Posted on 07/18/2010 5:14:13 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
We are obviously talking past each other.
Much of the work product of the media and entertainment industry includes messages designed to change your cultural perceptions. You need to recognize and understand this fact first, before understanding what I am saying.
Hollywood has an agenda, it is liberal, and the bias against conservatives in Hollywood is real:
http://righton.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/10/16/3933374.html
http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Nation-Coast-Media-Revolution/dp/1400081920
Ignoring or going along with it is not good.
I meant “Kickass Torrents.com” and download.
lol!
Sorry for that mistake!
Hehe, don’t apologize, I should have been more specific. But really, I have seasons one and two of The Tudors and I wasn’t able to watch each tenth episode because the dvd has some sort of thingie where you have to go online to watch the tenth. I also have a couple seasons of “A Haunting” and now I don’t have to waste time with commercials and waiting for an episode to show.
These idiots want socialism, I’ll be more than glad to take my ‘fair share’ of movies.
I’m not talking past you. I just don’t agree with you.
You just made ANOTHER blanket statement about the whole industry.
Every actor and or professional in entertainment is NOT a liberal socialist big mouth.
And every movie or TV show made is not pushing a liberal agenda.
You make wide sweeping blanket statements to justify your opinion.
You are wrong.
Open your entertainment world a little and you will see some good work.
I understand what you are saying, I just know it is wrong. You are being just as biased by saying Hollywood = Bad.
Your statements cannot possibly be 100% correct. I know that for a fact.
What I “recognize and understand” is I pick and choose what entertainment I see or hear based on many factors.
Most of what I spend money on I enjoy.
Freedom of choice.
My choice is mine.
What do you want to do......shut down all of Hollywood because of your biased opinions?
i have no idea - I didn’t see the interview. You have to remember these people are “actors”. They get paid to “act”. Who knows?
“Your statements cannot possibly be 100% correct. I know that for a fact.”
LOL. I never said “every” - so you are not listening to me.
Hollywood work product is often anti-conservative.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555040/posts
If you dont realize that, open your eyes.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/539443
/201007061918/Stones-Reel-Mission.aspx
http://hollywoodstfu.blogspot.com/2009/12/avatar-we-see-you.html
http://hollywoodstfu.blogspot.com/2010/01/princess-and-frog-laissez-les-pc-temps.html
http://hollywoodstfu.blogspot.com/2010/01/youth-in-revolt-rebel-without-pair.html
http://hollywoodstfu.blogspot.com/2010/01/daybreakers-blood-sucking-capitalists.html
So what if its not 100% ... the bias is there, just like the campus is biased, 10 to 1 Dem to republican. There are ten of the above for one of the below:
http://hollywoodstfu.blogspot.com/2009/12/blind-side-blindsided.html
“Open your entertainment world a little and you will see some good work.”
LOL, as if I HAVENT seen hundreds of crappy Hollywood movies, plenty of liberal-biased plots, and already have seen the plot skeleton many times for every one of the summer ‘blockbusters’ that will be made in the next decade.
Come now. I HAVE seen them, that my point! Day After Tomorrow? Avatar? Crappy liberal-bias-plots.
“You are being just as biased by saying Hollywood = Bad.”
Being biased for truth is good. It’s a valid and accurate statement to say that Hollywood -overall (not 100%) - is in the clutches of liberal political correctness, antipathy to American traditional values and conservative viewpoints. The exceptions are notable enough to make the rule clear. Hollywood is uber-liberal.
I am sorry that 97% of the hollywood movies ruin the reputation for the 3% worthwhile ones. But if you havent realized yet that most of what hollywood produces is junk, you must be a teenager, that’s who they make it for.
my point - You haven’t NOTICED that most movies are unoriginal, often has deliberate moral-skewing plots, gratuitous you-name-it? Get your brain in gear and pay attention!
The real message to consumers of Hollywood junk: You ARE what you consume. If you dont know you are getting played,then you ARE getting played. Recognize the insidious stupidities in movie plots. Dont fall for the lame ‘its only entertainment’ that’s what losers who want to stop thinking about reality tell themselves. Wake up.They are part of a system that will keep you poor and stupid if you let their mindset become your mindset. Control your destiny and your worldview. dont let someone else do it for you.
For the record you did basically say “every” with your “Hollywood hates America” blanket statement. Don’t try to re-write your posts. You know what you said.
You gave me your opinion in your rant. Nothing more.
Stop telling me or others what to think.
You are doing the exact same thing you are accusing the entertainment industry of doing.
It works both ways.
Stop trying to shove your opinion down my throat.
I do not agree with you.
Oh one more thing.
Do not ever tell me to “Get your brain in gear and pay attention!”.
Who the hell do you think you are?
You are rude and obnoxious.
Go stand on your soapbox and preach your OPINIONS to someone else.
(You watched a few mainstream movies at your local cineplex and think you know it all. That just proves you know nothing about the industry. Nothing.)
You are not going to bully me into believing your BS.
Of course you are correct about what you write regarding Hollywood and the vast majority of entertainment in this country.
Don’t waste your time on those who aren’t deep enough to accept that reality.
The reality of opinion? LOL!
Wow! How deep.
How many movie or television sets have you been on? I’m guessing that number is way below mine.
How many scripts have you read and seen come to completion on screen?
Deep thinking doesn’t mean I have to agree with bullies and their opinions.
That is reality.
I am not trying to bully, I am just trying to wake you up to a reality you dont quite see.
Go and watch Carpenter’s (anti-Reagan btw) “They Live” and you might just get it. do you watch reality, or does fiction construct reality for you? has any movie changed your perceptions?
Did you even BOTHER following the links? Do you even CARE that blatant leftist clap-trap is embedded in movie after movie?
if you do, what’s your argument.
if you dont, you’ve made my point. (which is NOT what you seem to think it is.)
“You are not going to bully me into believing your BS.”
Fine. keep your brain closed off from those nasty hurtful truths about what is going on.
The head of IBM had a sign behind his desk - “THINK”. I guess he was a bully too.
“Go stand on your soapbox and preach your OPINIONS to someone else.”
LOL. Tell that to the folks making hollywood movies.
““Hollywood hates America” blanket statement. “
LOL.
John Le Bouttilier wrote “Harvard Hates America” in the 1970s. Good book.
A similar book about hollywood would be valid.
A generalization is NOT a universal.
“Stop telling me or others what to think.”
... but it doesnt bother you when Hollywood does that to you? Curious.
Anyway, I am not telling you what to think, I am telling you the WAY THINGS ARE. Big difference.
However you want to spin it “Big Brother”......
Pardon me.....I had NO IDEA you actually read a “real” book on the subject.
Well it just has to be true now doesn’t it? (sarc/)!
Get over yourself. You have an opinion.
I have mine.
Big Bad Hollywood doesn’t control my thinking. Just like bullies like you don’t control my thinking as well.
Get it? I DON’T AGREE WITH YOU!
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If you are so scared of the “mind control” the big bad movies have over you....then by all means, don't go see um.
It is that simple.
Last time I looked, I still had some freedom left. So since I am able to retain full control of my thoughts and beliefs while watching a movie.....I think I will exercise my ability to enjoy a movie or two.
Is that OK with you?
Since I see you always have to get the last word in....go ahead.
Rant away about how you demand for us lowly unfortunate fools to agree and bow down to your opinionated superiority.
But after you are done telling everyone what to think, please don’t ever, ever, post to me again.
I sure as hell am done wasting my time posting to you..
Headline is at best misleading. I don’t think of what DiCaprio said as trashing conservatives at all, but his name drives traffic.
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