Lately I find it necessary to find out before watching a movie if they want to tell a story or just plainly sell you their political agenda to avoid wasting my time. The best ways I have to try and filter out some of them before hand is checking rotten tomatoes scores (if the audience is much higher than the critics this is a good sign, the opposite a very bad sign) or looking at some reviews and searching for a couple of keywords (people complaining about it inserting politics, etc).
Don't get me wrong, it's not about not having politics or political messages, I'm fine with stories with political messages but not with political messages masqareiding as stories.
I'm thinking of building a website where people can "rate" as woke or not movies since I crave an easy way to filter them out or find those movies which might be unconstrained by the religious restrictions of wokeness, does this exist? If not would people be interested in it?
My rule of thumb is to be wary of anything after 2014 unless someone I trust recommends it. It hurts me to say but be wary of minorities or females are leads in anything from the last few years. Avoid period pieces now and any adaptations that race or gender swap avoid
Why? What's wrong with saying you would prefer stories that focus on white men?
In the 90s we didn't really have to consider it. Now we do, thanks to the commies who push their anti-west agenda behind "representation".
I’m black and I dont want to watch any modern day show with a black lead or majority black cast because it’s more than likely going to hit on the usual wine talking points. And even in modern day shows with a white male lead they surround him with women so they can “improve him”.
Hurts me to say because like you said in the 90s/early 00s or prior I’d give any show a chance but now I am very wary of newer shows. I watch a lot of old stuff now and watch old BBC stuff on streaming. Like the other day I was watching leave it to Beaver reruns. So nice to see a traditional nuclear family.
Because race isn't everything? Or shouldn't be. That's Leftist talk.