I suppose that the fact that people ARE getting dumber overall (education sucks in all our contries...) we can't show good stuff to kids anymore as those autocrats in Hollywood deems us not intelligent enough...And I can't blame them for that...Look at the sh*t show that college campuses are these days with their "safe spaces" and banning "hate speech" (i.e. view that offend them....)
You want to make money now? Find a way to offend as little people as you can (unless you're on the left and agree with the streamline media then you can do and say what you want. Looking at you Rian Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Taika Waititi, and the list goes on....)
*Mainstream media :P
I'm on the left but I despise this SJW/PC sh*t; it totally goes against MLK's 'character over identity' philosophy. There doesn't have to be a designated 'bad guy' in society (although greedy, corrupt oligarchs come the closest -- which transcends race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc.).
I still really like Waititi, though I hate that he ever got involved with the MCU ("Ragnarok" remains the only film of his I haven't seen, and I won't be seeing "Love and Thunder," either). I also liked Johnson until TLJ turned him into a complete monster... and I'll be skipping "Knives Out," since his post-TLJ behavior has been that abhorrent. Hollywood just needs to stop hiring indie auteurs for helming movies that are part of blockbuster franchises.
Frankly I don't give a damn about who is directing. What I care about is good entertainment, diverse points of views, and so on.
My point is that once you are given a franchise, a movie, a role, a toilet to clean, you have a duty to sell your work to your customer/audience. Any cook that wants to make it understands that pissing off your dinners will only make you loose money, that not listening to their negative feedback without taking it personnaly and telling them THEY are the problem will make you loose money. I mean who dosen't watch Kitchen Nightmares?
Is it so hard for Hollywood to apply the same principles? Why are they always so defensive about their movies? Why always shaming those who didn't like what they put out?
Simply because most of those folks use their work to promote either themselves or a political narrative. That's why. They have to take it personal. Else their work doesn't make sense.
A crying shae when you also have folks like Keanu Reeves, that are down to Earth, understanding that it's thanks to his hard work and the fans appreciation for it that he has the life he has right now.
