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I am slightly afraid that my opinion here could really be taken out of context and that I might be perceived as either a bigot or a chauvinist or both,
actually I'm a purist and what triggered my decision to even open this subject for discussion was the picture of David Hassellhoph(?) as Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. and then the adjoining picture of Samuel L. Jackson as the "Ultimate Nick Fury", well, what bugs me about this is why is there so much much catering along racial lines. Would making Nick Fury a black man suddenly make him better?
I think if was pretty apparent that racial catering doesn't work when they tried to make Harvey Dent (A.K.A. Two-Face) into smooth Billy Dee Williams.
It took reverting back to (white, and slighty psychotic) Tommy Lee Jones to give back some credibility and realism to the CHARACTER.
Just imagine (GOD forbid) trying to make spiderman into a female character just to cater to a largely female audience, or just imagine the backlash if someone tried to suddenly make the character Shaft into a white man. Yeah Right.
Point of fact: in choosing Ang Lee to direct the Hulk movie the studio banked on a "name" to bring in big box office numbers. The failure of the Hulk movie (in my opinion) was not that it didn't have a good script, or good actors and the special effects were spectacular, the failure came by using a director whose motivation was all self interest. All those split screen shots did nothing but detract from your interest in the story. What was that c**p all about if not just to shoe off Mr. Lee's creative "talents".
If studios can't stay true to the rich history and stories that come from so many of the comic book "HEROES" so many of us grew up with then I say leave em' alone. I would rather keep them great in comic books than see them turned into jokes (Superman 2,3, & 4 / Batman 2,4 - I liked the new one)by non-visionary studios who only want to cater to the latest trend.
P.S.
Wolverine was really short in the comics so by their way of thinking they should have used Gary Coleman.
Thanks for listening.
-jonac7
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