I said this on spacebattle but it's worth repeating here.
Can you imagine how people of skin color, of Persian, Arab and East Asian ethnic background feel when they come out of these films where all the heroes are white and all the "evil doers" are of dark skin.
Who the **** does this white man think he is to tell me what I should feel when I watch LotR? I'm of Persian extraction (well at least on my fathers side) and I didn't feel at all offended by that film.
I'm sick of white people telling me that I should find something offensive because someone has the same colour skin as I do. It's actually far more offensive than the thing that they were complaining about.
For a start it's a fantasty film and there are films that portray real Iranians in a far worse light that LotRs ever could. But instead of *****ing at them he has a go at LotR because it's a big name movie and so the publicity seeking arsehole can get himself a wider exposure.
Lets not also forget that the bad guy who gets the most screen time in films 1 & 2 is a white guy, with white hair wearing white!
