Posted on 06/13/2018 9:26:03 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The only way to send the pretenders a message is to stop watching their movies and avoid watching any self aggrandizing awards shows - like the Tony Awards. Who needs actors anyway?
While leftists applaud De Niro, the Raging Bulls__t, for his foul mouthed remarks and idiotic gestures at the egomaniacal Tony Awards, those of us with a sense of decency wonder what happened to the entertainment industries’ integrity. I just don’t think a respectable person would have gotten up in front of a world audience and muttered such idiotic filth. By the same token, I don’t think a respectable audience, with the least amount of integrity, would have applauded De Niro, let alone given him a standing ovation.
The liberal ones tend to be the loudest. There are others behind the scenes who are not liberal and just focus on their work.
“The only way to send the pretenders a message is to stop watching their movies and avoid watching any self aggrandizing awards shows - like the Tony Awards. Who needs actors anyway?”
Retreat and isolation is certainly an option. I think we need to find ways to get our message heard within these institutions that the liberals have taken over. However I don’t know exactly how to do that.
Ask yourself this — if the tables were turned — would the liberals just retreat and stop watching movies? I submit they would loudly fight if movies and award ceremonies were full of conservative messages.
These Hollywood idiots keep turning off “middle America” with their histrionics.
All it does it gain more support for our side.
De Niro's delusion is not meaningful but a standing ovation is a problem. The reason it is a problem is that simple minded people find solace in their hero's political agenda.
“There seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.
They are idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously. After all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Since we discovered about 9 months ago that our amazon prime membership gave us access to thousands of movies and TV shows from the last 70+ years, we’ve made a spectacular discovery:
Most of it is not worth watching. I don’t mean it’s not very good. I mean it is TERRIBLE and not worth your time. It’s especially fun to peruse “free” science fiction movies. Try it some time. It’s like the stuff was made for drive in movies and they expected that the poor quality would motivate the couple watching it to, after the first ten minutes or so, start making out and forget about the movie.
But it’s not just Sci-Fi.
Oddly, some of the old movies and TV shows are timeless and still excellent entertainment. The core stories in the old Twilight Zone episodes are not only excellent, but it’s pretty easy to see where some modern stuff has ripped it off. That being said, many of them were recorded on high quality black and white film but expected to be viewed on poor quality TV screens. Flaws in the sets, easy to see on a modern flat screen, become almost comical.
Obviously Charles Wills. Hence the column.
Withhold entertainment dollars....It’s gotta work
Eric Hoffer “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
Dr. Who has the same problems in the modern Hi Def world.
We watched a classic on the big screen on Monday and the low budget build showed bigly. Par for the course with classic Who.
There was a short one on one with Tom Baker afterwards that was really good.
More raging bull....
Confiscatory Entertainment Tax
Leonard Nimoy on Futurama...
“So many cardboard sets...so many memories!”
I saw an episode once about 30 years ago. I remember the dumb trash can aliens and didn’t finish it. Are you saying the show was pretty good but has gotten not so good?
BTW, I tried, again, to watch The Man in the High Tower and just couldn’t do it. It just drags on and on and on, and for what? I suppose if the only thing you have in this world is time it might be worth it, but I need something with a bit more “congealed” plot line.
I just realized I missed what you were saying.
Retreat and isolation is certainly an option. I think we need to find ways to get our message heard within these institutions that the liberals have taken over.
It is a tactical retreat. What we want is a free market solution. Not watching tv and movies will hit their bottom line(how much I don’t know) to make it easier for new competition to enter the market.
Cutting cable tv-let your cable tv company know that you will be back when they offer a la carte programming instead of the bundle which always includes the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL. CNN receives half of its revenue from cable subscriber fees. Dropping you cable tv would be a double whammy, less cable subscriber fee revenue and less advertising revenue. With a la carte programming they cannot force you to pay for the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL channels.
Only go to see conservative movies(I know they are far and few between). Reduced ticket sales for Liberal tripe and increased ticket sales for conservative movies. It may push them to make more conservative or not. But you will no longer be funding the LEFT. And again, if the LEFTIST movie studios have soft ticket sales, it may invite more competition.
Choosing how to spend my discretionary money is not a boycott. It is freedom.
In the new presentations of the old Star Trek on my hi-def tv, I’ve actually seen flaws in the plaster on some of the enterprise walls.
“Who needs actors anyway?”
In days gone by actors were considered on the lower rung of society. The advent of movies and mass advertising changed that. Not for the better I’m afraid.
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