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Trailers are supposed to give you a taste of what to expect, but nowadays they pretty much just give you the full meal. It makes me wonder if producers/editors/whomever think that you really need that much to be shown in a trailer to get people know if to watch the movie. I don’t know what the marketing significance is, but I do know that trailers, and even the general marketing saturation of a movie (ie: being shown the trailer on TV all the time, increased presence in retail marketing, release of official clips and scenes, etc.) is a bit much and more often than not turns me away from going to see it, and if I do go see it, I’m not surprised, or even that entertained.

I think it’s also just this ingrained, elitist point of view that if you don’t watch subbed Anime then you’re not a real Anime fan. Since Anime is Japanese, watch it in Japanese. And that’s kind of unfair to say.

When it comes down to it, it’s just personal preference, I think. One big reason I sometimes like the dubbed versions is because it allows me to focus on the show itself, rather than constantly reading the subtitles. I feel like I miss out on whats happening because I’m too bust reading. Then again, I will always choose subs over dubbed because to me the Japanese voices sound more genuine and more connected with their characters. I just generally enjoy hearing the Japanese VAs. But there are many english VAs that I love and compel me to check out the dubbed version.

Reiterating, it’s all personal preference. To claim one as the superior over the other is unfair, and completely subjective. Enjoy whatever it is that you enjoy, and be happy with it.

Valid points. But I think it was important for Naruto and Sasuke to start families because it was what Naruto essentially never had and what was taken away from Sasuke. Yes, Naruto had many parental figures in his life, but he never had that nuclear structure-like family. And family meant so much to Sasuke and that was prematurely taken away from him. I dunno, just my thoughts 🙂

Great read! I never truly understood people’s vehement hate for the prequels. While not great at all, they are still integral to the story, like you said. Without the prequels, we wouldn’t have had the original trilogy. Like I’m sure most people have mentioned already, the reason the prequels are as bad as they are is because of George Lucas’s poor handling of it. So whereas I still don’t completely like the prequels, I accept them.

That being said, more of a personal note, even though I don’t have a seething hatred for JarJar as almost everyone else does (I still don’t like him, mind you..,), I would take Ewoks over him and young Anakin. Any day.

I always felt that it came from a business perspective; cast bigger names to get more people into the theaters, or cast people that many people can identify with. But that can’t be used as an excuse anymore. With the increasing amount of diversity and awareness of diversity and multiculturalism, it shouldn’t even remotely be a problem to cast Asian actors for Asian roles. There is no question talent-wise, so it’s hard to understand why Hollywood still keeps whitewashing these stories. If it’s a good story with good character development, people will watch it and enjoy it and there will be profit. So make the story as authentic and genuine as possible.