One could make the argument that a woman was chosen to star in a Predator film simply because they hadn't done it yet. But because of the times it comes off as more of a pandering move to people sick of pandering moves.
Except for the first AvP movie.
As many have said, it's not just the issue of it being a woman, it's the "I want to do man things" that annoyed people.
Bitching about how something sucks now, is woke, is ruined, etc. etc. is playing into their hand. IP and Corporations thrive through any engagement.
If you truly dislike something, the best thing you can do is just fucking move on and stop giving it attention. I say this to all Star Wars/Gamer/Marvel/Whatever faggots.
Nobody really cares though. The vast majority of people just want to bitch to hear themselves bitch I'm pretty sure. I've been trying to get this through Star Wars fags heads for the better part of three years, but a decade in and they still just scream and seethe into the void instead of just moving on with their lives. It will be the same for everything. It's what a part of society lives for now. Just always being upset. Instead of it being at pronouns or representation they get offended by corporate toy commercials and shit.
Let me see if I can explain this using a non-controversial example. Did you see the movie Free Guy? It's a decent enough flick. At the climax of the movie, our hero Ryan Reynolds is facing off against the bad guy and this moment happens:
As if to make it even more obvious, right after this they even cut to a 2-second Chris Evans cameo to make sure you get it.
Alright, fine, it's Marvel, whatever.
Now imagine it was in
every movie. Oh sure very often it would be so subtle you might not notice it, but then when you do start noticing it, you can't stop. Like you'll be in the middle of an arthouse film and realize one of the characters is wearing an "Iron Man" tshirt. You'll be watching a romantic comedy and there's a poster for spider-man in the guy's room. In some of the schlockier films, they'll shove it in your face with someone walking into a scene saying "Check it out I got a replica of Dr Strange's cape. How's it look on me?"
Then you get this film. It's about an alien killer hunting humans in the distant past. You think SURELY there can be no marvel in it. Then, right as you want to settle in, one of the French fur trappers says to another, "Didst thou read the latest pulp release of X-men?" and they have a minute long nerd-conversation about it.
THAT'S what it's like. To the point you
can't escape it. You can't even go back and watch old stuff because they're starting to put warnings at the start of the films/shows. You can try grabbing up older media (which I encourage because I do) but they're cutting down on releasing those, meaning the islands you can escape to are ever shrinking.
And I'm not sure ignoring them does anything. They're remaking Night Court:
NIGHT COURT!
Nobody cared about night court save as a running joke in RLM.
Also, as
@Jet Fuel Johnny pointed out, the Predator would be a magic demon to... well anyone who didn't live in the 20th century. Indigenous people would consider it a wrathful god that can't die or bleed, so she would have to approach it like a ghost hunter... but a dousing rod or some other superstitious artifact.
See that could be another interesting thread to take - where our protagonist is the first to realize the Yautja is not a god, but mortal like them.
