@silentchief said:
Little Mermaid, Rings of Power, Fantastic Four, Eternals, She Hulk, Ms Marvel, The Marvels, prove it fails miserably.
Dune, Dead Pool, The Boys, The Batman, Avengers, X-Men 97', Invincible, Fallout, Prey, etc. prove this isn't why it fails. Race and gender swaps often don't impact quality.
Reviews of both sets of films show something else being the major driving factor. That being writing, acting, and directing. As most sane humans understand it.
@silentchief said:
Yep. "The Marvels" race and gender swapped the main villain.
The race/gender changes in the examples I gave were major characters. The example you just gave for The Marvels was a niche source material character I had never even heard of. I'm not ware of any race swaps in Rings of Power of She Hulk. The notion that The Marvels was bad due to a niche character next to no one has heard of being gender swapped is ludicrous. It was bad the movie was bad, as reviews show.
This falls squarely on the writing and directing. Common sense. Occam's Razor.
@silentchiefF said:
Speaking of using common sense do you think a Batman movie with a black Bruce Wayne would be successful?
Well a black Jim Gordon had a very successful Batman film. Way better flick than all of the movies with Ben Asslick. When it comes to a well established main character with such cultural significance as Batman, yes it might effect the quality and outlook. Which is why I'm saying most of the time and usually. However if the black Batman film was actually fucking good, no one would care in the end tbh. The needless outrage would be hilarious though.
IE: A black Galadriel would have been possibly problematic. But the current blonde white actress had wooden acting so who cares, which is why TRoP has some mixed reviews (albeit better than expected).
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