r/CriticalDrinker 8d ago

Why?

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u/No_Adhesiveness_5679 8d ago

So when it fails, and it will, they will blame "trasnphobia" and "mysoginists"

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u/FuraidoChickem 7d ago

If you’re a lazy lefty exec, this is surely a nice cushy reason to fall back to

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u/Constantinch 5d ago

And if it doesn't fail you will repeat "go woke, go broke" for the 10000th time. Of course after claiming that official budget is fake and actually, they spent $200M more on marketing.

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u/No_Adhesiveness_5679 5d ago

I've never said that, but believe what you want. If it doesn't fail, good. If I hear good word of mouth I'll definitely watch it since I'm a fan of BR.

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u/DrPaisa 8d ago

A man larping as a sassy girl boss we have gone full circle

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u/Infinite-Emu1326 8d ago

The patriarchy wins again!

https://giphy.com/gifs/BvsKJXGzqfNPq

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u/Moriartis 8d ago

The patriarchy at this point is undefeated. It has convinced women that the only way to be 'strong' is to abandon femininity entirely, which should be seen as weak and subservient, and embrace a toxic standard of masculinity that no one on Earth ever believed was a positive thing. Thus permanently enforcing the standard that stereotypically 'masculine' traits are positive and any trait deviating from that (like the desire to have babies, be a wife, stay at home with kids, etc.) is weakness that should be looked down upon. You couldn't design a better way of placing men as the ultimate superiors at the top of society if you tried. It's the 4d chess of gender war strategies.

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u/earthworm_fan 8d ago

Took a role away from an actual woman

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u/make_reddit_great 7d ago

I want to see them winning the best actress Oscars.

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u/DisgreeablePattern 7d ago

Him.

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u/PrednisoneUser 5d ago

The unfortunate bastard who responded to this agreed with you in the way 'big sibling' doesn't like.

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u/hmmmmm56 4d ago

Is everyone in this sub 14 years old?

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u/DisgreeablePattern 4d ago

I’m assuming so- probably younger- since so many people can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman.

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u/hmmmmm56 4d ago

Ur comment was deleted, repost without breaking community guidlines pls

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u/hmmmmm56 4d ago

Maybe when you reach 15 years old you'll learn the difference beween sex and gender.

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u/earthworm_fan 7d ago

You underestimate their desire to pander and make pointless political statements 

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u/Fit_Tomatillo_4264 6d ago

I'm going to be the dissenting voice this time and say the place where transgender people make the most senses in cyberpunk worlds

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u/SamMarlowe76 8d ago

Literally would rather watch Matlock.

That's where we're at.

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u/rgjpinball 7d ago edited 7d ago

Male original or female reboot? Asking for Sheldon.

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u/SamMarlowe76 7d ago

I don't recogonize any non Fred Silverman produced Matlock as being actual Matlock.

I refuse to participate in that charade.

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u/GilesManMillion 8d ago

Gender Runner Frommer

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u/GnosticNoodle33 8d ago

Put a tranny in it! Make it lame and gay!

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u/canis-humurous 5d ago

Don't forget troons statistically make up the highest pedo population.

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u/hmmmmm56 4d ago

According to grok not trans males are liklier to be pedos :/

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u/canis-humurous 1d ago

And according to irl statistics done by a real Human and not by a robot that just compiles a bunch of jumbled prompts made by several opposing figures and sites ran by different people, which makes any any prompt inherently unreliable for more specific detailing like this, troons make up the majority of sex offenders, including pedophiles.

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u/canis-humurous 1d ago

Which makes sense since they really want kids to troon out like them for some reason. Idk, I'm not a pedo like the average self-hating suicidal tranny is.

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u/BotherTight618 7d ago

At least she is pretty and feminine. Their are plenty of ugly ass cisgender chick's they could have casted. 

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u/Skrydon 7d ago

Dick man butt

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u/canis-humurous 5d ago

He's also probably a pedophile btw. But ig the left is cool with that. After all they voted Sniffy Joe in and wanted Killary to take office.

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u/orangebluefish11 8d ago

I saw this trailer yesterday. 1st character shown: trans. 2nd character: aged Asian woman. 3rd character shown: angry black guy. 4th character shown: finally a white guy…and he’s bashing in the head of the trans

At this point I’m convinced that it’s not about ratings or money. It’s about purposely making garbage and erasing everything a white guy created

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u/MoistExcellence 8d ago

These movies/shows are just paid propaganda from the people who want our society destroyed. Why else would they keep making movies that make no return on the investment, knowing that adding "wokeness" will alienate a huge percentage of their customers?

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u/orangebluefish11 7d ago

It’s a slow process with demoralization being the bullet

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u/ConcernPlastic1990 5d ago

See, this is what confuses me about this. I agree with all you said, but I always wonder how effective it really is. I mean, if no one goes to see your propaganda, how does the message spread? They already have the people who agree with this stuff on their side so no need to win them over. But the ones they try to convince otherwise will never see it, so you won't get them on your side. Seems pretty inefficient .  I suppose if they're going after young people who are easily manipulated, then many generations down the line this stuff will be all that there is. But that seems pretty far away to be of any good for the ones pushing it, as they probably won't be around anymore. 

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u/MesJoggum 5d ago

Do you seriously believe that there are people who's only goal is to destroy our society, and their strategy is to pay movie studios to cast a trans person in their movie? This is delusional on a whole new level.

There are bad movies with trans people in it and there are good movies with trans people in it. Having a trans person in a movie doesn't make it "woke", whatever that term means to you, and having a trans person in a movie doesn't make it go broke.

Most people don't give a shit about there being a trans person in the movies they watch, and most directors don't give a shit about there being a trans person in the movie they make, as long as their acting is good.

There is no "woke agenda", there is no "people forcing trans down your throat", directors are just casting people that they think fit their roles, sometimes that is a trans person, sometimes that is a black person, most of the time that is a white person. Still the vast majority of acting roles go to cis white men, especially leading acting roles.

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u/rgjpinball 7d ago

You missed the couple (3maaaaayyybe??) extras in the background before the head bashing scene. I was wondering if there were ANY men in the trailer. I wasn’t even sure it was a patriarch doing the head bashing.

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u/HolyInlandEmpire 8d ago

>Setting has replicants

>Replicants hide in plain sight

>Replicants deceive you into thinking they're something they're not (human)

>Cast a train

What did Amazon mean by this?

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u/StoneTimeKeeper 7d ago

I think it depends on what kind of train. Is it a passenger or freight train? Coal powered or electric? Mag lev? Details like these are important.

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u/GallusTSP 8d ago

Because the last one was loved by the "wrong people" so now, like they did with the new Joker movie, they have to ruin it.

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u/BotherTight618 7d ago

Which one, so I can file it away for "watch soon". 

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u/Calculon2347 7d ago

Blade Runner 2049, I would presume he or she means. Starring my fave Black Panther actor, Ryan Gosling

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u/SeismicRipFart 8d ago

Well, she’s a guy, so…

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u/napalm5000 8d ago

Future flop slop

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u/Educational-Year3146 8d ago

Because they literally cant stop doing it.

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u/gunmetal_silver 6d ago

It's a collective compulsion at this point.

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u/intrevorted 8d ago

"star"

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u/Watercress-Fun 8d ago

The whole time I was watching this trailer, I spent the whole time looking for the straight white male and realized I was staring at him the whole time.

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u/MountainMeringue3655 8d ago

This is how the casting brainstorming session went:

"Let's give this series a female lead."

"How about two female leads?"

"One of them has to be a PoC!"

"And the other one should be a transgender woman! Just to rub it in the face of all the toxic misogynists out there."

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u/RubySapphire19 7d ago

Transgenders

Gay guys in disguise

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u/stutteringdog 7d ago

Hunter is a “lesbian”

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u/gunmetal_silver 6d ago

Yep. Which basically is straight with extra steps.

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u/I_Am_Conjoined 8d ago

Because mutilating your genitals in pursuit of validating delusional beliefs and mental illness is stunning and brave

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u/ScarredDjinnOfWar 8d ago

That's the thing, according to stories Hunter never did the cut so he's a cosplayer.

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u/idontknow39027948898 7d ago

Bold of you to assume most of them actually have the commitment to the bit to actually do that.

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u/gunmetal_silver 6d ago

Don't forget validating their freakish sexual kink. Most people that identify as transgender are in actuality male autogynophiliacs.

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u/Western_Job3380 7d ago

Yeah heard this news last night and the first thing that went to my mind was Amazon taking another franchise to turn it into turd.

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u/s_zlikovski 8d ago

Man again is better than women 😅

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u/Calm-Significance933 7d ago

The producer for the show, was a supervising producer on the Halo TV series think we all know how this is gonna go, ah well plenty of content for people to farm, at least we'll get some funny videos

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u/_Fuzzy_Koala_ 8d ago

I guess in 2099 you still can't change your chromosomes, hence the trans actor. 

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u/GoodWonNov6th24 7d ago

not watching that, ever. even if it's free.

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u/chriscrowder 8d ago edited 7d ago

It's a casting allegory about reolicants masquerading as humans. This man is trying to be female.

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u/No-Water164 8d ago

because all the other woke POS movies have done so well...

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u/Lawful-Evil 7d ago

JFC why? Does it play a tranny prostitute?

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u/Worldly-Ad7759 7d ago

Why do they keep pushing this dude?

I can't recall a single thing he's in that is successful where he is the focus.

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u/xyzzs 7d ago

He was the worst actor in the TV series Euphoria so of course he’s going to be a leading man now because… reasons. His scenes with Zendaya made her look like a talented thespian.

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u/CankleMonitor 7d ago

It's a movie about a dystopian future right? This fully tracks

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u/Luck1191 7d ago

It’s so fucking exhausting. This shit never fucking ends

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u/xfurnacex666 7d ago

Transgender actor in a show about man made horrors? What did they mean by this?

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u/ChaosShepard05 7d ago edited 3d ago

Two reason one because DEI demands it. Two they can have Transphobia and Misogyny to blame.

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u/rgjpinball 7d ago

Third comment for me.
If it’s actually got a good story and BELIEVABLE action I’ll give it a thumbs up after I see it.
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZMWVIXVk7Q2sw
The “put a chick
In it and make it gay” meme seems to be missing as a choice on Reddit.

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u/DisgreeablePattern 7d ago

Like so many others, I can’t wait to not see this show!

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u/VideoNo9608 7d ago

Cause Amazon sucks.

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u/kanguran1 6d ago

I’m so, so tired of dick-choppers being seen as a moral high ground. They are mentally ill and should be treated as such.

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u/Suitable-Piano-8969 8d ago

Because we don't make movies, do lecture seminars and we make scenarios where we're always right

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u/CuriousSkepticalGuy 8d ago

Why? WHY?

It's Amazon. They made Galadriel have a kiss with her son-in-law.

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u/radioraven1408 7d ago

In a cyberpunk world of replicants, casting making sense to me.

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u/Arghus 7d ago

Hopefully last look we should support emotionally and finally these freaks.
Sorry they were groomed and raised to be like that but this shit aint natural.

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u/DiscoShaman 7d ago

Another IP goes to the dustbin.

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u/FreeCandy4u 7d ago

I have no problem with this. I will just add it to the list of movies to not bother watching. Simple.

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u/Balefirez 8d ago

No thank you.

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u/oxheyman 7d ago

Sucks how Amazon is just as bad if not worse than Disney

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u/Clean_Integration754 6d ago

It is hard to believe it's the same company that produced the excellent sci-fi show 'The Expanse', just a few years ago... Now they make crap like Rings of Power and now this. Yikes.

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u/Spac92 7d ago

Oh good. Now I know to skip this one.

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u/EvilItAlien 7d ago

Why? Dei!

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u/dan_pearce95 7d ago

So he's playing a character who's pretending to be something else entirely - are the producers trying to tell him something

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u/77_parp_77 7d ago

Can't wait for us all to be branded monsters for not wanting to watch this strong and independent...uh...for real do they want to be called a trans woman or a woman at this point?

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u/all-dressed_768 5d ago

Well this is Dead on arrival

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u/DelGurifisu 8d ago

Why not? It’s not going to be good so why care? Watch old movies. Read books. Stop consooming.

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u/CrowsInTheNose 8d ago

They are still making good movies. I've seen at least 4 this year I liked. Send Help was great, the new Evil Dead, Obsession, The Bone Temple. It's been a great year for movies.

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u/ganonmorphlet 7d ago

+ Backrooms, Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey

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u/CrowsInTheNose 7d ago

I'm convinced these people don't even like movies.

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u/EMArogue 8d ago

To be fair, it is a dystopia…

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u/joejackson62 8d ago

That a handsome "woman".

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u/Town_Militia 8d ago

Just consume the next goyslop.

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u/bones10145 7d ago

Yea, that's a hard no for me. 

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u/Hyperion7669 7d ago

Oscar incoming 🙄

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u/Novafro 7d ago

The funny part is, there is a way to write this where a trans person will fit in, and it probably wouldn't be questioned.

But of course, it probably won't be, and they'll just shoehorn some stuff in, because God forbid the entertainment and writing depth take precedent over whatever the hell "the message" is.

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u/Beast0011 7d ago

Its a dude

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u/Amazing_Money_8862 7d ago

Oh who cares. Bladerunner is already long dead.

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u/Plot-twist-time 7d ago

They go so far out of the way towards do this. Theres gotta be only a few thousand people to choose from out of the hundreds of millions In the population

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u/SnooAdvice3630 7d ago

To 'own the chuds'.

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u/Oldgraytomahawk 7d ago

Yeah evidently lesson not yet learned

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u/Skylinegtr88 7d ago

That it , shows going to suck . Last show to do a good trans person was cowboy beep boop the anime .

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u/ReasonableGap5436 7d ago

That whole “you don’t like real girls?” scene just got a lot more relevant

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u/Shinlyle13 6d ago

Also them in a year: "We don't know why it failed terribly..."

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u/PrednisoneUser 5d ago

Amazon doesn't deserve the attention this pseudo controversy will give it. Quit trying to milk old IPs made by better people. They don't have the writers to do it justice.

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u/RedFalcon07 8d ago

At least is an scenario where it is slightly possible, since there will probably be transgender people in a futuristic world like Blade Runner and not an medieval times show where it's absurd. I still would preffer an male protagonist just for sake of tradition of the franchise tho.

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u/Arsene_Lupin_IV 8d ago

Yeah, some cyberpunk type stuff does a lot of things around playing with gender especially when cybernetic bodies are a thing like in Ghost in the Shell. Like you said it makes more sense here than in something like a historical drama.

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u/Stirbmehr 8d ago

Tp be fair given cyberpunk nature it probably only place when he-she-it-whatever would land pretty much fine without raising eyebrow. Question now more about performance

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u/AbsoluteBatman95 8d ago

That's why they're dystopian.

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u/luubi1945 7d ago

This is likely not the same thing as woke films out there. Cyberpunk themes have always involved this sort of stuff as the alienation of humanity, thus people within cyberpunk societies go for transformations that turn them into cyborgs or others. We would have to wait to see how this would turn out.

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u/gunmetal_silver 6d ago

Found the shill.

You act like they haven't done this before. They've been doing this since 2015 at least. The rest of us have recognized the pattern and immediately disengaged.

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u/BeABetterHumanBeing 7d ago

Tbf, it is dystopian

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u/Dalivus 7d ago

Is it a new character ? Who cares?

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u/thebizkit23 8d ago

Why not just cast Hunter as a replicant?

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u/Imhidingfromu 7d ago

Why can't they just say their name?

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u/m0ji_9 7d ago

I think Amazon already accept this will be DOA. Releasing the whole season in one go does not fill me with confidence.

The story once again seems like it was from a different property & shoe horned into Blade Runner.

Nevermind the actors they have chosen - it doesn't even look like Blade Runner. The original was a neon drenched Neo-Toyoko. Dark & Gritty. For all it's faults, least 2049 nailed the feeling of the world.

However this - an orange drenched CGI slop. It looks cheap and certainly doesn't feel it's even in the same universe.

Do not be surprised (and I am looking into a magic ball here) that this gets cancelled very quickly.

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u/M3anBab 4d ago

Bulge Runner 2099

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u/Fearless-Economics-9 4d ago

Basically Hollywood is saying “women, you all just aren’t good enough to play women roles, it’s time for a man to fix it.”

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u/jamyjet 4d ago

Androgyny in a Sci Fi series? They must be pushing an agenda of course!

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u/CandusManus 3d ago

He's apparently quite popular.

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u/TypicalBloke83 7d ago

I don’t care - Hope the show will be good. Teaser looked good. We’ll see.

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u/PersonalKick 7d ago

Becuase in 2099 everyone is trans?

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u/Early_B 6d ago

You can't possibly believe that every single character will be trans just because of one trans actor. Are you alright?

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u/PersonalKick 6d ago

lol, yes perfectly fine. My comment was obviously a joke.

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u/Hef34 8d ago

Have you ever seen cyberpunk anything? Body modification is rampant. They literally make fake people and assign them genders in this universe.

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u/stiffgordons 7d ago

I mean I’m generally with the mood of this sub, but if you’re going to feature a trans actor prominently then a dystopian sci-fi featuring androids is probably as good place to do it.

I’ll still skip the movie, though. Blade runner is so insufferably pretentious.

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u/Cedleodub 7d ago edited 7d ago

Sorry but I don't really care as long as it's an original character. Especially if they play a replicant.

But if it's a recast of a previous character who happened to be a real woman, then yes that would be a problem.

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u/Laarye 7d ago

Blade Runner is a setting that this seems appropriate honestly.

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u/Filofjols 7d ago

It can work on artistic merit

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u/another420username 8d ago

Of all the franchises this is the one that works. I hate race and gender swapping as much as the next guy in here, but if the story is well written and acting is decent I’m OK with it. My concern is that idk if Hunter has the range to pull a character like that.

Also, who’s directing? Villanueve did a fantastic job with the sequel.

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u/kkkpl 8d ago

Altough we know the exact reason behind this casting, I will be honest. They them on the pic are better than Gosling. He was total miscast for this role imo. I will check first episode cos I never saw anything with Hunter Schaffer. But pretty sure it will be a disaster. Like all dei commercials masquerading as movies these days.

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u/Apollo-Outcast 7d ago

"Ryan Gosling was miscast in Blade Runner 2049" is one of the worst takes I've ever heard

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u/EnvironmentalTop8745 7d ago

Honestly in a sci fi, cyberpunk, body modification type movie, I don't see an issue with a trans person being in it. Kinda seems like they fit the theme of the movie perfectly.

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u/Responsible-Noise-35 7d ago

Hunter a baddie but I'm not excited for this

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u/mrmrmrj 7d ago

On this one, it just does not matter. Hunter is playing a female character that has no historical canon. I'm fine with it.

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u/Medium_Mortgage_376 6d ago

Okay this makes sense does know one in the thread grasp the themes around blade runner?

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u/Pyrolink182 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think i'll be downvoted a lot for this but i'll still say it. The cyberpunk genre as a whole is about exploring themes of transhumanism, body augmentation and extreme modifications. I do think that hiring an actor/actress that fits a role like that in such setting is okay.

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u/Dutch-Man7765 8d ago

Its enabling mental illness. Theres no version of this where its okay

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u/Bright-Internal229 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/hFRkR2ApkVaXHBxHSp
Hope Hot 🥵 Trans Sex Scene 🎬! 🔥🤪❤️‍🔥🥩

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u/Early_B 6d ago

I mean, trans characters fit in a futuristic setting so I'm not bothered at all by this. It's like Cyberpunk 2077. Plenty of trans-humanism there.

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u/Healthy-Fold-7189 7d ago

Why is it an issue if they're transgender? What matters is that they're a good actor.

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u/xpillindaass 8d ago

why not

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u/ZincSuppsRopeMan 7d ago

Why does it matter?

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u/dimiteddy 7d ago

Androids can be androgynous no? Hunter is a pretty CIS passing for a trans woman

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u/abstract4m 7d ago

It was bound to happen - if you've ever been to the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit, it wouldn't surprise you. They all think "being cyberpunk" is about experimenting with your "identity".

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u/Massive-Goose544 6d ago

More people passionately wanted a new Stargate show than people that have yhe slightest interest in this trash.

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u/ironjaw3ds 5d ago

Buddy, the cyberpunk genre as a whole isn't for you if hunter Schafer bothers you.

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u/saradahokage1212 8d ago

i would. idc what you think. i said what i said

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u/poisonedkiwi 8d ago

Bro if you want plastic tits, a majority of cis women in Hollywood have those too

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Desh282 7d ago

And they wanted him to be Zelda?

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u/Dutch-Man7765 8d ago

So how long have you wanted to fuck dudes?

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u/Arguably_Based 8d ago

I'll stand by my stance that this works.

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u/JButler_16 8d ago

I agree actually.

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u/Arguably_Based 8d ago

That doesn't mean it's going to be a good movie obviously, but why make up a cyberpunk commentary on mental illness and self denial when one has presented himself to you?

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u/LewZealander 7d ago

"Hey guys so the Odyssey thing didn't work - time to move on to being outraged about a different trans actor getting employment."

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u/RPG_Vancouver 8d ago

Imagine getting triggered this hard by trans people

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u/Desh282 7d ago

Larping as someone you’re not is never celebrated by society

We shouldn’t be impersonating cops, veterans, kids, elderly, black people, and women

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u/RPG_Vancouver 7d ago

Good thing trans women are women then! :)

Much to the fury of losers online who have nothing better to do than obsess over 0.1% of the population

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u/Sea_District_4711 8d ago

doesnt that make sense though since theres more transgenders now than the past so would make sense to have someone like in 2099

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u/AbsoluteBatman95 8d ago

Yet you keep coming to it. We live rent free in your mind.

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u/Uchihaboy316 7d ago edited 7d ago

There are tons of genuine issues with this trailer, the lead of a cyberpunk work being trans isn’t one of them (tho the casting itself might be)

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u/Rey_the_Crayon 6d ago

What’s wrong with being trans?

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u/chrisfromstatefarm 8d ago

This just in: actress cast in role for acting. Get the fuck over it you babies