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.
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.
I hope so.
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.
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.
How much USAID was used so they could make that Woke Diverse Garbage ?
Thanks for the good news.
The market should reward those who can make movies that people actually want to pay to see. Hollywood is losing that competition.
- 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.)
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.
“ 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.
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.
No basis for this conclusion. It will only help Hollywood make money.
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.
Well, I remember when you could go and see movies like Field of Dreams, Witness, Working Girl, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance, Fatal Attraction, Outrageous Fortune, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, When Harry Met Sally, Dangerous Liaisons, and many others and you didn’t get leftist talking points lectured to you both in and outside the feature film.
With CGI and AI there is much room for politically correct humor. Much greater quality “than put a chick in it and make her gay.”
Way back in my college days I had a side project to develop a scenography for Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen, the epic 14 hour, 4 part music drama. I had some ideas that I thought were really good but it would have been impossible to actually mount a production given the massive egos of the directors. A few years later I thought I could do snippets of the drama using stop-motion filming on a miniature version of Wagner’s stage at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. That, of course, went nowhere.
Now, gee, I could feed some info into AI and do the whole thing.
Hollywood Has Received Its Death Blow
WOKE takes another sucker
I've been in a movie theater once in the last 40 years...and that was to see Oppenheimer in "true" IMAX down in Rhode island. And I'm sorry I did so because the sound level almost destroyed my hearing. Thankfully,I have a good collection of classic films on disc.
I also have access to an outstanding public library system which,collectively,has just about every film that's ever been put on disc. So Hollywood can slide into the sea for all I care.