Quote:Tired of it. Just leave it alone. Where do you draw the line with these casting choices and concepts folks? As Art Mooney once said:

 

"What's next?...... "The Last Black Man On Earth" - Starring - Tom Hanks". 

 

Just stop it. Stop trying to ruin classic characters with ridiculous agendas. There is a reason why the newly depicted Ghostbusters was critically slammed when the cast was announced and the previews were displayed. Look, I get it. Women are people to. And I have NO PROBLEM with that. I am a big fan of Game of Thrones and some of the characters in that show are amazing. Brienne of Tarth. Very original character. Cersei Lannister. Very original character. Arya Stark and Sansa Stark, etc. Good female characters in ORIGINAL roles. 

 

I don't mind movies about women. I am a big fan of the Girl with the dragon Tattoo series. Great movie. Great role. I love movies with Meryl Streep. I didn't mind the Charlize Theron portrayal in the Mad Max movie. That was normal. People forget in the 80's outside of Mel Gibson strong women characters like Tina Turner and the children who helped him escape were also casted into those movies. So it fits the narrative. 

 

It just bothers me that Hollywood has to try to "gender bend" classic, iconic movies and roles. James Bond is a man's man. Leave it alone. You've had Tomb Raider and you've had the Resident Evil movies. Leave it alone..... 

When they cast Michael B Jordan (who I loved in the Friday Night Lights series) as Johnny Storm and didn't explain how he, a black guy, was Sue Storm's sister, very much a white girl, I decided I wasn't going to watch it. Ends up it sucked anyway from what my friends who saw it said. Had he been cast as Reed Richards or Ben Grimm I wouldn't have cared. Or had they explained that Johnny was adopted, which what the intent was but was never said in the movie, I wouldn't have cared. 

 

At one point Andrew Garfield of The Amazing Spiderman said he would be cool with Peter Parker being gay or bisexual- I was like- what? A huge part of Peter's story is Mary Jane and his love for her. 

 

The thing with female Thor is just ridiculous. 

 

I take issue with rewriting characters who have a LONG history of being who they are for the sake of making groups of people feel accepted. If that's what it takes to make you feel complete then there are deeper issues. And that goes for changing anything to make something more PC. Could you imagine the black, asian or hispanic version of Dukes of Hazzard? Or the white, asian or hispanic version of Sanford and Son?

---