I really am starting to develop an intense dislike for anyone that uses the old cope of "just watch indie movies/old stuff bro!" I can understand why someone would want to decouple themselves from the diseased beast that is modern Hollywood, but it always reads to me as a concession that Hollywood will do whatever it wants and we should just ignore them. It's the typical boomer solution, just run away and let people that hate you take over. Yes, I know some indie movies are really good, but for every decent indie movie you could name, I could name three that are pretentious, undercooked, incomprehensible to anyone other than the writer, and clearly suffering from a lack of budget. And if you think for a second indie movies are immune to lefty mindviruses, you're dead wrong. At best, they're just a little bit better at hiding the poison pill in a piece of cheese than Hollywood is. Nothing wrong with watching indie movies, but the fact is there's just some things you can't do on an indie movie budget. Hollywood gatekeeping all the money and all the influence doesn't cease to be an issue just because some French guy shot a film in his basement for $5000.