11% From Professional (i.e.'Woke') Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Are the criticis 'racist', or is this just not good? 🤷♂️
shareI doubt any care was given to this 'project', this trash was likely simply made for diversity reasons, Netflix have made a push to have more women and POC content. So no surprise it's a shit show.
Netflix has made notable strides in representation for women and people of color both in front of and behind the camera, but the streamer still has strides to make, according to its latest study with the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
The study, published Thursday, found that Netflix had achieved gender equality when it came to lead roles in films and series from 2018 to 2021 with about 55% of the projects featuring a girl or woman as the lead or co-lead.
There have been more women behind the camera as well. In 2021, 26.9% of directors on Netflix films were women, compared to 12.7% across top-grossing films that same year. Among show creators in 2021, 38% were women which is a double-digit percentage increase from the 26.9% in 2018.
Women of color made specific strides behind the camera, as they made up 11.8% of series directors in 2021 (up from 5.6% in 2018). Women of color saw similar growth in write and creator roles, the study reported. As for films, 27.7% had women of color as leads/co-leads in 2021. That number was 54.75% for series. But in front of the camera, Netflix could stand to have more women and girls of color represented in its content.
Overall, about half of Netflix’s content in 2021 featured a lead or co-lead from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group. That’s about 19 percentage points higher than in 2018. However, the study found that there remains gaps in representation for Latinx, Middle Eastern/North African, Indigenous and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities.
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This was my problem with the Ghostbusters reboot. I had no problem with the concept (i.e. an all female Ghostbusters reboot). The problem was the sloppiness with which it was made. It feels like a lot of these 'woke' films and shows aren't made with much care to begin with. Hollywood has cottoned on to the idea that it can generate enough attention by being at the centre and the 'good side' of the culture wars, quality be damned. It's a shame because my fellow leftists once championed the primacy of good art, but now, it has sacrificed the freedom and creativity of great art for what some might describe as 'cultural Marxism' (akin to the type of crap that was being pumped out by Soviet Russia, and fascist Germany: agitprop crap).
shareTHE GHOSTBUSTERS REBOOT CAN BE BLAMED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON PAUL FEIG...HIS STYLE VOMITED ITSELF ALL OVER EVERY ASPECT OF THE MOVIE...AND IT DID NOT FIT.
sharePretty much agreed, but my point was never to blame 'wokeness' for the film's failure. My point was to argue that 'wokeness' (whether one regards it as a good or bad thing, and I can see both sides, although I mostly come out in favour of it being a *good* thing), is not a shield for poor moviemaking. The all-female Ghostbusters reboot concept was not a bad one (contrary to what a lot of misogynists were arguing way before they'd seen a single second of footage from the film), but when that's *all you've got* going for the film, one has to question whether it's worth making it at all.
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