Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Prey - No Masterpiece, But Surprisingly Good" video.

@interdimensionalsteve8172 you're agreeing with everyone using different words, and pretending like you're saying something different.
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The outrage mob makes taking risks too risky. Before all you were risking was just making a movie that audiences weren't interested in, or just wasn't that good. Now you're risking being unpersoned if you don't walk the line.
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@interdimensionalsteve8172 so you have time to make a comment, and reply to people's responses to your comments, but you don't have time to read the comments you're responding to. Got it. Makes total sense.
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@interdimensionalsteve8172 but your first comment was saying that the movie was fine, and that people are only hating on it because they think it's woke (I'm summarizing, correct me if the interpretation is wrong), but that's pretty much exactly what the OP was saying, except you injected the part about being woke yourself.
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@bobmclovinelectricboogaloo it's actually pretty funny how Hollywood's "strong female leads" tend to actually weaken female characters in movies, not strengthen them. Most of the iconic male leads from action and thriller movies are flawed, they get beat up and knocked around, but they prevail in the end, they have qualities you don't necessarily like, but their redeeming qualities ultimately exceed that and you like them overall, or at least you want them to win. Sometimes you don't even like them at all but you still root for them. Those are the actually well written characters. Most of the women that get inserted into these roles recently aren't that at all, there's no suspense because they have that mystical "girl power" that gets them out of any bad situation, you don't really care about their motivations because they're portrayed as a cookie cutter cliche, they're all the same.
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@TheSuperappelflap kinda painting with a broad brush there, you're mostly correct as a generality but there were a lot of different native American cultures with pretty widely varying customs and societal norms.
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@pokenoy4559 character development doesn't necessarily mean more screen time. In fact, most of the time when it's done right, character development can be done in short increments throughout the movie, it's most effective when you don't spell it out and put it right in front of the viewers' face, you let little pieces of the characters' story come up within the plot and allow the viewer to draw their own conclusion about it, leaving enough open to be intriguing but giving enough to understand the motivations.
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Because the creativity of American films has gone way downhill in recent years, the sensitivity of the outrage mob has made original storytelling too risky for most filmmakers to be willing to go for. That's why everything is a remake or a reboot or a generic superhero shart. And everyone is desperate for something fresh, so they cling onto anything halfway decent and blow it up to be a masterpiece.
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