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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***I miss SGT ROCK.***
But THE HAUNTED TANK would give them apoplexy.
Obviously, Carroll O’Connor was a superb actor.
And I think Edith’s acting helped a lot.
It started with the Frankfort School in the 1930s when the Marxists found out that Americans loved their country the way it was. Their goal was to change that.
The efforts of the Frankfort School have been amazingly successful.
The $300 million figure just shows how much they are willing to lose to advance the agenda, plus the hundreds of millions they have squandered in movies that bombed.
They thought they had an endless stream of money. They don’t.
For alternative viewing options, watch retro TV shows. It was a kinder, gentler world back then. In the 60’s shows, you start to see the integration of minority characters including Asians into the episodes. The shows tried to depict Americans coming together.
“but the 30 minutes of previews was pure hell. All were PC infused, leftist driven garbage.”
Previews and advertising discourage me from going to movies as well. I did sit through them for “Dunkirk” a box office success with uplifting content. Limbaugh recommends the late author Brad Thor’s “American Assassin” as a new movie worth seeing.
Whoa! That started the WABAC machine for me. How about THE HAUNTED TANK, guided by J.E.B. Stuart's ghost? You know, when America didn't crap on its history.
Archie was obviously a made-up character and his lines were scripted to shock and offend. But most viewers realized that Archie was over-the-top and that normal Americans didn't really speak or act that way. But Meathead was a dead-ringer for a virtue-signaling (decades before the term was coined) college-educated liberal with a head full of mush.
It was not lost on me, as a growing boy, that this deadbeat had to live with his in-laws because despite his college education, he couldn't afford a place of his own, while his supposedly ignorant blue collar father-in-law worked every day and got all the bills paid.
For the rest of my childhood, I vowed not to end up like Meathead!
Liberalism is no longer “edgy,” or avant garde. It’s merely decadent, psychotic, and nihilistic now. “Originality” is rare.
And Hollywood hasn’t gotten the message.
If Hollywood wants to “push the envelope” they would beat a path to writers like Matt Bracken and others and make films bases on their good old-fashioned adventure yarns that are based on a likely future dystopia.
But they won’t. They will ride the Liberal/Neo-Marxism train to the bitter end.
You beat me on the draw. A Haunted Tank movie played straight would draw firebombs to the theaters.
Meathead was perfect for that part. Rockford Files was a great show. My husband and I would get the kids to bed, and be in front of the tv at 8:00 every Friday.
A short counterpoint.
How many times has the Phantom of the Opera been made - re-made, and re-made again?
My son and I saw the latest remake several years in Boca Raton, FL. It played to repeated full audiences (we got in on our second attempt THAT NIGHT). It lived up to every expectation.
My 35-year old son was surprised that no one left until the credits had finished playing. He was even more surprised when the audience applauded the movie at the end!
When was the last time any of us had stayed all the way through the credits and then applauded the movie?
Hollywood can do great work when they ignore the temptation to prove their moral superiority by lecturing us on things that are important to them but don’t even make the bottom of our page.
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Rockford was one of the best TV shows ever made.
I especially love the Angel episodes.
The host on TCM said it best several years ago. The early Hollywood moguls were raised on great literature and made great movies from those great books.
Today’s movie producers were raised on comic books and make movies based on the same.
The sooner the Hollywood scum pump goes bust, the better.
There are a few things I will watch on TV but only by recording them and fast forwarding through the commercials. Quality TV entertainment has been destroyed by cable, it takes a lot of money to produce something like the shows that were on TV in the fifties and sixties. You cannot offer hundreds of channels and produce quality shows, I expect only further degeneration.
Sgt. Rock’s is “The Rock”.
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