[Lizavetta]

Hollywood's devotion to socialism is an anchor around its neck.

Its devotion to obligatory sexual content is what keeps us away. I wanted to take my kids to see "Troy", the Alexander the Great movie, and the King Arthur flick until I found out there was nudity, sex scenes, bisexuality, etc. etc. Blecch - no thanks.

[IronJack]

There is a moral dimension to any art, and the moral message (where there even IS one) of Hollywood's films fails to resonate among their consumers. People go to movies for a lot of reasons, but families tend to seek out movies with some edifying theme, not just vignettes of overpaid girly-men emoting or chic urban ensembles prowling the sexual jungle.

Hollywood writers seem incapable of exploring anything but their own tiny, twisted world. Whoever they're writing for, it is not the consuming public.

Just as an example, I will bet that Jarhead, Jamie Foxx's latest anti-war yawner, fails dismally at the box office, while The Chronicles of Narnia, based on CS Lewis' morality allegories, makes a tidy profit. I will go so far as to say that Narnia will out-gross Jarhead.

[mel]

I know they are limiting the number of people who can see their movies so they are basically shooting themselves in the foot. I am becoming fond of stuff that was on BBC or earlier series such as Centennial, Vanity Fair, Forsyte Saga