Posted on 12/31/2016 6:45:21 PM PST by Rummyfan
Comic book writer Alan Moore (known for Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Batman: The Killing Joke, according to his Wikipedia bio) notes how pop culture isn’t exactly progressing forward:
I would say, that if you’re talking about a line of progress, if it can be called progress, that runs from Berthold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, to Donald Cammell’s Performance, to Harry Potter, I don’t think you can really see that as anything but a decline. I will also point out that if you’ve got, I believe twenty percent of young people polled said that they would be embarrassed if their mates caught them reading. That would seem to me to be a decline, and also I would say that if you’ve got the Avengers movie as one of the most eagerly attended recent movies, and if most of those attendees were adults, which I believe they were, then if you’ve got a huge number of contemporary adults going to watch a film containing characters and storylines that were meant for the entertainment of eleven year old boys fifty years ago, then I’ve got to say, there’s something badly wrong there, isn’t there? This is not actually cultural progress.
When 21st century Hollywood isn’t producing sci-fi and superhero movies, they’re producing what Ace of Spades yesterday dubbed “progsploitation” films, movies that frequently bomb at the box office, but allow Hollywood to feel good about themselves, and assuage its socialist guilt over raking in billions on films starring men in plastic masks, rubber muscle suits, and/or wielding glowing plastic swords and ray guns. Ace explores “Why Do Progressive Movies Like ‘Miss Sloane’ Keep Cratering?”
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“Backwads”?
thats a good term for what is going on.
Hey! Backwad! Get Off My Lawn!
are we not men, we are Devo
Alan Moore is one of the two people most responsible for turning comics into adult graphic novels with his Watchmen story. I would agree with him, however about the decline of culture.
That was the title of an album by The Tubes (1980s)
A GREAT album, I might add!
Agree in principle but I’d pick a better example than Harry Potter which at least had some imagination and originality. Nor is it really valid to compare a satirical opera and British film aimed at adults with a series of juvenile fantasy novels.
Alan Moore is a very fine writer. I like his work.
But he is a hard left “anarchist”. I don’t think he realizes that the debauchery of western culture (which he accurately describes here) has been intentionally caused by Marxists in the entertainment business, the education business, and in government/social services. Marx laid the groundwork — destroy the church, destroy the family. Gramsci went further in the 1920s: he wanted the long march through the institutions.
Now we have angry, bitter women who blame “the patriarchy” for everything.
And we have “grown men” who are little more than ignorant boys.
And we have an intrusive government that mucks up everything so that the people “need” government more and more.
Alan Moore’s solution in the past has been to push society further and further to the Left.
And here he is, bitching about the results.
LOL. The guy who gave the intro for that album sounded exactly like one of my college physics professors. To this day, I half suspect it was him.
The problem is that films for “adults” that do not contain what I will call “objectionable material” (graphic sex, homosexual sex, every other word the f-bomb, nudity and lots of gore) tend to be either preachy, dull or both.
The “kids” movies are better written and more interesting then the adult movies.
My husband likes movies, I can take them or leave them. But here are the options.
Assassin’s Creed (It’s based on a video game. Need I say more?)
Collateral Beauty (dull)
Fences (If I have to watch one more “noble minority vs. evil white” I will hurl)
Jackie (Propaganda)
Manchester by the Sea (An attempt to see how many profanities and blasphemies they could fit into one movie)
Moana (Children’s)
Office Christmas Party (Just No)
Passengers (Why? Are there no decent script writers left)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (It’s got guns, spaceships and explosions. I can live with it)
Sing (Children’s From the previews it’s a no)
Why Him? (Just No)
So, out of the list there are two that are bearable and both (Rogue One and Moana) are considered children’s movies.
At least the season of the bloodbath movie is over for a bit.
are we not men, we are Devo
Moore is evil with a capital “E”. Think Michael Moore, but uses comic books instead of film. They both spew ugly leftist agendas that are celebrated by radical “intellectuals”. Totally evil.
Thought that the “Completion Backward Principle” was off of a old Tubes album (1970’s Brit band). It was on their greatest hits cd.
Devo,(1970’s band out of Ohio)was derived from “De-evolution” about being at Kent State during some shooting.
Completely agree that the movie industry is just going where the majority of the money is and that even for adults most movies are just total cultural train wrecks. When is the last time you saw an adult movie where virtue and goodness was the focus vs. vice and anti-heroes with feet of clay?
The other interesting thing, is the new Star Wars movie established that actors are no longer needed. They can just create a digital avatar of a long lost actor and no one can tell the difference. All the actors are scrambling to legally block the studios from doing this in the future.
I think Star Wars was the start of the expensive special effects that gained popularity in movies throughout the 80s and onward. It’s no surprise that Star Wars is pushing special effects actors.
It will get cheaper in time, soon the studios will just hire writers, directors, editors, and lease digital actors from someone like LucasFilms. No more high school educated morons lecturing us, no more Oscars and constant award ceremonies, just computer generated and tweaked actors.
This has really scared them about their future. The know it alls that just laugh at flyover country are now getting a taste of being automated out of a job.
Great album by The Tubes.
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Talk To Ya Later - One of Steve Lukather’s best solos.
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