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Hollywood Has Received Its Death Blow
PostCanadian ^ | 8/1/25 | Devon Kash

Posted on 08/03/2025 6:06:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff

The American film industry, long a bastion of cultural influence, is teetering on the edge of obsolescence, and Google’s Veo 3, an AI-powered video generation model launched in May 2025, may have delivered the fatal blow. This technological upheaval is not only a disruption of Hollywood’s economic model but a long-overdue reckoning for an industry steeped in liberal bias, out of touch with traditional values and increasingly irrelevant to the average person.

Veo 3, with its ability to generate high-quality videos from simple text prompts or static images, threatens to dismantle the bloated budgets, overpaid actors, and elitist gatekeepers of Tinseltown, while empowering independent creators to produce compelling content without the need for vast financial resources. Veo 3 is poised to end Hollywood’s reign, send its actors to the unemployment line, liberate creative individuals, and expose the industry’s liberal excesses as a relic of a bygone era. Hollywood has long been a symbol of American creativity, but its dominance has come at a cost. The industry’s reliance on massive budgets—often exceeding $200 million for a single blockbuster—has created a system where only a handful of studios, backed by corporate conglomerates, can afford to produce films.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ai; hollywood; movies
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Interesting article, will the modern woke liberal Hollywood have met its match?
1 posted on 08/03/2025 6:06:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
It has been going on for decades.

In the old days, first run movies competed with other first run movies.
Now first run movies have to compete with every movie ever made.

2 posted on 08/03/2025 6:09:21 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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Hollywood needs to learn make good looking movies that cost under 100 million. Even adjusted for inflation older blockbusters cost half of what modern films cost and they look better . I assume cgi is eating up a lot of money whereas older films used practical effects.


3 posted on 08/03/2025 6:10:49 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: DallasBiff

I hope so.


4 posted on 08/03/2025 6:13:02 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: DallasBiff

Opting for CGI and AI to make movies would be an improvement over continuing to employ lunatic left wing self entitled actors.......and a hell of a lot less expensive.


5 posted on 08/03/2025 6:13:45 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DallasBiff

I really don’t understand the liberals running Hollywood. I know they are risk averse, which is why they resist anything new. I’m also pretty sure that they love money more than their political ideology. But they still manage to push out retreaded material with a heavy does of woke in the process. So, just like Colbert, they virtually eliminate half of their potential customers.

I don’t go to movies for two reasons: First, people are jerks. I hate going to a public place and being trapped around people who are inconsiderate, and just plain disgusting. Second, it seems any new offering from Hollywood can’t resist weaving woke themes into every single thing they produce.

No, thank you.


6 posted on 08/03/2025 6:14:03 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: DallasBiff

How much USAID was used so they could make that Woke Diverse Garbage ?


7 posted on 08/03/2025 6:14:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: V_TWIN

Unlike Alec Baldwin, CGI and AI movies don’t kill people.


8 posted on 08/03/2025 6:15:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: DallasBiff

Thanks for the good news.


9 posted on 08/03/2025 6:15:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

Now first run movies have to compete with every movie ever made.


Ditto for music. And now anyone can make their own music, by typing a few sentences.


10 posted on 08/03/2025 6:16:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

The market should reward those who can make movies that people actually want to pay to see. Hollywood is losing that competition.


11 posted on 08/03/2025 6:16:50 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: DallasBiff
Thumbs UP

- movies with Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood
- some movies with Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise

Thumbs DOWN

- movies with Robert DeNiro, and other communists; homosexual/transvestite themes; girl powers (girl 5 ft 2 inches tall throws 6 ft tall mil. vets 8 ft across a room and up against a wall)
- movies produced by communists (Hollywood esp.)

12 posted on 08/03/2025 6:17:37 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: DallasBiff

I’m so going to miss listening to Hollywood celebrities saying how much better they are than us. How they are more tolerant, less racist, wiser, more caring about the planet, and more welcoming to Muslims, gays, transsexuals, illegal aliens, and child molesters. How horrible we are for wanting to keep our guns, our own property, and our children.


13 posted on 08/03/2025 6:19:54 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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“ Interesting article, will the modern woke liberal Hollywood have met its match?”

Back in the 80’s, computers and MIDI control was going to make musicians obsolete, and computer nerds would be creating all popular music. Didn’t happen. I doubt this new technology will eliminate the leftist bias in the movie industry, as it is far to lucrative.


14 posted on 08/03/2025 6:21:47 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

You know what I miss? Movies we used to see every five or six years about how courageous the commies in Hollywood were for being commies when communism was very unpopular in the 50’s. But it seems like it’s been years and years. Maybe AI can revive the genre


15 posted on 08/03/2025 6:26:17 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DallasBiff

My view on AI, after using it for about 2 years now, is that AI allows creativity to flourish without having to have technical skill. Like having a team of writers helping to write a script. Automation moves from Manufacturing to the Arts. As an retiree from aerospace manufacturing, it sucks during the transition. The up side is that it lowers the training period for new contributors. If you can increase the pool of contributors, unrecognized talent will rise to the surface increasing overall quality. That’s what AI offers the Arts. Not just the movies.


16 posted on 08/03/2025 6:26:30 AM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: DallasBiff

No basis for this conclusion. It will only help Hollywood make money.


17 posted on 08/03/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: DallasBiff

18 posted on 08/03/2025 6:33:07 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DallasBiff

Hollywood is realizing what can be done with A.I.
Actors/actresses and large studio stage buildings will go the way of the Dodo bird and buggy whip.
Personally I’m looking forward to the new John Wayne movie once the rights to use his persona are agreed to by his estate.
Will be great to see so many of the Old Hollywood greats again.
Cagney, Bogart, Flynn etc..
But then I remember this is Holyweird and probably screw it up. But then again no. All that is needed is the first AI movie with a bygone great to be a big success. Then the estates of past greats will be clamoring to get on the band wagon. We may see a second “Golden Age” of Hollywood.


19 posted on 08/03/2025 6:34:58 AM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: Waverunner

It’s now easy to create a totally original song with AI by typing a few sentences. It will generate the lyrics and do the song in the style you specify.

It essentially will create a “demo” that can later be recorded with real instruments, and human voices, but still, composing the song takes very little effort.

Therefore, any new music that is generated, I will assume was composed by AI, until proven otherwise.

It’s over for songwriters.


20 posted on 08/03/2025 6:35:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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