The problem isn't allegedly woke content, it's bad writers and bad writing that is constantly elevated by studios. Even if studios stop making "woke" content (and I don't believe they'll stop, at all) we would still be left with bad stories, bad characters, and bad sequels/prequels. It's ironic that Variety is running that story alongside this one at the same time:
Art has always been influenced by politics and contemporary events. In the 1970s that meant Vietnam, disillusionment with the American dream, the crumbling of public trust in institutions (government, church, etc). I watched Rolling Thunder a few months ago and was thinking man, how many 1970 movies are there with a veteran returning from Vietnam only to find no place in society while being antagonized or ignored. In the 1980s, how many films were about capitalism success or women entering the corporate work force, or cynical suburban families. Nobody ever thought it was weird that most of the big 1980s comedies of the time featured white people living in big ass houses, in quaint suburban neighborhoods where everything seems perfect except for the people? Lynch addressed it head on by throwing it in your face: a return of 1950s suburbia but somewhere hidden behind the facade of normalcy there is danger, and underneath it all is something dark and ugly.
In terms of adaptions (books, comics, remakes, etc) it's hard to have good writing when "writers" who have never read/seen the original are constantly being hired. I have no issue with feminist or LGBTQ approaches to anything, but when that is the only lens someone can view a story from there's a problem. The funny thing is that all these people tell you exactly who they are. They brag about knowing nothing about the adapted work. They brag about not reading classic English literature or watching classic American (or European) film because "it's all about white people and patriarchy." You want better things? Hire better writers. You want more slop designed to target specific demographics? Keep hiring the same writers being hired today. The reason I don't think anything changes is because the studios/corporations don't give a shyt about quality: they want to target demographics like fast food. You know how you hear the "urban/black/Hispanic" McDonalds ad when you're driving in a black city, and then you hear the "regular"/white McDonalds ad when you're driving in a whiter area? That's all it is. Black LOTR. Gay Star Wars. It's about marketing slop to as many people as possible, and hiring wack people to create it on the cheap.
shyt is just so bad all around now
