What happened to enjoying a fictional movie?

You know what you ask a good question that I don't have a good answer to. I guess too many picky people now I guess.

We live in the scrutinizing era of the Internet, where everything is scrutinized to a point where it's sickening.

Great question. As a society we nip pick everything today. Nothing is accepted, everything is criticized.

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It's not a fictional movie, it's a real movie. It premiered in theatres around the world back in 1993, and has since been widely available on Home Video releases, played on TV very regularly, and regularly available on streaming services such as Netflix in the digital age.
If it was "fictional movie", it would only exist in a fictional universe, much like 'Angels with Filthy Souls' in Home Alone or 'Itchy & Scratchy' from The Simpsons etc. etc.

OK, but in all seriousness and in answer to the OP's question: yes, we all enjoy this movie (at least I think most of us do). But it's also fun and sometimes necessary to discuss the what if's and why's now and again with movies we like (or even don't like), so what I'd like to know is why do you have a problem with this?

I think that because, as part of cancel culture, we as a society are at a place where we think everything from yesteryear needs to hold up to today's lens. I'm not a fan of either thing. You can love something from the past and acknowledge that it wouldn't work as well today. Because of course, you would hope that social consciousness progresses over the course of decades, we should be more careful and selective and sensitive than 50 years ago. But that doesn't mean we get to change history. We can want to work toward being better without completely burning down everything from the past. With Mrs. Doubtfire, guessing because it plays drag as a lark without being serious about it. This is still a warm movie to me. I was born in 1985 and am gay and liberal, but some things you just have to take in stride. Not a fan of Kevin Spacey's actions, but I'm not going to stop loving American Beauty. Also, the people who you want to cancel, if they can't find work, then you'll complain that they're welfare cases. And being gay, there are some movies from a time ago that flippantly use the term "faggot," which I'm not wild about, but I don't let it ruin my love for the movie, or to take up a petition to have a new edit with it removed.