I don't disagree that this movie will be terrible but come on where do any of you get off? White people make twice as much and twice as bad safe family early teens comedy like this one.
True, but nearly all of the
*good* scripts that go on to become good or great movies do not fall into the hands of non-white actors. This isn't a racism thing, it's a numbers thing. The people with money want to spend their cash on actors they think will put butts in seats. On the black side, there's Will Smith, Denzel Washington, and that's it.
However, the one thing you might be able to point to as racism is the fact very few young non-white actors are given a shot in smaller supporting roles that might launch them. I've been grinding my teeth at how many "geek gets hot chick" movies they keep putting out and never once is the actor playing the geek or the hot chick not white.
Hollywood is not in the business of launching non-white actors. They just aren't. You'll never see a Transformers movie with a black/hispanic/asian character in the lead or a Terminator/Avatar type movie with a non-white person in the lead with the occasional Denzel/Smith movie because they don't see a profit in it.
This, despite the fact Tyler Perry's awful movies make lots of money and even Lottery Ticket beat out Jennifer Aniston's terrible movie, Hollywood still isn't about to shell out more money than it has to to appeal to non-white audiences.
Who cares? He's a cheeseburger.
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