That's racist!

[marcusluvsvols]

April O'Neill was black/mixed race in the original comics. I am a huge TMNT fan. IDK why they made her a red-headed white. If they did it for racist reasons, that's really disappointing. They probably just did it for audience appeal.

Who cares? Minority groups that want representation care. I care enough to say representation matters. I don't care enough to become an outrage machine, because I can't fault them for trying to appeal to the largest audience. It's pretty lame, and it's 1,000x lamer when you are the richest man in the world, in a country that's still run largely by white men, and white is still the majority, and you are this threatened by this nothing burger. What could it mean?

I was a big TMNT fan as well in junior high. Eastman and Laird? Drew them I think. I dont remember what they were called but they had some books that were comic books except thicker, and the artwork was amazing for back then. Graphic novels maybe? My buddies and I used to practice drawing them so we could duplicate them pretty well on white paper. Raphael will always be my favorite. Him and Wolverine were the badazzes back in the day.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

She is no Karlyn Pickens, that’s for sure.

(And this is coming from a guy whose usual answer is:
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Priceless. Some of my favorite SNL skits.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Melissa McCarthy & Chrissy Teigen both made the cover of People’s most beautiful.

They both reside in the same category - butt ass ugly.

Facts. 100% facts. I love me some Sandra Bullock though. Pretty Woman era Julia Roberts was something to behold as well.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

I have eyes, and can understand the attraction for Sweeney & Lupita, even if I don’t dig em.

The fascination some have/had for Teigen baffles me, though. Face like a freakin jack-o-lantern…

Once again...preach. Amazingly ugly.

 

[85SugarVol]

Facts. 100% facts. I love me some Sandra Bullock though. Pretty Woman era Julia Roberts was something to behold as well.

I never got the fascination for Sandra Bullock, either. Hard pass.

Julia Roberts was on another level.

 

[NashVol11]

How the Hades do you make it through HS without reading Homer? We read the Illiad AND Odyssey in 8th or 9th grade. In public school in ghetto Charlotte.

Lots of schools don't assign those in full, especially the Iliad, and lots of the versions read in middle school are abridged versions

 

[GroverCleveland]

What was that disaster some years ago? “Sahara”? I’m thinking along those lines.

I never saw that one and did not keep up with it, but seem to recall it was a stinker.

 

[GroverCleveland]

The context is the post you responded to. Stefan Molyneaux.

Some producers actually want to make art too. It's like you guys have no idea how Hollywood works. Not everything is about making money. The bosses love to pay for prestige over $. You ever heard "one for us and one for them?" Probably not, but if you never heard that then I am right and you know next to nothing about the dynamics movie industry. And it's not a foregone conclusion that it hurts the box office. If the movie is great, you might have two woke people seeing it twice for every crybaby who stays home.

You think you're saying sonething by "enough stinkers in a row and...."

That's regardless of the politics at play.

And I do not know why you did not understand what "stupid take" meant, but obviously something seems to have missed. But you are right, I do not know know who he is and based on what he said doesn't seem to be worth knowing.

I have zero idea what you mean by "You think you're saying..." Where did that come from? You conflate different posters?

 

[GroverCleveland]

Gladiator ll was a money grab not worth sleeping through.

Had that feeling about it and did not bother.

 

[GroverCleveland]

This stuff has been happening forever, Jesus in Passion of the Christ is a Finnish white guy

1) somewhat surprised you saw it
2) I had no idea until reading this that is supposedly the case. Whoa! Acting!

 

[GroverCleveland]

How the Hades do you make it through HS without reading Homer? We read the Illiad AND Odyssey in 8th or 9th grade. In public school in ghetto Charlotte.

How do you get that far without even hearing of it?

 

[Carl Pickens]

How the Hades do you make it through HS without reading Homer? We read the Illiad AND Odyssey in 8th or 9th grade. In public school in ghetto Charlotte.

I don’t recall reading it in school, but think I saw part of a miniseries years ago