not something that preoccupies the people in charge of the studios.

Sapowski had to sue to get the extra money. His original deal prior to Wild Hunt's release wasn't that great.

I think the anemic quality of much of the U.S. based entertainment is more to do with the fact that all of the IPs are now owned by a very small number of companies. All of those companies are very risk-averse. Thus you get utterly sexless, uninspired films, like much of the MCU franchise. It's also how you get a situation where immature "movie critics" ask Paul Verhoeven if a movie really needs to have sex in it. Art literacy is a lost skill, so you also get morons criticizing directors who have protagonists who are evil or unsympathitic, because they have somehow lost the ability to differentiate between the text and the moral world view of the text's creator. I think audiences have been infantilized by decades of stupid entertainment catering to nothing more than the lowest common denominator and they wouldn't recognize real cinema if it bit them in the ass.

Sapkowski has never publicly criticized the show, this is mainly based on what haters of the adaptation claim online. I don't think he cares particularly much, like GRRM before him, this adaption will have made him a lot of money. Especially since he didn't make all that much out of his CDPR deal.

I was addressing the fact that whilst that meme presented Jackson's LotR as a universally beloved and admired adaptation, this was not the experience at the time and there were quite a few dissenting voices, especially among the purists who were devoted to the source material. It has little to do with "wokeness" (a term that did not even exist back then).

I haven't played any CoD games in about a decade now. They are garbage. Especially the single player campaigns (and their writing) were getting offensively bad.

To be fair, I know plenty of Tolkien purists who hated a lot about Jackson's adaption. e.g. the expansion of the Arwen role compared to the novels. Or the total omission of the Tom Bombadil section. But I expect the Prime series to be hot garbage, mostly because all of the "next GoT" shows have failed miserably at capturing even a fraction of the cultural significance of the HBO show.

I like Joy. Didn't know she had a sister.

Well it hasn't been about casting good swimwear models for a while now, so this is just another new way MJ can do her woke flag-waving. I am sure that had someone else been in charge, SISE would have been diminished too by 2022, but not by this extent. Much of its decline isn't just about cultural shifts, it's entirely self-inflicted.

Her body is amazing!

Has she lost a lot of weight?

Not a big Kate fan, but love that picture of her. It's not new, is it? I think I remember seeing it before.

Source: Guess

There is no rule against posting paparazzi content on BZ. So there is no use in complaining each and every time someone posts paparazzi shots.

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Je suis flamand.

It's not a great picture but based on it she hasn't gained that much weight? It's mostly just her face that looks bloated? Weird.

Stop having these tournaments in authoritarian states! It's really a doozy this year, after the Olympics we can also "look forward" to the Qatar WC, where the estimate a few years ago was that 6500 migrant workers had died building the stadiums and various infrastructure for that tournament. It's probably a lot more than that by now.

Perfection.

Oh fuck. I will never be able to unsee this now...

In general being a celeb must be superweird. Randos taking snaps of you all the time.

Thanks! My notion of that is only based on some old SISE material in which they seemed to heavily imply they were pals but that might have been just done for the SISE promo tours.

Microsoft bought Activision. Kind of awkward for them that they sort of alluded to some of the toxic work place stories at Activision on the official Xbox social media accounts...