Guess who are the next bad guys?

 Can't have Middle Eastern terrorists in films, because anti Islam.

Can't have black bad guys because... racism

Can't have the Mexican or Central American cartels as bad guys because why? Maybe because it might suggest Biden's open border is a bad idea

So The Philippines to the rescue!

In the Plane, the pilot has an emergency landing in the Muslim area of the Philippines and they have to fight off terrorists. Of course these are Muslim terrorists, but I guess no one is supposed to notice, so it's not Islamophobia.

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Much of the plot is unbelievable, but hey, it's Hollywood. Yup. They manage to land the plane without crashing, so I guess that part is believable, but then they manage to take off later?  That is... unbelievable.

Then we have Uncharted.

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That film kowtowed to China and insulted the Philippines by showing an America map that just happened to show China's dotted line meaning it pretended that the areas in the West Philippine sea belonged to China.

That made both the Philippines and VietNam mad, so both countries wouldn't allow the film to be seen here.

the plot has them looking for Magellen's lost gold, and if so, they are looking in the wrong area of the map, since Magellen landed on the eastern coast. And if they found it, it would belong to the Philippines, not treasure hunters. It's almost as if they don't think anyone lives here would notice them.

Again, this is s thriller that has nothing to do with local people, and is full of scenes showing people hanging on ropes while airplanes etc were going hundreds of miles per hour. Right. 

Finally, we have Shotgun wedding where a wedding party at an exotic resort on a private island somewhere in the Philippines is taken hostage.

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Like the bad guys is "Plane", the "pirates" presumably are the Abus in the south, many who come from nearby Indonesia to prey on Filipinos. They just caught the guys who kidnapped some western tourists in 2015, so it does have a smidgen of truth behind the tale.

But I can't review it because I haven't seen it, but it looks like a typical one that concentrates on the westerners, and ignores the staff, including the security guards who are not there... hmm.. I wonder if the security guards were already killed by the pirates trying to defend the guests?  

Never mind. It's Hollywood.

the irony is that none of these films were filmed in the Philippines, even though we have an active film industry who would make this possible.

Is this because they fear crime? Or more likely because corruption might complicate things. And of course most were filmed during Covid when we were shut down.

So maybe Marcos Jr. can tap his father's Hollywood friends on the shoulder and tell them we are open for business.

You see, the last famous American film that was made here was Apocalypse Now, and it was made with help from Marcos Sr. and the Philippine military (because the nearby Americans who still had a base in the Philippines back then, refused to cooperate with the anti war film).

Luckily for them, Hospital care was available to save the life of Martin Sheen when he had his masive heart attack and was promptly airlifted to a Manila Hospital.