Honestly, this news sounds pretty well on par with the news in 2006 that Star Trek: Legacy would feature the voices of all five captains! I learned a valuable lesson back then about how having all the right voices doesn't automatically make a game good.

Your generalization fatigue doesn't matter to me and comparing it to generalizations based upon gender, or race or religion is hilarious, ludicrous and trivializing of those completely different and far more important issues.

Whereas, the distinction you don't see is, if you have a problem with the way an actor acts, you should be criticizing the individual, not the entire group. You already said Kevin Spacey's excellent at accents, so either he's not American, or all American actors don't have a uniformly equal skill level at performing…

My frustrations with people making generalizations and blanket statements doesn't cap off at any income level. You think the fact that they're millionaires makes them all the same? If not, then don't make generalized statements about them as if they were.

And I was basically going along with the joke at that point, but making generalizations about whole groups of people in general is kind of a pet peeve of mine, so that's why the discussion got serious.

The origin point of this discussion was your statement that the reason Andrew Garfield was perfect for the role of Spider-Man, despite being British, was because American actors suck at accents. My counter-argument is that his ability to do accents had absolutely nothing to do with his qualification for the role, and…

What it has to do with the discussion is that it's a much better and less subjective explanation for why British actors would be hired over American actors (to play American characters), then the assertion that American actors are somehow just not good enough at doing American accents. The whole argument about…

I'll restate: if you think there's never a situation where the director/movie-maker is stuck with whoever the studio execs think will put butts in seats (even if the director doesn't care for that actor at all), then you know nothing about the movie business. The higher up the studio system you go, the more…

Now that that has been addressed can you provide any examples? No? Because it's anecdotal? Give me a break, you can make a fourth post and fifth, but it would be far simpler to list some. To list as many as I did even, just to demonstrate that that British actors who are terrible at accents are as common as their…

I'm not casting these people, I can only work with what Hollywood provides me with, you have my apologies then.

No, I read it - the logic is flawed because America, England and every other english speaking country is full of people who immigrated to these countries and can still have accents.

By the way, Karl Urban is from New Zealand slick - that's a long way from the U.K. last I checked. I haven't watched FF since it came because it was garbage so I'm going to have to take your word for it, so that's.... one guy who comes to mind. Well that's all the proof there then!

Why do you need to imply anything? The part about growing up with American TV was pulled from that article I linked to in my post, which I'm guessing you didn't bother reading because you already know everything. Here's the full paragraph:

I clarified my point by giving specifics, you're being ridiculous and pedantic by deliberately misquoting what I said, which is all the more amusing because I clarified - in the sentence you cited - by offering an example of an American actor who is excellent at accents.

Of course they wouldn't do that in the theatrical release, but if there was a special edition Blu-Ray with Kevin Conroy (and maybe Tim Daly for good measure) alternate audio track, boy would home video sales skyrocket!

Besides creating Captain America, the X-Men and countless other heroes and villains,

Why wouldn't American actors who were stage trained be good? I never said they weren't,

I remember after the first movie, he said something about how he'd "be happy to do seventeen more Iron Man movies." It seems like he's backed off a lot from that, but I'm glad it seems like he's coming back around from just being three and out.

Oh, I understand the general idea behind the eye makeup, but I still find it completely absurd for a show that claims to be grounded in realism. I thought it was bad enough before when Ollie's only facial disguise was the eye makeup and basically just hoping people didn't get a good look at him. And it's not like he…

Prowler (who is kind of a proto-Spawn)