Unfortunately I don’t think there’s any quick fix. The left marched through our institutions and now it’s paying off for them. They can basically make these kinds of movies with impunity and without even any competition. Fixing things is going to take changing the basic culture of the movie industry, which would be a huge effort, practically a revolution in itself, or at least building up a credible counterculture.
Re Mel Gibson, I think rather than the Passion of the Christ, the model should be his Apocalypto, which had a subtle but very powerful pro-Western-civilization message embedded in it. He made the arrival of the Spanish galleons at the very end a happy ending, contrary to all Hollywood conventions.
Apocalypto? I dd not see that. Actually most people didn’t. They said it was no where near as good as the passion.
Your observations about Apocalypto are right on the money. Too bad Mel has turned himself into a Hollywood suicide bomber...