Posted on 12/26/2022 6:29:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yes,I know that there are good people in Kalifornia.
I bought Maverick (in 4K) but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. As for the original i like it for the flight scenes,the babe and “Take My Breath Away”. I assume that I’ll like Maverick for the flight scenes...don’t know if there are any babes.
I think at least 50% of people residing in America are mentally unbalanced. Maybe more. Liberalism is insane.
Jennifer Connelly is still pretty…
OK...but I’m now far too old to be worrying about “babes”. I worry more about my blood sugars and where I put my keys.
She might have you worry over your blood pressure...
:)
Predictable action scenes, lots of special effects, no discernible character development, what’s to go see.
Top Gun Maverick was the only movie my wife and I have seen in a theater in years.
However, even it was WOKE in the makeup of the aviators.
Lets do a role call of the aviators in the film:
Latino Woman
Black man
Geeky White Guy
Asian Man
Cocky White guy(who saved them at the end)
Goose’s Son (cocky white guy)
Maverick (cocky middle aged white guy)
Wise Black Guy (second in charge of Top Gun)
Older White guy (commander of Top Gun- the A$$hole in the
movie)
I have personally met three former Naval/USAF/Marine aviators. Every one is a White Male.
And now there is a lot of talk about the inevitable consolidation of the streaming services.
My fear is that the streamers will first swallow all the independent production studios and, at the same time, put the theaters out of business, with only scattered art house cinemas hanging on here and there. Then the streamers will consolidate. We will have a big three that dominates the entire supply chain.
The big three will continue to look for synergies and the next thing they will do is merge their DEI efforts under the guise of creating an industry standard for "inclusive" and "responsible" programming. And that will be that. The commissars will control the entire industry from production forward. Movies can still be made inexpensively. One of my favorites, Columbus (2017, Kogonada, with John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson, who should have had an Oscar nomination) was made for $700,000. A Ghost Story (2017, A24/David Lowery, with Ben Affleck and Rooney Mara) was made for $100,000. Both are niche films, highly regarded by the critics (and with pretty high audience scores as well, but the audiences are highly self-selected; they're not everyone's cup of tea). But will such movies find distribution when the commissars decide that John Cho is the wrong kind of diversity to count, or that the ghosts are insufficiently diverse?
I'm not going to go hunting for them now, but there are some interesting lists of films made for next to nothing. And of course, people can now shoot films on an iPhone and edit them on home computers with pretty sophisticated software, and some of them are watchable. If you can get the actors to work for virtually nothing and have a producer/writer/director/editor doing the heavy lifting, it can be done. But where will such films get distribution if they don't pass the DEI gauntlet at the beginning? For now, there is the option of samizdat distribution over the internet, but the chances of breaking out to broad viewership are pretty slim. And the Borg will try to swallow everything on the internet as well.
This goes way beyond cheering for movies, directors or actors you might want to see. The big issue is the totalitarian push to completely control all content across all platforms so that the propaganda web is seamless. We're not there yet, but we're on the slippery slope.
We need to preserve a diverse ecosystem for production and distribution. It's not clear that we can.
Hollywoke loses over $500 Billion in market value
Duh
Update from NYS. Hochul has their back!
https://www.news10.com/news/hochul-proposes-expanding-film-tax-credit-program/
Expanding it quite a lot...
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