Posted on 04/30/2019 5:29:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan
For decades Hollywood, along with academia, has been one of the two prime movers of cultural Marxism in America: promoting leftist causes and narratives, undermining traditional morality and social structures, and rewriting history. Increasingly, showbiz is now being choked by its own wokeness – just as our universities are – as the social justice whiners have inevitably begun to turn on their own.
Hollywood is floundering. This past Easter weekend at the box office was the worst in more than a decade. The big studios with their mega-budget franchises (where would Hollywood be today without Marvel Comics?) increasingly have to resort to overseas profits to keep afloat. Showbiz awards shows, which have degenerated into self-congratulatory displays of anti-Trump virtue-signaling, have been failing spectacularly, posting record low ratings year after year. Trump Derangement Syndrome has caused celebs to publicly double down on their contempt for all those unwoke Americans in the flyover states, pushing audiences farther away than ever before. Meanwhile, independent flicks like Gosnell and Unplanned aimed at underserved conservative audiences are succeeding despite media blackouts and social media subversion.
Instead of engaging in some serious self-examination and concentrating on projects that might win back the American heartland moviegoer, establishment Hollywood is now preoccupied with proving its commitment to identity-politics ideology. Enforcing diversity of gender and skin color (but not of worldview) in all the “above-the-line” fields (acting, directing, producing, showrunning, etc.) has become the dominant consideration in the entertainment realm now. Actress Brie Larson, for example, says playing superheroine Captain Marvel is “my form of activism”; she has has spent almost every minute of her movie promotions slamming “white male critics” and speechifying about gender equality. “Oscars are so not white this year,” CNN announced after a record number of non-white actors won awards in the 2019 ceremony...
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I like his early movies.
I thought her form of activism was posting nudes on the internet...
Me too. Love and Death, Sleeper, Play It Again, Sam... all great. But watch Manhattan now which features his character having an affair with a sixteen-year old Mariel Hemingway... In the light of later events , it's creepy.
Huck Follywood.
Maybe she should go back to that! She seems to have a real talent for it.
Eating their own,I had a dog that used to do that.
As Ned Flanders said “You know, I like his films except for that nervous fellow who’s always in them.”
...And it's better free-per-view than any movie Hollywood has produced in over a decade.
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Don’t worry it won’t be long and Hollywood will be making ads to tell everyone who to vote for in 2020.and they will spit out some movies that are anti Trump I’m sure.that should boost ticket sales.
I had no idea who she was so I checked. She's cute, but methinks there's a good chance the carpet does not match the curtains. :-)
Related - In Controversial Conclusion To ‘Avengers’ Saga, Captain Marvel Slays Thanos With Incredibly Irritating Gender Inequality Lecture - https://babylonbee.com/news/avengers-endgame-viewers-disappointed-as-thanos-killed-by-captain-marvels-gender-inequality-lecture
“Take the Money and Run”
Ping!
The Howard Cosell cameo in “Bananas” was classic.
My sole contribution to Hollywood is the $12/month I send Netflix to participate in their DVD rental by mail service. They have a very nice selection from 1000s of movies.
Haven’t been to a movie theater in years. Don’t watch TV.
Lest you think I’m a prude... I spent some of my way back younger days hanging out at the porno houses on 42nd Street in NYC. Interesting times.
Breakthrough was the first movie we have gone to the theater to see in years. We might see the newest Kendrick Brothers movie when it comes out. Nothing else I’d want to see out there, even if I wasn’t avoiding spending money to benefit people who hate me.
“Take the Money and Run”
I liked the interview with his parents who were wearing Groucho Marx masks...
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