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Hair cut, cut eye, black Valkrie?

posted 6 years ago by GameOfSlaves (613)
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Stan Lee cutting his hair was funny, but, now he looks Australian/EuroBrit instead of North Germanic.

All the money they make from these Thor Norse Mythology / Marvel movies and they hired my eight year old neice to do his lost eye special effects make up? Wtf?!

Yes, the white northern germanic peoples (based on history and gene research) mixed things up, black Africans weren't in the mix here on earth until after the norse mythology existed. Supposedly we worship them because they came to earth. Bla blah blah whatever so the valkrie was black for blacks sake. I'm on the fence. I know we wash out and rewrite history. But I know the Valkrie should be white. But it's not a documentary. It's just a comic book movie in a more globalized world. It's not as bad as a western trying to be realistic with female leads when they couldn't even vote and raping legal. I don't know.

I saw the movie because the first one was great. This was okay. I just CANNOT get past the hair cut and terrible missing eye effects. Was it to make the movie PG? More Disney? Actually since my niece is eight, it wasn't that bad.

I did enjoy Hulk and Thor together. And all the women went to see Thor and weren't disappointed when he was topless. ; p

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

To address a couple of your points re the Valkyries: The Marvel people have the color issue well covered. Since they've made the Asgardians aliens who were once worshipped by the old Norse, those aliens can be any color from pasty to ultramarine blue! So what if their old worshippers were all white people who wanted their Gods as white as themselves, they didn't understand much about Marvel's Asgard so why shouldn't they have gotten certain people's skin color wrong.

Besides, when it comes to casting movie Valkyries, the most important thing isn't color - it's hotness!

And that girl was hot, and she was also hilarious, I loved her. And really, if you take a movie like this seriously, you miss the point of it.

[–] NorrinRad (5008) 6 years ago

Bla blah blah whatever so the valkrie was black for blacks sake. I'm on the fence. I know we wash out and rewrite history. But I know the Valkrie should be white. But it's not a documentary. It's just a comic book movie in a more globalized world.

Gamma Radiated humans, Shake-Masters, Talking Rock Creatures, Machine Guns and Space ships are okay but a light-skinned woman puts you on the fence and is almost a bridge too far?

Hilarious!!!

[–] GameOfSlaves (613) 6 years ago

You are way off....

[–] NorrinRad (5008) 6 years ago

How far off, just a smidge, or a shade maybe?

I'm not sure that being a black for black's sake puts me way off but puts you on the fence about the movie, seeing as how you know that Valkyrie should be white?

How do you know that Valkyrie was black for black's sake? Care to share?

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

And we don't know that the casting was "Black for black's sake", although it's always interesting to see who makes assumptions like that.

For all we know they were looking for a tall athletic blonde actress who could both kick ass and be hilarious, and couldn't find one because good comic timing isn't common among young actors.

[–] NorrinRad (5008) 6 years ago

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk!

[–] papamihel (1574) 6 years ago

I don't care that the Valkyrie was black. My problem with her was that the actress channeled a stripper cosplaying something from Mad Max.
I was too lazy to check the cast but who was she - some kind of a pop-star?

[–] GameOfSlaves (613) 6 years ago

I don't know. She was boring.