Max Landis, the douchebag that all "Mary Sue" whiners are parroting, regrets saying it.

http://www.newsweek.com/max-landis-screenwriter-feminist-criticism-680007

"It’s very easy to take dumb and horrible shit I said six years ago, and trot it out every time there’s a new article about me," Landis tells Newsweek.

(Actually Max, that was two years ago. He doesn't bring up any other context and this is while talking about Force Awakens, so yeah. Well maybe he's thinking of something else from six years ago, BUT AT LEAST HE ADMITS that he HAS INDEED said "dumb and horrible shit.")

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When pressed to do just that, Landis admitted he did regret the now-infamous Force Awakens tweet, but stands by his original sentiment. "I regret framing it that way. I didn’t understand that the term 'Mary Sue' had been co-opted," he said.

(He also still obviously doesn't understand that Mary Sue isn't very effectively applied to magical characters with a power that is constantly being expanded and added to and changed, it's supposed to apply to humans doing impossible and superhuman things.)

(He also still obviously doesn't understand that Luke would also be a major Marty Stu in his logic, with Jedi development that was already considered impossible and miraculous in the Star Wars universe. Taking shortcuts is practically at the heart of Star Wars, turning huge space stations into one-shot-kills that have a built-in tunnel for your convenience, taking down entire Empires by killing one old man, legions of stormtroopers that can't even get close to hitting the heroes even when Luke is standing stationary 30 feet away and Kenobi has already claimed that stormtroopers have good aim, etc. To take "the Force" SO SERIOUSLY in the context of the fantasy universe I just outlined has to be for a good reason... And when a woman is seen as "overpowered" then that's enough reason for a fratboy douchebag to suddenly decide that this fantasy universe has the same hard rules as reality does. If Landis wanted to criticize the realism of Star Wars, he wouldn't be focusing on bashing a female character and applying a gender-specifying term to her... He could have written an entire ESSAY on the inconsistent anti-reality seen all throughout the Star Wars saga, even from the first minutes of A New Hope where one of the biggest logic lapses in movie history occurs and Imperial gunners suddenly forget that non-living intelligent droids exist in their universe, allowing R2 and Threepio to escape Leia's ship... Thus causing the entire original trilogy to be dependent on the unfathomable ignorance of those gunners and their superior)

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"I deserve the scrutiny I’m getting," Landis concluded

At least he understands the impact he has.

But Max Landis has been a huge douchebag in more ways that this. He was a douchebag long before he badmouthed Rey and amassed a douchebag parrot fan club.

Don't miss what I added in the replies below. If you're a Max Landis parrot who is triggered by the sight of a strong woman, you'll love his musings on abusing women, and you'd probably also love his crappy movie "Bright" with its garbled non-message about race relations.

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