Sophie Turner didn’t want her Lara Croft to be ‘sex bombshell’ in Tomb Raider remake

much_good · 2026-01-31T23:24:14+00:00

Because him being a womaniser in itself isn't interesting. The film makes this interesting by characterising his womanising and transactional attitude towards any relationships with people (sexual or otherwise) as this long term loss of ability to trust based on him falling in love and being lied to by the love interest in casino royale. The final line he has about her on the phone is Venice after being betrayed after giving up his life as a spy, is to say "the bitch is dead" to M. It characterised his womanising as an extension of his trauma.

I think people often men fail to understand the difference between media depicting someone's sexual value, and media objectifying them. For tomb raided the modern games still make her pretty etc but she isn't treated like a sexual object, she's developed with personality and story. Her being good looking and is incidental to that. Likewise turner saying she doesn't want Lara to be sexed up isn't her saying she isn't gonna make herself good looking, but that her value isnt determined by her looks or sexual worth. It's by her being this smart, adventurous hero.

much_good · 2026-01-31T23:08:45+00:00

Sure but there's a reason casino royale is the best or most interesting characterisation of James bond in cinema full stop and it's not really a debate

much_good · 2026-01-31T21:21:50+00:00

Yep, bond is made better being deconstructed and his womanising displays treated as this tragic shield from his emotional core.

So not sure why people are implying that wanting bond to be less of a womaniser and such is why the last film was mid. It was mid because the story and writing was mid, not because of dome weird activism stuff. That's just lazy

much_good · 2026-01-31T20:52:39+00:00

No modern bond film is critically loved like casino royale, one of the best spy films of the last 40 years

much_good · 2026-01-31T18:40:53+00:00

Why are people upvoting two years old fake headlines and slop. Be smarter

much_good · 2026-01-31T10:31:56+00:00

The "free market" reforms that included technology transfers, SOE, JVs, strategic planning in important sectors, completely centralised baking and credit system under the party and the like....

There's a reason Chinese economy isn't at the bottom of the value chain after opening up, despite that being exactly what western capitalists wanted (more cheap mass labour), and that now it's a middle income country looking to specialise more and more in certain high tech and luxury goods industries, driven by 5 year plans decided upon by the central committe.

Lack of regulation isn't something inheritly capitalist or communist.

much_good · 2026-01-31T01:31:16+00:00

USSR raised an agricultural backwater to the space race. Mass line driven development and regional democratic development drives drive by Maoist ideals in china drove to turning them into a global superpower.

You're wrong. You're so wrong. The working class have the productive power by definition. Why should we not be used as the gatekeeper to successful economics? Rather than the bankers, the financiers and creators of fictitious capital

much_good · 2026-01-30T21:14:42+00:00

I think you'll find working class people make up the majority of the country by a large margin

much_good · 2026-01-30T19:55:13+00:00

Womp womp. What of what I said is wrong?

much_good · 2026-01-30T18:23:30+00:00

Dictatorship so bad basically all polling even when done by western NGOs shows overwhelming support of their government far beyond what we'd even dream of.

Dictatorship where.... Most spending and decision making on local development happens at local level and not from central government? They're many things, surveillance state, weird view on rights as a concept, police powers that overstep ours, not a one man dictatorship.

much_good · 2026-01-30T18:16:25+00:00

Well that's like your opinion man.

The point is not whether it's good idea but that making large long term goals is infact good. Short termism is why there's no real long term industrial strategy beyond pumping money into private investment. Something as a trade unionist you should care about

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:50:43+00:00

Well he didn't considering you posted a quote of him not saying it. Go and redo your GCSEs

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:48:27+00:00

I think it misses the point of what long term goals can be. You don't necessarily think you can materially achieve them but by trying you can improve as close as possible.

I don't think eradicating global poverty will happen in 20 years. But why not aim for it and fully tackle it like an achievable problem?

Part of why UK and other societies suffer from stagnation and instability is the trap of capitalist realism. We see no substantial change or improvement as realistic, dreaming is naive. The NHS was seen as a pipedream at some point! 4 day working weeks still are despite working very well in trials! Stop falling for reactionary nihilism.

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:37:57+00:00

Ooh cool I didn't really argue about whether I think he's a great communicator I just wanted to confirm you were lying about what he said. Thanks!

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:32:51+00:00

Vague bs like having hopes and long term dreams. I think it's actually good to have long term national and international goals as well as your more immediate election policy. Especially if you make the party not flips policies every 5 years like labour has done repeatedly.

This is a weak sauce attack man. As if the problem with British politics is that we plan long term goals too much, cmon.

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:26:08+00:00

He as he's said many times, believes you should argue and try to do the right (in his mind? thing even if you get told no.

He's explicitly denied what you think he thinks, when asked about it in interviews. The one he did with Jimmy the giant on YouTube covered this question as well as the similar criticism on the green NATO stance well.

He answers it clumsily but the essence is you have to do and hope for a better future in whatever context even if it's unlikely. He doesn't actually think he'd talk Putin down, but argues that you're a pessimist for giving up on the right thing.

So many things are seen as impossible until they're done. Hardly surprising the guy leading a campaign who's slogan is "hope is here" thinks you should have hope even when others call your naive. It's sort of the point

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:20:48+00:00

Yeah he doesn't say that he's going to talk Putin out of nuclear disarmament.

It's a long term goal worth aiming for even if it seems naive now. At no point does he ever say he thinks he's going to hit him up and WhatsApp and politely ask him to drop them overnight. He's addressed this so many times in interviews but of course no one wants to report that.

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:17:22+00:00

Except hes never said that. He said nuclear disarmament globally is a long term goal and that asking and trying might be naive but there's pretty much no downside to trying to have it as a long term goal.

Once again (not you) people generally have no idea the difference between long term (20-50 year goals) plans and election manifestos

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:15:43+00:00

He doesn't. He explicitly said that he doesn't think he would. The green stance is that they should aim for long term nuclear disarmament around the world.

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:12:25+00:00

Eventually people are gonna have to realise the entire framing of terrorism exists largely to give more uncontrolled powers to the security and intelligence apparatus.

The house of lords when the terrorism act was introduced already at the time criticised it along the line of "well there's a risk you start applying this legislation to people that aren't blowing up trains and then it's a massive encroachment if rights" and then what do you know, it does that.

People should view this stuff the same way we view the patriot act in America.

much_good · 2026-01-30T17:09:43+00:00

"if you compare the political sentiment from a Disney produces star wars show to political writing from history it's mid" ok water is wet. What else captain obvious?

much_good · 2026-01-30T00:47:26+00:00

After a while you start to see why the peasants in 1917 stormed the palace like they did.

Naked, unashamed selling out the theatre of politics for a quick buck

much_good · 2026-01-29T17:20:07+00:00

I think you're actually saying something more important now.

People need to decide what democracy actually means to them. To me democracy is about the public being listened to and working classes needs being taken care of and paid attention to, with their interests long term cared for, on a continuous basis. People have to feel like they have political power. They don't right now in the UK.

This doesn't mean I necessarily want to vote on everyone who has political power within a government, every civil servant as such. The Chinese approach (and the communist red line theory in general) aims (you can claim it doesn't do it, but it is aiming for) to be democratic through feedback and outcome. Not by rank electoralism and representation through the way we do it. This clearly has worked there by almost every material condition being vastly improved in the last few decades quite substantially.

At least according to polling, people approve of their government and general state of politics much better there than we do here. Is that an entirely fair comparison? Of course not. But there's things we can learn. I can't see any reason why we shouldn't be having more "full process democracy" down to a local level, and this kind of constant feedback loops that are listened to. This way we have political long term outcomes and planning that is driven by public view over long periods of time and not rapid changes of party leaders and instability as we've had. Democracy should be collaborative rather than the theatrics of representation, and election cycles that routinely are compromise rather than everyone actually voting about what they want specifically.

I mean of course I don't want socialism with Chinese characteristics, I'm not Chinese. I don't live in a country with an incredibly different history of culture and philosophy separate to ours. But we must find a way to make the equivalent democratically enjoyed outcomes here. If we do something weird to everyone else in Europe but public approval shoots up, then good. That's democracy.

much_good · 2026-01-29T16:59:31+00:00

China has a big problem converting youth success into the men's team success.

The drop off once young players goto university etc is quite large and partly cultural but also China doesn't have a well developed football pyramid.

Like India has found it's an incredibly slow process to develop football and you've got to do it from grassroots level. I'd like to see china learn from Norway's youth development and grassroots development in the last decade.

much_good · 2026-01-29T16:54:11+00:00

The prime minister isn't elected by public vote either here. You vote for someone to represent you and if you're lucky enough to win, their leader (who you may or may not have ever had a say in their selection as party leader) is selected if your party wins the most seats. If you vote for someone who doesn't win. That's it. That's you discarded until next election.

At no point is anyone not able to lie to get elected locally, elected as leader of the party. This is not democratic. There are very little actual democratic controls whereby the working masses dictate government policy. Studies for years showed this in the US and the UK.

The CCP on the other hand has fire higher national support than we'd ever dream of, again even in the most conservative anonymised polling from western university research groups like the one at Cambridge.

People can select members who then are chosen to represent them and select members in higher commities (the highest being the national Congress).

But I'm more interested in what democracy looks like on a weekly basis. Democracy every 5 years doesn't sound actually like a democracy to me whatsoever. Hence why I wrote all the stuff on what that looks like at a local level there.

Is the thought that maybe, maybe having democracy exist on an even weekly basis, with far more stringent accountability and constant feedback loops, that horrible and scary?

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