Thus, perfectly encapsulating everything Rocco stated.
People bravely whining from their keyboards about the arts sucking, doing zero to improve things, and critiquing the doers…
You get the culture for which you pay. Or don’t.
Capitalism works. Yet I bet our keyboard warrior doesn’t so much as download a track.
Everything you said is right on the money. Thanks!
The analogy:
Big Media Interviews -> Joe Rogan/Podcast/Live Streaming Interviews
To
Hollywood -> Independent, streaming productions.
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That said, I agree wholly with Rocco DiPippo’s post.
Hollywood is largely dead to me, and this from a person who would occasionally go to three movies a week in a theater 30 years ago. It doesn’t mean they cannot occasionally release a movie that is not bad, but that is the exception now.
Just look at these: Disney’s Moana 2, and the second weekends of Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator 2.
All retreads. I watched two movies within the last several weeks online that were followups: “Inside Out 2” and “DeadPool vs Wolverine”.
The best I could say about each was, in the first case, the animation was okay, and in the second, that the CGI was not bad.
That’s it.
Hollywood can rarely write an original story that is worth a cup of warm spit, and rehashing an older movie simply exposes that fact.
I watched several excellent political movies within the past month: “What is a Woman?” and “Am I Racist?” from Matt Walsh and DailyWire, as well as “Vindicating Trump” by Dinesh D’Souza.
Interestingly, if you do a search about “Trump Movie” on DuckDuckGo, I went through nearly ten pages of returns, all about the hit-piece movie “The Apprentice” which was released online just before the election, and only one or two on “Vindicating Trump”.