[BuffaloJack]

I’m fed up with everything out of Hollywood needing to carry a political message. American movies are not even close to the quality of many of the foreign films. Even the Chinese focus on the story and the story only. If Hollywood made the same movie it would have to be PC, carry an anti-Trump message and a save the planet theme. When I watch a film I want to be entertained with a good story; I don’t need lessons on climate change, plastic pollution or any of the other fifty agendas popular with celebrities.

[ConservativeMind]

“Even the Chinese focus on the story and the story only.”

That is completely not true, which means it is working on you.

Everything that has Chinese funding must show China in a positive light with approved portrayals. This has resulted in script changes for years, now, with impacted Hollywood movies.

[nathanbedford]

The triumph of Marxism over legitimate criticism

In days of yore, Hollywood was said to be subliminally conditioning the American mind to its own leftist worldview. For example, that observation was attached to a wonderful Western (with a terrific score by of all people, Tex Ritter), High Noon.

As a kid I didn't know that we were dealing with the ravages of McCarthyism, I thought Gary Cooper was standing alone against the bad guys.

In the old days, if Hollywood was in fact conditioning our national mind, at least it sought to uphold American values and was constrained to be somewhat subtle about its prejudices. Criticism was constrained by some responsibility to assess cinematic quality. Was the acting good? Was the writing good? How about the score (Tex Ritter really was good!)? Etc. etc.

Today, our critics care only whether we are politically correct.

What would Karl Marx say?

[Zhang Fei]

[American movies are not even close to the quality of many of the foreign films. Even the Chinese focus on the story and the story only.]

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Hard to fit in an anti-Trump diatribe in a sword and sandal movie set in a bygone era.

[cincinnati65]

"I’m fed up with everything out of Hollywood needing to carry a political message."

What's even more tiring is that everything is INTERPRETED as having a political message, even when it doesn't -- Rambo Last Blood being a case in point.

I don't think Stallone necessarily intended anything political about his latest, but don't let that stop the critics from interpreting it that way, and tearing his movie apart because it's politically incorrect.

[golux]

Mayer, I believe, once said:

“A message? We don’t do messages in Hollywood. We entertain. If you want a message, see Western Union.”

I have lived in Mexico and know about the crime and corruption there. It is beyond anything you can possibly imagine.

(Though there’s lots to love, too.)

[CIB-173RDABN]

I’m fed up with everything out of Hollywood needing to carry a political message. American movies are not even close to the quality of many of the foreign films

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Ironic that the reason this is so is because Hollywood is not making movies for Americans. They are making movies for foreign audiences.

To sell movies over seas today there need to be little dialog, lot of action and absolutely nothing positive about America.