Because China doesnt like the woke stuff, and they can just make their own movies. When you look at what Hollywood stuff did well in China, what do you find? Bay-Formers. Pirates of the Caribbean. Fast and Furious. Avengers. Are you noticing a pattern here? Its even more stark when you look at the domestic stuff, where if you just switched some flags around it wouldnt look out of place in a lineup of 80's movies. Dont believe me? Here is the trailer for the best selling movie in China.(by the way: Yes, that is the US as the bad guys. Just in case you thought they were going to be subtle about that sort of stuff.)
You want to know whats funny? That same sort of actiony shit sells well in the US for the same reason: People want movies that are FUN! The occasional arthouse, thinking piece sure. But 9/10, most people want a movie where people shoot at each other with impossibly large magazines, as another guy gets roundhouse kicked in the face so hard he explodes.
But Hollywood got high on their own farts and thought that they knew better what people wanted. And now they are starting to lose their old as people take up new hobbies and medium. Because I assure you, it is absolutely no coincidence that Anime exploded in popularity around the same time that Hollywood started huffing a little too hard.
Dont believe me? Here is the trailer for the best selling movie in China.(by the way: Yes, that is the US as the bad guys. Just in case you thought they were going to be subtle about that sort of stuff.)
I knew that link was going to be Wolf Warrior 2 before even clicking on it. it was one of China's highest grossing movies ( By the way, if you haven't seen Fatal Contact, that movie has some of the best fight scene choreography ever put to screen, and Wu Jing executes some of the cleanest kicks ever seen on film).
But yeah that movie was so on the nose it was ridiculous. There's literally a scene where all the allies that were supposed to be aiding helping refugees get out of a war-torn city pull out... except for China. And with various refugees and civilians stuck behind enemy lines, only China's special forces operative has the balls to save the civilians from the evil white mercenary Americans.
The movie gets even more ridiculous, as they make it that evil Africans aren't actually evil, they're just driven to evil acts due to "white supremacy" and "imperialist nations" like America (not even an exaggeration, this becomes a plot point in the second half of the film).
I think the funnier thing for me was that that movie unironically dictated Chinese foreign policy for a while. Until they stopped because every other country they were trying to bravado into submission just started laughing their heads off at the absolute cringe. Or at least, that is what I gathered from China Uncensored.
Because China doesnt like the woke stuff, and they can just make their own movies. When you look at what Hollywood stuff did well in China, what do you find? Bay-Formers. Pirates of the Caribbean. Fast and Furious. Avengers. Are you noticing a pattern here? Its even more stark when you look at the domestic stuff, where if you just switched some flags around it wouldnt look out of place in a lineup of 80's movies. Dont believe me? Here is the trailer for the best selling movie in China.(by the way: Yes, that is the US as the bad guys. Just in case you thought they were going to be subtle about that sort of stuff.)
You want to know whats funny? That same sort of actiony shit sells well in the US for the same reason: People want movies that are FUN! The occasional arthouse, thinking piece sure. But 9/10, most people want a movie where people shoot at each other with impossibly large magazines, as another guy gets roundhouse kicked in the face so hard he explodes.
But Hollywood got high on their own farts and thought that they knew better what people wanted. And now they are starting to lose their old as people take up new hobbies and medium. Because I assure you, it is absolutely no coincidence that Anime exploded in popularity around the same time that Hollywood started huffing a little too hard.
I knew that link was going to be Wolf Warrior 2 before even clicking on it. it was one of China's highest grossing movies ( By the way, if you haven't seen Fatal Contact, that movie has some of the best fight scene choreography ever put to screen, and Wu Jing executes some of the cleanest kicks ever seen on film).
But yeah that movie was so on the nose it was ridiculous. There's literally a scene where all the allies that were supposed to be aiding helping refugees get out of a war-torn city pull out... except for China. And with various refugees and civilians stuck behind enemy lines, only China's special forces operative has the balls to save the civilians from the evil white mercenary Americans.
The movie gets even more ridiculous, as they make it that evil Africans aren't actually evil, they're just driven to evil acts due to "white supremacy" and "imperialist nations" like America (not even an exaggeration, this becomes a plot point in the second half of the film).
I think the funnier thing for me was that that movie unironically dictated Chinese foreign policy for a while. Until they stopped because every other country they were trying to bravado into submission just started laughing their heads off at the absolute cringe. Or at least, that is what I gathered from China Uncensored.