2nd June 2010, 1:48 PM
Actually I haven't bothered with any of those reviews, and you're being an idiot if you think those are decisions I'd have made. As I said, it's just too soon to "reboot" Spiderman.
By the way, Star Trek wasn't a reboot. It was an alternate past. That's basically the plot of the movie. The "normal" Star Trek universe exists alongside it. Heck they could easily do a crossover story. Shatner and Nemoy are going to be dead at some point, and new actors will be needed anyway. Heck looking at Nemoy it's clear he's getting too old for this stuff anyway. Oh, and I liked it.
No it's not really that you hate reboots. It's not that you just say that this or that actor isn't doing a good job. It's that you said "Spiderman was always portrayed as white". When you say that, it sounds like you are calling "white" a character trait.
Really? You hate that modern Bond is blonde? Why? I mean the modern ones suck anyway (why should I care that someone's, gasp, charging a little too much for water, when previous villians were going to POISON a water supply), but that's the thing you pick out?
You never complained when new Link characters went blonde. Link in the first few games was brown haired. Peach and Zelda used to have red hair. Personally I do think that's kinda lazy, but I'm not saying they ruined the CHARACTER because they changed a cosmetic attribute, I just don't care about that.
What we're saying is, well, stop caring about something so trivial and pointless, because yes, that DOES sound racist, because being obsessed with cosmetic issues that are pointless is exactly what racism is!
And no one here is trying to say we "have" to do this for political correctness. Here's the thing, political correctness doesn't exist for normal people, it's ENTIRELY a POLITICAL phrase, for politicians? You have this idea of imaginary people running around demanding that characters start representing "minorities", but that's not the case. Ever think maybe the choice for a black actor had NOTHING to do with that?
By the way, Star Trek wasn't a reboot. It was an alternate past. That's basically the plot of the movie. The "normal" Star Trek universe exists alongside it. Heck they could easily do a crossover story. Shatner and Nemoy are going to be dead at some point, and new actors will be needed anyway. Heck looking at Nemoy it's clear he's getting too old for this stuff anyway. Oh, and I liked it.
No it's not really that you hate reboots. It's not that you just say that this or that actor isn't doing a good job. It's that you said "Spiderman was always portrayed as white". When you say that, it sounds like you are calling "white" a character trait.
Really? You hate that modern Bond is blonde? Why? I mean the modern ones suck anyway (why should I care that someone's, gasp, charging a little too much for water, when previous villians were going to POISON a water supply), but that's the thing you pick out?
You never complained when new Link characters went blonde. Link in the first few games was brown haired. Peach and Zelda used to have red hair. Personally I do think that's kinda lazy, but I'm not saying they ruined the CHARACTER because they changed a cosmetic attribute, I just don't care about that.
What we're saying is, well, stop caring about something so trivial and pointless, because yes, that DOES sound racist, because being obsessed with cosmetic issues that are pointless is exactly what racism is!
And no one here is trying to say we "have" to do this for political correctness. Here's the thing, political correctness doesn't exist for normal people, it's ENTIRELY a POLITICAL phrase, for politicians? You have this idea of imaginary people running around demanding that characters start representing "minorities", but that's not the case. Ever think maybe the choice for a black actor had NOTHING to do with that?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)