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The film's Rotten Tomatoes rating is down from 75% in December, before it opened in Mexico, where viewers were unimpressed (see chart). Some of this decline is explained by "review bombing". This can happen when films take on heated subjects. "The Promise" (2016), about the Armenian genocide, saw its imdb page mobbed with thousands of one-out-of-ten ratings from users in Turkey; in response, most Armenians gave it full marks, resulting in a middling overall score.
But socially conservative Mexicans objecting to a trans woman starring in a film is not the full picture. "Emilia Pérez" is, objectively, poor. The dialogue sounds as if it has been hastily translated from French to English to Spanish, leading to jarring phrases like, "Hasta me duele la pinche vulva nada más de acordarme de ti" ("Even my fricking vulva still hurts as soon as I think of you"). The lyrics have been lost in translation, too. Consider the opening line of one song: "Hello, very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about s*x-change operations." (Somehow "hello" gets one syllable and "change" gets two.) "I see, I see, I see," is the reply, as perfunctory an iambic trimeter as you will ever hear.
A scene from the film btw !kino !latinx
Botched pronunciations have angered Mexicans. Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays Emilia, was born in Madrid and cannot always hide her Spanish accent. Emilia's wife with the sore vulva (played by pop star Selena Gomez) sounds robotic in Spanish and slips into English halfway through a line. Adriana Paz, Emilia's love interest, is the only Mexican in the main cast. She has less than 12 minutes of screen time.
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Here's a general question for Hollywood. Why do they keep casting women with eyes a ruler length apart
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They look better on wider, higher definition screens and VR that you may not have seen them on yet. It's a business connection between producers, movie theaters, TV makers, and VR tech companies. It's kind of how the "Atlantic" accent developed because they needed certain pitches and tones to sound best over old shitty radios, but now we're breeding a bunch of fish eyed young women to match advanced wide picture technology.
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I've never seen any of those actresses on the big screen; on my phone they look absurd
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You need to go to a real fancy theater, get a really big new kind of TV, or use special VR movie goggles. This is actually also how those diversity clauses are such a big thing. There's a common remark that "oh, for them diversity only means black people" and this is actually true, but not for any idpol reasons, but because darker skin on camera fricks with lighting and coloring. New TVs and screens and VR can actually handle this, so they're trying to really emphasize the difference. You see a diversity filled movie at home and you think "oh this is shitty" because your brain is noticing how bad the color scheme is. Then when you see the new $10K 10K VR TV at Best Electronics Store, the picture looks amazing.
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But don't most people still have non super high res tvs? Why would you risk being unnapealing to the majority of your customers
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The goal is to get them to get them to buy new stuff. TV manufacturers accidentally plateaued where the screens were so good and so big and even long lasting enough that people just weren't buying new TVs. There was a noticeable jump between plasma and LCD and the 4K/UHD/OLED - but since then consumers just haven't felt the new stuff is better. VR industry wasn't selling enough outside the hobbyist market and dying theaters want butts in seats in their giant screen "experience" IMAXXX3000 stuff.
It's also why there are fewer movies starring animals now. Audience testing showed that when people watched this stuff they were very often motivated to go outside and move and would end up staying off screens for longer amounts of time. And various animals tested poorly in different global markets. The chinks and muzzies don't give a shit about dogs. So you just gotta understand, the reason you're seeing fewer dogs (outside of conservative coded movies) and more BIPOCs and freaky fish eyed women is just to trick you into spending more. It may not seem like it makes sense, but some marketing departments convinced them it did.
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This but unironically. But also if you see it IRL on stage. An enormous amount of work goes into matching the actor's skin color, the costume, and the lighting. If you only knew...
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Someone developed a Sid the Sloth fetish as a child and is now in charge of casting.
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Umma Thurman set the trend years ago. She could pull it off but she's like the only one.
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I would love to know about the 10 or so best picture nominees that people like even less
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Those are mostly Best Picture winners from the 1930s and 1950s.
On the past 20 years films like "Crash" and "Chicago" had an IMDB rating in the 7s which is quite low but not as bad as Emília Pérez.
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Suburban Sasquatch is a work of art compared to this thing. It's hard to put into word how bad it is. Dire? Diarrhetic? Embarrassingly incompetent? Unwatchable? I need help.
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That's a shame, I think Chicago's really good. But I get not liking Crash. Even though I like it more than most people do, I only think it's fine, it's just most people hate it.
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I am not gonna lie. If I was American I would love this shit all the way. It is like saying American-Mexican is worth more than actual Mexicans and we are going to make them the face of Mexican culture and there is nothing you can do about it. Pure imperial chadness.
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The film is French, not American
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That's even better. Imperialists working together to mock the world.
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Oh good, you already have the vaginoplasty song. I came into the thread to post it
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I can sext in French better than this.
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I'm gonna be frank, hollywood.
I don't want to hear a song about vagina, unless it's about peepee getting put inside vagina.
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Snapshots:
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