Paramount tries to hide fact G.I. Joe is awful

If like me you’ve been both surprised and baffled by the positive early reviews G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra has received, then be baffled no more. Why all the positive buzz? It could be because Paramount is inviting only the critics most likely to praise it, to see it. At least that seems to be what’s intimated by a story being run in the LA Weekly.

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Paramount shines Avatar up all sparkly white

Seems Paramount is doing a live action version of the popular animated series Avatar. Only they are casting asian characters with...what for it...white actors.

I'm shocked, shocked!

It takes merely a glance at the title to notice some degree of Asian influence in the hit cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender...

...Like almost any successful piece of kid targeted work these days, Avatar has gone down the movie franchise route with the production of a live-action film. M. Night Shyamalan’s on it! Fans are excited!

[No, they should be horrified, but I digress...]

But they, and every person with a minutely cultured brain in her or his head, is probably more offended by Paramount’s decision to cast every main character with a White actor.

Umm, what? I know the voices are mainly Caucasian actors, but even Dante Basco has a role in the actual animated series. Rufio won’t actualize his role as Prince Zuko. Instead, Jesse McCartney will.

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