Gender-flipped Doctor Bong.

His character does mention that one of his parents was Indian, though.

I enjoyed Jupiter Ascending for the same reason I enjoy every Wachowskis movie: I got wasted first.

Oh, totally. I didn't mean to imply it will flop for any reason other than the fact that it looks like (and likely is) the kind of corny CGI-filled dumpster fire that studios keep making even though they haven't turned a major domestic profit since, like, Van Helsing. Remember Van Helsing? Christ.

"I AM THE LAW!"
- Judge Dredd, Supreme Court Justice

I'd love to hear you elucidate on your position, but I know there's a 99% probability you're going to vanish forever from this thread. Farewell! Eat shit and die!

I always felt kind of sorry for him. The Palin debacle wasn't his fault, at least not entirely; subtract her from the equation and you're left with a standard-issue conservative GOP candidate and bonafide war hero with no glaringly terrible qualities. I didn't even consider voting for him, but he never struck me as a…

Every time Ridley Scott was questioned about the brownface in E:G&K, he always looked like the only response he wanted to give was a jerk-off motion and a loud fart noise. The dude just didn't understand, man.

That's true. I should have been clearer: it will flop in the U.S., which is the only place on earth where anyone gives a shit about this particular controversy. It will indeed make mad bank everywhere else though, so I guess there's nothing aborted about it.

"Whitewashing" lost all meaning the moment it was used to describe Chiwetel Ejiofor's character in The Martian.

….pation!

Spike Lee thought it would be a good idea to make a musical comedy about gang violence in Chicago, and NO ONE STOPPED HIM.

Upvoted because I dig your beat poetry, daddy-o.

It's another attempt to address a serious and very real problem (Hollywood's marginalization of nonwhite talent) in a completely pointless manner (attacking an aborted blockbuster that will be all but forgotten six months after its release, and also didn't actually involve "whitewashing" at all).

Thank you for a polite and even-handed answer! I'm agnostic, and I have some pretty serious misgivings about organized religion (American Christianity in particular). But I've personally known more than a few religious people who actually practiced the kinds of values so many of them only claim to have: empathy,…

Both my parents have a Masters degree in education and have been teachers and/or school administrators for upwards of three decades. In the last several years, they've both had to get summer jobs to keep their household in the black. My mom works at K-Mart.

It's the political equivalent of the last five minutes of Reservoir Dogs.

If those people were presented with a leadership figure who actually attempted to address the root causes of their economic victimization, rather than just exploiting their anger and fear over it, that could potentially result in real beneficial change - not just for them, but for the entire American workforce. That'd…

There are some genuinely dangerous lunatics out there who will be motivated to commit terrible atrocities - that's already happened multiple times in the last couple years alone - and I won't downplay the horrific awfulness of that reality. Things are bad, and they might get worse. But I still can't really see a…

I absolutely agree that evangelical Christianity has a profoundly dangerous death-grip on American national policy and that should have been stopped decades ago. That said, can we maybe have a conversation about it that doesn't devolve into using internet-atheist buzzwords like "Big Sky Daddy"?