Mooky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:35 am
I honestly don’t see much proof of that outside of clickbait articles and angry YouTube thumbnails, and I’m an avid movie watcher myself. If you could provide specific examples where it felt forced or didn't make sense, I'd really appreciate it.
Well, in
The Little Mermaid remake, how did it make sense for Triton to have daughters of so many ethnicities?
Mooky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:35 am It's also frustrating that people seem to be blind to the fact that "woke" movies have existed for as long as there have been movies. I'm certain that people who disliked
The Marvels or
Prey for putting women in the spotlight would have disliked
Aliens or
Terminator 2 if they were released today, regardless of the actual movies' quality.
I'm sure that woke movies have been around for quite some time, but like I said above, the studios didn't focus only on woke issues, the movies were entertaining, and now they are not. Look at last year's
Mean Girls, it wasn't nearly as funny as the 2004 movie. As for the movies you've mentioned, I didn't like them, but not because they put women in the spotlight; I'd have to hate
Death Becomes Her and
The First Wives Club too, which I don't. It's because of the feminist agenda they keep promoting; even in
Hocus Pocus 2, I heard one of the characters talk about the patriarchy, which made me roll my eyes. It's just cringe.
Again, I don't have an issue with representation, but don't focus solely on that. Focus on telling a good story!
Back when the word woke actually meant something good, something important, sure it would've been fairly impressive to do a woke movie, but nowadays, woke is associated with entitled people, who feel like the world revolves around them and their fragile feelings.