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.
LOL!
Writers must be really hurting because new movies are all diversity with no script
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.
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.
I haven’t watched network TV in months.
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.
Hollywoke is Hollybroke.
Acting means adopting a character. So a straight can play gay, a gay can play straight, and blacks can play Anne Boleyn and Queen Isabelle.
the woke only want gays to play gay, trans to play trans, whores to play whores, etc. except blacks can play any white or asian character they want because - equity.
when acting is no longer acting all we’re left with is various versions of Housewives of Atlanta
Here in North Central Texas I’ve noticed at most 25 to 30 cars parked outside the movie-plexes at any one time as I drive pass. Not exactly what I would call the kind of crowds to pay the bills with.
“The White House is racist! Change the name, now!”
I hate all this woke PC garbage, turns me off and makes me hate Hollywood types even more.
This is why I look for older DVDs at thrift stores.
Some in my family keep telling me that CDs and DVDs are on their way out. You can just stream everything.
My retort was only if they carry it. If they don’t carry it, you’re out of luck.
I can watch my DVD anytime I want, unadulterated by the left.
This is why I look for older DVDs at thrift stores.
Some in my family keep telling me that CDs and DVDs are on their way out. You can just stream everything.
My retort was only if they carry it. If they don’t carry it, you’re out of luck.
I can watch my DVD anytime I want, unadulterated by the left.
Hollywood is past corrupt. The bosses there are also in CYA mode expecting that the Revolution has won and they don’t want to be shot when the inevitable comes around.
I used to think profits mattered to Hollywood and the media, but then I realized with the massive amounts of money the Chinese are capable of throwing around to bribe whom they need to, profit is not the primary motivation behind the media and Hollywood. Being mouthpieces for China is far more profitable than any advertisers they could hope to lure. Think about it, the Chinese can throw around 100’s of billions, or even trillions, whereas when we talk of a mega-hit movie it’s measured in a 100 million or so.....chump change to the Chinese.
I’ve gotten into foreign films. A lot of good ones coming out of Korea.
Parasite was an excellent film.
Bedevilled (2010) is agonizing to watch, and stays with you for months afterwards.
Sweet and Sour is another good one with a kicker of an ending.
Crash Landing On You is a great series (stick past the first episode, it is worth it)
What Is Wrong With Secretary Kim is a funny rom-com
Indian films are also highly entertaining.
Kaabil with Hrithik Roshan is an outstanding revenge film
Band Baaja Baarat with Ranveer Signh is a great rom-com
Shah Ru Khan has several amazing films.
Paxman with Ashkay Kumar is a fictionalized account of an Indian entrepreneur who was cast out of his home town, ridiculed, and lost almost everything because he tried to provide a healthy alternative for his wife and family members. Now, he is a famous inventor and humanitarian.
There is good cinema out there. Most of it is not coming from Hollywood.
Where’s borges.