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“Touch” by Minh Duc Nguyen (Trailer Review)

bigWOWO rating: Avoid this racist bullshit. Seriously, given the crap we’ve gone through, it’s not overkill to protest the minute you see something like this.

Check out the trailer for Touch. It’s…OMG…yet ANOTHER WM/AF movie with Asian men in the background. And not only is it yet ANOTHER WM/AF movie, it’s a WM/AF movie by…bada boom bada bing…an Asian American guy (Minh Duc Nguyen)! And it’s produced by an Asian woman (Mellissa Tong)!  Reminds me of Red Doors and Falling From…I mean, For…Grace–the racist legacy continues. It’s funny that I wrote about the exclusion of the Asian American heterosexual male among Asian Americans, and sure enough there’s a whole lot of stuff coming out that excludes Asian American heterosexual men, as if the universe had come together to help me prove my point. Check out the info on some of these movies: they’re winning Asian American movie awards. Did I or did I not speak the truth about our exclusion?

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A Great Wall

Does anyone remember this movie?  (Sorry, the video above has some issues with the audio.)  It was called “A Great Wall,” and I remember seeing it on an airplane way back when in the mid-80′s.  I think it was the first Asian American film I had ever seen. What a load of fun!  The one scene I remember most is when the father says, “We’re going to China,” and the son turns to his Caucasian girlfriend and says, “Did you hear what he said?  We are going to China!”  Good times.

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