Fantastic Four reboot-- Casting, Rumors, Pix, ect;
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If I can bring the topic back to the movie, I have to say that the cast is the thing that interests me most about this movie. All of the members of the main team are excellent actors in their own right and have a history of playing really high quality roles. That seems to be something that nobody has really discussed yet.
I don't know about PC, but I think it was already sounding old fashion when your parents or possibly grandparents were young.Then again, maybe you're in your in your seventies, eighties or nineties. You are the Old Mixer after all.
How "PC" it is depends on where you live in the world, I suppose. To me I've always heard it as a very questionable term to use as opposed to other terms that get across the meaning not only better but without almost sounding like a slur.
It may not strictly be a pejorative like many words are for certain groups (n-word, f-word, shortened form of "Japanese", a common slur of Jewish people (K-word), common slur for mentally challenged people (not the r-word. m-word) but it's hardly a common-use word and probably because it has bit of a stink to it and can be twisted poorly.
I'd like to thank everyone who provided so many examples of what I was talking about. 
Here you go, this might help.
Yeah, that can work sometimes with folk tales and stuff, but for contemporary works I'd rather see something new and creative.
Then you should explain. Exactly what are you accusing me of and why?
This whole race debate is ridiculous.
But made me think of this online story I recently read.
If this real life story doesn't put the issue to rest, than I don't know what will:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/black-white-twins-meet-sisters-5256945
But made me think of this online story I recently read.
If this real life story doesn't put the issue to rest, than I don't know what will:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/black-white-twins-meet-sisters-5256945
This story by Canadian Journalist, Desmond Cole, shows how racism is still a major issue in North America (not just in some States in the U.S.).
http://www.torontolife.com/informer...im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/
As long as this kind of thing is still happening, we are not living in a "colour-blind" world and we can't really pretend we are.
http://www.torontolife.com/informer...im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/
As long as this kind of thing is still happening, we are not living in a "colour-blind" world and we can't really pretend we are.
These "contemporary works" are modern folk tales, myths legends and fairy tales. The characters are eternal can be infinitely updated.
I have a question, and I'm asking this honestly, and I'm not trying to start another fight, but is a reason Johnny Storm has to be white?
There are a lot of characters where their race is a big part of their story, Black Panther for instance, or Kamala Khan to bring up a more recent example, but I wasn't sure if Johnny was one of those characters. Is there a specific reason people are upset other than that it's not how he looks in the comics?
There are a lot of characters where their race is a big part of their story, Black Panther for instance, or Kamala Khan to bring up a more recent example, but I wasn't sure if Johnny was one of those characters. Is there a specific reason people are upset other than that it's not how he looks in the comics?
^ Exactly. No reason at all.
And in other news... in the movie Reed Richards doesn't actually stretch his body! 
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/71282
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/71282
Well, no - it's all CG effects.
Seriously, this is the epitome of a difference that makes no difference. In 1986 or so John Byrne decided that most of Superman's apparent powers - flying, super-strength, invulnerability - were "psionic" in nature, essentially mental powers.
And Superman kept flying, lifting buildings, and deflecting bullets with his chest.
Reed Richards keeps stretching.
Seriously, this is the epitome of a difference that makes no difference. In 1986 or so John Byrne decided that most of Superman's apparent powers - flying, super-strength, invulnerability - were "psionic" in nature, essentially mental powers.
And Superman kept flying, lifting buildings, and deflecting bullets with his chest.
Reed Richards keeps stretching.
I'm just sick of all this comic book-y fantasy. I want a Fantastic Four movie that's gritty and realistic. I want to see them get exposed to cosmic radiation and then spend the last hour of the movie dying in their hospital beds of cancer, examining their own mortality as their bodies waste away. But Hollywood isn't ready for that, are they!!!!
Well, no - it's all CG effects.
Seriously, this is the epitome of a difference that makes no difference.
Reed Richards keeps stretching.
I completely agree, but I suspect there is an actual plot reason behind this. It will connect Reed directly to the Negative Zone perhaps, and that will be a key element to the story.
ALSO OTHER DIFFERENCES THAT MADE NO DIFFERENCE PART I: Organic web shooters, the Joker using make-up instead of actually have white skin, Fury not being around in WWII, Jarvis being a robot, Mystique not having lived centuries prior to meeting the X-Men, The X-MEN never traveling to space.
There's still time!