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I enjoyed Hancock, but something bothered me. After I, Robot, this is the second time Will Smith has been paired with a white woman in a Hollywood would-be action blockbuster and the budding romance has been confined to meaningful looks and almost-kisses. Especially weird in Hancock is the way later in the film they refer back to a kiss that never happened and that I guess wound up on the cutting room floor.

Reminds me of Island in the Sun, which was also careful never to show any of that icky interracial kissing stuff. It's indicated but not shown between James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge, and not even indicated between Harry Belafonte and Joan Fontaine.

Is Hollywood stuck in 1957?

Possibly, because in Wild Wild West there's also no romance between Smith and Salma Hayak. It's almost inconceivable given how the movie is set up with her playing the damsel in distress but having no romantic leanings towards the hero who saves her.

Agreed, great point. I'm not going to see the movie (too many reviews I've read indicate that I really wouldn't like it), and this is just one more reason not to like it. The only black women I can ever remember Smith getting with were a stripper (Independence Day) and his best friend's sister (Bad Boys II), not exactly great things for a guy to do (no pun intended).

This topic just made me admit I saw Bad Boys II, and I'm not happy about that

Well, I obviously saw Wild Wild West. There is no shame here.

He was actually cast as a married man in Enemy of the State....to a black woman. Hooch....Latina, I guess....and he hollad at a mannequin in I am Legend. The man is black (African American....although he probably never been to Africa.....but that's what THEY call us). More importantly he is a man. The women were black, yellow, brown, and plastic. More importantly, they were women....with the exception of the mannequin. The story line of either movie had nothing to do with the color of neither the male or female, so why is this discussion gone awry?

If you're interested in this kind of thing, there's Mandingo (Ken Norton/Susan George), Bad Company (Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin) Monster's Ball (Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton), an uncountable cavalcade of interracial porn DVDs and several Hollywood movies I'm probably missing. Hollywood films with significant interracial coupling usually get large amounts of hate mail. Hollywood isn't the only part of America stuck in the past. A real relationship between Will Smith and Charlize Theron would have had significant impact on the box office gross. Can't have that, can we? As for this review, did dhe actually WATCH this movie?