Posted: 11 June 2018 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | 1
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Not my headline, but one from today's Hollywood Reporter. Before you comment on the headline alone, I'd urge you to read the article first and then discuss it.
I think most of the points in the article are absolutely 100% valid. I'm especially angered at the shitty way a certain segment of SW fans have treated Kelly Marie Tran, so poorly in fact that she's taken leave of social media altogether. When did it become vogue to irrationally hate a thing so much that you take it out on the actors just doing a job in the most racist, misogynistic, sexist ways possible? Instead of berating Marvel and DC, instead of sending hate mail or trolling the websites of creators, instead of demanding a boycott, I just left reading mainstream comics from those two companies once their product didn't align with my enjoyment.
There's a lot of blame to go around for SOLO, sure. Bad release date. Poor marketing. Overconfidence that this was the movie fans wanted to see. But there's a very vocal minority of SW fans who make the rest look incredibly bad by doing their best to project their own insecurities onto the franchise writ large.
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