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 Buddy Action Flick vs Woke Queer Remakes?

If you guessed Buddy Action Flick, you’d be right.

But that’s not what the Hollywood wokesters want to make.  It’s so bad that Amazon games their rankings to try to make their crap, like the new lesbian version of A League of Their Own, look like it’s doing better than it is.

Hollywood is even doing studies.  They put together two potential shows.  One was the woke lesbian black woman trying to find her way in a southern town (why is it always southern?).  The other was basically Starsky and Hutch episodes with two white guys and a cool car.  The first one was a real show with a budget, the second one was a fake.

Focus groups chose the fake, hands-down.

The production house went on to pitch show A to a couple of streamers (one was Netflix) with a few modifications. It was always their intent to pitch show A, show B was only there as a control, an assemblage of classic cop show beats to learn from. Here’s the kicker: While episodes for show A where adapted outlines done by the real writers of the proposed show, show B episodes where quickly hacked up adapted old episodes of Starsky & Hutch, with the car swapped out for a Dodge Challenger. Very little effort was put on the audio and the animatics (we objected at the discrepancy in quality of the presentation materials)… but it didn’t matter…. Show B popped huge, just huge! The leads, the chief, Vegas, the women, explosions, the helicopter, the Car, the Dog! All!

And back to the destruction of a wonderful movie by reworking the story lines:

 The Hollywood Reporter also suggested that overall consumer disinterest in “A League of Their Own” could represent a larger disconnect between content creators and audiences. According to the outlet, many Amazon focus groups “tend to favor broad and less inclusive programming,” creating a ranking system in the algorithm which often prefers “straight, white male leads above all others,” even as some in the industry continue to push for “diverse and inclusive shows.”

For myself, I’m about the action movies that don’t shove ideology down my throat.   Give me the Duke boys taking the General Lee airborne, any day.