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Posted on 02/26/2013 4:47:51 AM PST by expat1000
Don’t tell that to the recent “winners” of this year’s Oscars. SARC.
Seems like all the drama and crime shows have kidnapping of the main characters as central to their theme.
It’s laughable.
Almost as if all the writers went to lunch one day and decided to copy someone’s script idea.
After a Chinese company bought the AMC theater chain last year, you can forget about any movie being made with ChiCom bad guys, or which in any way displeases the Chinese.
Thank God for TCM and its 31 Days of Oscar. Most of these films were made when movies had plots and characters you cared about. And you can be assured at in the end, goodness and morality would win.
A perfect example of this is the Red Dawn remake. First off, it’s a remake which means lack of creativity. Second, the only plausible country that could invade the U.S. (and truth be told, it’s not really plausible either) is China. Which was the first cut of this. However, that did not sit well with the Chi-com audience so in order to make this a world wide distribution, they had to make the invading country the Koreans. Which is truly a joke. North Korea can’t even invade South Korea right across the 38th parallel, how could it come all the way across the Pacific and invade us? Stupid...
Brilliant, as usual.
Now I think I will sit in my comfy chair and watch a DVD of “The Ten Commandments”, “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Taras Bulba”, The Original “Producers” or “Some Like It Hot”.
I actually like the CGI movie “300”, but I can’t tell you who was “in it”.
Hollywood is just one step away from “The Feelies”.(Brave New World)
The War Movies and Film Noir channels on Veetle.com are my constant companion when working on the computer,which is often 8 hours or more a day.
NOTE: Veetle uses P2P - some people have a problem with that.
and if you think thats bad, just turn on a TV..... ugh
Hollywood is alive and well. They made more money in 2012 then in 2011. In 2013, they are up from 2012 mainly due to Identity Theft. The Oscars had the highest ratings in three years (over 40 million watched). Third highest show in 2013 after the Superbowl and play off game. I thought the Oscars were very funny for a change. Seth MacFarlin is a guy who made Ted for goodness sake. Anyone who was expecting the Pope on Sunday Night is naive. Seth MacFarlin will be asked again. The only hosts never to be asked again are David Letterman and James Franco.
Or try making a movie called “Jihadi Dawn” where tens of thousands of unemployed muzzies from Pakistan, Egypt, Somalia, & Pali-land unite under a Mahdi figure & swarm into the U.S. by any & all means, with ICE helpless to intervene due to political correctness. They set up Shariah courts, halal butcher shops & terrorize the “infidel” population, especially females.
No Hollywood director would dare offend the muzzies with such a film. Except, wait a second, that muzzie invasion is taking place right now across this nation.
“Never mind......”
My husband keeps TCM on in the background when he is "hobbying" in the evening and on weekends. The 31 days of Oscar is the period when he switches to the NCIS channel or the Food Network. He really doesn't care for many movies made after 1950. The older, the better.
the plots will not exist and every movie will be mostly the same. In other words it will be exactly like Hollywood is now.
Bunch of crap. Sure all the movies are the same....SURE. Let’s see....Les Mis, Lincoln, Argo, Silver Lining Playbook, Life of Pi, Amour, Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained are ALL the same. This author is the dumbest author I think I have ever read in my history of reading and that says A LOT!!!!
Thanks for the tip.
“The Military Channel” has great old war movies in its series hosted by Lew Diamond Phillips called “An Officer and a Movie”.
Although there have ALWAYS been commies in Hollywood, the industry has suffered the most in the last few years. The invention of CGI has contributed greatly to this downfall. All of us remember the wonder of the ORIGINAL Star Wars, which was created on a shoe string with painstaking special effects, makeup, and costumes that were a triumph of the art.
Contrast that with the last three Star Wars, with their overdone CGI effects and characters, vapid plots, and Jar Jar Binks.
CGI makes it possible to advance the politically correct agenda without involving the human element provided by actors. It is also very cheap compared with shooting on location, constructing sets, rehearsing the roles, lavish costumes, and wonderfully fun and exciting effects. A REAL explosion is so much more fun than a CGI explosion, but then one has to clean up afterwards.
And when the character is a soulless CGI creation, we don’t have to experience a real emotional catharsis. The “Catharsis” has been a feature of drama since Ancient Greece, and it has been lost in one generation.
I NEVER go to “The Movies” anymore.
>>and if you think thats bad, just turn on a TV..... ugh
At least there is the occasional TV series that while has the inevitable homosexuality, pro-abortion stance, etc. etc. does have good dialogue and actual plots. Shows like Sons of Anarchy, The Shield, Breaking Bad.
>>The Oscars had the highest ratings in three years (over 40 million watched).
Vs. 53 million 15 years ago when the population was considerably smaller.
If you want catharsis, Film Noir is the ticket! ;-)
I didn’t watch any of those shows.
If you can’t make a show without sex and nudity and bad language its because you have no creativity whatsoever.
Oh INDEED! LOL!
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