Solo Screenwriter Not Sorry For Bringing Identity/Gender Politics Into Star Wars

I think you want a reasonable middle ground between the two sides, and I understand how you see the complaining white males as rigid, but I think it is wrong. They seem to view anything with women as conspiracy against them, but what I think is really going on is this is just a tactic. I do not know how you say it in English but it may be called a flash point, where they establish themselves in direct opposition in order to rally. The studios want more women leads, therefore movie viewers must oppose women leads in order to oppose the studios, even though as you pointed out none of them actually oppose Alien or Kill Bill. What they really want is meritocracy and only the studios are the ones against this. But you have to see it as a nonsuperficial point of view.

You are saying franchises that were originally female dominate could not be made into SJW propaganda? It is obvious to me that is false. Everyone would be very upset if a new Alien movie featured a political agenda against men even though it was already female dominated. In fact even if it did not, you would most likely see complaints that Alien didn't reverse gender to favor males like Star Wars reverse gender to favor females, and this would be justified out of balance. So I am suspicious that you are using an appeal to moderation as a shield. Another clue is that you refer to another movie being on the alt-right's chopping block. You are elevating their power to demonize them. It is Internet forum users versus movie studios. The seller can not be a victim of the buyer.

The thing is the Ghostbusters remake is shit. literally nobody on the planet asked for or wanted a remake never mind the genitalia of the cast.

And the Star Wars sequels are shit. Again, nobody wanted (or was expecting) a remake of ANH which is what we got. You say TFA was pretty damn solid? Yeah, the kind of solid that doesn't flush.

So how are we to know if the animosity to these films is due to them being shit or due to fragile masculinity? Well there's only one other example I can think of where a male dominated franchise whad gender swapped roles and that is BSG and guess what, all those 'White males' seemed to love that. So why was everybody fine with taking the 'embodiment' of masculinity, a cigar chomping, womanising, Dirk Benedict and recasting them as female...? Because she was well written. Because she was well acted. Because she had flaws and depth. Do you see my point?

And as for Ocean's Eight - again, does *anybody* want another film in this franchise? 11 was fun but forgettable, 12 was excreta and I never saw 13. The last thing anybody wants is a remake of a remake but I can see now that any complains are going to be met with the usual bullshit. So so predictable.

''That right there is the cardinal sin. If you take a male-dominant franchise and put women in it, then it's just part of an SJW agenda to emasculate men.''

Isn't it though? What other reason could people have to take a male-dominant franchise and replace the men with women? We don't do it the other way around. We don't make an Alien movie nowadays and put a male lead in there. There is no Pitch Perfect with a only male cast. Give me 1 reason why they would reboot/remake/sequelize a movie and replace all the men? You cannot say that gender doesn't matter in movies, but then defend this. Its having you cake and eating it.
Either you don't care about genders and you only care about good characters, or you think gender matters and want to see every franchise be female lead.

''Ghostbusters and Star Wars (specifically TLJ). Strangely, those are the only two franchises whose 'badness' was blamed on SJW politics.''
This is because the SJW bullshit in those 2 movies are woven into the story and impact the script, story and characters. Its not just side stuff, its embedded. And people are lashing out against it. Rightly so.