• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    The Gal Gadot hype in the 2010’s was always overdone. Reviews of Wonder Woman at the time noted her lack of acting skills and that the same lack of skills made it hard to take that Justice League movie seriously.

    Rhea Ripley should have been Wonder Woman. Then again, she got lucky by avoiding that god awful anti-communist sequel.

  • @[email protected]
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    223 months ago

    While I have no interest in this movie and I think Gal Godot sucks, banning movies is akin to banning books.

    • huf [he/him]
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      383 months ago

      it’s a remake of gal gadot and it has disney in it, it’s absolutely the best idea to ban it

      • @[email protected]
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        3 months ago

        Banning books, like banning movies, is a great way to admit publicly that your position is so weak you can’t tolerate any dissent. Let the power of your ideals stand on their own.

        Edit: ok I’m going to leave this up here because I’m a masochist, but ok I get it. I’m with you guys. Boycott Gal Godot. Ban is functionally a boycott. In the US, this movie would never get banned, but I would 100% boycott it. I didn’t fully think this through and I agree with most of you guys.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          How about we don’t let Disney try to profit off a movie starring a Zionist in a country that just got invaded by the Zionist Entity?

          Do you think the abstract concept of dissent is the only reason to censor something? Because be clear here, the film isn’t proposing dissent in Lebanon. It’s slop made for a quick bit of money to go on Disney’s big pile of money, and it stars a war criminal who worked for an agency that likes to kill Lebanese people . Yeah Gal Gadot dissents against the idea that Lebanon shouldn’t be sent exploding pagers

          • @[email protected]
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            103 months ago

            Yeah I guess ban and boycott mean different things to me, but you’re right. Functionally this is a boycott and I support boycotting this movie. Fair point.

        • huf [he/him]
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          283 months ago

          first they came for the disney remakes starring war criminals or whatever, and there was no one left to speak

        • Rom [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          So a blanket ban of any books that acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people and banning a single Disney movie for having a war criminal lead actress are exactly the same thing to you? You really can’t tell the difference?

            • Rom [he/him]
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              173 months ago

              Do you think Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal? What about Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

            • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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              193 months ago

              she is one of the strongest supporters of the Wehrmacht and their ongoing genocide, even after enthusiastically serving in it

              also I’ve heard she’s an awful actor (not that I would know, I don’t watch capeshit). She’s bombed box offices across the planet

                • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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                  Was Adolf Hitler convicted for the Holocaust?

                  Were slave owners in the US convicted for crimes against humanity?

                  If they weren’t, then I am powerless to do anything but defend their innocence. I am very smart.

        • @[email protected]
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          223 months ago

          Except in this case, the thing being banned has no message they’re trying to repress. They’re targeting a person who’s in it.

        • Upvoting for the edit. It’s rare to see people doing self crit and changing their position after having it explained to them why their initial position is wrong. I wish I saw it more often. rat-salute

        • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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          363 months ago

          You think Lebanon’s position against being invaded by Zionists and having their innocent civilians and children bombed to death is weak because they banned a movie?

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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          243 months ago

          I need you to understand that Mein Kampf is a banned book and so you are currently claiming the case against literal NSDAP Nazism is so weak it can’t tolerate dissent.

          You need to either do some self crit and disentangle yourself from liberal idealism or get the fuck out of here.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            Mein Kampf actually isn’t banned in the US or most of the world. It’s banned in Germany for obvious reasons.

            • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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              153 months ago

              Why are you repeating what I just told you as if you’re contradicting me? Mein Kampf is banned, and not because of any weakness in the case against it.

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            What? Mein Kampf is not banned almost anywhere in the world barring few exceptions mostly regulating it’s copyright or printing new copies.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          223 months ago

          Yeah sure just debate Nazis in the fReE mArKeTpLaCe Of IdEaS! I’m gonna end it there because what I have to say is much less civil.

    • adr1an
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      73 months ago

      There’s a huge difference between the reasons for such a ban. This wasn’t a movie with political content antagonist to Lebanon government. This ban is probably to make a statement for both outside and inside the country. To show how normalized the violence against them is widespread in our media industry. But you can read in this action whatever you like… Sure…

      Ps. Have you seen Waltz with Bashir? Hell of an animated movie.

  • marighost
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    863 months ago

    The one person who was going to see it will be so disappointed!

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    Oh no. They could have almost broken even if only they had made it into the Lebanese market.

  • @[email protected]
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    133 months ago

    I bet she just can’t wait for her beach front property built on the bones and blood of dead Palestinian children. I personally boycott her (and many others) movies, but banning a movie no body asked for, nor wanted is giving it more hype than it’s do.

    • @[email protected]
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      173 months ago

      She served in the Israeli occupation forces. Would you watch a movie with a Russian actor who served in the military?

      Most people? Unless said actor is actively militant in favour of Russia government, individuals are not responsible for their contry’s crimes.

      But Gal Gadot actively militates in favour of Israel and it’s military.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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      Only gay liberal women watch gal gadot, I am afraid you won’t be enoying the marriage for long now