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Sick to death of ScarJoh and she's NOT attractive


Please, film industry, stop plugging said actress into roles she is clearly not built for. This film seems to be cranking the 'Japanese cyberpunk' aesthetic up to 11, yet seemingly could not find a Japanese actress to play the film's lead role.

ScarJoh is a decent actress -- liked her in Under the Skin and Lost in Translation. But, she has a very 'indie' specific style, and her presence in "big budget" action flicks has been ho hum.

I'm not here to whinge about "muh whitewashing" -- an utterly ironic position to take on Asian roles being given to non Asian actors, given Asian are thee most racist race of our species... and, in fact, are proud of the dubious distinction! I am here complaining about the casting of actors for roles they're ill-suited for, and which they seem to be 'plugged' into for no other reason than their perceived audience pulling power -- Will Smith, another prime example of said practice (...The "demographic", in this case, being the tween, virgin males... obviously). An imprudent, rapacious philosophy often employed at the expense of the quality of the core product.

Fix your sh!t, Hollyschlock... or risk losing the house. ☠

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I agree Scarlett johansson doesn't Suit this role and in general I find her quite irritating.. But what do you mean about Asians why are Asians so racist? I find that films are still quite offensive to Asians and haven't gone down to same ultra pc route for other races. For instance A lot of the time Asian men in cinema are portrayed as small,effeminate and weak or just Kung fu and Asian women are most of the time dipicted with large strong white men. So maybe there perceived "racism" is justified given how hostile Hollywood is to them and then the trickle down effect it then has on how most people perceive them.

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You must be gay if you say Scarlett is not attractive.

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Scarlett Johansson used to be very attractive, but she has lost a lot of her sex appeal the last five years or so.

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