LogFAQs > #969192034

There have always been politics and messages, but they weren't so polarized. There was room for more messaging between the camps, and blockbustery movies had a lot more room to be fun without pissing off half of the population.

Theseadays you basically need some inane Marvel/Disney stuff if you want to do pure fun: anything more than that is risky. The new Top Gun did an amazing job pleasing both sides but you could feel their extreme caution: we can't become too warmongering, but we can't appear too "woke" either.

Soo....I dunno. Several genres aren't much affected (horror, some types of comedies, etc) but I think it's fair to say that the number of topics that filmmakers are willing to take on in what they would like to be a general-interest movie has declined dramatically.