Posted on 07/18/2023 9:52:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hollywood once supported America and family values; it’s now antithetical to them. This means that many Americans are rooting for its collapse during a writers’ and actors’ strike over an industry change as significant and destructive as the advent of the car was to carriage makers.
I’m a huge fan of pre-1960s movies, and I know a fair amount about the history of Hollywood. In Hollywood’s early years, the executives behind it were almost entirely Jewish immigrants who found a niche in a brand-new industry and filled it.
Throughout the 1920s and into the very early 1930s, movie plots got progressively more sordid. However, in the face of combined pressure from consumers and politicians, Hollywood cleaned up its act, producing family- and America-friendly movies for the next 35 or so years until the social compact started falling apart in the mid-1960s.
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Hollywood turned against America. This was in part because industry followed the Baby Boomers, who were a huge source of funds and who were moving left at warp speed.
The trend accelerated as Hollywood actors, few of whom were credentialed, figured that they could give themselves an intellectual gloss if they followed campus social and political trends. With bully pulpits, publicists, and unbounded egos, they gave unsavory, unwashed, and unhinged academic intellectuals glamor and reach.
Another thing to know about Hollywood, both past and present, is that it is now and has always been a place of unbridled debauchery. Where one finds power and money, one invariably finds pedophilia and other forms of sexual power politics and abuse.
Hollywood used to keep that sordid fact hidden from Americans. Over the last 20 years, though, it’s been marketing deviant sex to them, especially to youngsters.
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Its demise and burial is most welcome. Could next we have the same for news media and the U.S. government?
“The other l heard was Snow Latina and the 7 Portland hipsters.”
The first one I heard (before we saw a Latina in the role) was Coal Black & the 6 diverse average size and 1 Dwarf helpers.
I kinda like Leatherette Brown & the 7 Perverts/
And you will have people tell you that is impossible to do.
Same as our choosing not to give our kids smart phones and not allowing them social media.
Most of the 40s and 50s were westerns, musicals, and horror/alien stuff.
The 60s were westerns and lots of Disney kid stuff like Kurt Russell films. It was late 60s and into the 70s when it shifted into gritty city based movies.
Stayed that way until the mid 80s.
What’s he got in his hand?
An airhorn.
In May 22 I cut cable TV and went entirely to Streaming internet. Between YouTube & Rumble my wife and I now subscribe to dozens of “streaming” channels.
I would much rather watch a young expat American couple rebuild a 200 year old house in the foothills of the Italian Alps than watch ANYTHING Hollywood puts out.
I would rather watch the Joe Rogan Experience or PBD Podcast or Lex Friedman podcast than any interviewer on CABLE NEWS.
Except Tucker. Last night we watched Tucker's interviews of Pence and the other Republican POTUS candidates he embarrassed recently.
“suspension of disbelief”
Are you telling me that John Wick is not that good of a shot?
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Agreed. I didn’t think the Kill Bill movies were very good either. I think Jackie Brown was his last good one.
Hey guys, there’s honest work at Jiffy Lube.
Some of the big problems is the focus on big budget blockbusters and the disappearance of the B movie. If 200 million is being risked they want to go with what worked in the past thus all the remakes and sequels. Especially the kind which focus on special effects at the cost of good writing and storytelling. Thus, we lost creativity and originality. I hate the comic book movies now because I feel like I’ve seen it all before. Same with most big budget flicks. I’m a science fiction fan and I think the Prime series “The Expanse” and the Apple + series “Foundation” are better than any big screen movies I’ve seen in 20 years. It’s new and interesting. I love not being able to figure out in advance how the plot will unfold.
“My 13 yr old boy doesn’t watch tv at all streaming or otherwise. Rarely exhibits any interest in movies.”
My teenage girls are like that and, for that matter, so am I. My TVs are often turned on but that is because they are being used as monitors for the security cameras! Haven’t been tuned into any entertainment content in years. The girls will go once or twice a year to a theater but this is to share the time with friends, not so much for the screen content.
Try explaining that to your Electric Vehicle!
I prefer DVDs of movies taht I choose myself that are decent and unedited for wokeness.
Thrift stores are the best places for finding them cheap but it’s hit or miss. So I just check regularly.
I hope Hollywood goes belly up.
I hope they take Big Tech with them.
I was just gonna say, the last good Tarantino movie was Jackie Brown.
You can replace the word “HOLLYWOOD” with the word HARVARD.
It’s fiction. P.S. Shakespeare also made stuff up...even the history plays.
My 14-year-old granddaughter is heavily into soccer and hanging out with her friends. No interest in movies or TV, either.
Hollywood may be in its death throes
But will anybody notice it.
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