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Yay! More movies to white male shame you into seeing them!

posted 8 years ago by Rvrgm
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So this is going to be the new wave, I guess.. take already perfected old movies and remake them with gender and/or race swapped leads, watch the inevitable backlash, and then feign umbrage in an effort to shame people into seeing your movie.

Yeah… worked REALLY great with Ghostbusters!

Cannot honestly BELIEVE Disney is trying this .. I mean, people… come on… I mean… come on! Does anyone, white, male, black, female, straight, gay, conservative, liberal, Feig…. I mean does ANYONE honestly think this movie is going to have legs!?

[–] kngtmat 8 years ago

It's a sequel not a remake and the original character Cliff Secord still exists in the films reality but is not going to be in the whole film. He goes missing in action fighting the Nazi's and the new one puts on a jet pack on in his absence years later.

So please enough assuming it has to do with people being PC. Not only that there actually was a black female pilot in real life even before the year the original film takes place in so it isn't out of the question that one can be in this film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman