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.
American Fiction: Film Threat Review
A lot of freepers are partial to Critical Drinker, and Nerdrotic has started to surface here and there. The Film Threat guys are probably less well known, but all of the above are regular guests on each others' shows. That are part of a very vocal claque of YouTube commentators who spend most of their time raining hell and damnation on Disney and Woke Hollywood. I wonder if any of them lurk here.
Anyhow, they liked American Fiction for the same culture war reasons that I liked it, and they are the first reviewers I've seen (apart from myself) who have picked up on the fact that the movie is merciless on woke, identity politics leftism.
American Fiction is now rolling out in theaters. It is now in week two, having expanded slightly from a very small limited release last week. Further expansion is expected, perhaps as soon as Dec. 22 and much more in January, so if your knees are up to it, take a chance and buy a ticket as you did before the streamers turned you into a passive couch potato. I have no idea about the politics of the filmmakers and I wonder if they themselves understood the subtext of their movie, but this is a film that conservatives should be supporting.