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Damn, another China-pandering movie


Chinese actors and even a few scenes with Chinese dialogue. I hate when they do this to appeal to the Chinese market.

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Very true.

Been covered plenty of times. Probably some good arguments about it on this forum.

I love shark movies, so yeah, I did, love it.

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As good as their english is, it's never good enough for a lead character in an English Language Movie.

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WHO FUCKING CARES IF SOME ACTORS ARE CHINESE?...YOU'RE A REAL DICK.😣

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Independence Day 4-2 did this too.

I'm cool with the inclusion, but it just comes off as tokenization in these films.

Also The Meg sucked anyways.

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I consider the Chinese pandering a major flaw of Independence Day 2.

China is our adversory. Their government is evil and imprisons people in camps. They deny freedom to their people.

The world turned on South Africa in the 80s and I'm wondering why the double standard?

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I felt like the pandering was relatively minor, cause the chinese base got annihilated anyways.

It's not like...uh...what was it...The Martian? Where a chinese rocket was used to help Matt damon or something?

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south africa used to be a civilized country tho when whites were in charge

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Was Pippin Chinese?

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Pretty sure Pippin was black.

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It's a business and this expands their profits considerably. I don't blame them. It broke a half billion in ticket sales, most of which was overseas, so it looks like the right call.

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Yeah, I noticed that too.
Quite a diverse cast as well!
I guess they gotta sell tickets though.

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