The Awful Strong Female Lead Pandering Needs To Stop! - RANT 

Definitely better than the last time you tried to do this! Kudos! 👏👏👏👏

I think this happening because there is no real equality among the sexes in some part of our Western Anglo-American culture, some women just want to be more equal than men, to be these dominatrix goddesses all the time, never depend or even acknowledge any straight biological male companionship at least in our pop culture.

And of course, that's wrong, it should be this way, toxic femininity is just as bad as toxic masculinity, there should always be a balance, the yin and yang. And besides almost all societies in countries that matter as great civilizations were and still are and probably always will be patriarchal from time immemorial.

Yo Adam, you should check out the Road House remake, it just released on Prime. It was better than I expected, silly and kinda schlocky, but in a good way. Conor McGregor's acting is terrible, but so terrible it's hilarious.

Morality is just like the patriarchy man!

Great point and very true. The chick from Dial of Destiny is the perfect example of that, there is nothing likable about her and she's an a@@hole that doesn't even have charisma.

Morbin time?

It’s webbin time?

Clobbering time? Vader time?

it's about Morbin Time

(It's about time)

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Also, both of those women were fully realized people, not one note. They had both skills and flaws. The most glaring problem with the latest generation of "strong female leads" is that they're one note and that note is that they are superior to every man in every way. It's laughably absurd.

You always were an asshole gorman

A prime example is what they did to Mulan, they changed her from a well rounded character who used her wits to overcome obstacles into a strong female lead who was already more powerful than any man from the beginning.

Sarah Conner is the realest female action hero because she is a mother defending a child. This rings deeply true to human nature and so makes her character way more powerful than generic action female.

@@vanillajack5925she was also motivated by family and loyalty to family.

Agreed!!!! 💪💫

I don't mind if they remake bad movies that had potential but were executed poorly.

Yes, I think the real problem is the just the lazy writing - if a movie like Ghostbusters 2016 was any good, nobody would have any qualms about it (except for a minority of legit sexists). If Rey in Star Wars was better-written, more people would appreciate the character. The same is true for any guys in movies as well, but Hollywood seems to be much more focused on shitting out these lazy movies that happen to feature women just for the sake of featuring women. The same is often true for minority characters. When you're only putting certain types of people in a movie just to meet a quota (and often purely for the sake of marketing to that audience), you're doing it wrong, and people will complain. Not because of the type of person being featured, but because the writing is lazy and the movie ends up being shitty (or "meh" at best). And when these movies blatantly mention feminist issues, it just sounds really lame. It would be fine in a movie that's *about* feminism in some way, but not in a random superhero/action movie. People are generally smart, so we don't need that shit stuffed down our throats in order to understand it, so when you do that, it just comes off as really disingenuous and lazy. Not to mention, it's usually all tell and no show - don't just keep telling me how great this female character is, SHOW her doing great things! Show her as an actual person, not just as some talking point. You can have as many women and minority characters in movies as you want, but you have to write them well - write them as actual people and show us their motivations. Show us their development over the course of the story. Make it believable. And give them more than 1 or 2 simple character traits.

​@@matthewdekker6064 and that's why Black Panther 1 was a roaring success, it had an actually GOOD story to sink our teeth into. There was no box ticking at all, it was a fully fleshed out movie with complexities and real emotions.

Nobody said that, stop being silly.

​@meciocio gaslight 😅

@@meciocio When that movie came out, I worked with a bunch of hyper progressives who literally said you were 'alt right" if you didn't like it.

@@harvesterofstorms4932 no you didn't

@@meciocio Well then, you got me. You must be hiding in my closet right now. 0_0

Agreed!! Great post

I'm bummed if it came off that I think all female-led movies need to be sexualized because that was not the message I was trying to deliver. I was referring to specific franchises like Charlies Angels where that is a staple of the characters.

@@AdamDoesMovies I get it, you don't have to do that with every female character, but I think it's weird that Hollywood doesn't want to make any female characters sexy anymore, every franchise from the past that had a mostly male fans gets bashed as being sexist and has to change. I get that it's a cartoon but April from TMNT went from a smart pretty woman to looking like an overweight lesbian. They didn't change Barbie to make it more male friendly and they went the other way with it in terms of really bashing men.

​@@Mickey-1994agree. Hit the nail on the head in fact.

@@Mickey-1994 but why would you want April, a teen in the Mutant Mayhem movie, to look pretty?

@@joshuacrisanto7419 Why not?

i hope this is sarcasm cuz when did those happen 😂

@@joshuacrisanto7419 for the hulk thing, In the she hulk tv series on disney plus and thor was in thor love and thunder

It's Portwoman

Agreed!

That's gonna be one huge stinker.

"if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious"

*the big sister out of the two orphans. (Haven't seen the movie in a while, it's a good watch though)

Parrish! Alan Parrish was Robin Williams' character, but I don't remember the kids' names.

Her character is terrible in the remake, she is little different from the modern trope people complain about by the end. The original Barbara is an acceptable reaction to the situation, just as the other people in that house (which includes two women that are nothing like her, that when people complain about the original ignore) are acceptable reactions.

It’s a video game movie though…

Holding up well.

Great flick!

But they are purposefully writing the scripts with "strong female leads" to make a point rather than a fun or interesting story. Really if they were clever they would just take dumb action scripts intended for men and replace with women.

I went with my daughter and buddy. We all had a great time!