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41 million in America and 121 million worldwide is not too shabby. But maybe audiences were a bit tired of Rocky movies by then?
Mel has Scottish ancestry. That's what attracted him to the part.
Are you in North America? The rat drowning scene has always been banned in the UK. The censors just have never been convinced that the rat wasn't suffering when it was submerged and thus it's never been featured in any theatrical or home release.
<blockquote>That liquid they used is a coolant called Fluorinert. I worked at a company once that used that to test the waterproofing of optical transceivers by submerging them in it.</blockquote>
That's interesting. I'm sure many viewers watching the Abyss thought that it was real breathing liquid being used.
<blockquote>Whatever minor gains they might achieve with minorities are more than offset by the loss of White support. </blockquote>
They'll always have that support from white audiences. Who do you think goes to watch all those shitty jordan peele movies? The Acolyte failed because they loaded the cast with all diversity when in reality you still need token whites in there as that's the main audience.
Forced diversity was originally done to appease minorities who complained bitterly when someone who looked like them wasn't onscreen. Nowadays it's simply about being provocative. They know that they put tokens into films where they don't belong, it's the whole purpose.
You guys in this thread must have ridiculously high standards.
Are you telling me if this was standing before you naked that you wouldn't flinch much less lose your shit completely: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2ANY6E5/january-18-2020-santa-barbara-california-usa-florence-pugh-attends-the-35th-annual-santa-barbara-international-film-festival-in-santa-barbara-california-credit-image-charlie-steffenszuma-wire-2ANY6E5.jpg
<blockquote>Kimmel doesn't even entertain the opposition's perspective as though everyone and everything on his side is sacrosanct and above criticism. This is anti-comedy.</blockquote>
Yes, exactly. Great point.
People under 24 have been raised on the worst movie era in history. They know nothing but shit CGI, shit actors and shit directors. Films made for people with no attention spans or concept of character depth or storyline.
Their Star Wars is Kathleen Kennedy. Their Martin Scorsese is Joss Whedon. Their Al Pacino is elephant man Adam Driver. Their Schwarzenegger is peanut head Dwayne Johnson. Their Marilyn Monroe is Elliott Page.
They're philistines who wouldn't know a good film like Aliens if it punched them in the face
At least stallone contributed something valuable to pop culture. What has kimmel done? A poor man's Leno/Letterman.
It's about $$$ or maybe in this context £££.
If they have an all white cast, which you'd expect from something set in early 1940s London during the Blitz, then they're afraid of losing a section of the audience when the inevitable backlash starts on social media over why something doesn't have any diversity in it, and they're also looking to appeal to non-white audiences and get more viewers from them and thus more money.
<blockquote>why would romans be whitest of the white?</blockquote>
That's what they look in these recreations of their statues (also using historical descriptions of their appearance):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAuYw1jpL_U
https://youtu.be/gfqy7ipjDWI?feature=shared&t=27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBu2XpZALE0
<blockquote> italians arent anglo saxons.</blockquote>
The Romans existed long before certain regions of southern Europe were repeatedly ravaged by arab muslim invaders (today, many northern Italians look like Anglo-Saxons while the southern ones and Sicilians don't precisely for this reason).
It's the same reason why you get retards trying to claim Jesus isn't white because he lived in what is now Israel, with said retards thinking he's middle eastern in appearance like Osama Bin Laden. Well, 2000 years ago the people in that region looked a lot different to today. Things change over that period of time, and you did get whites in that region who looked exactly like the way Jesus is depicted in western culture.
And since this is the festive season, you'll soon get even bigger retards trying to claim Santa Claus isn't white because St. Nicholas was Greek.
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