What is going on in the US with the canceling of Jimmy Kommel’s TV show? From what I read all he said was that the shooter might be right wing and that MAGA is desperately trying to pin it on the left. That appears exactly mirroring MAGAs messaging who have been blaming the left very hard everywhere, including the President. How is what he does wrong according to his employers but what MAGA is doing OK? I honestly don’t understand the difference

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Cannot wait to see what kind of shit Hollywood will crank out as a result of things like this.

    It was bad enough when they over-corrected and did lots of stupid shit like Ghostbusters 2016 or Star Wars Acolyte…but now I bet they go complete Gilead and it will get even stupider.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        In a word: no.

        It’s more nuanced than that, but the discussion around such things is now so polarized that it’s hard to have a conversation about things like Ghostbusters 2016. It felt like a big bloated pandering, bandwagon-jumping, uninspired mess and then the marketing and ensuing aftermath of it flopping was that if you didn’t like it, the problem is with you the viewer and you need to check your privilege, etc. And that’s just nonsense.

        If the message is the audience must like a movie/TV show simply because of the demographic makeup of the actors/writers/directors, or else it’s the audience that has failed, well then I reject that. And so did a lot of the audience going by the ratings and the amount of money made.

        Were there misogynist assholes bitching about how it was going to “ruin their childhoods” and other such claptrap because, ew, giiiiirrrls? Of course. But that doesn’t mean the toxic liberal scolds out there telling people they must like this IP were not creating another set of problems…it’d be fine if they tried to reboot the much-loved IP with all-women and it failed and if they quietly said, well, that didn’t work, what did we (mostly the writers, I think) do wrong here? But that didn’t happen. There was lots of blame-shifting and lectures.