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vesicles

vesicles

Colonel
I am fed up with this complaint about movies being "politically correct" simply because they put some non-white people in the movies.

People now are complaining about the new Star Wars movie being PC because of casting of Boyega. So do these people believe that it should be normal for a movie to be cast of completely Caucasians??? Do we ever see a homogeneous population of Caucasians anywhere in the world??? Why is it OK to have movies with a cast completely composed of Caucasians?? And when did it become irritating to have a normally mixed cast, as we normally would encounter anywhere in the world?

I always find it "fascinating" that most movies have a homogeneous cast of people with only one skin color. Like I said above, no matter where you go, you will encounter people of all kinds of skin colors. I would imagine the actors responding to casting calls should also be composed of people of all skin colors. they have to go out of their ways to choose a homogeneous casting. This is always "fascinating" to me...

About casting Jordan as the Human Torch in the new Fantastic Four. I see no problem of that at all. Except! Except that they should cast a black lady for Susan Storm. I don't have any problem if both siblings are black or white. Making them one black and one white? That is irritating to me...
 
Miragedriver

Miragedriver

Brigadier
The Politically Correct Star Trek:

A woman captain
A black Vulcan
An American Indian First Officer
A Female Klingon Weapons Officer
An Alien Cook
And a Hologram Doctor
did I forget someone?
And almost every episode was a temporal rift or distortion.
 
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Bernard

Bernard

Junior Member
vesicles said:
I am fed up with this complaint about movies being "politically correct" simply because they put some non-white people in the movies.

People now are complaining about the new Star Wars movie being PC because of casting of Boyega. So do these people believe that it should be normal for a movie to be cast of completely Caucasians??? Do we ever see a homogeneous population of Caucasians anywhere in the world??? Why is it OK to have movies with a cast completely composed of Caucasians?? And when did it become irritating to have a normally mixed cast, as we normally would encounter anywhere in the world?

I always find it "fascinating" that most movies have a homogeneous cast of people with only one skin color. Like I said above, no matter where you go, you will encounter people of all kinds of skin colors. I would imagine the actors responding to casting calls should also be composed of people of all skin colors. they have to go out of their ways to choose a homogeneous casting. This is always "fascinating" to me...

About casting Jordan as the Human Torch in the new Fantastic Four. I see no problem of that at all. Except! Except that they should cast a black lady for Susan Storm. I don't have any problem if both siblings are black or white. Making them one black and one white? That is irritating to me...
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On a different note... What do you think about the new ghost busters movie with the all female cast of the ghostbusters.
 
vesicles

vesicles

Colonel
Bernard said:
On a different note... What do you think about the new ghost busters movie with the all female cast of the ghostbusters.
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I have no problem with that at all. Having an all-female- or all-male, or mixed cast is not an issue at all. As long as they have a good script, I am totally fine with it. I am usually very open-minded about new movies. I usually don't make any judgement until the movie comes out and the story is out in the open. If it is sci-fi/action/horror movie, I don't care about the film critics. I will go and see it if I think it looks cool. If it is drama, I listen to the critics.
 
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Miragedriver

Miragedriver

Brigadier
JayBird said:
Asian communications Ensign Harry Kim played by Garrett Wong! ;)
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Gracias Amigo, How could I forget? I like Star Trek: Original, Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. I tried to watch Voyager, but it was difficult to watch (well except for Geri Ryan as 7 of 9)
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vesicles

vesicles

Colonel
By the way, I still don't understand why people hate The Transformers movies. I for one love them. The human characters are irritating. Yes! however, we are not there to see humans. We go to the theaters to watch big robots fight each other. and Michael Bay delivers it every time. For that, I love these movies!
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Miragedriver said:
The Politically Correct Star Trek:

A woman captain
A black Vulcan
An American Indian First Officer
A Female Klingon Weapons Officer
An Alien Cook
And a Hologram Doctor
did I forget someone?
And almost every episode was a temporal rift or distortion.
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lets review now, the Female Captain basically played Picard in a red wig, the Native american First officer turned into the most Stereo typical Native american on TV since Tanto, and 90% of that list turned into stereotypes with the exceptions being the Female Klingon Engineer who managed to become a Nag and the Vulcan who was probably the most original/ Oh an Mr. Kim was basically a Plucky Sidekick version of Mr. Sulu
 
Miragedriver

Miragedriver

Brigadier
Kylo Ren looks an awful like like this other Star Wars character

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Kylo Ren looks like Revan. The similarities are uncanny. But outside of a shared taste for fashion, could the central character of “Knight of the Old Republic” have influenced Ren’s behavior? Perhaps.

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Back to bottling my Grenache
 
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