Good.
What strike? /sarc
WE can hope!
I think a lot of people finally woke up after 9/ll and the WOT who the REAL heroes in our lives are.
The strike may, God willing, be the icing on the cake.
Maybe more people will discover books and - OMG - conversation!
I'm thinking Flavor Flav, Anna Nicole Smith, George cLooney and Captain Douche-Nugget himself, Sean Penn did that for ya'. Don't blame the strike.
I think the monumentally crappy movies they’re making will do them in before the strike does.
What he seems to be worried about is the end of the writer’s union. The end of the union is hardly the end for Hollywood, and might be exactly what Hollywood needs.
Let it be so.
Like it or not, Entertainment is a big business, and there's $$BILLIONS to be made in it. Eventually they'll solve the money problem and life will go on.
I am probably more sympathetic to unions than most Freepers, but there was a staggering stat about the TV industry in NYC and the strike. The strike of 500 writers had stopped an industry that in toto provides up to 25,000 jobs in the NYC area. Those folks are not working, and I think that fact is being understood in California as well as NYC.
There have been very few good movies I find worth my money to see. I don’t necessarily want to see H-wood movies go down the tubes, although I’m not crying major tears, either. I’d like to see movies start being made which are more family-oriented, without all the smart@ss kids and dumb parent types and doo-doo jokes, and more pro-America movies. Maybe, when and if the writers and everybody get back to work, they’ll realize the types of movies that would be real money-makers.
I won’t be holding my breath.
Only if we’re lucky! :)
Movies have been a part of our lives for over 100 years and with DVD players available for less than $50., we can still enjoy them, in the comfort of our homes, for a few dollars rental fee or occasionally to purchase for under $20. Few people really want that to end, but I suspect many do want to see quality and respect for decency restored to commercial films. That probably won't happen but if the money gets tight, the kind of rubbish we see now will be harder to find in film as few studios will be able to afford anti-war junk or smarmy tripe aimed at hormone-overloaded teens and young adults.
TV is not going away and it is a repository for all kinds of entertainment. One hopes that some semblance of quality may return, but at least a tighter budget environment may have the effect of the networks and cable dropping the little-watched liberal favorites and running shows people actually like.
I have only minimal confidence that the American public will start demanding more quality movies and TV shows but it could happen. If the writer's strike weakens Hollywood finances (and it's arrogance) and people begin to realize that they can live without a lot of the junk they pay $10. a ticket to see in a theater or waste their evening on watching it on television, our society and our culture will be better off. In that case, let the writer's strike continue.
No, but we can all hope that still does happen.
It’s ironic that today we have available to purchase wonderful technology for our homes to receive beautiful High Definition picture presentations, and yet there isn’t sufficient quality produced by the entities acknowledged as the professionals to support justification for the purchase of such technology. Yet it’s to become law that we spend at least enough to upgrade our analog reception capabilities next year to accomodate HD.
There’s nothing but Liberal/Leftist/Socialist love your local homo, white men are stupid beer drinking morons, every other ethnicity is smarter, Corporations bad, four legs better than two Propaganda broadcast on the American airwaves and into our homes.
We don’t need these Leftists writing this crap so it can be pumped into our homes like so much septic waste.
It’s sad to think that even if every American turned off the television in protest for say a month, they’d continue pumping out crap...there is an agenda.
Whatever, Julian.
Whatever, Julian.
Actually, Hollywood has been historically good for America. It has spread American ideas and culture abroad, and it has been a huge money maker for our country.
But I sympathize with those who would like to see Hollywood die. Instead of spreading ideas like freedom and the American way all around the world, or American style humor and romance, it is spreading sexual license, perversion, and hatred of America. It still is making a lot of money for our country, improving our balance of payments, and providing a lot of jobs, but the people who are running the industry today are mostly a bunch of sick, self-hating, sorry excuses for human beings.
I don’t know what it would take to bring Hollywood back to its senses, but that would certainly be preferable to watching it destroy itself as it tries to bring down the country with it.