One of the first blatant times I noticed it, was the movie Wild Wild West, with Will Smith replacing Robert Conrad
Here was a period piece from the term of President Ulysse S. Grant. (1869 - 1877)
In it James West plays a vital Secret Service agent addressing special assignments on behalf of the President. And no, one of those vital assignments wasn't countering racism in the South. None the less, that's what was covered in part in the Will Smith version. They couldn't be content to merely present a clever plot with a bit of humor and creative genius mixed in.
What do we know about that period? We do know that racism was prominent. We know that it would have been very very unlikely that during Grant's term, the top Secret Service agent would be a Black man. That didn't stop central casting. The White guy was out.
Will Smith did a decent job in the movie. That's not the point. The point is, a White man played the role on television. He did a very good job at it. I would have appreciated them staying with the story line. They didn't. I considered that to be a racist move.
Here we are with Ghostbusters, and the male roles are changed to female. Just looking at the trailers, my take on it would be that every other line would be vulgarity on parade. The subtle comedic touch seldom makes into this type of swap out. I didn't see the movie, but I know the desperation to be seen as funny, and what movies today often do to provide humor.
As soon as I saw what they were doing, this movie was a no-go for me.
I expected the campy fun humor from the other Ghostbuster movies to be replaced with sexist vulgar messages.
Not on my dime...