Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Why Modern Movies Suck - The Strong Female Character" video.

@bonitabromeliads Well, the later Rambo movies get more and more stupid indeed. The first one is mainly about a trained murder machine who survived in jungle warfare, against some police guys. He's doing nothing super special and unbelieveable and mainly acts with traps and alike. There are worse movies, in which some guy just stands there and slaughters dozens of guys who magically don't shoot him or whatever. The thing is: no one talks about, that this is male empowervement, just rule of cool action movies and those guys are clearly no role models. And even more: they never make a "look at how much better men are" out of it. Especially Rambo 1 is the completely opposite. While that guy is close to perfect at murdering people, he's absolutely broken. He isn't sold as cool at all.
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@BigPuddin You got an odd idea of an average male. The average male isn't very fit or muscular. More muscular than the average woman, sure, but not compareable to an athlete.
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Sad enough, while not being that annoying, that Mario movie also shows the big problem. While Mario and even more Luigi are big 'losers' at the start, Peach is super competent and powerful to the point, where it doesn't even make any sense at all, why she even waits for Mario, since time is clearly not on her side. She watches that stranger failing a whole day (and overall: it's actually a wonder, how he improves in a single day that much), while she managed it instantly. And the problem isn't even that she's that good and he's that bad, that she grew up there, while he's just a normal (small and overweight) guy from Brooklyn who isn't used to all this, makes absolultely sense. The problem is, that there is nowhere to go from there for her. She is already peak level performance, super strong, pretty, beloved, everyone loves her, even the bad guy, so... yeah, what developement could she have? Even her 'weakness', the compassion for mushroom people, only leads to her becoming even more badass, but since you somehow need the other guys to also haver their big final fight, she then has to be pushed aside for the Kongs and Mario Brothers getting their moments. Reminded me of that other animation movie How to train your Dragon 2. You got this bad ass dragon tamer, who outclasses all others by far and oh wonder, it's his mother. But after that moment, since she already started at that gigantic level of being better than all others, she's simply shoved aside, because if she would keep being that powerful and active, it would just take away from all the other characters. They are like that one powerful NPC you sometimes got in RPGs, who would easily finish the whole story on his/her own, so something must happen to push them out of the story, your loser troop can struggle with and grow with it.
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@ventusbruma1039 Problem of Katniss is more the whole story. Katniss herself is more a playball and isn't really doin anything special. There is overall ZERO reason that the bad guys care about her. They could kill her as they please. The whole Hunger Games concept alone shows, tha the do not care at all how the districts think about them, since they literally just take random children and send them in there. If people don't rise up by that, why should the care for Katniss, who overall didn't do shit, she simply took part in the Games and won. The reason two survived wasn't here, but the bad guys let them. And the don't need a survivor, why should they? They can simply declare that her district one, because she died last and they get the promised stuff. The whole story makes no sense at all. Battle Royal was a much better and believeable setting by the fact alone, that they took "bad acting kids" there. If true or not doen't even matter, it sells it well and pushed people to hate these kids and try to not be like them. Or take Running Man. The main point of it was, that the people who were put in the game weren't all criminals and that there was no way to survive it. That was the actual turning point, to reveal that. That the main char was innocent. Would have helped Hunger Games a lot, if criminal kids (or even better adults) would have been put into the games, as example that people shouldn't dare to raise against the regime and its laws. Katniss or her sister could have been caught stealing and then like Richards maybe blamed of worse, that they are terrorist. Then her denial to kill could have raised the question, if she really is a terrorist and this could have led to the regime trying to make her part of their propaganda of rehabiliation, where they try to make her admit that she did this terrorism act, but repents. This way it would make sense, that she was build up to that big PR figure for example.
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