Blech... just watched the trailer for the new #GIJoe movie and there's SO much to criticize, but...

...but the thing I thought most worth criticizing is the casting of yet another non-Japanese actor in a role that kinda sorta supposed to be a Japanese character.  To be sure, I am whining here, as the character of the female ninja, Jinx, was not well developed as a character back when I was still reading the GI Joe comic and don't recall her at all in the cartoon (I don't even know if the original Jinx character was Japanese--I just know that ninja, generally are).  So, really, I'm just taking this as a chance to call out Hollywood yet again for its seemingly racist casting of non-Japanese people as Japanese characters.  Here's the comment I left on the article on EW.com that directed me to the trailer:

After cringing and wincing at that trailer I feel like an idiot only mentioning the annoying casting of yet another non-Japanese actor playing a ninja. I know, looking at the trailer that's the least of this film's offenses, but I figure the casting of non-Japanese actors for Japanese roles is always what people miss or ignore. I've got nothing against non-Japanese actors being cast, but when the character is supposed to be Japanese it's just odd that they cast non-Japanese actresses in "Memoirs of a Geisha", a non-Japanese guy as Sulu in the Star Trek redux, another Korean dude as Storm Shadow, and the CLINCHER, casting Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai! Dude doesn't even LOOK Japanese, COME ON, HOLLYWOOD.

But seriously, Keanu Reeves in "47 Ronin" makes me want to vomit in enough stomach acid to dissolve the Hollywood sign.

OK, shutting up now. Sorry to bother you all...

It's true--there is so much wrong with "GI Joe 2" that the casting is the least of my worries as a fan of well-written action movies.  But all of those complaints are going to be what everyone else talks about, so I won't bother except to say: Bruce Willis as the guy who is supposed to be the original "GI Joe"???  What the hell, Hollywood!?!  WtHH!

Hands up, who thinks Beck should play

Hands up, who thinks Beck should play Solomon in a “Blood+” live action remake?