News of the World: star wars

tisdag 24 december 2019

Straight Space: Disney Cuts Lesbian Kiss from Star Wars

The last Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker features the franchise's first same sex kissing scene. Reviewers has described the scene as "a brief flash of two women kissing among a crowd of other characters".

Prior to the films premiere director J.J. Abrams hinted at a same-sex scene in interviews and said “In the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film.” Even so the scene was critisised by people in the LGBTQ community for being a “blink-and-you-miss-it” disappointment. Most criticism went the other way though complaining of the scene being there at all. Abrams defended it by claiming it would be “insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”

Anyway, Disney choose to cut the scene from the Singapore version of the movie. Singapore does not recognize same-sex marriage, and sex between men is a crime, punishable by up to two years in prison, though the law is seldom enforced. There’s nothing in the law about sex between women though, There are gay bars and clubs in Singapore, as well as an annual pride rally but there are no protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

It is unclear if Disney cut the kiss in other countries. It was reportedly shown in China but not in the United Arab Emirate.

Bollocks I say. Let people love who they want. Disney should grow some balls and tell those people they either watch Star Wars the way it is presented or they don't watch it at all. It's a bloody kiss for f**s sake, and not a hardcore sex scene. But Disney probably only care about the money and nothing else.

Does Donald Duck wear pants in Singapore?

tisdag 17 december 2019

Baby Yoda: Sunscribe to PewDiePie I won't

We have a weird situation on the Internet right now. It doesn't happen very often, and if it does it's usually at times of the Olympic Games, but we seem to have what is usually referred to as a "junction". A junction is basicly when two (or more) very powerful trends or phenomenas crosses each other. The results may vary. Sometimes they equal each other out but sometimes they enpower each other and affects the whole or at least very big parts of the web.

We can see this now when the US (apart for a thin line along the west coast and a little bolder but much shorter line at the north of the east coast) discuss, tweet about and search for football. American football that is. For those of You who can't tell the difference it's the one where the ball isn't round and they are allowed to use their hands. The rest of the world, including the two thin american lines, are equally possessed at the exact same time about the other kind of football. The kind with the round ball which they kick and can't pick up with their hands. Some call it "European football", some call it "real football" or "true football", but never mind. The effect of this junction on the internet is that it practicly dies for those of us not interested in football.

The only balls I care about are my own (and my moms spicy meatballs o.c.) so to me and those like me this is rather boring. It reminds me of when I was a kid and we had only two channels on TV and both were showing crap. Here we have a virtually infinite web of personal pages, news sites, social networks, blogs and what ever and all everyone is talking about is one or the other kind of football.
BORING!

Those of us still not brainwashed into football fanatic zombies might turn to movies instead, and if we turn to movies we might turn to Star Wars. Star Wars is currently hot partly due to The Mandalorian, but even more so due to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Rise doesn't officially premiere until thursday night, but a bunch of film critics and other movie folks have seen the movie, and they are spreading their opinions between all the football reports. There is obviously some oath of silence they must have taken cause none of them really give anything away about the film itself appart from their own opinion of it, and this seem to range from brilliance to utter garbage. I say: As long as Jar Jar Binks isn't in it.

Swedish controversal web celebrity and YouTube star PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg) has announced taking a break from YouTube in early 2020. He claims to be "very tired" and that he will explain later on. There is a persistent rumour saying that PewDiePie actually was to have played a leading part in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker but that the earlier controversy around him which lead to Disney dumping him also made the Star Wars producers exclude him from the cast.

Baby Yoda is cute though!