Yes it's unfortunate that this aspect couldn't really be translated. It's one of the few cases where a live action adaptation by Hollywood may have been preferable. Not only due to the racial aspects, but also due to the special effects that are required to really translate Attack on Titan to live action properly.

It wouldn't really bother me what ethnicity they were portrayed as in live action. If you want to cast white or Asian actors for them, go for it.

Just about everything about Hellsing suggest to me that it's characters aren't East Asian, including its setting, character names that are written in katakana, and its heavy focus on Christianity, European vampire legends, and Nazism.

Hence why I said: you should assume that the character's race matches the original primary audience unless its heavily implied to be otherwise.

Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but I have heard that argument before. It's a completely false analogy that ignores societal context, in order to excuse an act of whitewashing.

Just to be very clear on this point, most manga is drawn in a style called mukokuseki (無国籍) which literally means 'stateless' and which is intended to make people look ethnically ambiguous, but they will generally be assumed to be Japanese by Japanese people. Regardless of what they look like, you should assume that…

That's completely different because not only are those native Japanese products, but there are virtually no Caucasians working in the domestic Japanese or wider Asian film industry. Those who do are mostly stuntmen, so making a film with a mostly Caucasian cast is simply not practical.

True, but even then his hits are about as common as his misses, and I'd argue that many of his hits (like the Nolan Batman films) are more down to the director than his screenplay.

Honestly you'd think they'd have learnt their lesson about Goyer after Blade Trinity. The guy is a pretty bad screenwriter.

Even Taken I don't think is that good of a movie, to be honest. Although at least it's action scenes are competently directed, unlike its sequels.

My favorite is the fight scene at the end of Taken 2 - because this looks like a convincing fight and totally isn't quick-cut editing to hide poor stunt work from a 65 year old man.

Can we please stop trying to make Liam Neeson an "older but not too old" action star. It already got old after the first Taken movie.

Yeah, the "Batman killed in the early comics" excuse is such nonsense. Yes, a few very early comics, which I guarantee you nobody is reading in 2016. But for most of the character's history, especially in the Frank Miller era which pretty much defines the modern Batman, he's been very staunchly anti-killing, to…

In Japan, manga/anime is widely seen as a very pulpy medium saturated with trite crap. There's good stuff there but you have to find it in the rough.

The problems I have with it are: the movie is massively overstuffed. A lot of the stuff surrounding Lex Luthor doesn't really make any sense and is overly convoluted, and Doomsday is utterly wasted just to have a giant fight at the end. I'm also not a fan of most of the score, it's so overly bombastic and faux…

I'm not going to kill you, but I don't have to save you….yeah.

True, it's very clear that Burton was not a fan of the character. I can appreciate the films for what they are and what they did for comic book movies (both good and bad), but they really don't feel like 'Batman' in retrospect.

He also stuffed a bomb into the pants of one of the clown henchmen and smiled as he was about to blow up, deliberately set a guy on fire with the Batmobile and shot at the Joker's parade floats with rockets and machine guns.

Trigun is good for it's time, but it hasn't aged that well. Cowboy Bebop from the same era holds up much better.

I didn't mean him as an actor, it's the fact he' s hyped up through the movie and then, instead of putting his years of experience to good use, he's given nothing to do except beat up a 65 year old man. And then Kirk, one of the most iconic characters in sci fi history, is given a death so ignominious it has become a…