In terms of being front and center in a big budget movie, Gyllenhaal was acceptable in THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, but that's only because the role required him to be a bland wimp-ass that the girl didn't even want to be with -- which suited his bland wimp-ass persona just fine. For crying out loud, Gyllenhaal has only ONE acting emotion -- it's that vacant, doe-eyed effeminate look which says "I have NO testosterone in my body. None at all." Someone above called it right. The reason PIRATES worked so well with Depp is because he actually IS a great actor who could bring an entire persona to the part, one that was so strong that it literally leapt off the screen.

So I laugh because sleepy-eyed Gyllenhaal is the LAST person I'd consider to be the lead in an ACTION franchise like PoP -- that is if it's even going to TRY and be like the games.

And this makes me cry because I love the PoP games, and sleepy-eyed Gyllenhaal is the LAST person I'd consider to be the lead in an ACTION franchise like PoP -- that is if it's even going to TRY and be like the games. Which now I know it's NOT!

"An action film centered around one crew's expedition to the moon during a time of frenzied interest in lunar colonization."

I then noticed that DOUG LIMAN is listed as the Director, and I thought to myself "Ah, so I can count on this being his follow-up to that stellar Hayden Christensen film JUMPER." At which point I clicked on the link for Doug Liman to see what else he might be up to...

...Only to discover he's ALSO listed as helming -- wait for it -- JUMPER 2 for release in 2011.

What the fuck??? Is there actually some sort of demand for JUMPER 2?!? Hollywood, do us all a favor: just shoot yourself now and be done with it! Obviously you have NO idea what movies to make anymore!!!!

is The Hills on commercial or something?

But I don't think nomihs was saying you had hated for Latinos as a people... but Latino Review readers.

All good now?

Fucking Hollywood.

I know this sucks and that the more money, the more white-washed it is, but that's the business.

It's why the first Jet Li / Jackie Chan collaboration is about a WHITE KID. I hate it, but it's a fact that shouldn't shock you every time it happens.

Also, where is all the outrage over Cate playing a Russian villain in Indy?

So hopefully it's changing little by little.

But count the non-white people in all of 2008's blockbusters. And you get Terrance, Will Smith, and Jet Li in the Mummy.

And by the way, this isn't the only movie to be miscast at first, then come back and bite the naysayers in the ass. Just sayin', who would've thought Bale could've pulled of Batman at first casting eh?

Also, I think Jake Gyllenhal would be perfect as the Mandarin.

Anyway, I figured that was what you were referring to, but I don't know, I'd much rather see them bring in other Iron Man villains like....um, I don't know, a bottle of Nighttrain?

and since when has an actor of different ethnicity be given a chance by you? yeah? did you go see kungfu hustle? the host? paradise now? amores peros? did any of those make money stateside?

stop blaming hollywood for everything. take responsibility for a change!

(2) The first "Pirates" was pretty great.

(3) "National Treasure" was terrible, yet it was WAY better than "The Da Vinci Code," which NT was ripping off. Do you blame Bruckheimer for aiming low and succeeding... or Ron Howard for not even making a good film?

(4) I would say geeks are the ones who gave "Kung Fu Hustle" and "Oldboy" and "The Host" an audience. Geeks worship "Lost" and "Heroes" which are filled with ethnic roles.

(5) Lay off the geeks. We take risks in what we see. The point is Hollywood is not taking risks in what they THINK an audience wants to see. Even if that means trusting that an audience don't mind ethnic actors as leads, especially if the parts are ethnic.

(6) And I think the other problem is that white or not, Jake doesn't really seem like he could kick anyone's ass, let alone be an acrobat and jump off walls before beheading someone.

Ah, double-standard, politically correct clap-trap, where would we be without you?

"Where's Yer God Now, Mo-zhes? Hah? HAAHHH? Mnyah." Fucking Gold.

Persians ARE the original Indo-Europeans. Iran literally means "Aryan". the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-Europeans is the oldest and most distinguished one.

they were basically the first Indo-Europeans to become civilized (not counting the ones who invaded India because they were absorbed into preexisting civilization). whereas modern day Europeans are some of the latest in human history.

the nordic/germanic tribes left asia to take over uninhabited europe very recently in history, and even more recently destroyed the Roman empire (and all their Greek idealogical heritage). ironic how white people in europe (outside of greece) and north america are closer to the Persians in 300 than the Greeks both in terms of ethnicity and idealogies.

in recent times Iranians mixed with other people from the middle east.

the only modern European ethnicity that came out of the caucasus anywhere near as early as the Iranians (who went south) were the Slavic tribes that are in Russia/Ukraine today (they went north)... technically not Europeans.

gyllenhaal with some makeup and costume would look like a completely normal Persian of the time. but since we know who he is it might be a bit jarring. it would've been better to cast an unknown.

http://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Alans

there's plenty of that in both.

Free your mind, The rest will follow, Be colour-blind, Don't be so shallow

Hey, I'm throwing a party this weekend. Anybody got a number for a good Kenyan mariachi band?

PRINCE OF PERSIA's casting doesn't have the luxury of that same one actor/duel role structure. Gyllenhaal is your lead, straight through, and he doesn't get to put on a molded Persian cloth outfit. He doesn't get to wear a mask to hide his face, where so long as he has a cleft chin it will still look good. It's HIM...He's the guy we have to LOOK AT THE WHOLE TIME, which is why everyone is instantly gagging big time over this. The analogy to Keaton being likable Keaton onscreen and then suiting up to leap into action is just not a comparable case to this HORRIBLE miscasting...

I thought Oded was great in THE MUMMY FILMS. He was dashing, heroic, good looking -- but the knock he might have had against him is that he wasn't the classic blond-haired, blue eyed white guy. But for a PRINCE OF PERSIA movie, I think he would have been great. Ironically, when I played the games and thought of a movie version, he was who I first pictured...