If their names and backgrounds are not supposed to be Japanese, then I guess I'm okay with the casting not being Japanese. Although I'm not sure what would make it Akira if it's not that character set. I was pretty upset with the original announcement, and I'm not yet placated by the move to New York.

I guess just, overall, you have the opportunity to have a major motion picture with a Japanese cast and you remove it entirely from its original cultural trappings, then you take away a rare opportunity for Japanese actors to perform for a mainstream audience. Again, if it were possible for Japanese actors to play roles perceived as white in the normal process, then I wouldn't have such an issue with it. I'm Caucasian (or any other race), you know.

I'm determined to finish the rest of my Halloween list, but I've got so much else to do. Okay, once I finish my next Horror piece for HiLo.

Emmett and I are back from seeing 50/50.

It was very funny, and very affecting. Just really had the details of dealing with cancer down. The humor came from inside the experience. And the two biggest crypoints for me were Adam's breakdown in the car, and Adam finding Kyle's copy of Getting Through Cancer Together (or whatever it was called) and seeing all the underlined and annotated passages.

Emmett's crypoint was Adam's little freakout as he's getting anesthesia.

Mine was the same as Emmett's.

And also: just before that, when he told his dad that he knew that it was confusing for him, but that he loved him.

50/50 looks like a good movie, but I have to get a lot farther away from cancer before I can see it, that's for sure.

Oh, fuck yeah. My sister saw it shortly before my mother's diagnosis. I wish I had.

Finnick? I have no idea how well he can act. Someone just showed up on The Secret Circle that looked kinda like my mental picture too.

Finnick? I have no idea how well he can act.

Huh. All I've seen him in is the atrocious Aquaman pilot and Smallville, so it's hard to say. But visually he's golden god enough, and he'd be about the right age, yes?

No matter who is eventually cast as Finnick, I expect various portions of the intarwebs will explode when the announcement is made. I'm also dying to see who ends up getting cast as Johanna and as Coin.

PJ has a new vlog up on his fb page.

Wasn't Justin Hartley just on Chuck? Plus - he really grew on me as Green Arrow on Smallville.