Posted on 01/30/2014 5:38:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Hollywood produces nothing that I need. I only wish that more conservatives would come to the same conclusion.
Affleck just killed batman.
somebody tell the $uits they are producing a dud.
Have you seen Argo? Very, very good movie. What’s interesting about it is that it makes absolutely no bones about the utter, blinding ineptitude of the Carter WH.
As for Affleck, almost anyone could have done that role.
The entire movie is Alan Arkin and John Goodman - period.
If you go through the credits, its worth it, until you hear Carter’s voice. I can’t even try to paraphrase what the idiot was saying, given the fact his Chief of Staff nearly screwed the op. Carter actually looked for ways to take credit for the op, given it was an election year and Fat Teddy was running against him in the primary.
It’s better to put the first five minutes of the movie on mute, in that a female voiceover tries to give you the story of the history of Iran, the Shah, what a bad man he was, and how Khomeni was inevitable, and our fault.
Ben, unfortunately, is doing OK, and hollowood is still more than willing to bankroll flops if it gets the message out there.
As for the Republican TV show? I think Fox could pull it off. Lord knows A&E did, accidentally, and it is a money printing machine.
Blue Bloods gets close. Family values and law and order.
A political show about Republicans would be very entertaining. Lord knows our side of the aisle has earned ‘The Party of Stupid’ through hard work. There would be a lot there for liberals to love.
Even if it were written by conservatives, it would be scathing.
Good!
You've come away with the point we were trying to make!
Doesn't Obama seem SO much better now??
He didn’t even say that some of his best friends are republicans? Wow - a true unashamed bigot.
I couldn't watch Pearl Harbor all the way through, because his part was beyond STUPID.
When you act three fingers down the throat, you should not criticize ANYONE else.
You got that right.
Have you seen Argo. It wasn’t horrible, and he didn’t destroy the film. I think you could have found other actors to get the same job done. Had John Goodman and Alan Arkin not been involved the movie would have failed.
“Blue Bloods gets close. Family values and law and order” — Don’t know enough about the first two you mention to quote, but re: “Law and Order” [if you meant the show, and not the generic phrase] there’s some obvious anti-religious right stuff. If ever you see the detectives visit someone for information who has a cross/crucifix/religious statue in their apartment/home, I GUARANTEE you that person, no matter how seemingly innocuous will turn out to be the perp. Ditto shows that touch on abortion, etc. The LEFT will always come out on top. The shows, in the end never make the left “lose” or be uncomfortable at the end.
Agree completely. O’Donnell was honest enough about how blindingly prejudiced he was to any other perspective than his own.
That’s the rub - conservatives, most of them, can see how liberals have become confused, and somewhat lost. They believe in the core of their being that government CAN help people.
That they have to confiscate from other innocent people, and that everything they tend to do for people ends up furthering the harm to the people they are trying to help is just lost on them.
That glow they feel in bridging that gap, and the money they earn in the commissions from bringing that help, are all that matter.
Even the ones that look back and admit to themselves, “Wow, that did NOT end up doing what we’d thought it would do” would never admit that in public.
The last guy that tried that was Robert McNamara. Talk about howls of execration.
Unless, and until, Hollywood realizes they can no longer make money marketing really shopworn stories to less than half the available market, they will keep doing what they are doing.
As for the Writers Guild, well, that gravy train is coming to the edge of the cliff.
There are two new religious movies coming out, and they are going to do unbelievable box office - Heaven is a Real Place and one about the life of Jesus, I believe based on the Gospel of John. They are going to make loads of money, and you are going to see the movie business gravitate away from California more than you are now.
You can make a movie anywhere, and finance it from anywhere, and writers can market their scripts anywhere. High Schools are making better and better movies with nothing for budgets.
There will be flops coming, and have been flops made, which were made based on the old formulas. The public is less likely to pay for watching propaganda than ever before, and more willing to pay for movies that reflect the perceptions of the world from their own kitchen tables.
Every day I read the WSJ, and every day I ask myself where they are getting their information, because it does not in any way reflect the reality I see from where I work, live, and play. I get less and less news about the hair-raising developments oversees, and find I can only get this news from the UK, or other outlets.
The local paper? Sometimes there are entire sections that are essentially fictional - like reading ‘Stars and Stripes’ from 1967.
Rest assured, there is a market for conservative motion pictures, novels, and art. There’s loads of pent up demand for it too. Just don’t expect any of it to win an Oscar, an Emmy, or a Tony.
Hollywood is the living embodiment of another great lefty author - Vonnegut.
It’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’. How do you explain NBC throwing the loads of cash at sitcoms they KNOW are going to fail? It’s a place that believes the Kardashians are worth watching.
It’s the same place that has no trouble with releasing black non-violent drug inmates, because the reason they ended up in the can in the first place was racist. They decry gun ownership and then make Matrix 4, 5, and 6. Or Machete. Or Pulp Fiction 2.
Let me tell you, nothing says ‘art’ like a crime boss being sodomized by a security guard, his buddy, and a crippled guy dressed head to toe in black leather. Come for the dialogue, stay for the sodomy and heroin overdose.
Hollywood - destroying the notion of ‘American Exceptionalism’ since John Wayne died.
Nope. Law and Order is a big, progressive propaganda piece, especially under Rene Balcer.
I meant law and order, all smalls.
Neither he nor DiCaprio appeal to me. They’re nothing special.
Me either, and even though I’m a 64 year old man, I think I could whup either one of those two little prisses.
Casting DiCaprio as a tough guy is absurd.
Even at 39 he is just too pretty and boyish. He doesn’t scream “Manly Man”.
“The Wall Street Journal said, “(DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey) Katzenberg wrote a $2 million check to jump-start Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting the president. His fundraising work has yielded as much as $7 million over the past five years.” “
What the Wall Street Journal DOESN’T state is that Katzenberg made that donation because he wanted to stop the Tea Party, which he claimed were “right-wing extremists” who engaged in “outside Republican spending” to allow for the 2010 sweep of Republicans in the House and Senate.
“Explaining his $2 million donation to a left-wing political action committee, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told USA Today he was motivated by how “outside Republican spending in 2010 led to the election of ‘Republican extremists.’”
He warned: “The stakes are too high for us to simply allow the extremism of a small but well-funded right wing minority to go unchallenged.””
And from what I heard, Katzenberg quit college in order to participate in John Lindsay’s 1972 Presidential Campaign. Never was fond of Katzenberg, since he ruined Beauty and the Beast by turning it into a hard-left feminist screed and brought in Linda Woolverton, nearly ruined Toy Story and The Little Mermaid, and tried to make Pocahontas into Howard Zinn material two years before his book was made public. Not to mention he was the reason why Black Cauldron was a box office bomb.
And honestly, if you think Affleck or the others are bad, you should have seen how George Lucas in that interview with WIRED magazine, where he denounced history as “fiction” and actually implied that he thought 9/11 was mere “folk stories”, not to mention bashed a lot of people who didn’t like Fahrenheit 9/11 by comparing them to kids who put fingers in their ears. Oh, and repeatedly bragged about how he based the Rebels on the Vietcong with no remorse whatsoever, not even when it became ESPECIALLY apparent how the VC were not the heroes he thought they were. Sheesh, even Mark Hamill at least acknowledged his generation screwed up and made things worse with some guilt, which is more than George Lucas who if anything is PROUD about it.
At this rate, I can name only a few people who could qualify as conservative or at the very least libertarian in Hollywood. In particular, aside from Clint Eastwood, there’s also Ted Nugent, Kelsey Grammar, Tom Selleck, and James Woods, probably also James Earl Jones, Chris O’Donnell, and Jeremy Irons as well. I think Jodi Benson and Brooke Anne Smith might lean conservative (the latter certainly doesn’t seem to mouth off any leftist topics other than maybe tolerating gay marriage, and some of her twitter/instagram posts suggests she’s pro-second amendment. And believe me, if she were to adhere to leftist talking points, she would have voiced them a LONG time ago.), probably also Mel Gibson as well. Most of the others are leftists of various stripes.
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