| DarthMetalliCube said: Again, sure, I'll concede that it'd probably make more sense for a great trans actor to play the role over a great female actor in a perfect world, but in reality.. was there one? Not only one that was up to the task and a quality actor, but one that would draw in as big an audience? |
Again, tell that to Paramount, who aren't convinced getting a big name actor (or rather, actress) in the lead role for GitS (ironically the same one as this movie) at the cost of incurring the whitewashing backlash helped put asses in seats, quite the contrary. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any kind of backlash will hurt a movie's performance, look at Exodus (another movie with a whitewashing controversy), GhostFloppers and Fant4shit. Sure, you can argue those movies would've flopped, anyway for being total pieces of shit, and I won't fight you on that (nobody I know who DID see those movies thought they were any good), but need I remind you that Fant4shit already had a brigade of Marvel fans waging a boycott campaign against the movie right out of the gate since, as we all know, it was made specifically to keep important characters like Doom and Galactus AWAY from the MCU (luckily that's come to pass with the Fox deal). If anything, the well-known politics behind the movie ensured it bombed even harder (good fucking riddance).
The only movies that are allowed to get away with negative press are the Bayformers movies. Those movies are critic-proof with all the kids lining the theaters to go see them because, explosions, and even those are dwindling down now (TLK had a HUGE dropoff in WW gross from AoE with just over $600m).
I DID watch Fant4shit BTW, or at least attempted to (online, no way would I pay to see that shit), I shut it off after 20 minutes because it was fucking awful, as expected.
