#1346

I have no idea who that is yet also know that I’m doomed to google it and get deeply annoyed by it

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#1347

Oh actually I have a dim recollection of this. Didn’t realise Raya was the catalyst.

#1348

she is good, makes videos about films mainly. she compared Raya the last dragon to Avatar the last airbender, and faced the wrath of twitter for it

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#1349

Can you summarise why that’s not allowed as a comparison?

My daughter went to see Raya and the Last Dragon in 3D at the IMAX and loved it @hip_young_gunslinger - very much exists.

#1350

Drake took it to number 1 for about 20 weeks

#1351

A Kiss In The Dream Horse - Equusie and the Bannedsteeds

#1352

think because twitter is terrible. she posted

"Also watched Raya and the Last Dragon and I think we need to come up with a name for this genre that is basically Avatar: the Last Airbender reduxes. It’s like half of all YA fantasy published in the last few years anyway.”

this lead to her becoming villain of the day, calls to cancel her, the argument being she had been dismissively lumping in Asian cartoon films together implying they are the same (putting aside Raya is a Disney film), because it was twitter this got stretched to people saying this tweet contributes to the climate of Asian hate, then it all snowballed from there.

#1353

Oh wow (and thanks).

Although I guess maybe that’s true? It’s very hard to be outside of a thing and view how something sits when you’re inside it. But yeah, Raya does seem to be more Disney than anything looking at all involved so that’s weird.

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#1354

that’s got to be up there for biggest disparity in acting talent between two leads, if it existed

#1355

Arrival

#1356

Harsh. What’s Amy Adams ever done to you?

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#1357

I HATE JEREMY RENNER

#1358

:wink: :smiley:

#1359

Thought about Jeremy Renner again. That’s my day ruined

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#1360

You have to keep a hawkeye out for those kinds of intrusive thoughts.

#1361

The_Mummy_(2017)

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#1362

I thought you were talking about Passengers, which would also be a good shout.

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#1363

Fantasy novel series The Wheel of Time is currently getting the big budget telly treatment at Amazon, but for years the adaptation rights sat with some tiny production company. When their rights were about to expire, they set out to make a pilot that intentionally didn’t exist, purely as a legal exercise to hold onto the rights.

It was aired at 5am in a pay-to-air slot on FX with no publicity. It starred Billy Zane for some reason and was absolutely terrible.

#1364

A very similar thing happened with Blazing Saddles.

There was a contractual clause that Warner Bros couldn’t make a sequel unless they also produced a TV series, so they shot and produced three whole seasons of a programme that was never intended, and has never been, aired on television.

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#1365

Seems like it might be a bit of an urban legend - the truth seems murky