NOT GUILTY
Demi was such hot stuff in St. Elmo’s Fire. Ah, the 80s.
Jaime Lee Curtis is such an amazing actress because she is able to play intelligent women. It’s easy for a smart person to play dumb. It is hard for a dumb person to play smart. But I have to hand it to her she does smart well for a stupid liberal.
Jamie Lee Curtis’ only claim to notoriety was taking off her top in front of a mirror.
I think she was a journalist on “General Hospital” in the ‘80s. Maybe John Stamos was on GH at the same time. The Luke-and-Laura days.
Speaking of second chances, I was watching an episode of “Accused” yesterday and I recognized the voice of main character, but couldn’t quite place her, so had to look up the cast of that episode. Debra Winger. Weird.
Pam and Tommy (Hulu miniseries) was surprisingly good.
They can win awards given by liberal committees, but can they win audiences?
Everyone loves a good come back story
So they are saying today’s actors are so bad, they have to recycle 60 year old former Hollywood stars?
Classy.
My wife went to the Demi Moore movie this evening.
She didn’t like it...
Demi did full nudity trying to get attention. It’s a Horror Movie.
Sadly they seem to be missing the one all-important “second-chance”.
“I made horror films and sold yogurt that makes you shit.”
The ever so classy Jamie Curtis...such an inspirational icon...
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The sane people in Hollywood know perfectly well that the industry ran itself into the ditch, and not just on the woke stuff. The rise of the streamers coincided with both peak woke and peak sequel disease. What got shredded were intelligent, well written, lower and mid-budget adult films. The movie business has always been youth oriented, but adult audiences traditionally turned out in sufficient numbers to support thoughtful character dramas starring older actors. Those did not disappear entirely, but a lot of that action shifted to relatively low budget independent films that didn’t get much promotion or extended theatrical runs.
It’s been obvious for a couple of years that at least some of the big players are trying to correct course. Alienating half the potential viewing audience in pursuit of ideological festishism is suicidal. I haven’t seen the Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson movies mentioned in this article, but I will cautiously applaud what seems to be a conscious effort to appeal to older viewers.
Last year was disastrously bad, at least in part because it was still in the rain shadow of the 2023 strikes. Going forward, it’s partly a matter of getting front-end costs down so that they don’t need blockbuster attendance levels to break even. One of the things that encourages me is the number of big name actors who still give their time to serious, intelligently written adult films. It’s clear that the serious actors would actually prefer to act, as opposed to endlessly prancing around in spandex in front of blue screens or rehashing yet another action hero flick that depends on car crashes, explosions, and bad guys who all graduated from the Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship.
The question is whether adults will return to the theaters to support good movies. One of the complaints that surfaces regularly on FR is that the theaters have been overrun by rude, juvenile behavior that spoils the viewing experience. I’ve been making an effort to get out more in the last several years. I can assure you that you will not encounter that kind of behavior in a serious adult-oriented movie. The idiots are all down the hall watching the idiot bait movies. And I’m glad they are there. The idiot bait movies keep them out of the movies I’m interested in, and their attendance at least helps keep the theaters alive.
In my limited experience, there are a lot more adults coming out for serious movies than in recent years. Attendance has not yet rebounded to pre-covid levels, and the adult audience has now been conditioned to wait for streaming and then watch from home. But when the theaters first reopened after the covid shutdowns, there were often ten or fewer people in the theater for the serious adult movies. On several occasions, I was the only person there. We are well off those lows. If you go to the 3:00 p.m. Thursday showing, it will still be pretty sparse, but it’s recovering slowly.
The streaming disaster needs to be unwound. The streamers may do this to themselves, quite accidentally. They swallowed most of the legacy studios and assumed everything could be turned into streaming tv. That turned out to be a frontal assault on quality and a money losing strategy in the end. Now they are jacking up subscription rates, going all in on getting a piece of the major sports programming, bringing back commercials, reinventing what looks like traditional cable bundles, and requiring an expensive, higher tier subscription for no commercials and good picture quality.
The streamers are shafting consumers on every front. Cancel your subscriptions and get out to the theater to watch a good, intelligently written independent film.
We are approaching the point at which the only reason many people will have a streaming subscription is to watch the NFL and college football — and you’ll have to subscribe to three or four streamers to get complete coverage. The streaming execs have played us for chumps. Cancel ‘em.