Buttcrack Mountain.
If Hollywood hadn’t bought of politicians to keep extending copyrights, they would’ve gone bust (or become more responsive to the current market) long ago.
As it stands, they stay solvent on 80 years of talkies, many with no residuals. Those “classics” allow them to take a loss on political message films that serve an agenda over corporate interests.
Another factor is websites like viki.com and dramafever.com which show good foreign shows, especially KDramas. Who needs that dreck from Hollywood anymore?
Let’s locate the muslim refugees to hollywood, Bel air, Malibu beach, Martha’s vineyard.
Hollywood’s been over for 30 years in my house.
My money $pend$. I won’t spend it stupidly.
HollyWEIRD has always been leftist..that is why if you are a Conservative in Hollyweird you have to hide it otherwise you lose your job and are blacklisted..the same Hollywood leftist crowd who LOVES open borders would not want these people living next door to them..let’s drop off some refugees in front of Ashton Kutcher’s house or Julia Louis Dreyfuss’s house..I guarantee you they would call the Beverly Hills PD and demand they get removed
This is also why we now have TCM. Back in the late 1980s, I’d go to the movie theatres often and rent movies (Dad’s Beta machine, lol) as well and I also subscribed to Premiere magazine. Hard to believe I did all that back then when considering what Hollywood is like now.
Proud to say I haven’t been to a movie theater for, oh, probably 7 or 8 years.
I have watched a few news clips of the awards shows, and there must be one a week. The “stars” (females) don’t really appear to be any prettier than the average female you see on the streets. The males all look metrosexual, with their little sissy beards.
Hollywood as we knew it died with John Wayne. It’s been gone for years.
While agreeing in large part with the author of the article, the reality is 98% of current Hollywood product is unwatchable garbage to much of the public. Seeing this tribe of morons dance and chant their lunatic political mantras is laughable.
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.
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.
Death throes of a dying party....
Buttcrack Mountain.
If it isn’t allowed on FR, why post it? All this does is give visits to an undeserving website.