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I used to have a love of movies. I have over 1500 DVDs/Blu-Rays/4K disks in my collection. I could be counted on to buy multiple movies a month.
2022 I bought 5 total new movies. I upgraded a handful of older things.
This fellow, a published author, has articulated the problem rather nicely.
As a gay guy, I rather prefer men. And Hollyweird can't even fake having those any more.
It's a growing problem in books too, especially since 2015. I was rereading a Mercedes Lackey series and there was a very sharp tone/theme change in an ongoing series where it had a cool male lead. After reading it the first time, I kept not finding time to read more of the books... I think it was coincidental that's where I stopped, but yeah, it went distinctly naggy about women and was published in 2016. The same year Hollyweird went all in on this obnoxious gender swapping crap. (Hello Ghostbusters 2016, which lost money). Same on the TV Show front as I got all of 30 seconds into Amazon's Wheel of Time before the obnoxious nag of a narrator said the world sucks because of men. And 31 seconds was as far as I watched that shit. I've had far more fun watching reviewers destroy the Wrangs of Power on Amazon then I ever could watching that dreck.
And the only power I have over it is to not fund the shit. So, I'm not funding the shit.
New Release Movies I did buy in 2022: Ghostbusters Afterlife, Uncharted, Top Gun Maverick, The Kings Man, and Spiderman No Way Home.
