Outside of looking for movies to watch based on genre, I often mind myself liking movies based on how easily I could insert myself into the plot and how relevant it was to my life. Call it narcissistic all you want, that is just how I do things.

Case in point: I have watched both Monster's Inc. and Monster's University. I liked both of them, and could easily find funny moments and memorable quips. But if you were to ask me which one I liked better, without question, I would say Monster's University.

The reason I would say that is based on when I first saw them. Monster's Inc came out in what, 2002, 2003? I was only 6 or 7 at the time, and with the fact that a big part of the plot dealt with the corporate world, it just did not relate to me quite as much.

Monster's University, by contrast, came out when I was 17, and I was dealing with all the pains of applying to colleges my self. The fact that it was relevant to that point of my life made it easier for me to relate to the characters.

It wasn't just Monster's University that I binged on during that point. At the time, I would also watch Revenge of the Nerds and Animal House almost every day, almost wearing out the discs. I was closing in going off to college and I just felt that it brought me closer to the protagonists than it actually did.

That is not true quite to the same level these days. One movie that I am actually looking forward to see is The Post, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. This is not only because it looks like a movie, but it is also relevant to my life with my impending graduation and entering a career.

That might be well and good, but what about racial and gender representation? I will be accused of not wanting diversity in entertainment based on just that criteria.There has been a lot about diversifying television and movies based upon the characters, and often times, the producers and writers just change the identities of the characters, including rebooting established series and changing the characters appearances.

This is the wrong way to do it. If you want diversity in a show or a movie, you need to come up with a storyline and plot that everyone can relate to. Then, with the identities in question in production and casting, then you come up with a diverse cast from there.

Instead, what ends up happening is that you take an established character and just completely change everything about them, but they don't get the proper backstory. This is where people get upset, as it feels like diversity is being promoted just for the sake of claiming diversity.

I would love to see a movie where the main characters happened to be black, or women, or part of the LGBT community. I just want to see them in something original so that someone like me *gasp* could replace one of the characters and very little if anything would change. Is that too much to ask?