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Post by Mutagen on Mar 22, 2011 20:39:04 GMT -4
Funny how John Cho and Ken Watanabe weren't in the running for the roles of Professor X and Magneto. Color-blind casting mostly seems to go in one direction only. Dear Hollywood (Movie Division mostly): We are not scared of Asians. We like Asians. Some of our best TV and movie friends are Asians. If you haven't noticed, there's a minor explosion of South Asian actors on TV right now (The Office, Glee, Outsourced, Parks and Rec, Detroit 187). The Asian actors were the best part of "Heroes". People cheered when Sulu kicked ass in the Star Trek reboot. Jackie Chan helped make The Karate Kid one of the few resounding hits you had last year. Stop whining that the audience won't go see unknowns. You cast unknown white actors all the time. You're launching "Sucker Punch" this week, which looks like it cost a ton of money, with an actress I can't recall ever seeing in anything. But she's blonde so that's okay, I guess? "The Last Airbender" was ludicrous and "21" was just as bad. Stop it. You're supposed to be liberal and progressive but you're looking more and more like the a society garden party circa 1949. But, OMG! You have to cast actors with name recognition and proven box office pull! Someone like Chris Pine, who was totally a household name when he was given the lead role in the Star Trek reboot! Speaking of John Cho, he did some interview where he claimed that a lot of the really incisive racial jokes in Harold and Kumar was deliberately put in by the writers not because they wanted to make a point, but because the writers knew the studios would immediately look at the script and go "Yeah, but can you make this about two white guys?" So a lot of the stuff about Kumar's dad and the racist hoodlums and Harold's coworkers was written as a defensive maneuver to prevent that from happening. So, yeah. Thank you for being more coherent about it than I was able to be.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 21:07:22 GMT -4
Did they learn nothing from The Last Airbender!?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 22:48:36 GMT -4
Did they learn nothing from The Last Airbender!? Hollywood learn? ;D
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Post by PurpleBunny on Mar 25, 2011 8:02:34 GMT -4
Did they learn nothing from The Last Airbender!? ...or Dragonball Z?
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Mar 25, 2011 14:04:51 GMT -4
Did they learn nothing from The Last Airbender!? ...or Dragonball Z? Or 21?
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Post by huntergrayson on Apr 8, 2011 1:39:07 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood:
Stop trying to make Christian Slater headline a TV show. The funny thing is that I just checked my calendar and it's 2011, not the late 80s/early 90s. I'm sure he's a swell guy and all, but he is NO LONGER FAMOUS and, more importantly, not really that talented. His subpar Jack Nicholson-shtick might have been enough once, but it's not enough to keep greenlighting shows for him when they keep failing. Also, you're seriously going to put him alongside the lovely-yet-showkilling Brett Harrison? Who also has two failed headlining-shows under his belt in the last four years? Do you WANT 'Breaking In' to fail? Look, not everyone is cut out to be a leading man, okay? Give either of them some swell arcs on other projects or a juicy guest spot on HBO or whatever, but stop trying to make them happen as the leads, okay?
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Post by americanchai on Apr 8, 2011 10:07:20 GMT -4
Shit, I heard there's still an opening on "Two and a Half Men". He can join '80s favorite, Jon Cryer, and be less of a pain in the ass than that other guy.
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yuyu
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Post by yuyu on Apr 26, 2011 15:05:06 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood,
Last night I saw a movie about an alien boy hiding in our planet and among all his adventures, he falls in love with a young woman. The plot had been developed fairly well (considering the premise), but then you just had to ruin it all with the scene in wich the girl discovers that her beau is an alien with superpowers.
Now, I'm not american, but I have a hard time believing that people in the US would react this way when encountering the following creatures:
Alien: "Ooohhhh, that laser thingy that shoots out of your eyes/hands/ass, is really cool!!!!!" Vampire: "You're beautiful, and you sparkle in the sunlight!" "Bite me!"
Come on! It can't be that hard to put a little bit more of realism in movies, especially when portraying human beings facing off something/someone alien, or paranormal, or whatever. I know that putting some girl or guy freaking out for 90+ mins on screen can get really annoying for the audience, but for the sake of all of our eyeballs, don't go to the other extreme!
Sincerely,
Yuyu
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Post by Witchie on Apr 26, 2011 17:36:40 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood,
Please stop trying to make Insert Current Teen Heartthrob into a movie star. Just because their one movie was a success. It doesn't mean they have true talent. Do you hear me? It ain't gonna happen. It's embarrassing for her/him, annoying to me, and a disservice to everyone.
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Post by huntergrayson on May 9, 2011 0:11:02 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood: Praise HBO for finally getting with the program with the free-with-subscription HBO GO website/app, which means that as long as I am paying for my HBO subscription, I have access to all their current and archived shows online. This is exactly[/i] how it should be - I already pay an exorbitant amount for my cable/DVR and since I am already paying for access to that content, I should be granted access across all formats. More companies should start doing this -- or, at least, start offering breaks on things like Hulu Plus for those who are already paying for that content via cable. It's ridiculous to me that, say, just because I was running out of DVR space and had to delete Justified or missed an episode because I was out of town that I shouldn't be able to access that content (via my TV and not a tiny computer screen) at a later date without resorting to piracy. More companies should go with the model of "if you're already paying for it once, it's YOURS, wherever, whenever, watching it on whatever." On that note, though, so I'm really loving having Netflix Instant and Hulu Plus built-into my Blu-Ray player. I am NOT loving the lack of closed-captioning on the streams, however. And this is coming from someone who loves CC/subtitles simply because I sometimes watch TV quietly late at night or missed a line or can't understand anything mumbled-mouth Serena says on GG. I can't imagine how frustrating the lack of CC would be for someone who was actually hearing-impaired. Fix this.
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