I have a very good excuse for watching a Hollywood movie, I swear, pls no bully.
Anyway, regardless of the quality of the movie - a bit difficult to follow and somewhat romcommy (or romcommie according to some people here), it surprised me that there were no really overtly woke elements, and that woke was even mocked at some point.
Avoiding spoilers for something no one here is ever going to watch, the two woke-adjacent elements were a guy who appeared somewhat gay (other than that, no LGBTP crap), and a female character with surprising prowess in fights.
But also: even the 'good' female characters were presented as obsessive and self-centered and as the butt of jokes. And one of the bad female characters at one point cited "toxic masculinity" when she was caught and trying in vain to appeal to a fellow female to not side against her when she is clearly in the wrong.
So either movies are getting less woke or (more likely) this is a nice exception to the rule.
I think woke is being toned down a notch, not that they think it is bad but because they need money.
I'm willing to bet that money in Hollywood is worse then we expect.
Yep. Anything "based" is just pandering for money. The people behind the scenes still hate us as much as they ever have. They took off the mask. I'm not stupid enough to fall for it now that they are trying to put it back on. They can live off of the profits from the modern audience they wanted so much.
I can't see the phrase
MODERN AUDIENCES
without adding the reverb in my head.
Probably, just look at Disney, they're at record lows from what we KNOW, if we saw their books we'd be scoping out what we can take when they go bankrupt.
This reminds me of the recent Fallout conversation. The conversation around media has become how woke something is. I'm sure the movie has more subliminal wokeness because they are aiming for a more blockbuster conservative audience. But woke is still there. The zeitgeist of modern western civilization is woke so every product of it is somewhat woke.
Still it doesn't hurt it's anti-wokeness by giving Hollywood and it's culture a bit of a send-up.
The Fallout one was a little dumber, though. “It’s not woke, it just has a female lead in an action role, a black-white leading romance, and a scene where they rewrite all the lore so that the evil capitalists started the nuclear war for profit!”
If that’s non-woke, this is straight-up right-wing.
Not to mention literally every White male is either a retard, a cucked faggot, or evil.
Username checks out. Communism is a lie. Embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated.
I enjoyed it. As you mentioned, there were two scenes where a woman beats up a man she has no business beating (one of which is much more egregious than the other), but neither one was presented as “yeah, girl power!” so it made me roll my eyes in more of a “maybe they should have made this scene work a little differently” way than an “ugh, feminism” way.
Was this based on the TV show? There was a The Fall Guy show on in the early 80s.
Lee Majors man. Big Valley, Six Million Dollar Man and the Fall Guy. He had some gorgeous blondes in his shows.
Just looking at the summary of the show, it seems so. The main character shares the name of the guy in the movie.
Very loosely based. I loved that show as a kid, and Gosling is no Lee Majors.
Loosely. From what I can tell dude isn't a bounty hunter, which was the point of the show.
Current gen Heather Thomas in a bikini? No?
Then it's too woke.
Who would current gen Heather Thomas be?
For science?
The whole plot reminded me of that Hazbin Hotel where she made the villain of the series based on her ex or whatever, here the female lead (forgor her name) makes her movie about her break up with Colt lol