X-Men - Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters [Off Topic] #35: Because we need to cheer each other up now that Disney is gonna ruin the X-Men. - Page 10

sum1 · 10-14-2019, 04:39 PM

Superman is very moral. He dislikes sex offenders. Hence the killing.

dragonfire · 10-14-2019, 04:51 PM

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Zoe Kravitz to Play Catwoman in ‘The Batman’

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/t...an-1203302757/

**PhoenixRising** · 10-14-2019, 05:26 PM

Thanks, sum1. Yeah, that figures. Very PC casting, very predictable. Let's get rid of all the white people.

dragonfire · 10-15-2019, 02:52 PM

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Thanks, sum1. Yeah, that figures. Very PC casting, very predictable. Let's get rid of all the white people.

No problem.

But I'm not sum1.

sum1 · 10-15-2019, 05:29 PM

Zoe Kravitz is great. I'm going to watch this film after all.

**PhoenixRising** · 10-16-2019, 03:02 PM

Really, sum1? Aren't you the one who objected to a non-Jewish actress playing Kitty Pryde?

I personally think this is getting ridiculous. What are they gonna do, keep recasting these roles until every race and ethnicity has been used and they come all the way back around to where they started?

Casting Rob Pattinson as Batman was strike one. Casting Zoe as Catwoman is strike two. I've heard that Jim Gordon will also be black, which is strike three. This is like rewriting someone else's story until the integrity of the characters is completely lost. Seriously, Gotham did this better.

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No problem.

But I'm not sum1.

Ugh, just ignore me when I do that.

**wickedrum** · 10-17-2019, 05:47 AM

my problem is with the way too frequent recasting of all the characters

sum1 · 10-17-2019, 05:53 AM

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Really, sum1? Aren't you the one who objected to a non-Jewish actress playing Kitty Pryde?

There waa a black Catwoman as far back as the 1960s Batman show, played by Eartha Kitt. Not to mention Halle Berry's Catwoman. And I happen to like Zoe Kravitz, so I'm happy to see her cast. Black-Jewish Catwoman coming up. It almost makes up for Pattinson. Almost.

**PhoenixRising** · 10-17-2019, 08:15 AM

I agree, Rita. All this franchising is ruining the integrity of the stories and characters. They should simply try to get the story and character right the first time so those films stand the test of time and no one would even think of remaking them for decades.

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There waa a black Catwoman as far back as the 1960s Batman show, played by Eartha Kitt. Not to mention Halle Berry's Catwoman. And I happen to like Zoe Kravitz, so I'm happy to see her cast. Black-Jewish Catwoman coming up. It almost makes up for Pattinson. Almost.

Oh, come on, sum1. You know who I am, right?

I'm the Batman aficionado.

First, Eartha Kitt's Catwoman only appeared in the third and final season of the Batman TV show, which was the lowest rated season and the show ended in cancellation. Julie Newmar's Catwoman was the one audiences saw in the first two seasons and was far more popular. Newmar's Catwoman went to prison at the end of season 2 and Kitt's Catwoman was a totally different character who took on the identity after Newmar's Catwoman(presumably Selina Kyle) went to prison. So that wasn't the same Catwoman.

Second, Halle Berry's Catwoman was a totally different character named Patience Phillips, who acquired cat powers from an Egyptian cat god. There was no Gotham City, no Batman, and nothing connecting the character to the DC universe. The movie was also a flop and earned Berry a Razzie for worst actress, so it's nothing to be proud of.

Finally, last I checked, Selina Kyle wasn't Jewish either.

Camren Bicondova just did an excellent Catwoman on Gotham and Anne Hathaway did the same in The Dark Knight Rises. There's really nothing that necessitates or justifies this casting. It's just more of Hollywood's woke politically correct insanity. From what I've heard, Batwoman is already tanking in the ratings because real people are fed up with this crap, and I hope the same fate befalls Pattinson's movie.

dragonfire · 10-17-2019, 08:55 AM

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Variety
Jonah Hill Passes on Role in ‘The Batman’

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/j...es-1203373471/

**PhoenixRising** · 10-17-2019, 02:06 PM

Thanks, dragonfire. I'm glad he's not gonna be the Penguin. But I still don't like anything about this movie.

dragonfire · 10-17-2019, 02:42 PM

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Hollywood Reporter
'The Batman' Casts Paul Dano as the Riddler

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...iddler-1248494

**PhoenixRising** · 10-17-2019, 03:09 PM

Uh oh... too many villains.

dragonfire · 10-17-2019, 03:25 PM

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Uh oh... too many villains.

For now, we just got Catwoman and Riddler.

**PhoenixRising** · 10-17-2019, 03:37 PM

Again, too many villains.

Sounds like typical Hollywood screenwriting.


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