Forum Overview :: RedLetterMedia :: "But this isn't a review, it's a mean op-ed." Haha.

[quote name="skip"]/r/Movies allows posts much more tangentially related to films to infest their subreddit. What bugs me is that all this social justice pandering is to just get plaudits from an audience so everyone doesn't notice how creatively bankrupt Hollywood is right now. Most films are comic book movies, animated movies for children, some franchise garbage or tie-in, or remakes. But if we make the Rocketeer a black woman, all that can be ignored. Ghostbusters would've been unfunny with an all male cast because the script was such a dud and had no basis in reality. Wiig's character is a great example of how hack writers just use tropes but have no clue if they're true and none of these comedians were clever enough to ad-lib something more believable. No Columbia professor up for tenure would ever be that meek or timid. The original had a grant termination because of no results (IIRC) which is much closer to how it still works. And publishing something controversial which starts a new theory or attracts mass attention? She'd be head of the division within 6 months as long as it isn't plagiarized. Could make her a teacher at a community college since that's where she'd likely end up and where she'd be punished for having unorthodox views, but we have to keep our character branded as "smart" (she's a professor of quantum shit or something) so fuck that noise. [/quote]