• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      Is the reason it’s bad because it has a female lead? Not without being a misogynist.

      If it’s for another reason, sure! Ghostbusters 2016 was shit, but not because it had female leads.

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        This is where these big movie companies are evil geniuses because they make it a point to have these old beloved franchises be remade with women replacing older characters and having them talk about how womanly they are and how shit men are and when people rightfully comment on it being some weird shit, they get called misogynists.

        The whole gender and race thing going on within these types of movies are a deliberate distraction to make it impossible to criticize movie companies for making lazy, pandering slop instead of creating something new and worthwhile.

        It was worked really well because now all people talk about is identity politics when yet another piece of shit movie is released instead of demanding that the movie companies do their jobs and make good, well told stories with characters people can relate to, not propaganda mouth pieces who have zero character to them other than what they represent in society.

        I have actively avoided these movies despite being the target audience for many of them. I just don’t care to be pondered to and talked down to like I’m a retard just because I happen to be blessed with boobs and a vomb.

        There are plenty of fantastic movies with women in leading roles that are well written and who are facing difficult issues that I would much rather watch than any of the branded slop Disney poops out every year.

        Especially the horror genre has a fantastic track record when it comes to interesting and capable female protagonists, but I don’t løbe horror because it’s a female dominated genre. I love horror because it is one of the only movie genres in this day and age that still tries to make something new, innovative and interesting in movies and the fact that most horror movies are about women, isn’t really anything anyone talks about because it isn’t what makes the movies interesting. And that really is how diversity should be handled in most movies. Gender, sexuality, color of skin should not be the main attribute of a character because they aren’t in real life. Those are just one of many interesting aspects of a person.

        I find it to be both unfair and super annoying how the Hollywood industry cultivated this divisive discourse among movie goers for a decade in order to get us to talk about their pos movies, defend or attack them so that they can get their bag, be praised for being forward thinking and ban all negative reviews for “discrimination” when they themselves are the ones creating this environment. They fully know what they are doing. Don’t get it twisted. I’m also 99% sure that their movies are money laundering schemes because I don’t understand how they can all cost os much money and still come out looking and feeling like bottom of the barrel shit. I have seen Hallmark movies with more ambition than what they produce at Disney.

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          20 hours ago

          Anyone disingenuous enough to not care why the movie was being criticized wasn’t worth paying attention to, anyway.