I realize that the black man he beat unconscious might have been killed by the blow. I also realize that the potentially unconscious man might have woke up and fled the building before it exploded. The movie never shows either scenario - it didn't matter to the storyline. Like I said, a grey area.

Despite the many minorities, only white survivors at the end.

Yes, but Duncan isn't playing a black man, he's playing a black gorilla! And unlike the first Ape movies, he isn't in charge either, but led around by the smaller and light skinned chimpanzee, Tim Roth.

THE NEW FACE OF CLUB BOUNCERS

Will he "See the light?"

Only the light he goes towards after his face is cut off.

JUST HAPPENS TO BE WHITE?

Do you think scripts, casting, production, and the tons of meetings that accompany every movie all occur by CHANCE? Do you think that screenplays are merely BORN with a random twining of DNA so that, however they end JUST HAPPENS TO BE how they end? I have to ask these people: Are you that freakin' thick skulled? Or are you just utterly incapable of paying attention here? If your story/film calls for X amount of non-whites and you've only written one survivor in there and you've decided that the survivor will be white then you just wrote, cast, and directed the non-whites in BODY COUNT ROLES! It DIDN'T happen by chance! You and your decision making people decided that white people and ONLY white people are able to survive the odds. That all non-whites, however noble you make them out to be, are better off dead! And you want your audience to SEE that.

It wasn't just a FREAK ACCIDENT, it was intentionally written, cast, and directed that way! How many times does this have to be repeated before folks get it? Well, 54 times and counting so far! And by the way, GHOST SHIP gets the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT because actor Isaiah Washington's character of Greer and Alex Dimitriades character of Santos DIE! They were specifically cast in GHOST SHIP to DIE! This is not to say that white people didn't die, but by the time the credits roll, only the white race, the Caucasians, are represented as people CAPABLE of surviving the odds! This is not to say I didn't like the movie (which, in fact, I do. A pretty scary story - worth checking out.). Some of my "favorite films" have the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT.

To be fair, this is the first film from Dark Castle Entertainment to get the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT. THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and THIR13EN GHOSTS did not. If GHOST SHIP was part of a trilogy or connected series of movies and the RACIAL CLICHÉ didn't occur in some of them, I'd remove the entire series from the list. I've got no problem if sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Like reality, life is a chancy thing, and even though movies are in no way intended to be reality, they are intended to reflect reality, suspend disbelief, and not have the kind of sloppy storytelling template of racist overtones that the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT represents.

Everyone does NOT die or else there couldn't be a human resistance for John Conner to assemble and lead. There were lots of actors with speaking parts in this movie, who we didn't see die, who could have been any race you like. But they were white. The only black character with a speaking part in this film, was specifically cast as a victim (and he didn't get much screentime prior to his beheading either). So they could have had black people with speaking roles in this movie who were not shown getting killed. And if we didn't actually see it, then there is a chance that they could have been one of the survivors after SkyNet bombs the world and takes over. It's not asking for much, is it?

Oddly enough, the original KING KONG made back in 1933, treated the humans on Skull Island with far more respect that the two "Socially Conscious" KING KONG remakes in 1976 and 2005. In 2006, the Academy and the Hollywood movie industry decided to make 2005 the year of the "Socially Conscious movie." They even insisted on having - for 2006 only - "green limousines" (not green in color, mind you) pull up to the red carpet. They never did that before, and in all award shows with the same people, they haven't since. The land of Showbiz is truly all show and no conscience. With such a blivet of hubris, small wonder that the 2006 Academy Awards show became the least watched of the Oscars to date.And if that wasn't enough, one of my favorite actors, George Clooney (who made not one but two back-to-back socially conscious bombs in 2005) decided to hammer the point home further by engaging in a vainglorious speech about the film industry's social superiority to the rest of the world. A moment that swung between being unintentionally funny and awkwardly embarrassing to watch. It was so embarassing in fact, that the show South Park, actually made fun of South Park alumni, George, and his speech.

BTW, KING KONG won loads of awards for SOUND. The Oscar for Best Achievement in Sound, Sound Editing, Visual Effects, and Art Direction: It won the BAFTA (British Oscar) for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects, Best Sound (by golly I guess it DID sound good at that!), and Best Production Design. It won no Golden Globes. Nothing in Australia; nothing from MTV or even the Teen Choice Awards. It didn't win ANYTHING for screenplay and / or direction by any major award folks.