Is the alt-right ruining movies?

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Hello.

For starters, I'd like to state that I'm neither rightist nor leftist.
I know you aren't coming to discuss the movies themselves but since you mentioned those two, I'll give my two cents on them later. It's just my opinion.

I don't think the alt-right is spoiling the movie experience for anyone for two reasons. First, people are entitled to their opinion. They don't like the movies and I have to admit that they have a point. Second, there's a patent political agenda behind the movies and the authors are putting this agenda above the stories. All the ideas in a film should be faithful to the story it's trying to convey. They're doing the other way around: they're ditching everything in favor of the agenda. Overall this builds a very poor experience. Even when there's a point the authors are trying to push, such as some political point of view, they must remain consistent to the structure, characters and every other idea that makes the film what it is.

I am not a huge fan of the original Ghostbusters movie but it's a comedy and as such, there are goofy characters and odd situations. Saying that a female character can't be stupid, commit mistakes, behave like a b***h, say wrong things at the wrong time and provoke accidents, just because she's a woman, is like saying that these roles should be assigned to men only, meaning "only men would be stupid enough" and so on. So, the original film itself isn't sexist but the remake is, because the latter is trying to tell the audiences to look through the specific lens of gender politics, which was never the case before in the franchise. Also, let's remember that the biggest mistake in the first movie was committed by a man, a Ghostbuster himself, thinking of the marshmallow monster. This renders invalid any accusations of sexism towards it.

Still on the original Ghostbusters. What's regarded as one of its many strengths is the well-designed characters. The remake on the other hand, has none of that. One could argue that they're a bunch of very strong women, but what makes the difference is how you introduce and portray your strong characters. You don't tell the audience "this is a strong character, believe me"! You have to show that to people through the character's actions and make the audience believe it. The remake is terribly written in every aspect.

Now on the "SJWars" film. I liked this one very much, despite the (again very obvious) identity politics and SJW takes. The reason why I loved it so much is because the old story was becoming more and more of the same. It was repeating itself too often. Imho, it should have ended in the original (unremastered) trilogy anyway. There are good instalments now and then but even so, they don't add much. On the contrary, they detract from the story if anything! The films after the original trilogy are kind of a mixed bag, they have more misses than hits, but overall they can still be enjoyable.

To put it simply, SW fans are arguing that TLJ is too inconsistent. Turns out, Star Wars isn't supposed to be consistent in every department and it's totally self-aware of it. Starships make noises in space, for one. It's not trying to put too much of real science into the story. That would be Star Trek, not Star Wars. It's a "space opera" type of fiction.

It was fans who were pushing for absolute consistency in the first place and once SW is a very unapologetically comercial kind of movie franchise, the responsible parties tried to please the fans. After all many people want to have that one great idea that will turn them into millionaires, and this was Lucas's million dollar idea and he wouldn't ruin it by denying the costumers what they wanted. The whole Star Wars was always about that. It's a people-pleasing franchise. Soon, Star Wars became a large universe trying to tie in all the ends and please every fan's quest for consistency. There were books, action figures, comics and so it goes. For one, how a character such as Bobba Fett, which had but a brief on-screen appearance, suddenly becomes so loved? Fans were intrigued by that presence, the armour, and his death. They started demanding more on the character and soon it was everywhere on side material. Bobba Fett was built on fan-base and propaganda, all a commercial transaction. That's one example.

Now, TLJ was in fact full of inconsistencies but if the angry fans stop and pay attention for a while, most if not all are exactly the same kind of flaws from the original trilogy. Little has changed in that regard.

That said, all that's left for some is to be angry at the biased ideology messages, which really are there. In this I will agree with the angry fans. Also, there's a lot of terrible writing and forgettable characters in the movie. Laura Dern's character was specially boring and unbelievable, and I say this with all respect to her work because she did a fantastic job as an actress but the material she was given to perform was totally useless. That's the same kind of problem with the new Ghostbusters: a film is supposed to show the characters and situations and let *me* decide whether I do care about it or not. These two films don't do that. The authors shovel stuff down your throat and tell what you are supposed to think about it.

One last thing, TLJ destroys the male characters to highlight the female ones. That's not how it's supposed to be. You highlight the female characters by writing them great scenes and dialogues.

Well, that's all.

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