Posted on 12/19/2023 4:02:19 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
I’ve finally gotten around to seeing Chinatown.
Pluto TV.
One parody Christmas song I know has “I’m b-b-b-b-beating my my five children” voiced by a sort of Bing sound alike.
But then the Church left Hollywood, and by 1969, the movie of the year was X-rated, “Midnight Cowboy.”
Actually the cause was a bit different. Before 1969 the movies were produced under the Hays Code and most were safe enough for kids. TV shows were safe for kids.
Then Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant and the media went berserk!
They blamed “the glorification o f violence on TV and in movies!” Pulp Fiction, comic books, toy guns, the NRA.
So TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows, pulp fiction changed their blood soaked cover art, comic books toned down their story lines, toy guns disappeared for a while.
But the movie industry said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system. GMRX was the first.
With the Hays Code now gone they reshot scenes adding lots of blood, guts, sex. Sex. SEX to get the now coveted “R” and “X” ratings.
Now with TV using satellites and cable they also are now the main purveyors of porn on TV.
I lived in So Calif from Feb 1964 to May 1993.
GETTING A JOB at DISNEY was a PLUM JOB.
Not so much now.
Oppenheimer opened the same day and it’s out on pay tv too. It used to take six months to get a movie other than a theater. Now it’s basically a month or two.
Disney is producing one box-office flop after another....
and “Snow Woke and the Seven Ding-a-Lings” has yet to hit the screens.
If Disney gets any more “woke” the entire Disney team are gonna
be scarfing down No-Doz like they were Mini Mouse jelly beans.
I pretty much agree with your sentiments. And I studied film and cinematography in college. But I can still find a movie once in a while to enjoy in a theatre. I thoroughly enjoyed “Ford vs Ferrari” a while back.
They could always move operations to China where their daddy is...
There was a follow movie that wasn’t as good but well worth watching. The Two Jakes. It’s on Prime.
Another one to get around to.
Die, Hollywood, Die!
I saw the Leonard Bernstein movie recently because somebody took me. It was all about his sex life and very little about music.
I watch TV series nowadays. I’ve watched several series up to their woke-point and then stopped.
I watched and enjoyed several seasons of “In Plain Sight.” The last episode was a hard sell for the sweet born-that-way gay couple stereotype. The protagonist made it clear that I am, at best, a neanderthal. I hope that episode was an aberration. If I get one (maybe two) more propaganda episodes, I’ll just stop watching.
I saw one episode of Batgirl. That was enough.
I’m pleasantly surprised by “The Tick.” It provides light entertainment with no “educational” messages, so far.
It’s not just Hollywood going tits up.
Some theaters are going out of business too.
I mean...who wants to see that crap?
Hollywood has always had issues and challenges. That isn’t new. What IS new, however, is the streaming takeover of the film industry. The streaming model has turned out to be a catastrophe. It needs to die.
The woke mind virus is lethal. But good movies are still being made, just not as many as you and I would like. Finding them can be a challenge. If the major studios are too woke to self-correct, let them die; newcomers that are willing to make movies for which people will buy actual tickets can and will replace them over time. And foreign films are already being mainstreamed in the U.S.
The newcomers need an ecosystem that gives them room to breathe, find an audience, and carve out their own niche. As the streamers circle the drain, I increasingly think that there is no substitute for traditional theaters. But the streamers are crushing the theaters, and next year is going to be awful because the strikes have decimated the pipeline in the near term.
All the good movies have already been made.
Hollywood has been on a down slide for awhile with the Woke agenda being pushed. Still some good films being made, you just have to look for them.
The streaming wars were a golden time for all in Hollywood, fantastic sums of money were spent for content, and things never ever considered to be made were made for the insatiable demand for content, in all that were some good films and series, a lot of it though, was junk.
Now we find out that the streaming wars have sucked dry the studios trying to find a way too make money off if it. Only Netflix and Hulu are making money while every other service is growing in debt. Disney alone since 2019 has lost and estimated $15 Billion of Disney Plus.
The writers and actors went on strike at the wrong time as the the financial debacle was starting to hit and the huge losses coming out. So regardless of what kind of contracts they got, there will be less content being made, so fewer writers and actors needed for any productions. Hardly any movies coming out next year in 2024, the well is dry because of the strikes.
Fran Drescher led the unions down the road to ruin in this mess and most of the rank and file will get nothing at all, not even the minimum work to get Health Insurance. So much for being Union through and through. No money, no work.
The beginning of the end of Hollywood in terms of Movie Attendance started in about 1966 with the new avant garde films being made and Midnight Cowboy, an X rated film, put it in the hole. Attendance never recovered. In about 1965 75 million people were going regularly to the movies, 10 years later about half that was left.
Today even worse.
I think that coincided with everyone having a TV, and then Cable TV.
I liked the Two Jakes, should have been made earlier after Chinatown, there was supposed to be a trilogy on that and the final film was never made.
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