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I don't feel at home in this world any more...9/10

Another cool little Netflix movie by Austin Tx filmakers Macon Blair who wrote and directed, and his wife Lee Eddy who co-produced.

Elijah Wood kills his part.
 
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Orange&White said:
Wind River is probably the best movie I've seen in quite some time. It had me on the edge of my seat the entire movie.
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I thought it was pretty good and definitely had some very tense scenes.

Leave it to Hollywood to have a movie about a white tracker on an Indian reservation.
 
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bignewt said:
I think they can cast whoever the hell they want and if you don't like it, don't watch it. If enough people don't like the casting, the movie fails.
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I'm not concerned about it, I'm poking fun. Clearly they can cast whomever they want, but why can't I make fun of their hypocrisy without people getting defensive?
 
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n_huffhines said:
I'm not concerned about it, I'm poking fun. Clearly they can cast whomever they want, but why can't I make fun of their hypocrisy without people getting defensive?
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Its no different than you criticizing the casting.

You are being criticized for making an issue of it.

Personally the whole "white washing" thing gets on my nerves. The movie is good or it isn't. Casting is good sometimes, sometimes it fails. If people don't like the casting (say Matt Damon in that silly great wall monster movie) it bombs and Hollywood must eat it. Other times a person may be different than what the public expects and nail it and the movie is a success.
 
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bignewt said:
Its no different than you criticizing the casting.

You are being criticized for making an issue of it.

Personally the whole "white washing" thing gets on my nerves. The movie is good or it isn't. Casting is good sometimes, sometimes it fails. If people don't like the casting (say Matt Damon in that silly great wall monster movie) it bombs and Hollywood must eat it. Other times a person may be different than what the public expects and nail it and the movie is a success.
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I'm criticizing the hypocrisy, not the casting. JFC. The casting is just fine, in a vacuum. The issue is that Hollywood says one thing and does another.
 
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Funny, I thought the point of the movie was how female native Americans go missing and these cases are hardly ever solved.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Funny, I thought the point of the movie was how female native Americans go missing and these cases are hardly ever solved.
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I thought, based on my personal experiences, that it painted a pretty accurate picture of life on a reservation. Lots of drugs, squalor, desolation, and only a few people trying to make any kind of positive impact.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I'm criticizing the hypocrisy, not the casting. JFC. The casting is just fine, in a vacuum. The issue is that Hollywood says one thing and does another.
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Gotcha. The hyper-PC club of actors and directors say one thing and the money says another.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Are you poking fun because you see this as Hollywood complaining about diversity then "white washing"?
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Exactly. Movies tend to be about white people because audiences are largely white. Nothing wrong with that. It's the smug Oscar speeches about how progressive Hollywood is when their house isn't really in order.

I think people tend to waste too much anger on Hollywood, but they are worthy of mockery.
 
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Regulator said:
I thought, based on my personal experiences, that it painted a pretty accurate picture of life on a reservation. Lots of drugs, squalor, desolation, and only a few people trying to make any kind of positive impact.
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That as well but the post script had a message about missing women on the res. That’s why I thought the message raising awareness about missing NA women
 
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Regulator said:
I thought, based on my personal experiences, that it painted a pretty accurate picture of life on a reservation. Lots of drugs, squalor, desolation, and only a few people trying to make any kind of positive impact.
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I've actually been to that particular res twice. It does show a pretty accurate picture. Also a few of the residents appeared just as Caucasian as me. I don't know what the percentage of genetic makeup has to be to qualify as a "Native American". I enjoyed the movie, and I would have enjoyed it just as much if a quality actor of darker skin color had been cast in that role.

It is amusing to me that the actress cast as Natalie, the actual native girl that's killed in the movie...is an Asian American named Kelsey Chow...that is ironic isn't it Huff? I guess Hollywood hypocricy knows no bounds.
 
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Finally got to watch A Futile and Stupid Gesture on Netflix last night. Such a friggin tight, funny, fast script. Amazing cast, a bunch of cameos. If you know anything about National Lampoon it will help but still a great out of the box biopic. Highly recommended. 9/10
 
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