The internet's dumbest meme in place of an argument. How fitting.

I liked it, though I was a little disappointed. All three leads (and I do think they are leads) were great, but it felt very slight and a lot of the time cold. Still, recommended and it was good.

7/10

I enjoyed The Impossible as both a real life horror story and a procedural on reuniting the family. It's great to see Naomi Watts again (does she have it written in her contract that she's to appear topless in every film?) and Ewan McGregor is solid as always. The kids were adorable too.

4 out of 5.

It was ok. Spatial awareness was lacking--or maybe that was the director's point? What I mean, is that I was unable to tell the distance between the hospital where the mother and boy were located, the resort, and the mountainous area with the younger children.

The film was not racist, unless you want it to be. I can watch most films and make an argument that it is racist, but maybe that just means that the word has become watered down.

Django Unchained: Django is as violent the slavers. Moral equation. Racist.

Zero Dark Thirty: Advocates torturing middle eastern looking men. Racist.

Argo: Downplayed Canadian importance in escape and played up Iranian evilness. First not really racist but the latter you could argue.

Life of Pi: Magical/Mystical sub-continent resident. Racist

Beasts of the Southern Wild: White guilt [of the filmmakers trying not to be racist] plays up "magical Negro"/salt-of-the-earthiness. Racist.

Flight: Alcoholic black pilot/poor father figure/incarceration. Racist.

Moonrise Kingdom: Idealized early 60s. No mention of civil rights/racism of the era. Racist.

Prometheus: Albino/white master-race leads to (I think?) beginning of man, belies history. Fear of the other/unknown (the Alien). Racist.

The Hobbit: Dwarves are greedy/money worshippers without homeland like Jews. Hobbits are peaceful/rural/English country types. Racist.

Skyfall: Adonis-like white man must save the world from strange "other." Racist.

This is 40: Upper class white people problems. Asian character is drug addict. Racist.

The Dictator: Makes fun of middle-eastern strongmen types. Racist.

Red Tails: Cartoonish portrayal of black people by out of touch white people with green screens(!). Racist (though this one I kind of buy).

The Cabin in the Woods: The black college student dies. Racist.

These are just from 2012 and off the top of my head. This post is probably racist too.

tl/dr

Caius, this might be the best post I have seen at WOKJ in months. Well-done.

Thanks.

It is amusing, but you also have bullshit coming out of your ears because your ultimate argument is no piece of art can ever be described as racist without the claim being absurd.

Considering the James Bond franchise through a lens of xenophobia in particular is a valid exercise.

Agreed (except for the amusing part).

The Impossible was not racist, but it was racially inaccurate, which left a sour taste in my mouth.

I think art can obviously be racist an it would be absurd to make an argument that "no piece of art can be described as racist." Which is why I made no such argument.

My point was more that everyone seems to find racism in everything nowadays. This argument is tiresome and it makes actual racist acts less noticeable due to the "boy who called wolf" aspect of current arguments. Especially in a time, at least in the West, where things, by any measure, are less racist.

Plus, Hollywood fashions itself as the least racist group of people on the planet. Like they could make a film that was racist... [George Lucas' voice actors].