[Rummyfan]

Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep pose together backstage before "Montclair Film: An Evening with Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep" at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Dec. 1, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

[Rummyfan]

I'm tempted to answer my title question with a paraphrase of Preston Sturges' great line from 1942's "The Palm Beach Story," made when movies were actually fun: "Hollywood's not only dead, it's decomposed." (Sturges was referring to chivalry.)

The only flick I'm interested in seeing is Clint Eastwood's The Mule.

I haven't seen any of the last three or four Best Picture winners.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Alberta's Child]

Does anybody care who wins the Oscar anymore? I certainly don't -- and I'm a voter.

If I was in the movie business, this would be the most disturbing thing I had read in my career. LOL.

[lee martell]

Every form of entertainment has a build up, a peak, a plateau, and a decline. Some will cease to be entirely. Others shrink down to suit present demand,or morph to suit the times. If Hollywood is to continue as a strong force in the entertainment industry, they need to change to suit the American public, or cater only to China. Let Georgia take over more filming projects.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Meryl Streep standing and cheering wildly for child rapist Roman Polanski:

[deweyfrank]

It's dead to me. Nothing but a pathetic bunch of hypocrites who are held in too high of an esteem for my liking.

[gaijin]

Heather O'Rourke

She was gorgeous but from a poor Calif family. She got famous and her parents could buy a house in Big Bear, later in Lakeside.

The execs LOVED her, esp after Poltergeist. They dressed her up in a pedo bikini on a stage. With the floodlights on her, a bunch of them sitting in the dark of the theater went all Pee Wee Herman in the darkness --this was their secret hobby.

You know what I'm talking about.

Later the real big-wheels took her into a back room to do some stuff to her. Apparently they'd been doing that stuff to her for years.

They stuck something up her as$, causing intenstinal stenosis.

Her parents thought she was simply sick, but then her toes started turning blue.

They rushed her to the hospital, her pupils becoming fixed in the ambulance.

She died.

Hollywood f*cked the child to death.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

After that title, I couldn't help it....

[Exit148]

Is Hollywood Dead?

Hope so.

(how about a few bucks to end this FReepathon???)

[Seaplaner]

Having acted a bit (college), and written a bit (working on second book); and accordingly I feel as though I'm a pretty fair film critic.

Movies today have degenerated into action-oriented, characterless political statements that are somehow designed to offend me.

The "stars" typically show less talent than the feature actors, and the scripts are apparently written by third graders (in a hurry).

Someone in Hollywood decided that scenes were too long for actors to perform, so now each film is a staccato of scene cuts that should infuriate any voting member of the academy.

I could go on, but then it would be like an acceptance speech.

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[ManHunter]

“Is Hollywood dead?” No,, but it’s stinking pretty bad...

[\/\/ayne]

[EveningStar]

ping

[gnarledmaw]

Yes, fortunately. I know that kids don't listen to what the big record labels promote as closely as past generations. They don't have to, because of the internet they can choose to listen to anything that happens to catch their attention regardless of genre or artist. Just as the music industry is losing control over telling people who to listen to and controlling distribution due to technology, the Hollywood movie machine is dead. Most people don't recognize the wheezing for what it is yet.

Some of the independent stuff is getting pretty good and computers make editing, special effects, and distribution to anyone willing to show it easy.

For example, there is a micro-brewery nearby that presently turns itself into a theater one night a week. With more venues doing this a consumer would be able to choose a venue that not only showed the type of movie a person was interested in watching but also choose the type of setting (and also thereby the crowd), the food and drinks available, and better choose who is being supported by your admission price. Isnt choices part of what America is all about?

Unless the movie industry and the cinemas make some huge technological leap, like 3d hologram projections or something similar that is too expensive for small venues to keep up with, Hollywood is terminal. I believe this was part of the reason for the forced upgrade to digital theater systems, they saw what was happening too and tried to force out all the independently owned theaters in support of the big chains. Its too little, too late, and technology has leapfrogged their effort.

Though most people don't seem to recognize it, its just a small part of changes still coming that will continue to effect culture and society in ways more significantly than the arrival of the first iron horse.

Buggy whip manufacturers insist Im wrong, they just cant see it ever catching on.

[dfwgator]

To me it is.

[Sontagged]

Roger needs to pay his dues and vote. What a whiner. He’ll get that much back in screeners.

[discostu]

11 billion dollars in domestic theatrical revenue this year. so that’s a no.

[sport]

As far as I am concerned it is.

[dead]

With no untainted humans available, the Academy programs an NPC as host.

[Intolerant in NJ]

She who once referred to Harvey Weinstein, granddad of the #Me Too Movement, as “a God”......