It's pretty much Girl Boss the movie. Every female character is the best and baddest. The choreography is just dumb. You have battalion level strength with air cover, and armor and you lose to people charging with axes and laser muskets?? Yes the villagers have guns that look like muskets and fire one pew pew at a time.
The zombies in Dawn of the Dead were a bigger threat than a space faring war machine that has been at war for centuries?
How bold. A female lead who is the best at everything. Such a fresh take on things
Dude, is that snark I'm detecting from you?
I think we're a bad influence on you here.
Oh wow, gatekeeping much? Who do you think you are to exclude people from this space. Bigot
I guess I just find it funny with current year entertainment. They keep recycling the same story over and over
Well, they are very environmentally conscious. Perhaps they've reached the point of recycling even this.
Is there really a market for this? Idk how many Mary Sues you can make before even the dumbest broads out there start to get bored.
I keep hoping at some point even normies will get sick of the strong female character or the diversity obsession with modern entertainment
Looks at box office receipts
I think we may already be there.
Now if only the investors would also get sick of it, we might see some progress.
waves sensor wand in the air
"Captain, I am detecting lethal levels of snark here."
Like that Simpsons episode “my sarcastic meter is off the charts”
Just for the people who still don't know how dumb:
Basically just nu-Star Wars with a different coat of paint.
So glad I dodged that bullet by not even watching the first. Seemed like it had a small amount of potential, but was also an obvious trap, so I dipped.
Modern entertainment must be carefully scrutinized even before watching, to avoid this nonsense.
Yup. Only gave it a watch because of Charlie Hunnam. He's a real lad, and usually picks better films (He was quite good in The Gentleman, and that was a ballsy and well-done film). Boy was I disappointed...
Yup, I liked some of the people involved, primarily Hunnam, so was at least considering it. Glad I didn't bother.
Also, somewhat controversial opinion since it was a bit "diverse," but I quite enjoyed King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Speaking of Guy Ritchie and Charlie Hunnam. It was a bit diverse, but didn't beat you over the head with it, and I don't recall much of The Message being present. It's a fun action movie.
I also enjoyed that film, but looking back I am of the opinion that—since it is a version of an English cultural myth—it is unacceptably diverse and should be regarded as bad, even if it is fun.
I...half agree.
Although it's definitely English myth, Arthurian legend is so famous I don't mind a bit of tweaking. Similar to how I don't have a huge problem with taking liberties with Shakespeare. It's so big, a bit of tweaking can be fun...just don't piss on me and tell me it's raining, though; Don't tell me it's always been diverse, or whatever. Don't tell me "This is Arthurian legend now, and your interpretation is wrong."
Also, it's a Guy Ritchie action movie, based on Arthurian legend. I think when taken in that light it's fine...but I also get the objection on general principle to taking English/white cultural myth and adding any diversity at all, though. They'd certainly flip their lid if you did the opposite, so there's certainly merit to saying, well, we should probably gatekeep too then.
Funny I've been thinking about that King Arthur flick recently, mostly because of Guy Ritchie. Might give it a watch soon, depending on the mood.
If I hadn’t seen the title of this post bring about Rebel Moon I would’ve had some trouble because your bullet points describe a number of movies in the last number of years
I'm still pissed at Ambulance. I watched it last week, but it left such an unpleasant taste in my mouth I'm not sure the next time I'll even bother watching any modern Western entertainment that I haven't previously seen/vetted.
Sad part? Far from the worst movie...but still utterly insufferable if you're paying any attention to The Message.
If you have them check out free streaming services like Tubi, Vudu, Crackle, or Pluto. Massive library of older content. Also lots of pre diversity obsessed bbc stuff as well as some Australian and NZ show
There's two?? Where?? I've never heard of either one of these things
This was being judged back from the damn trailer.
PULL THE FUCKING TRIGGER
No shit.
Nope, I wouldn't shit you. You're my favorite turd
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They suck at writing so they have to do that. Otherwise, you have to have the Act 2 "beatdown" scene where the main character takes their licks, and learns to become the badass that everyone needs in Act 3.
No one wants to watch a woman literally get beat half to death. It's really rough and it's hard to pull off. Even Quentin Tarantino couldn't really pull it off in Kill Bill, he had to make it exceptionally cartoonish to make it palettable.
Fargo Season 3 probably did the best at this. They literally just beat the shit out of a female character and leave her for dead in a parking lot. It's a brutal fucking scene just for the sound of it. It really sets her up to be a convincing half a badass with a giant male partner in the rest of the season.
Otherwise you have to go like Kingsman and just make an insane female villain with a secret weapon and you have to let her use it a lot during the movie so no one feels bad when she gets half beaten up and killed with the hero's secret weapon in the end.
Anyways...
Fargo season 3? The feminist season? Female cop, male feminist Ewan McGregor playing two roles and his on-screen girlfriend being his actual girlfriend?
Season 5 is the feminist season. Season 3 definitely had those elements, but the movie had a female cop, who also has the smallest character arc, and V.M. Varga is probably the best "villain" they've had yet. The "social message" of Season 3 was mostly 'greed is bad, yo.'
Oh?
Yeah they couldn't even follow that pattern with the Mulan disaster. An adaptation of a cartoon that was already a feminist wet dream but at least written competently. Mulan became just another boring Mary Sue and they basically had to rewrite the entire lore to avoid her looking inferior to men
I can't watch Rebel Moon or take it even remotely seriously because of all the names they could have used, they picked the title, verbatim, of a Vox Day novel from the 90's.
I don't think anyone should take Rebel Moon seriously, it's a very silly project.
At this point, I immediately disregard any show/movie that insists on a female protagonist without a second thought.