"Woke" movies

HEY SANDY...THE PROBLEM IS YOU "AVERAGE PEOPLE" AREN'T QUITE SMART ENOUGH TO GRASP THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN...IT'S COOL THOUGH...THERE REALLY ARENT MANY OF YOU...IT'S JUST THAT EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU HAS AN INTERNET CONNECTION AND A LOT OF FREE TIME.🙂

“Nothing looks appealing.”

Neither does your post.

Oh God if I had a dollar for every time someone bitched about this on here.

“Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee”

I will agree that the movie Billy Jack has a lot in common with modern movie trends. Interesting connection. I will also agree that very little of what comes out lately is interesting to me as well. but that's about it. I don't like "woke" assaults but I also think people assign that label to too many things. It is real but way overused.

I just skip the stuff that looks annoying and watch movies that seem like fun

If things get preachy I'm out

Easy-Peasy👍

What it comes down to, IMO, is that commercial filmmaking is simply a very poor vehicle for showcasing modern cultural values. We've all seen TV ads from big corporations like Coca-Cola that tie-in some sort of social justice message. I think that even for most progressives that this can be a bit jarring. I mean, most people are smart enough to know that multi-billion dollar corporations don't really have any set moral values. They're corporations, they all exist for one purpose: to make profits

It's not that different in Hollywood. The biggest difference is that in-between the corporation and the consumer you have a giant community of artists that A) obviously CAN have sincere moral values, and B) even if they don't, they still have to serve as ambassadors for the corporations they work with

Celebrities can only dodge questions about politics and culture for so long when they're doing press tours for their movies/shows. Both sides of the political spectrum have become louder and more bold within the last few years, and the media being the media, of course has to report on this. And it's never been bad business for the media to focus on contentious and scandalous topics...(cont.d)

...Most people, I think, when pressed about how they feel about a certain issue, if that issue is framed in a way that the answer reveals something about a person's moral character, will give an answer that paints them in a good light. Even if normally this issue would not be that important to that individual or if they haven't given the issue much thought. That's human nature. If I were to ask you "what do you think about the human rights abuses in Country X?" You'd probably say "that's bad. I don't like it", even if you know next to nothing about the history or culture of Country X and have not yourself verified that the question posed to you is an accurate representation of the happenings in Country X

Hollywood has been predominantly liberal for quite a while. What have modern Hollywood libs done that is more woke than Brando sending a native american to tell everyone he refuses his Oscar? So you know what side the industry is going to take if the country suddenly becomes extremely divided. Which is precisely what’s happened over the last 5-7 years.

Which I think is part of the problem. There have been lots of great “social justice” movies throughout the years. If the quality seems to be dipping now then it’s because these issues have become so prominent in American culture that, like anything else, they have become commodified

I don’t believe that all of the writers, producers, directors, etc. churning out these films are ALL really that passionate about these very sensitive subjects. Without the passion then of course it’s going to ring hollow. You can’t produce compassionate and thoughtful films on an assembly line


This is probably the last I'll say on this subject, because it's not one that particularly interests me and some people here take it way too seriously