The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 11 months agoHe can't be stoppedstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up1463arrow-down133
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minus-squarespudwart@spudwart.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down5·edit-211 months agoPros: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie with modern fx. Cons: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie, with ancient overdone tropes, including the racist ones.
minus-squareIdealShrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11·11 months agooh come on, what racist tropes now?
minus-square1simpletailer@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoI mean the Na’vi are an infantilized hodgepodge of several shallow stereotypes of indigenous people precision designed to be sexy so the lowest common denominator sympathizes with them. The commenter may be referring to that.
minus-squareIdealShrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down7·11 months agowhat stereotypes are these, for example?
Pros: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie with modern fx.
Cons: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie, with ancient overdone tropes, including the racist ones.
oh come on, what racist tropes now?
I mean the Na’vi are an infantilized hodgepodge of several shallow stereotypes of indigenous people precision designed to be sexy so the lowest common denominator sympathizes with them. The commenter may be referring to that.
what stereotypes are these, for example?