Recent content by Simonism451

It's on the first fucking page. And it's not like you couldn't google "Iron Fist casting" and get hit with numbers of articles written by people discussing the casting choice and having different opinions about it, including disapproval or offense. It's also not like Zontar didn't provide a link...

Btw, shouldn't it be "inexplicably" in the thread title? I mean, the people who argued against the choice were fairly explicit about their desires or at least disapproval.

Far Cry 2 (A man can dream, right?) Probably Dark Souls Half Life 2 (+the hope for Half Life 3) XCom (without hyphen) for reviving to some extent the turn-based strategy genre. Metal Gear Solid 4 + 5 (if only for the hype leading up to them) Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (for...

I would argue that Jackie Chan has focused his life towards being a great martial arts and action comedy star, with all that entails. That he probably wouldn't make a great Henry V might be true (although I'd certainly watch it if he gave it a shot), but that's not really something I care...

Yes, I would say Jackie Chan movies are "good" movies, just like I would say that Kadinsky made "good" paintings, even though both are maybe not that great at doing certain things that other movies or paintings are good at, namely acting (although I would argue that Chan is actually pretty good...

I think having the actor and the person doing the stunts be the same can add a lot to the feel of a movie where the "stunts" are sort of the main point, allowing the director to film the action a lot more intimate, which is especially beneficial for martial arts movies, where a lot of the action...

From what I've heard about the direction the Luke Cage series is taking, it supposedly deals fairly explicitly with issues such as police shootings and racial profiling in an American context, so, if Cage's "themes" remain the same in the Iron Fist series or the eventual Defenders thingamajig...

To be fair, if the cultural appropriation in question boils down mostly to "fancy martial arts+some vaguely exploitative mysticism", making Iron Fist the first Asian MCU hero brings its own set of problems with it by playing to an (arguably) even more pervasive stereotype than the White Saviour...

The majority of the conversation was about how Dizzy feels that Carl the chicken is essentially Anne Frank. I can't see how you can lead a conversation on that premise without quickly arriving at a point where stopping it becomes the preferable alternative to turning it into a complete farce...

Well, my bias towards the human species is because I think we're superior. It's the same reason why I don't think owning a dog is slavery. It's also why I think that battery farming, while cruel and unnecessary, isn't essentially the holocaust.

In the same way that the crux of slavery was that people felt fine using workhorses? Or maybe the actual crux of the matter is that there's a marked difference in the value of self-aware, self-reflecting, intelligent human life and that of animals. I'm sure you actually feel the same way...

Apart from the victimised species, what difference is there between Ma and Pa farmer who know each pig they kill by name and the Manson family? Apart from the victimised species and the victimising species, what difference is there between a cat playing with a half-dead bird and IS burning...

No, it's essentially zero holocausts happening at once, since we're talking about animals and not human people. Also, the problem with the holocaust wasn't only the conditions in which the people that fell victim to it lived but also that they were actually killed, so I guess if we were to use...

Oh, for fuck's sake, when people talk about a privileged society in a contemporary context, they usually mean privileged by today's standards. Also, don't you think it's a bit revealing that you spend a paragraph describing how sometimes you don't have much choices in your fight for survival...

Airplane food. What's the deal with that?