Posted on 07/17/2021 3:53:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
At a time when parents are waking up to the threat of critical race theory in schools, Hollywood is doubling down on it.
In fact, they’re eating their own. Just read the primary criticism of the latest work of Lin-Manuel Miranda—a man who literally cast black and Hispanic actors as America’s founding fathers in Hamilton: the actors playing Dominican characters aren’t dark enough.
After catering to a smaller and smaller group of coastal elites, La-La Land is finally collapsing into itself under the weight of the political left’s own contradictions.
It’s not enough for the left to set the agenda. They also have to rewrite the past—even some of the finest work Hollywood has ever produced.
Gone with the Wind? Removed from streaming services for its depiction of slavery.
Peter Pan, Dumbo, The Aristocats, and Swiss Family Robinson? Disney blocked them for users younger than seven years old.
Leftist activists have even asked John Wayne Airport to change its name.
Of course, when an industry caters to a smaller and smaller group of political radicals, they lose most of their customers.
Even before the pandemic, box office revenues were declining. Take away the handful of superhero sequels, remakes, and reboots that studios release and it gets ugly fast.
Hollywood’s premier event, the Academy Awards, used to be a night on which studios, stars, and the rest of us shared a common cultural moment.
But it has morphed into an unwatchable, self-congratulatory, virtual-signaling, leftist rally in which critics and corporations alike fall all over each other to win “Wokest of the Year” awards.
After drawing over 20 million Americans last year, fewer than 10 million Americans watched it this year.
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Hollywood’s goin’ down!
#BoycottHollywood
PING!
Is he going to do an updated version of “Roots” with Ashton kutcher as kunta kinte?
Declining ratings? No problem. They’ll blame the internet and streaming services, racism, and Trump. Then carry on as usual.
When the great, classic 1960 western, The Magnificent Seven, was remade into a leftist political crusade, I knew that Hollywood had finally reached the bottom of the barrel.
When Broadway closed, Hollywood had to know they’d be next.
LOL!
Writers must be really hurting because new movies are all diversity with no script
Like the third sequel to Lethal Weapon.
The wokeness is not what is killing Hollywood, its politics and lack of originality. They poison the industry with their parrot slavish devotion to liberals that the rest of the country can’t stand, and destroy their art buy spreading their cancerous political opinions. There are no real stars anymore outsid of say an Eastwood or a Hanks. Its just another actor named Chris. Plus there hasn’t been a real movie worth a damn made in close to 20 years. Everyone is a super hero or a CGI or a hell carnage see how high you can make the death count Mr. Wick movie. Dialogue and story ideas in Hollywood is pretty much non-existent, because we have to keep the Chinese happy.
Good movies are still being made. The trick is finding them. The big advertising campaigns are focused on the franchises, which are mostly schlock after the first movie or two, while the streaming networks tend to push lowest common denominator trash. The excellent movies are hiding in plain sight, but unless one makes an effort to ferret them out, they’re easy to miss.
Cannes just wrapped up. There are two American movies that premiered in Cannes that I am eager to see: After Yang and The French Dispatch. Stillwater might be worth a look; I don’t think I’d pay for it, but I’ll watch a trailer and probably start it when it rolls around for free. The advantage of the streaming networks is that one can sample and then move on quickly if the film doesn’t hold my interest.
A number of the Cannes films are pretty weird — this is France, and Europe, and Cannes and all that — but a scattering of the non-U.S. films also look interesting.
A few of the films are grotesque — this is France, and Europe, and Cannes and all that — but it doesn’t cost me anything to ignore them.
Instead of just kvetching about the industry, we should be supporting the good stuff. Anyone want to mention your own watch list, not necessarily limited to the Cannes selections?
P.S. I’m going to go way out on a limb and guess that Sean Penn probably doesn’t have a lot of fans here, due to the man’s nutball politics and some pretty shabby behavior years ago. But watch The Professor and the Madman. You don’t have to watch it for Sean Penn. Go for another fellow you might have heard of: Mel Gibson.
It’s streaming on Netflix and Kanopy, and it’s an inexpensive rental on several other services. It’s probably not going to make your all-time top ten list, but it is a solid movie with decent people behaving decently (including the lunatic) and traditional moral values. It’s one of many. I mention it here just to bait the hook with Mel Gibson and Sean Penn, about whom just about everyone will have strong opinions.
Ok. I mentioned The Professor and the Madman in the post above. Try The Dig, a Netflix original. Or Tolkien. There's a longer list I've posted several times before. It includes The Death of Stalin; Dear Comrades!, Inside the Whirlwind, Ashes in the Snow, Mr. Jones, The Way Back (the escape from the gulag movie with Ed Harris, not the more recent flick of the same name), Leave No Trace, Columbus, The Florida Project, Little Women, Lady Bird, Support the Girls, Balloon (the iron curtain escape movie), Downfall, and Conspiracy. Those are just off the top of my head and reflect my own idiosyncratic interests. They are all fairly recent. They won't all be to your taste, but none of them are the kind of idiot leftist garbage to which you are suggesting. None of them have comic book superheroes in spandex tights, and if you're looking for sex scenes ... well, don't bother, because you won't find any. There are many more that others might suggest.
Galaxy Quest
Loved it
uh, that’s “idiot leftist garbage to which you are objecting.” Fingers go on autopilot sometimes.
If you think that the Woke cult is sad that the movie industry is going down like the Edmond Fitzgerald, you would be wrong.
Their goal is destruction. It gives them good feels.
THE DEATH OF STALIN is a hoot if you like dark humor and understand a bit of the history. 4 of us taught a 16 hour class on the movie with different facilitators talking about different characters. I organized it and taught history of CCCP to 1956 and Zhukov.
I haven’t watched network TV in months.
LOL — I was thinking about recasting Roots too!
Thanks.
Let’s have more suggestions from more people. What are some GOOD movies you’ve seen in the last couple of years?
Finding the good stuff can be hard, because there is so much garbage being promoted by the industry. That leads a lot of people to tune out the whole business. I was among those who had written off Hollywood for many years; I would take my kids to the then-current, basically-ok kid’s movies, but it had been a looooong time since I’d watched anything for myself.
Then I made an accidental discovery from an entirely unexpected angle of approach. I thought “how did a movie this good — on something about which I was reflexively interested — get made, and I never even heard of it?” I started poking around, and I’ve found that movies are fun again. But there’s some due diligence needed at the front end.
Stuff like this has been going on for a long time. It’s just getting more aggressive. For example, I have heard that Steven Spielberg went back and re-edited the film E.T. to digitally remove any images of firearms that the police were holding in various scenes. Which is weird because I have read that Steven Spielberg has a nice gun collection of his own. But then I heard he went back again and restored the original.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a darn. I don’t have an issue with casting the right actor in a role that may not be historically accurate as far as race or gender. What is important is to make a good product; and it is a business. But if the main purpose of casting someone is specifically because of their pigmentation, race, gender, religion etc then that kinda sorta is the definition of racism.
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