The never-ending battle against woke Hollywood and SJW infused entertainment media [trigger warning]

Glad you enjoy it. It's the first new movie I've enjoyed in a long time.

 

I've never been a big fan of musicals but old movies with music I love. White Christmas and the like are enjoyable but that is also die to my taste in older music. Danny Kay in the Court Jester was amazing. New so called musicals are lucky to have one decent song and almost always something I don't want to hear. KPop was well done with the scene matching the song and it flowed well. It's nice to have something to watch you don't want to complain about.

 

Winged monkey is right... all Filoni cares about is his beloved Ahsoka, and it comes as no surprise that his favourite Mary Sue has had her series renewed yet again. And I've always found Jon Favreau to be a far better comic actor than a writer.

Is this the end of woke Star Wars? I'd like to think so - the one potentially positive outcome of all this. Apart from Ahsoka at least Filoni hasn't filled his work so far with identity politics (though it is concerning that he worked on the Acoshyte and approved a lot of the decisions made there).

Is this the end of mediocre-poor Star Wars? I severely doubt it... there's still plenty of mediocre/poor content in the works as the vid discussed, just that said content that will be less woke than before.

 

Spy X Family is a great read and watch! Lost the time for most Manga as I'm busy with life but this series always is a good use of time.

 

You bring up a lot of interesting examples here, and I think you're touching on something real that a lot of people are noticing. The Netflix situation with Dave Chappelle was definitely a moment where money talked louder than activism. They suspended employees who tried to disrupt a meeting, not for tweeting their opinions despite what some headlines said . But you're right that Netflix ultimately stood by Chappelle because his specials pull massive numbers. They're not taking a principled stand, they're just following the money, which in this case happened to align with pushing back against the loudest voices.

The James Bond example is actually fascinating because it cuts against your point a bit. No Time To Die made over $700 million worldwide and became the third highest grossing Bond film ever adjusted for inflation . So fans absolutely paid to see it, spoiler and all. That one might not fit the "go woke go broke" pattern as cleanly as it seemed.

But Indiana Jones 5? Yeah, that one's a disaster. Cost somewhere around $350-400 million and barely made a dent at the box office . The Phoebe Waller-Bridge factor turned a lot of people off, though honestly the bigger problem was probably just making an Indiana Jones movie with an 80-year-old Harrison Ford and no clear reason to exist.

The Depp situation still makes my blood boil honestly. He lost work over unproven allegations while Warner Bros kept working with Heard even after evidence came out. Mads Mikkelsen is great but that recasting always felt wrong . And yeah, Aquaman 2 is shaping up to be another example. Heard's screen time got cut to like 20 minutes and 11 lines, yet people still can't separate the art from the artist there . I'm with you on skipping it. Sometimes voting with your wallet is all you've got left.