(I feel like this topic may have been mentioned a while ago but I don't want to search through the thread so whatever)

So I just got back from watching the new [i]Spider-Man: Homecoming[/i] movie and the strange obsession with [i]racial-bending[/i] was never so apparent.  Course if you never were someone who followed Spider-Man at all as a kid no doubt it probably wouldn't have grated on your nerves as much as it did me.  This [i]diversity[/i] agenda was so ridiculously strong it was just impossible not to see which detracted a bit from the film unfortunately.

There is nothing wrong with wanting a diverse cast but changing such iconic characters from the Spider-Man franchise into such different characters just felt so forced.  At least they had the guts to make the [i]new[/i] MJ a totally different character from the old one with an actual different name, Michelle, who is definitely not Mary Jane.  From what little I got to see of her character though, she seems very unlikable as a character and I pity Peter Parker if he ends up dating her.

I am unsure what in the world compelled the writers to make Flash Thompson, who was always a really athletic, jock type bully character, into some rather small Indian kid with no physical presence whatsoever.  It is just one of the strangest casting choices for Flash I had ever seen making him completely unrecognizable from his source material.  Overall the diversity thing isn't that big of a deal although the poster boys for this diversity agenda were certainly Flash, MJ, and Peter's new friend who at least is a new character and not some reimagining of the comic book characters.

And what was with the new Aunt May?  She was just...weird, I was so confused by her character and the terminology she used, what is she supposed to be an ex-hippie or something?

Well, what do you guys think of the whole messing with old comic book characters and changing them in such radical ways instead of just doing an update for them?  The biggest problem I have with it is how it can completely change the original purpose of the character if they go too far with the changes.  Take Flash for instance, he was suppose to be the big bully jock that Peter would often clash with but had to be careful around since beating the big jock in a fight as puny Parker could be bad for his secret identity.  In this version of the Flash he is just another annoying kid who likes to use annoying words and phrases rather than trying to be a physically imposing person who is used to getting his own way.

The movie itself was good but man I had a hard time liking a lot of the characters which made me not enjoy the film as much as I wished I could.

The superhero industry these days really is on the front line of a strange culture war.