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Metroidvania works just fine, I see no reason to change it...

This game is seriously held back by being a Rainbow Six game...

She just traded one eating disorder for another... Not sure I'd call that progress...

Firefox since decades ago.... And which sites are you visiting that are giving you a "You're not using a supported browser" alert? I haven't seen one of those in years...

StealThisSheen posted...

And all that's fair, but you've also gotta consider that other people felt insulted by how she promoted it as she did and then didn't even attempt to actually include anybody from the community whatsoever.

The issue was basically that there are many autistic actors out there struggling for work and she makes a movie that is supposed to be "empowering" for the community and basically tells autistic actors "I didn't consider you because you're bad actors."

Community? What community are you talking about? Are you suggesting there's a special autism community that is very special and exclusive and only autistic people are allowed like it's this exclusive club and there's like this "No boys allowed!" styled sign on the club door, except it says "No normies!" or something like that? Now, wouldn't that just be the most discriminatory thing you've ever heard? If there are people who feel like that, then that's on them. Personally that doesn't sit right with me. If there's a community it's the acting community, and they're all a part of that. Living with autism might give people somewhat similar experiences, but definitely not enough for me to wanna differentiate myself from people who aren't autistic or asperger.
And for that matter identify myself with everyone who's autistic. I'm sure there are plenty of autistic people I would not wanna be associated with, and you really shouldn't either. And I didn't choose to be asperger and thus I have no interest of that being a defining feature of me. I'm a person, not a list of labels. So that whole idea about an "autism community"? Garbage! Take that crap out back and throw it in the bin.

And actors in general are struggling for work. That's the base state for any actors, struggling. And some of them are autistic. Makes sense most of them would be struggling too. The Hollywood is a dog eat dog industry, so I'm sure autistic actor would wanna corner the market regarding autistic roles, would definitely benefit them.

Not saying that Sia's response to the criticism wasn't a bit dumb-dumb. I mean, she had probably already decided since much earlier that she was gonna cast her friend in the role, so whether or not they were bad actors or not was neither here nor there. But ultimately the dumb response wouldn't have happened in the firs place if there wasn't dumb criticism to begin with. Still, Sia did herself no favors. She can start the "How to take a controversy and quickly make it oh so much worse" Club with Don Mattrick if she wants.

StealThisSheen posted...

The point is that the movie was promoted as being empowering and a vehicle for people in the autistic community, but it casts a non-autistic actress to play an autistic role in a way that is basically based on stereotypes and with mannerisms that seem almost more on par with mocking.

An actors portrayal can be empowering for a group even if the actor portraying the role isn't part of that group. In fact done well I might even prefer it, since it shows the person behind the portrayal has done their due diligence and really tried to understand what life may be like if you live within that group, which would be touching.
The only people who complains about who portrays a role are people who cry about representation, and people who do that are people who that either are so insecure about their own worth that they feel they need preferential treatment, people who can't identify with anyone who specifically doesn't represent them or people who section up people into different distinct groups and live with an innate "us vs them" mentality... Or any combination of those things.

Now again, if the portrayal is bad then that isn't a good thing... But it's not worse than if any other portrayal is bad. Believe me, I know Hollywood doesn't do a particularly good job when portraying autism. My particular "quirk" is asperger's and I seen countless of things where they've used it almost like quantum physics or nanoparticles in the script (something they can throw into script to not have to explain things further). It's very clumsy... But the problem there is that the script writers are lazy and/or bad. It's not worse than any other case of dumb script writing. To be all like "it's extra bad cause it's autism" is condescending. Like autistic spectra people are weak people that need special coddling and protection. And besides, the criticism didn't happen cause the portrayal was bad, it happened as soon as casting got known. Besides, I just looked it up and it seems the actress is someone Sia personally knows, can't be too upset for someone wanting to make a movie with their friend.

Anyway, if the portrayal is bad then critique the portrayal. Whether the actor has a disability or not should be completely inconsequential, their skill at the role is all that should matter. If that's what the critique was based on I'd be completely onboard with the critique...
But as it is I feel insulted.

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

The background criticisms are absolutely integral to the movie as it's a movie trying to sell "look how genuine and heartfelt this portrayal of autism is." Like that's the whole point of the movie, the entire campaign was trying to parade how "good" it was for the autism community. It was coming from an ill-informed and disingenuous place from the start, and then that lead to people watching the movie and seeing just how badly informed the creators were.

As a member of the autistic spectra community, I find that critiquing a movie for casting a non-autistic actor in a non autistic role is straight up disgusting. Not the casting itself, but the critiquing.
Now, I have no idea if the portrayal of that character is any good, which judging by its reception, maybe not... But that would be an issue of acting ability and/or script, not casting.

Mewtwo59 posted...

Ditch is being generous.

The ditch was on fire.

Suikoden 1 and 2 are just fantastic...

Final Fantasy VIII probably. Oh god, I basically hateplayed that game. The more I played, the more I hated everyone in the cast, the dumber the story became and the more insignificant did the gameplay become. Only other game I've had that experience with was Lagoon... Except Lagoon doesn't last 50+ hours!
But it wasn't all for naught. Playing through FF8 did make me appreciate the music of the game which to this day might be my favorite FF soundtrack... So there's that. If only that music was accompanied by a better game...

Whiskey_Nick posted...

I did not foresee 2 Batman elims to start

SFF

Braid

Tenet is his weakest movie, even if we include Following.

Captain America