re: #7 Rightwingconspirator

Hmmm… favorite movie? Star Wars (just ignore the all the Kurosawa, Flash Gordon, and other classic movie nods).

Or maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Pick the movie, and it’s built on the movie or story from an earlier generation.

Godfather? Try the book first.
GoodFellas? The book.

But this is Chuckles we’re talking about, and he would rather that Hollywood (which is one of the nation’s cash cows) would leave billions on the table by not producing fare that people overseas might enjoy - like Michael Bay’s Transformers, which made serious coin in China. More and more movies are banking more box office overseas, and that trend will continue, and the studios have to take that into account.

All that said, the majority of movies are made by white guys, white guys get prime roles, and white guys are usually the heroes (or anti-hero) or protagonists.