The days in which I went for Tuesday cheap nights, subscribed to PREMIERE magazine, rented regularly with Dad’s Beta machine, my those days seem to be very distant now, lol.
I’m getting pretty tired of the constant parade of sadism, snarkiness, miscegnation, deviant sex jokes, dancing around, crappy bombastic music, etc. I mean constant. And that’s just the commercials.
I stopped going to movies years ago.
With the exception bring my family would drag me along.
I think the last movie I saw in a theater was Shrek.
To the extent this is true, it is very, very welcome news.
The pendulum is already swinging to the other side.
If we could Make Hollywood Great Again it would go a long way toward repairing our culture.
Sine I tend to be a glass half empty kind of guy....imagine the movies that Hollywood decided not to make. They must have really sucked.
The “willing suspension of disbelief” not working?
It never ceases to amaze me that some people never “GOT” that Norman Lear is an arch manipulator. His Archie Bunker intended to demean Americans, to slap them down for their Archie-ness.
Many people liked Archie.....they figured Archie did and said the things that needed to be said and done.
Go figure.
It’s funny watching Hollywood churn out superhero pictures. The costumes are excellent and CGI has made comic book baddies, explosions, battles, etc. believable on-screen.
But superheroes who were super in part because they represented morality and the righting of wrongs are anathema to amoral Hollywood types, so they have taken to making the superheroes’ secret identities into total bastards or, in some cases, making the superheroes into villains themselves.
Even Thor, for example, who is a god (small g) and not from Earth, is portrayed as a bit of a larrikin when not in costume. Captain America is mocked for his unhip 40s outlook but eventually comes round to being one of the cool kids, led by Robert Downey’s Tony Stark. Of course, Downey is absolutely stealing his paycheck by playing himself when he plays Tony Stark but hey...
I realize that Marvel pioneered the ‘flawed, neurotic personality’ shtick for its characters in the comics even in the 60s but Hollywood has taken it to new levels.
HOLLYWOOD is not dead, it’s evolving, and NETFLIX is making it easier for tech savvy kids and young adults to indulge their craving for violence and filth indulge via the internet and smartphone.
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/12/15783110/netflix-hollywood-movies-windows-home-streaming-regal-cinemark-moffettnathanson
The Soviets had a program decades ago to place their moles into places where they could influence American culture. The moles and their protégés have had a lot of influence for decades. It is good to see that Americans are finally rejecting Soviet influence, at least in Hollywood. But the Soviet influence is still strong in schools, and, unfortunately, has resulted in a large number of young people who have been rendered largely useless. If we want to save our culture and freedom, we must address the problem in schools.
Is humblegunner asleep?
FTA: ‘a culture that rejects obvious scams and blatant disregard for common values is a culture that remains strong at its base.’
He’s talking about Hollywood but he could easily be talking about the Hillary For President campaign.
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.
Haven’t watched American shows in years and haven’t missed a thing.
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.
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.