Doomcock had a video where he mentioned a possible spoiler for the Indiana Jones movie that the female co-Star will take over the role. With James Bond being the latest I’m wondering if at some point even normies will get sick of the “female takes over for male lead” trope.
Or the bait and switch. What’s crazy about Indiana Jones is that you already have Lara Croft and that show Relic Hunter. Don’t understand the need to replace Indy.
A part of me hopes you are wrong but considering all the people I know who will blindly watch any new MCU, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc I agree with you
I agree. Critics will gush over every new “diverse property” that at some point it sounds fake
I actually disagree somewhat. I think most people do enjoy it as much as they enjoy most everything.
Think of the types of people who don't like good movies or books because they have to think too much.
Someone that doesn't like to think probably doesn't critically enjoy media like you or I do.
So yes, there is a part of it of "following social cues" as you say, but people like to fit in. Fitting in makes them feel good, so they attribute enjoyment to the media and talking to others about it.
You aren't wrong per se, just allow more for the psychosocial stimuli and paths of lowest resistance that most people respond and react to
That’s pretty negative thinking.
And sadly 100% right.
Good point
And there will always be a number of normies who just want to stay normies and consume. Enough to support a less than healthy entertainment market. The wokies in charge are fine with leaving money on the table as long as they have a minimum level of control. The only thing that would change them is if enough big influencers suddenly had a change of heart.
Even if they do, they'll still go and pay to see it.
Like the Consume Product manchild failures they are
Nobody's watching this crap. These things all flop.
Most people in all of history just got on with their lives. We like to imagine a super hero version where all of society changes, the weather brings drought or rain, and mountains are leveled as the two do battle.
In reality, it was really intense for those involved, and nothing at all to those outside.
Much as CHAS in Seattle is huge to me, but means nothing to everyone in Orlando.
THIS! I was about to make a similar comment- most normies are either ignorant of the change that is occurring or completely uninterested in where the changes are occurring. People also massively underestimate how local their bubble is, even if they recognise it's isolated from the rest of the world- I wouldn't be surprised if people in Seattle didn't know about CHAZ/CHOP.
The populace has been slow-boiled for the last 60-odd years to allow marxism to seep into our culture, so a lot of the changes are accepted already or easier to make without backlash. I guarantee that 90+% of normies are unaware that these changes are deliberate and malicious. Most of they time they'll see a change, not care about it enough to raise an issue, go back to their lives and forget about it.
My mum has noticed some things: counterproductive work policies, troons taking over internet boards, but she just chalks it up to mean people and incompetent management/government.
Most of the city itself is closed down, but all around it people are still going to work. Heck, my retro gaming group doesn't even care about it.
Mass male feminization and zealotry beg otherwise.
Destroying old culture IS leftism...
Normies, by definition, don't give a shit about the fandom or the through-line of the series. They consoom product and don't care about it beyond the point where they throw their popcorn bucket away as they're walking out. They talk about the bits they remember from it around the water cooler or on Facebook on Monday. Then they forget about it until the next one comes around and they think "oh, that last one wasn't bad, I'll watch this one" or "that last one wasn't that great but maybe this one will be better". They don't pay attention to the bullshit that comes with a series going woke unless it gets up in their face and starts calling them out, specifically.
Not enough to tank these productions, but enough so that nothing ever really becomes a cultural mainstay anymore. Eventually this will mean the well will run dry, as the same shit gets rebooted again and again every decade.
Normies have no idea what’s going on. They won’t even realize the problem until globohomo is knocking on their front door getting ready to (literally) rape their children, and by then it will be far too late.
No. It’s like the conversation Winston tried to have in a bar with an older pleb in 1984. Yes the old man lived before the takeover, but only had superficial memories and never once analyzed if things were better back then than now.
When they do, they will no longer be normies. they will be one of us.
Normies like whatever their betters tell them to like.
These people don't think about what anything means for the society they live in. If they did, we wouldn't have reached this point in the first place.
They're asleep at the wheel an it they cannot be awoken by anything that does not pose a clear and present danger to their physical comfort.
In the MCU we are going to have female Hawkeye, female Black Panther, female Thor, and most likely female Iron Man.
Boggles my mind how those comic books bombed but these idiots think doubling down on woke female characters nobody asked for is a money making plan?
Based on the default options shown to viewers on streaming services, no. They’re actually pretty hilarious.
I don’t watch them almost ever but they’re on my TV and pop up when it’s turned on. On Netflix, they’re basically saying “Do you want to watch gay people today? Or some blacks? How about them Asians? Or a black guy banging a white woman? How about some frumpy chicks? Did we mention we have ugly chicks?”
I’m sure the most popular shows on those services are still things like Breaking Bad.
No. Rush Limbaugh used to say that the "moderates" or "centrists" (AKA normies) were those who didn't have a point of view or values. The normies are going to do what they're told, enjoy what they're told to enjoy, and go along with whatever those loudest people at the extremes tell them to.
In the war we're in, they are not the hearts and minds you have to convince, they are the spoils. The disposable cogs to be used and thrown away.
Nope, they'll just acclimate.
Normies think this is normal. Well, depending on age. Older ones are intentionally normalizing it or routing it on, so that younger generations think it's normal. So that young white males will hate themselves, kill themselves, or become women... And then kill themselves.
Can you think of any movies that actually make it to production then don't bomb when they do this?
I can see them trying to destroy the franchise with it, that is their modus operandi, but the only one I can think of is star wars - and that's because it coasted on nostalgia - and they didn't keep doing it. Disney's next project even with nasty feminists at the helm once again had a male lead.
I honestly think there's even fewer women who want to see these movies than men. At least as a man I can watch some attractive girl's hot body run around. Women don't get that, and they don't seem to be interested in women in action roles either.
The last movie I know of that women actually loved was Legally Blonde. I get the feeling women see women in action roles and yawn and fall asleep. They want to see men in those roles.
Every system today depends on the successes of the past to keep going. The Silent Generation, and the Boomers are disturbingly overconfident that the systems their parents and grandparents built will last in perpetuity and will withstand countless failures.
They're probably already tired of it but will never do much about it, just like politics. Only difference with movies is they won't show up to see it, like the new Charlie's Angels, so these films will lose at the box office, or at least make less than their predecessors, like the new Star wars films. Problem is that Hollywood, for the most part, can keep pumping out the propaganda films, because of their shady accounting, and having other properties like Marvel movies to subsidize the flops, for now, as the super movies are getting wrecked bit by bit too.
Normies will do what most normies do.
There's a reason for the saying "Get woke, go broke." Preachy, in-your-face wokeness is often a turn-off to audiences. The shoehorning in of ideology and diversity compromises story and characterization, resulting in a crap product. To be sure, some will turn out okay and succeed anyway, but many of these works will go the way of Ghostbuster Girls.
I fuckin' hope so
Indiana Jones was a pedophile, who cares
At this point it's mostly news aggregators and "trending news" algorithms controlling mainstream thought, then linking to some of those legacy news outlets and giving them undeserved advertising revenue.