Also it’s $30 to stream. Hell no. Bill and Ted for me. Plus they already got a cartoon version of this movie. It’s cheap to just to remake cartoons with humans
@Os Trigonum @SamFisher can’t wait for this and the live action SpongeBob movie Heat up that jiffy pop
excerpt: Then-CEO Bob Iger famously said in 2019 that Disney was considering leaving Georgia if the state banned late-term abortions. So, for Mulan, the company decided to film in a more moral area like China. The communist government, a longtime friend of Disney, found them a great spot to shoot right next to a concentration camp. more at the link
I wouldn't take the Babylon Bee as reliable and I have my doubts on that image. That doesn't mean I don't believe that parts of the movie wasn't shot in Xinjiang as a lot of movies out of the PRC are shot in that area. I'm pretty sure that awful Jackie Chan movie with John Cusack as a Roman soldier was shot there along with other international productions. Also not surprised that there are people talking about boycotting this. I was expecting it to be over the star had made pro-PRC statements regarding HK.
movie reviews starting to come in "Disney's Mulan Is an Extravagant Mediocrity: The studio’s decision to thank repressive Chinese government authorities, meanwhile, makes it something far darker": https://reason.com/2020/09/09/disneys-mulan-is-an-extravagant-mediocrity/ excerpt: Mulan also shares with the Abrams-verse a timid and studied thematic emptiness, an avoidance of any specific ideas or questions that might upset anyone, anywhere, at all. Mulan fights for honor, for family, for finding herself and owning her power, which is to say she fights for vague and inoffensive banalities that could not possibly stir up any political or cultural controversy. The movie reads as an extended attempt to dodge saying anything about anything in any way, except that nice things are nice and good things are good. Who could argue with that? The real world, however, did not cooperate with Disney's plan to avoid ruffling feathers: Parts of the movie were shot near China's Uighur concentration camps, and the credits thank Chinese authorities who help administer those brutal facilities, where as many as three million people are reportedly held against their will in buildings ringed with razor wire, patrolled by guards armed with cattle prods. The expansion of global trade has greatly benefited both American and Chinese citizens, and large corporations can sometimes serve as cultural ambassadors, even in countries with repressive governments. But Disney increasingly relies on the box office power of Chinese audiences. Its cooperation with China's Communist Party regime, which restricts the number of foreign films that can be shown each year and implicitly censors American studio content, is one reason for the careful blandness that permeates so many Disney products. What this means, however, is that a film like Mulan is inherently tied up in the ugliness of governments and politics—indeed, in some of the ugliest political repression on the planet. Judged strictly as a film, Mulan is merely an extravagant mediocrity. But as a cultural proposition, it embodies something far, far darker.
Everything the ChiCom had touched turned into shiet. Good riddance to Mulan and Disney. The NBA is right behind Disney for being a w**** to these damn commie bastards' money.
