We're watching White Christmas tonight with Bing Crosby.
I do, however, enjoy hiking around the Hollywood sign.
“From 1933 to 1966, people of faith were one of the predominant forces in Hollywood. During that period, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency and the Protestant Film Commission (which started several years after the Legion of Decency) read every script to ensure that movies represented the largest possible audience by adhering to high standards of decency. As a result, MR. SMITH [went] TO WASHINGTON, IT [was] A WONDERFUL LIFE and THE BELLS OF ST. MARY’S rang out across the land!”
Consider the movies of the year in 1965 and 1966 respectively had Christian themes: “The Sound of Music” and “A Man for All Seasons.” But then the Church left Hollywood, and by 1969, the movie of the year was X-rated, “Midnight Cowboy.”
I’m personally done seeing movies of any kind. There is absolutely no movie that I could be made that I would be interested in seeing. My entertainment habits have completely changed since Endgame.
Modern movies always feel too long.
I am also done with Hollyweird. Endgame and Spiderman No Way Home were the last films I’ve watched, but not in the theater, I watched them from home.
Cry me a river.
I have never seen "Midnight Cowboy" and probably never will. I assume it's about midnight, but it is probably not about a cowboy.
We're watching White Christmas tonight with Bing Crosby.
I do, however, enjoy hiking around the Hollywood sign.
Go woke, go broke.
Its a start.
I’ve been rewatching Gone With the Wind this holiday season.
I checked the movies at our local 6 plex theater. They always seem to be....Three or four super-hero movies, a horror movie, and a kid animated movie.
Last time I was there was in 2010 for the remake of True Grit.
Wanted to see Napoleon but I can wait till it hits the TV in the next month or so.
Something I noticed last night. Barbie is on the pay channels. It is also on the free HBO channels. I thought it was at the theaters just last month!
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.
They could always move operations to China where their daddy is...
Die, Hollywood, Die!
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.
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.
Hollywood is not a city. It is part of the City of Los Angeles. "Hollywood" is a concept and the location within Los Angeles where most of the early studios began.
The jobs lost aren’t going to come back. The advent of AI generated content means never having to pay huge sums to fickle actors anymore. They can simply create them from bits and bytes. If you don’t have actual actors, you also don’t need a whole litany of support staff. Everything digital means, no costumes, animal handlers, stunt men, lighting, etc, etc, etc.l They all go away with AI.
It’s time the entire group learns to code.