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I think it's a tail wagging the dog situation, really. They don't care about the Pirates movies, they're just using it as an opportunity to push their weirdo narratives.

They want to get views and monetization monies so they will latch onto anything they see as popular and inject their narrative onto it. Talking about popular things expands the number of people the algorithm will recommend their stuff to. The narrative is there to capture the audience and keep them coming back.

Once you have a group of weirdos together they will start trying to one-up each other with their weirdness. Eventually a few will cross the line and start making death threats, swatting people, and sometimes even mass killings can occur. It isn't about the Pirates, it's about proving to the rest of the group how devoted to the weirdo "cause" they are.

the problem is that they don't believe in "get woke go broke" themselves. if they did they wouldn't have fucking conniptions every time they saw a black person or even a woman on screen. they would just sit back and watch the woke movies bomb. but they don't. the rate of bad "woke" movies is just the rate of bad movies.

This sort of thing is frighteningly common. The first two instances that come to mind for me are both Star Wars films: Ahmed Best after The Phantom Menace and Kelly Marie Tran after The Last Jedi.

Not to detract from your point but did you substitute "paladin" for "champion"?

It also has an apostrophe at the end like it's slang for "palading". And I don't understand either move.

The franchise isn’t called Jack Sparrow. It’s called Pirates of the Caribbean, based off a theme park ride which, as far as I know, has no named characters. The main character could be any pirate.

But maybe make her name less derivative… like Judy Pigeon or something… ;)

Not judging your expectation of sexy outfits. Only saying us gays didn't get them with Depp. I don't even remember him shirtless. 🥲

It would be lame.

Making an entirely new character would be far more different and interesting.

Making a character that's attempting to transfer over the affinity people have for an existing character while also being a new character is just gimicky, manipulative, and above all else, lame as fuck.

And it's not about the character being a woman. Gladiator II was lame because it retconned Lucius to be the son of Maximus and it was constantly being like "you like Maximus, so you should also like this dude!" Naw, the only character in that movie I liked was the new character played by Denzel. The other characters were just a weak imitation of characters from a much better movie.

Wasn't that Penelope Cruz's character, more or less?

Grainne O'Malley!

And give full credit to musk and his sad little fanboy. "Thank you for this idea, we would never have considered her, but now we're all in!"

I suspect many of those same people do not have healthy relationships with women and are quite rude to their mothers.

There's derangement all around on the internet. We're all a bunch of weirdos.

My brother doesn't go on social media at all (he's a wise man) and so isn't influenced by internet culture war bullshit one way or another. I once asked him what he thought about The Last Jedi. He didn't like it. Why? It was boring.

Most people just want entertaining and fun movies. What's wrong with that? The internet would have you believe that movies are supposed to be in your face about pushing cultural changes. But most of the time they fail to do this, and only succeed in generating a lot of views and money for culture warriors. In the end they only help the opposition to the changes they're promoting because pushing those messages in lazy ways feels lame and boring to audiences. Then the culture warriors twist it so that a movie that's merely lame and boring is something more sinister.

What you see on the internet is not actually representative of what most people think. I think we should assume Disney does a lot of market research and isn't only looking at internet arguments when deciding how to market movies. Look at the trailers for Rise of Skywalker we can see the results of that research, My brother's opinion was probably prominent. People don't hate strong women in movies, they don't hate Rey as the culture warriors would have you believe. They didn't like that Rey didn't do anything in TLJ and they wanted to see her do some, you know, action stuff in an action adventure movie.

The culture war shit hurts entertainment regardless of which side it comes from. Instead of having a Star Wars trilogy with three solid action adventure entries, we have one in the middle that claims in it's marketing to be about strong women but actually relegates women to support roles if the movie is considered from the context of an action adventure movie. The final entry has a woman taking on a large role in action scenes but is hated by both sides of the culture wars. Which makes everyone taking either side in this look like a bunch of idiots to anyone that's just going to a Star Wars movie looking for fun action adventure.

TL;DR: Y'all are a bunch of deranged idiots just trying to spite the "other side" and ruining the fun for everyone else.

It’s because they buy in to shit like The Great Replacement Theory.

Just some racist shit. They want it to be a white man

She's a successful black actress, they unfortunately come with the territory. I imagine they hit differently when they're coming from actual Nazis though

(This was meant to be a joke but it kinda just made me sad as I was typing it)

Maybe do it like Furiosa - take one of the interesting female characters and make a prequel about them.