How to Save Hollywood With This 1 Weird Trick

PJ Media ^ | 30 Aug 2023 | Stephen Green

[Rummyfan]

“Who would want to save Hollywood,” I can almost hear you ask, “after years of rising prices, declining quality, endless crappy reboots, exhausted franchises, and having lefty ideology crammed down our throats?”

You aren’t wrong. But I like movies and TV shows, I really do. And so did you, once upon a time. I’d like to like them again like I used to. Like, soon.

Last month, Breitbart’s John Nolte provided some sharp analysis detailing the “six reasons Hollywood’s in real trouble this time” in reaction to the ongoing writers’ strike. After cable broke the broadcast networks’ monopoly, streaming broke cable. “Pay TV successfully circumvented merit with a rigged system,” Nolte wrote, “where you pay for dozens of channels you never watch.”

Complicating things further, the combination of paid streaming and 4K home theater systems with Dolby Atmos was supposed to replace some of the money Hollywood lost on declining theater attendance. But with streaming, you pick up and drop entire channels to your heart’s content. Er, CONtent, I guess. Dropping Max (formerly HBO) after a crap final season of “Game of Thrones” is much easier now that it’s an app than it was as part of a Comcast bundle.

[BrexitBen]

There were so many good, non-WOKE movies produced before 2008.

Re-acquaint yourself with them, and boycott the others.

[kaktuskid]

Most of those movies/TV shows aren’t made in Hollywood anymore.

[Tell It Right]

About the only thing that would get me to go see a movie at the box office was if John Williams wrote the music. In my opinion that made a movie worth seeing/hearing with the larger system than waiting to watch it at home. Now he’s retired.

[EvilCapitalist]

I used to be a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but after learning his true feelings about us, I’ll never watch another movie of his again. And that goes for most of the hollywood actors. I’ll still watch anything with Robert Mitchum in it.

[SpaceBar]

Only Hollywood wants to ‘save’ Hollywood.

[Vaduz]

Who would want to save Hollywood

Agree rather see more UK products much better plots longer then the 3 second ones Hollywood has.

[Tupelo]

I have two suggestions.
Westerns along the line of The Big Country or even Rio Bravo. Without Alec Baldwin
Less or no CG. Save that for the cartoons. Even Top Gun Maverick was damn near messed up by the CG.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I watched The Great Escape again recently, and noticed for the first time how wonderful its music is.

[Rummyfan]

Elmer Bernstein, one of the great score composers. He also did perhaps the best of all-time, The Magnificent Seven.

[Angelino97]

Hollywood won't die. It will transform, as it has many times before. Hollywood survived television in the 1950s, and later cable, VCRs, DVDs, piracy, the internet and streaming.

Ever since the 1970s, I've been hearing conservatives predict & hope for the demise of Hollywood and the major networks.

When Mel Gibson made The Passion of the Christ, conservatives were predicting that Gibson would topple Hollywood; that he proved you could make a conservative hit outside the studio system, and so many other filmmakers would follow with indie conservative hits.

Didn't happen.

[Angelino97]

I hear the BBC is even more woke than Hollywood. I assume the same is true of UK films.

Of course, there are many great older Brit films and TV shows.

[Wallace T.]

While conservatives are pleased with the $200 million made by Sound of Freedom, the bad guys hit two home runs with the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies, that earned $1.4 billion and $777 million, respectively, to date. Both movies enforce the mainstream narratives on culture and history, respectively.

Disney has stumbled badly, but the rest of the enemy propaganda machine is still enthralling way too many people, both here and abroad.

[xp38]

Well Gibson is about to make a sequel to the Passion so there is that. :)

[sphinx]

So here’s my one weird trick for saving Hollywood: Smaller budgets, better writing.

Yup. And I think writing will be the hardest nut to crack, because writers' rooms are under terrific DEI pressure from the activists, and that produces bad scripts.

The Asian population in the U.S. has reached critical mass and Asian actors are now being rapidly mainstreamed. By and large, so are the Hispanics. So are black actors who speak standard English and present as fully assimilated, mainstream American characters. I tend to think that black actors are now being held back by black writers -- and patronizing, woke, radicalized white writers -- who insist on inserting the racist left narrative wherever possible. The woke women and the gay mafia are probably the biggest problems right now because they insist on politicizing everything.

The federales busted up the old studio system on antitrust grounds. It may be time to do the same to the streamers. Perhaps the feds should prohibit vertical integration and require a separation between production and distribution. And then require that everything released be universally available as PVOD within 90 days of release.

[minnesota_bound]

#8 Hollywood may need some CGI to remove modern items like homes and buildings and jet planes and highways and tire tracks in the dirt etc.

I recently watched a Wild Wild West episode on Pluto tv and saw a familiar landscape that had been in many shows because it was from the 40 Acres site (look up, many shows done there) and I saw the guys entering a fort which way in the background you could see among the breaks in the trees a busy road and some homes and buildings. It was a short glimpse.

I saw another John Wayne film with William Holden and you could see a jet trail in the distance.

[minnesota_bound]

#14 It will be titled:
The Revenge of Jesus - The day of reckoning!

[Vaduz]

How to Save Hollywood

Ship it to Mexico it’s their kind of place anyway.

[dfwgator]

Elmer Bernstein, one of the great score composers. He also did perhaps the best of all-time, The Magnificent Seven.

Also did, Animal House.