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Eh… gotta disagree with you a bit here. With Wonder Woman the trick was that they managed to keep all the SJW types “out of the kitchen” lest they interfere with what was being cooked up. They STILL tried to “help” by implying that you had to see it or else you were sexist and this was the first empowering film for women ever… which did not help at all, because nobody likes to be guilt tripped into doing things. But WW still did amazingly in spite of that… because it was just an awesome film. Far better than any of the titles with Batman or Superman in the last couple decades – no “grim and gritty angst,” no “muted colors because bright primary colors are as silly as untarnished idealism.” They captured Wonder Woman the way she’s supposed to be – a symbol of Justice. They had other impressive female characters other than the amazons (the secretary certainly enjoyed kicking butt; she was a reminder that a lot of women back then were Suffragettes who actually trained in martial arts and the use of improvised weapons such as hatpins to defend themselves against the police attempting to shut down their rallies), and the only man whose portrayal revolved around his sexism was that one lord guy who was clearly not well thought of by his own peers.

Ghostbusters… Ghostbusters 2016 was an blatant attempt to cash in on an old franchise. Unlike the original (which starred three legendary comedians at the height of their careers, plus the guy they got when they couldn’t get Eddie Murphy, and who wrote their own lines and handle the script and put their hearts into everything), the remake was four talented but not overly famous comedians reading the lines they were given for a script that was written to maximize product placement. Creating a political shitstorm to boost its reviews was a calculated and cold blooded attempt to… as I said, to guilt trip people into watching it.

Remember: all these films come from the same industry that harbored people like Harvey Weinstein for DECADES. People who dared to complain had their careers derail as a result. They’re hypocrites who virtue signal in public to cover the things they do in private.

Being perfectly honest with you: you do a better job with No Need For Bushido than 90% of the crap Hollywood spews. I forget if I said this in a previous post… I was once hired to write for a television series that never made it past the pilot. I can’t tell you the details (I signed an NDA), but… the stuff that went on behind the scenes is why the show never made it past an absolutely HORRIBLE pilot episode that was posted on Youtube for all of two weeks before being taken down. (I just checked. The promos are still up there… ah, what might have been…)