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I guess he’s saying Furiosa IS a good movie, but because the demo (women?) have checked out of girl-boss movies then it will bomb. Therefore the demo of Star Wars (white men?) will bail on Acolyte for being woke or something.

That’s the most sense I could make of it. Either way, he sucks at articulating his opinion.

The target demographic for action movies is men. In other words, if men don't show up for an action movie, it will bomb. Same rule for women and romcoms.

I don't have a problem with women in action movies. Alien and Aliens are two of my favourite movies ever. However, the reason Ripley works as a character is she is a woman behaving like a woman. This is more true of Aliens (the role of mother) than Alien (she is effectively representing how the audience would likely behave). And it is believable as she has all the strengths and limitations of a woman.

The issue with modern Hollywood action movies is women are frequently omnipotent. Whether it's a 50kg woman beating half a dozen goons up, or a teenager inventing an ironman suit or a quantum device in her bedroom, it's unrealistic, and most importantly from a storytelling POV, unearned.

Furthermore, when we have the most egregious examples of woke casting, you can likely guess whether someone is bad (Halbrand in Rings of Power) or good (Riva in Kenobi) purely from the sex and/or ethnicity of the actor.

And this is one reason why men are checking out out of these kinds of movies and TV shows.