A few reasons: Subversion is risky as an investment...There was an article linked here a while ago, about how you cant make movies like "The Fugutive" anymore:

A few reasons: Subversion is risky as an investment...There was an article linked here a while ago, about how you cant make movies like "The Fugutive" anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874606 China has been investing in Hollywood as well, and with that has come higher exports of US cinema to China. For a movie to work in China - it will need to pass censors there. Its no surprise most media coming out is safe as all fuck, tedious, obvious as hell, and objectively bad. Moreso - there's the concept of the four-quadrant movie - one which appeals to all four major demographic "quadrants" of the moviegoing audience: both male and female, and both over- and under-25s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-quadrant_movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-quadrant_movie More pertinent to sex - sexuality is/has traditionally sided towards objectifying women. This can be turned on its head by objectifying men...or avoided all together (the safer choice) - the wide range of overly sexualised fantasy characters in McMarvel franchise type movies is odd to consider based on what i just said though Basically, no sexy times, no political times, no times at all...