I Will Never Purchase Media Containing Any of the Following
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It was still lame that they swapped Peach and Luigi's roles for the movie. The movie was a lot of fun, overall. But what they did to Peach and Luigi completely disqualify it from being the best Mario movie.
I think Luigi's place is the culmination of his best known role being from the Mansion series. Which means they needed him alone and terrified for a solid portion of it. At least he got his moment to shine at the end. Don't agree with it, but I see why it might have happened.
But its probably the least egregious family movie in a long time in terms of any wokeness, which makes the constant attempts to fluff it up into some huge horribly woke nightmare confusing considering the sheer amount of much more rotten examples released yearly.
In a movie called Super Mario Brothers, I expect to see the brothers together on an adventure, instead of Luigi just getting to be star powered for one scene and the kidnap victim for the rest.of it.
Understandable. I didn't agree with their choice, I just see why it probably came to be. I don't think it was out of some ideological slant, just pure "this is what he is known for."
He is known for saving Mario and co from being kidnapped in Luigi's Mansion. So even then, your logic is flawed.
It's not about fluffing it up as some "horrible woke nightmare", it's about people lowering their standards to accept woke infiltration because it's not as bad as the far edges of Wokeness in other media. It's about people accepting the shift of the Overton Window ever further left.
Yep, the goalpost has been moved so far that if something doesn’t have fags or minorities in it, then it’s “anti-woke”
Except, my point is that it has basically none. The most common talking point is false and seemingly just exists as a viral meme rather than having anything to do with the movie. If "girl fights sometimes" is a barometer for woke then nothing can beat it.
Whereas movies that actually push the Window of acceptable and Woke shit don't even get mentioned (because we are talking about the same movie from over a year ago) despite them also being seen by countless people without any discussion or warning about them.
That's actually a good point, and feeds into the reality of the situation: many movies over many years have actually been woke, it's just that most people didn't recognise it until recently.
As some others pointed out in separate threads, the woke invasion has been going on quite predominantly in Hollywood since the 1960s, and going back and re-watching many classic films does reveal this. It feeds into the point about the Overton Windows consistently moving Left, and the less egregious forms of it being acceptable because it's become so normalised.
These days if you see a secondary female character beating up three men twice her size, almost no one bats an eye. Why? Because it's become so normalised people just accept it these days, and that's because it's been programmed into people's minds that that's just how "badass" female characters are in entertainment. It's been pushed for so long that people just think it's normal. I referenced Lethal Weapon 3 sort of being the mainstream catalyst for this way back in the day, where females around that time -- even in secondary roles -- were being depicted as competent if not more competent than their male peers. Since then it's just become a standardised trope, and most people have accepted that that's just how it is because it's practically in all of action media since then (excluding B-movies and niche films).