• Rhaedas
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    Before looking I remembered when this happened and thought, yeah, they shouldn’t have caved and cut Finn out. Then I looked. Those bastards dropped Chewie from the poster???

    • @copd
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      Finn is in both posters, yeah they made him smaller but hes definitely in both

  • @bblkargonaut
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    423 months ago

    Disney’s treatment of Finn was the second most painful part of the echoes of the force trilogy

  • @ChicoSuave
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    423 months ago

    I wish the West had some perspective on how much better they are handling social norms than the world is when it comes to matters of humanity. Most of Asia is racist as fuck and will eagerly punish people who are different.

    • Echo Dot
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      Yeah but presumably they watch the film, so what’s the point in changing the poster

      • @OldChicoAle
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        Once they bought the tickets, Disney doesn’t care if they hate the characters. They got the money. They don’t need people to enjoy the film or the characters. They just need tickets sold.

    • @[email protected]
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      There are a bunch of English posters without his face as well.

      The west prioritises showing the faces of actors and China apparently doesn’t or they do with stars that are known in China.

      If he was a nobody in the USA it’s much more likely that he would have a mask.

  • @[email protected]
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    303 months ago

    Companies don’t get enough flak for pandering whoever lines their pockets.

    It happens to be popular today in North America to appear inclusive and progressive and they feign it and it somehow works.

    These companies don’t give a shit about you or your issues. They just want to cash out on you thinking that they do (and you thinking that they deserve your support).

    (And yes, I get it, any support is good support) just keep in mind that these companies care more about the money and will always pander to their audience.

    • @[email protected]
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      The boys at Red Letter Media coined a term for this: “Passive Progressive”. Hits the nail on the head for me!

  • @accideath
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    253 months ago

    Besides that being a racist change, sm I the only one who despises movie posters with dozens of people looking in random directions? Can we just have nice artistic posters, please?

    • @Reddfugee42
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      What would you say if I told you they are artistic, it’s just not a style you like

      • @accideath
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        123 months ago

        I mean, sure, they are. But they’re formulaic and uncreative corporate art

        • @Reddfugee42
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          63 months ago

          Wait til you see the movie they represent

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      They do make the kind of posters you like you just don’t see them outside of promotional material.

      The reason being is that the many faces orange blue posters literally are gaming (most people’s) brains into engaging with the poster.

      Humans like faces and are drawn to them.

      That being said, I’ve seen some really nice dune posters where it’s like a backdrop of the desert with the mc and lots of negative space

      • @accideath
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        Yes, love those posters. And with dune, for example, they’re much more prominent. You’ll really find that one. For Disney stuff? No chance.

  • CubitOom
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    153 months ago

    To be fair, Finn is a throwaway character despite decent acting. Not important to the plot really at all. The same can be said for most of the characters in the movie.

    Moreover, the whole movie is something that should be thrown away, but not forgotten. It needs to be archived as an entry in the museum of the failures of Disney.

    • @gerbler
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      John Boyega was robbed. He was excellent in TFA and his character was actually interesting. Then Disney fucked him over.

      • @[email protected]
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        Ehhhh… He goes from being shellshocked about his fellow soldier dying to whooping and cheering about murdering his former friends so fast it made my head spin.

        Boyega was robbed, but they didn’t use him very well even in TFA, in my opinion.

    • @MotoAsh
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      He wasn’t such a background character in The Force Awakens, but ohhhhh boy did he get shafted in the next two!

    • @GlendatheGayWitch
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      The plot isn’t that important to the plot of the sequel trilogy.

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      It was an alright to very mediocre set of movies that people feel way too many emotions about.

    • @recentSloth43
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      Hairy brown people are also frowned upon.

      Source: my life

  • The Pantser
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    Disney is racist but so is China, it’s always strange how much screaming about racism in the USA but China is 1000x worse. But we keep buying their products and sending production jobs over there. If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries. But money talks.

    • @krashmo
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      If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries

      OK, but which ones aren’t racist?

    • @MotoAsh
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      Disney is not China.

      • The Pantser
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        But they release movies over there and do racist things to their posters. Hence the image of this OP.

  • HEXN3T
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    I don’t know why, but both of these posters look oddly proportioned. The balance is just off.

      • @MotoAsh
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        Depends. If it can be deployed in a sarcastic or sardonic way to emphasize how dumb it is, it can be pretty funny and send the right message.

        … but just using it in response without tact is… just more racism. May as well be joining a fist fight at that point.

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    I mean there are quite a few differences in that poster.

    It is ridiculous to expect Designers to take into account how large specifically black people must be and that they are the only ones that can’t be changed if a poster gets redesigned internationally.

    The Chinese poster obviously emphasises battles and military and in this case that was prioritised.

    If they did it to be racist wouldn’t they just remove me, or make him actually small? He is still quite big.