I came across an article where the lady who is in charge of the upcoming Supergirl movie said that the character is "too optimistic" and she wants something dark and gritty. I know it is beating a dead horse to ask "Then why don't you make your own stuff if you don't care to research and respect the source material", but this is just a small symptom of a massive problem.
I remember a normie friend calling me a nerdy snob because I refused to watch the Obi-Wan show due to the showrunner saying it was a priority to have Leia in it along with other stuff (I had already cancelled Disney) or I was told I was making a mountain out of a mole hill when I thought it was dumb in the 3rd season of Stranger Things to set up that guy and girl in the ice cream store to be a couple only for her to say she is a lesbian.
Like I said, this is all a symptom of a bigger issue but I do think it is a little sad that this is what I come to expect. Dark and gritty can be good every now and then, but would it kill modern entertainment to make something uplifting and hopeful? I know it may be sappy but I still enjoy watching old episodes of Leave it to Beaver or Little House and seeing the family unit celebrated.
Very few people making licensed adaptations actually are adapting that work.
The "directors" are making their own work and then using the IP to get funding for it from the company, because nobody would give 500$ million for their "original screenplay" due to the giant risk. But Supergirl has brand value, so it makes them much more willing to give the funding.
That's before you get into the dozen of woke reasons they defile these properties, its an inherent issue with the system, where we the consumers are not part of the equation. Its just an "Artist" trying to game someone into paying them to make their "art" without a care if anyone cares to buy it.
And its the modern era, so "dark, depressing, and relatable real world issues" is basically all these perpetual teenagers can manage.
There’s an unholy union between the rapacious executive class and the leftist ideologues who have flooded everything via captured HR departments and affirmative action.
The money men want infinite growth. They are obsessed with untapped markets. The biggest untapped market for any product are people who don’t like or need the product. The best way to “tap” that market is to turn your product into something completely different, often times even something antithetical to itself.
Feminists are Johnny on the spot. They offer promises of huge untapped markets - the mythical modern audience - and the recipe to capture that money is always the same: put a chick in it, and make her lame and gay. Brand loyalty will carry sales among the established audience. The bigger the IP, the more guaranteed sales, the greater you can diverge from the original to seek out new markets.
And if the old fans complain because you purchased their favorite stuff and deliberately destroyed it, just brand those “traitors” as Nazis. Your leftist fellow travelers in media will gladly promote your smears for free. Those fans deserve it for turning their backs on the franchise. You spent $4 billion for those fans.
Yes Especially women and left leaning men (but I repeat myself) who use existing IP as a skin suit for their own ideas.
It's what LEGO discovered. When boys play with action figures, they embody the character. Every boy playing with a batman action figure is doing their best to reenact Batman as they've seen him depicted in official media. When girls play batman in the other hand, they inject their own values and fears and attributes into batman, so it's no longer batman at all. It's them, but with batman aesthetics.
This is why women and libs ruin everything, all IP they get their hands on. We basically turn on their films or games and see a shitlib dressed up like our favorite character, doing shitlib things for 90 minutes.
So true. I find it funny how I can watch some B movie on Tubi from the 80s or 90s and I think it’s great due to the simple fact that women are feminine, no lectures, or no diversity obsession.
I've been rewatching a lot of recent older films, and it really is a breath of fresh air not having the women be girlbosses.
Even schlock like The Core from 2003 had Hilary Swank in a very minimalist support role, despite having top billing alongside Aaron Eckhart. Surprisingly enough, she wasn't out-speaking or out-sciencing the men in that movie -- the three smart characters did all the brainstorming and came up with the contingency plans; she was just the co-pilot.