@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Both genders are guilty and Hollywood (and authors and game developers and....) takes advantage of it. They throw in a white bread, boring ass protagonist you can pretend is actually yourself being the big damn hero who gets the guy/girl and people sink into the escapism like a warm bath.
Yeah, no, I get that. It's a thing, it's fundamentally fine. I wouldn't be saying this if Sam was just a non-character for audience identification. I don't take issue with protagonists who are aggressively awful, either.
My point is that Sam is both: he's a garbage person who I'm supposed to be using as my stand-in. If someone holds up Sam Witwicky to me and says "here, this is you!", I can safely say that person hates me.
(And @HorrorHound don't be mean to Keannu. He's not much one for... intense emotion in his film, but he does his thing.)