Their movies and TV shows are popular on streaming. I rarely watch either anymore but I have watched some of them because they usually have actual plots and characters because they can't rely on gratuitous sex and violence like most modern television. Parasite won the Oscar for Best picture.
If its any consolation too you, I checked and the people who wrote and produced this are Americans and Canadians, though most are Hyphenated Americans true. Its not really an Asian movie. But we are in the unfortunate place where American movies are now being inspired by Asian stuff rather then the other way around.
Don't worry, Nollywood will take over eventually.
So I take it Netflix will do the Dreamworks move of making it into a TV/streaming series with a different voice cast?
They have been doing that since the 80s. Do you not remember the ninja fad?
Weapons is boring. Horror thread discussed it recently and it's too long, not scary and the only reason people like it is the ending.
I think its a bit more then that these days. For example, when Asian stuff was brought over, or adapted by Western studios they would also rearrange it so it is localized in America with American paint and wat not. The power rangers being the most obvious example of early 90's schlock for kids coming over from Japan and given some heavy adaptation. There was always the sense that American culture was the superior one and it was taking interesting things from other places and making it it's own.
Unfortunately I have to hear about this shit from a Korean wife, but Korean stuff is not as popular as it seems. It's heavily driven by bot activity to a hellish level, something Koreans call 'sajaegi'. We know this because South Korean culture is crabs in a bucket behavior on steroids. Nearly every Korean president gets jailed, nearly every idol or singer has their career destroyed by dumb shit that would be a giant nothingburger in any other country, such as "this person was mean to me in high school", etc.
From what little I've been forced to be aware of this all sounds accurate on the music industry. All that drama for forgettable music.
Thanks for the clarification, here's an award.
Asian media has always been cheap to import because they undervalue their international market. Ninja movies were big business on the VHS when they needed more movies as fast as possible or anime being dubbed as a cheap way to fill in kids TV time slots. Once it got popular enough as it's own genre the Americans started to make it.
You can tell it isn’t made by an American animator because demons are the bad guys and main characters are athletic. I’m still stunned that weapons are allowed to have a lesbian witch as the villain. Nearly every Disney IP has lesbian witches as a theme. Not even joking.
Actually, now that I think about it, there really were no black people in this.
