Posted on 01/30/2017 6:14:38 PM PST by BBell
I never heard of those but I did look them up.
And those oh so "cool" man buns.
I have found myself watching foreign films and shows more and more. Netflix is full of them. And I watch TCM a lot.
Hollyweird keeps spouting leftist garbage and looking down their noses at us, and people wonder why movie theatre attendance is at an all time low???
Patronizing liberals may not be the entire cause, but they certainly are a factor.
There are very few shows I watch coming from TV and Hollyweird these days.
There is really only one I make sure to watch every week and that is ABC’s “The Middle”. It’s a humorous take on life in the middle of America and stars Patricia Heaton, a staunch conservative herself in real life.
With the left coast’s disdain for fly-over country, I’m surprised “The Middle” has stayed around this long. I could care less about anything else Hollyweird puts out these days.
CGato
You can’t deny his facts.
But ironically, at the same time, we are swamped by media and entertainment. its everywhere, and dominates everything from sports to politics.
Oh. Sorry, I shouldn't have been supercilious.
My summary did capture the main points as I saw them, but my tone was wrong.
A lot of people — particularly on the right — have been expecting/hoping Hollywood would go under for a long time (like, since the '90s if not before).
Their repetitive, derivative content, the constant left-wing agenda, the mind-numbing, wall-to-wall virtue signaling that audiences see through and are bored by, are so annoying that many of us are wondering "how long can they keep this up?"
Yet year after year, they do exactly that.
But recently, with the emergence of decent-quality junk on alternative delivery channels like Netflix and (I guess) Amazon, people have started to think the unthinkable, that Hollywood may be losing its primacy as the preeminent source of movie/video entertainment.
The author buys into this, and cited some examples of what comprises the dynamic that is grinding down Hollywood's granite perch.
I don't really buy it, at least not yet.
I won't buy it until some entertainment appears that smashes the walls of political correctness. A feature-length movie — with high production values and good actors — that honestly depicts the Islamic invasion of the Western democracies, and the feckless sell-outs who are letting it happen.
The plight of an African-American teenager who aspires to academic and career excellence, who has a dream of something bigger than rapping and twerking, and what that teen has to put up with from neighbors, schoolmates, and parent(s). The drugs, the bullying, the negativism. How to meet it, how to defeat it, how to leave it behind.
An honest look at college, poking fun at political correctness, the way my son does about his experiences.
When subject matter like that is covered, I'll believe Hollywood has lost its supremacy.
I am not a consumer of Hollywood products. If they all went on strike now, I wouldn’t miss them.
The writer doesn’t mention two other factors which are hurting traditional Hollywood. First, you don’t insult and belittle that half of the country which disagrees with you politically and expect its patronage. Second, stop with the ceaseless preaching by means of your product. It’s old, wearisome, and annoying. People are tuning out.
George Lucas did an interview with Wired about twenty years ago. He nailed it about what was going to happen to Hollywood because of the Internet and things like cheap HD cameras and desktop packages such as AfterEffects. The future of filmmaking was going to be two guys in a garage producing a movie that would blow us all away. That is pretty much where we are now.
When I read this part I immediately thought of Fahrenheit 451 and then the author brought up Fahrenheit 451. I was impressed.
I believe the Coens are conservatives. They aren't real out-front with it, and they make fun of it plenty, but when they do make fun of conservatism, it's gentle.
Their movies are very good, I agree. There isn't one I didn't like. I've watched The Big Lebowski several times, so much so that I'm a little tired of it.
Fargo and Miller's Crossing are re-watchable.
Raising Arizona is only good on the first viewing, IMO, FWIW.
I liked John Huston and Sergio Leone. But Sergio Leone was not “Hollywood”.
I still like to watch “Raising Arizona” every few years. It’s probably the best movie Nicolas Cage ever made. Have you ever watched “The Man Who Wasn’t There”? Another good Coen brother’s movie.
Yes, but that's obvious, at least to people in the biz.
I read somewhere that more composers are writing music for video games than are working on movies. That was seven or eight years ago.
There was a movie entered at Sundance a few years ago that was made entirely using an iPhone with an "anamorphic" lens attachment (the movie was Tangerine, and the lens is made by Moondog Labs of Rochester, NY).
These factors are part of larger trends that will over time erode Hollywood's position.
Did you know that a complete sound studio mix board can now be held in the palm of your hand? In fact, there are sound mix apps for the iPhone, as well as various types of synthesizers, some of which take input from one instrument and convert it to the sound of another instrument. Of course, software for creating and editing video and sound is readily available and very inexpensive.
Death throes of a dying party....
Yes! I watch a lot of "B" movies on netflix with actors of whom I have never heard of and these are mostly really good movies. A lot of big name actors make cameo appearances in these "B" movies.
Another thing, a lot of them are shot down here in the New Orleans area. New Orleans Has become "Hollywood" south. A lot cheaper to shot a movie down here.
Jug Face, which was shot in Tennessee, is a very creepy movie but would be considered a "B" movie by the Hollywood crowd.
See post 32 and 39. The independent movie makers are going to be the rue of Hollywood.
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