Posted on 09/16/2017 5:14:11 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Hollywood as we have known it is dead, yes it is. It survived for years thanks to America’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mindless blockbusters based on mindless comic books. The box office for those blockbusters enabled leftist, anti-American producers to continued doling out millions of dollars to leftist directors to produce unappealing, box-office disaster films filled with leftist propaganda starring modestly-talented, sort of cute leftist actors.
But those days are gone. America’s appetite for mindless comic book blockbusters has run its course, and Hollywood has suffered through two straight record summer box office disasters the last two years. When even The Rock is no longer a guarantor of box office success – as with this summer’s disastrous remake of Bay Watch – you know the goose that has laid all these golden eggs is running out of steam.
It’s not just movies, it’s television, too. There was a time when Norman Lear could make a sitcom filled with liberal propaganda, and 25% of the American public would be standing around water coolers and break rooms the next day talking about what Maude or Archie Bunker had to say the previous evening. Now, if a sitcom attracts 2% of the public for an audience it has had a gigantic night.
Hollywood has lost its influence because its little bubble-contained culture became completely antithetical to the real American culture over the last 40 years. Ordinary Americans became sick of having their values lampooned and sensitivities insulted at every turn, and gradually began to realize they could change the channel or simply quit paying to see these awful flicks at the theaters.
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Hollywood has lost its influence because its little bubble-contained culture became completely antithetical to the real American culture over the last 40 years.
In effect, the entertainment community based in New York City and Los Angeles are essentially the same indulgent, parochial and sanctimonious denizens of the fictional capital city of Panem described in the novel The Hunger Games. It's these people that defined the phrases coastal elites and flyover country.
The entertainment community's unquestioned support for Hillary Clinton (some estimate they contributed US$300 million to her Presidential campaign) explains the anger over her loss (still going on even 10.5 months after Election Day 2016) and explains why middle America are taking it out on the entertainment community with a 16% drop in movie ticket sales in summer 2017 compared to summer 2016.
I wouldn't know because I haven haven't been to a movie since the last century. Unlike many people who talk tough, I put my money money where my mouth is: I don't go to movies, I don't watch ESPN, and I don't watch CNN.
I’m not sure about this. I was recently dragged to the movies with my kids to see the latest horror flick, the movie was ok, typical scare flick, but the 30 minutes of previews was pure hell. All were PC infused, leftist driven garbage. lots of money is still being poured into these progressive storylines. It’s like a never ending alarm company ad where all the criminals are clean cut white guys and the victims are minorities or women.
I don’t know. Wonder Woman made quite a bit of money. It is true that the movies this year have been lackluster. However, I would not count on seeing for sale signs on movie studios just yet. Two bad years after historic records the previous 10 doesn’t make for a terrible time. If it is still this way in 20 years then trouble will happen. Movie studios will need to do what TV shows are doing....put them on streaming models. For example, put new movies on demand the day a movie opens and charge a fee.....theaters are started to sell 10 dollar a month subscriptions and you can go to as many movies as you want during the month. Movie studios will have to be creative as TV networks have begun doing. I do not see Hollywood dead at all. One thing that is happening though is that filming is being done in cheaper areas like Canada, North Carolina and Atlanta among others. Hollywood has to evolve like everything and everybody else in America in every segment of our lives.
“It was Meathead who was the schmuck.”
Rob Reiner is to this very day a clueless lefty schmuck.
He’d be busted to private and sent to the stockade for being normal.
Haven’t watched American shows in years and haven’t missed a thing.
The problem with the superhero comic movies is that Hollywood decided to make money and have them watched worldwide so you want to make the movie as neutral as possible. This is a marketing, consumer, capitalism decision. Get as many eyeballs worldwide as possible.
Another excellent example of meathead being himself is his appearance in the Rockford Files as King Sturdivant in “The No Cut Contract”.
I used to go once, sometimes twice a week to movies. I barely go to one a year now...if that. Haven’t watched television since about 1998.
Hollywood doesn’t put out much that is worth seeing, and there is nothing that can make me sit through television with all the commercials.
If one really wanted to drive the stake into Hollywood’s heart they would follow Glenn Reynold’s suggestion and eliminate the medias tax exemptions and loopholes.
Typical elitist liberal Hollyweirdo.
Oh...Massachusetts...that explains it.
Because Hollywood is infected by a greedy, consanguineous tribe of America hating insects who consider people all people unlike them as rural, bible clutching, sister humping simpletons.
Does the murder mystery feature a blue-eyed businessman, okay, then he’s the perp. You say the plot line does feature a priest okay well then he’s the murderer.
Creators are now people somewhat like us and groups that create content are no longer agglomerated into these huge, hostile, culture-destroying cartels which function to exclude outsiders.
Hollywood's struggles have to do with releasing crappy movies that can't compete with fantastic streaming television. Politics and conservative/liberal values have nothing to do with it.
Not dead enough....Watch some of the old classic movies like Key Largo, True Grit, the film noir genre, Kathryn Hepburn, John Wayne, Ann Sheridan, Virginia Mayo, Randolf Scott and a host of those actors/actresses to see what movie entertainment should be like...
I find myself in agreement; though you could read things another way than presented in the article: the popularity of comic-book movies was because they generally espoused what American culture is about (probably accidentally, admittedly). Just rewatch the first Iron Man movie; see how the protagonist (Tony Stark) takes responsibility for his company dealing weapons to terrorists, see how he applies ingenuity as "Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a Box of scraps!"
**The “willing suspension of disbelief” not working?***
When on screen you see someone fall 50-100 feet, hit hard, bounce around and get up and continue to fight, and it is not a comedy, you know it cannot be taken seriously even if it is a “drama”.
You’re correct, but evidently Meathead was not convincing enough, or defeated the effort.
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