That’s an accurate assessment of Hollywood.
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Die, Hollywood! Die!
I haven’t been to a show since “The Last of the Mohicans” was out.
When it comes to movies I follow the advice of The Critical Drinker.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker/videos
The entertainment industry abuses the taxpayers in a million different ways. Hollywood is no different than the music industry or the sports industry. They’re dominated by leftists who hate America.
To name a few:
Now, most of those in Hollywood are one step away from incarceration.
Klavan has a gift for condensation, with a wordy lead in for emphasis. Brilliant.
In the second to last paragraph, it almost sounds like he’s talking about Nick Cage. Nick’s adult son brutally best his mother up last year. She says Nick has always enabled this young man, by giving him what ever he demanded, with no consequences. She, the mom was trying to make her son take responsibility for being a junkie, with an untreated mental disorder. It’s a long story.
Invest in a good VPN (Virtual Private Network). In this age of ever-sophisticated hackers it's wise to have that for everyday use anyway, so $50 a year or so beats having all your data stolen, wiped out or held for ransom. A VPN is necessary so:
Your local internet provider doesn't shut you down because they're paid by media companies to be their police force. A VPN allows you to look at whatever you want in whatever country without the provider able to determine what you're doing - which I think is none of their business since you're already paying them enough money as it is.
Install a torrent downloader like Deluge or BitTorrent.
Locate and bookmark torrent providers like "thepiratebay.com" (just like that as there are a few fakes out there) and Torrentz2.
Right click your way to the content you want and have the torrent downloader program up while you do so. The program should detect and download it within varying amounts of time depending on the amount of "Seeders" (other people on the network contributing content) and the input settings of your downloader program. Each is different so they have to be looked up via search engine for optimal tuning.
Then run the download in a decent media player (VLC is excellent). What makes me a Privateer and not a Pirate is that I usually watch something once and then delete it to preserve drive space - saving the very few worth watching again to a USB stick or external hard drive - and never using other people's work for personal profit.
Technically criminal but as a fixed income home-bound invalid that can't go out to theaters anymore this has been an excellent solution. And the critics are right: Hollywood has doubled down on the "wokeness" like the mass media news has doubled down on historical revisionism and lying. I feel better not contributing to civilization's downfall.
OUCH, need some aloe for that burn.
My three favorite movies in 2024 were REAGAN, CABRINI, and ONE LIFE. I doubt if any of them received nominations. We took our teenage grandkids to see REAGAN and they liked it.
The Most Hated Movie Ever?
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The Critical Drinker
2.21M subscribers
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January 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGtYrSReqw
[snip] I didn’t think it was possible, but with over a million dislikes and just 40k upvotes, Disney’s Snow White has become the most hated movie trailer of all time. [/snip]
This link goes to the “Movies and TV” subsection.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/category/moviesandtv/
Informative, and disturbing at the same time.
Update....
https://deadline.com/2025/04/ca-production-tax-credit-expansion-bill-committee-vote-1236374006/
Hey, Hollyweird.
When do taxpayers get tax incentives to help pay for the exorbitant cost of your tickets?
I’m not going to pay you for screwing me over.
YouTube suits me just fine.