[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Bearjew

Some of you guys on here are such Turds, and you know who you are. Always have something to say about race every chance you get. Can't we just get through one thread without racist stuff being thrown around?
Yeah it is a comic, yeah it is made up, so why does it have to be exactly like the comic? If they had done that Wolverine would have yellow spandex all these years. He would have been shorter. Jackman has been playing Wolverine for the past ten years almost being way too tall and that is ok but One character must have white skin to be ok?

I love the spin on the character. I think taking it in an original direction is a great idea and I believe they did it with a great originality with the skin pigmentation idea. Honestly all it is is an inverse Domino had light skin and a dark eye. This actress has darker skin with a light eye. I love it. Since they did well on the first movie I will trust them with this one too. I think it is going to be good because of originality and effort that they put into characters like Domino.
They could have taken the easy way out and had her look exactly like the comic book character but that would be an easy out. I applaud them for effort and originality.

Or maybe some of us just don't like the casting choice, costume, or that afro. I could not care less about the color of her skin. Blink has been cast as Asian in two X-Men features now, and she is Bahamian. Psylocke was of mixed ethnicity in "Apocalypse", and many of us didn't care about that either. I'm more interested in the essence of the character being represented, and outside of the spot on her eye (which is really tiny btw) it's not a good first impression.

It works both ways though...Stallone still looks and sounds more like Dredd than Karl Urban ever did, but we can all agree how much of a wreck that film was (despite being more faithful to the books in terms of look, costumes, and story elements than the remake was.)

I should also mention that once they announced that a black actress was playing Domino, nobody should have been surprised that her skin wasn't bleached. Domino is not a green space alien (like Gamora,) so to do so would have given the left so much ammunition with allegations of reverse blackface and whitewashing that the media would have had a field day with it, and it would have brought on a lot of bad publicity. Even with a character like Deadpool who prints money, you don't want bad publicity going into any project...period.

I'm tired of the Hugh Jackman analogy when comparing this, because EVERYONE was laughing, bitching, and moaning at the first images of Wolverine when the original X-Men film debuted, (just like everyone groaned when that first image of Ledger's Joker debuted.) Anyone who says they weren't, you are a liar. And honestly, the look in that first film was and still is really rough. Hugh really did not feel like Logan to many of us up until that fight in the X-Mansion against Striker's goons in X2. Of course we should always look for the performance to win us over, but first impressions me an a lot, as they can both build and kill hype for a film, and this one was really underwhelming and disappointing.

I still don't like what I see, but hopefully Ms. Beetz hits it out of the park and has us "haters" eating crow. First impressions though are just that...first impressions.