Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Destroying Our Heroes

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Does anyone remember the good old days when female characters actually struggled and weren’t perfect Mary Sues who were given everything based on their gender, race, or sexuality

“Evil cannot create, only corrupt.” - JRR Tolkien

I believe Will is really onto something here. Why are so many writers terrified of masculinity? For example, why must they destroy the concept of fatherhood with their relentless “drunk, abusive father“ tropes?

I first heard the term "deconstruction" in culinary school years ago. It is a term for some modern chefs to take the ingredients of a classic dish, cook them separately, and artfully arrange them on the plate. The result rarely tastes anything like the original dish. I've heard that Gordon Ramsey calls "deconstructed" dishes "f-ing destroyed". That is also true of "deconstructed" characters.

I get that writers wanna portray old heroes as broken and past their prime, but there’s ways to do it without taking a fat dump on the character. Logan was a good example

When heroes are written by villains, what else can you expect?

Reminds me of when Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast told her father she was going to escape anyway after giving her self up in exchange. That completely took away from the sacrifice Belle made. It was one of the most touching things in the animated film because it showed how much Belle loved her father and how brave she truly was to undergo a life of slavery at the mercy of a terrifying beast. In the live action it just showed she is untrustworthy and foolish to make such a comment and that her "sacrifice" was shallow. Empty even. It showed that her word meant nothing since she was intending to go back on it even though the beast mercifully let her father live.

I'm friends with a screenwriter who has won an Academy Award for best screenplay. This is what he told me: "Hollywood used to reflect America. Now it just projects itself."

It sucks that no one believes in character arcs anymore, especially if the protagonist is female. This type of writing is very telling of where we are as a society.

Then: "Let's try to write a good story." Now: "Let's do what the social media analysts tell us."

"You know you'll never reach the same heights as them, so the only way to surpass them is to tear them down to your own mediocre level." Thank you for speaking this absolute truth. I've become so gun shy of even giving new versions of well-established characters a shot, having been disappointed, if not downright insulted by them time and time again. In fact, I've taken to re-watching the original films and T.V. shows depicting my childhood heroes and pretending the new abominations never happened, wiping them from my mind (Sarah Connor and She-Ra especially as my childhood female role models). Thank you for your channel, it's a huge breath of fresh air.

You either die a hero ...Or live long enough to have your character arc undone by modern Hollywood Writers

For me Terminator 2 was the last of the franchise. For those who haven't seen the special directors ending (*real ending); it's with older Sarah Conner, safe and optimistic in the park where she once had premonitions of destruction. John Conner (now Senator), pushing his daughter on a swing set. ♡

"I bypassed the compressor." "Kid, have you ever built a working starship, or just took apart junk you found crashed on the ground?" "Um..." "Do you even know what the compressor does, how it integrates with the part on this side and the part on that side?" "Um...the intake system and the explosive chambers?" "Right. But do you know what they do, and why a compressor is necessary, and therefore can't be bypassed?" "Umm...no." "Exactly."

I can’t stop feeling that many of the problems you described are actually problems that plague today’s world at large.😢

It's like someone walking into the Louvre, and seeing all the great masterpieces. Smashing everything with an axe while declaring "you have to let go of the past". And then painting a smiley face over the rubble.

The "woman overcoming impossible odds being motivated by maternal instincts" is a great trope no-one uses anymore :/

Fun fact: "deconstruction" is actually a more polite and rather long winded way of saying "destruction".

The worst part about Luke is that the hermit lifestyle didn't necessitate a total change in character. Highly energetic, goal-seeking people like him often go into asceticism. If he had stayed in character, maybe even (gasp) smiled a little bit, it would have been palatable