I highly recommend Drive My Car. Although the relationship between the protagonist and his wife is a little twisted due to the death of their child, I found it highly engrossing.
I will not be watching tonight. Wanda Sykes?! Amy Schumer?!
Is Don't Look Up a comedy or a drama?!
Let market forces deal with the movie industry. Supply and demand.
There’s too much media available from other sources, to think
that U. S. Citizens will put up with what they seem to have
planed for our media.
Just invite friends over and hold your own movie night. Serve
popcorn, sandwiches, soft drinks, and more.
Let our industry go broke. The quicker the better. Then
perhaps they can build up a better system that lovers of our
nation will support.
I’m not a movie must see viewer. If any movie gets my attention, it’s usually a year or two later and I can go to my local library and check out the DVD for free and bring it home and burn a copy then watch it sometime in the future.
Story telling has become a lost art in hellywood.
They can’t figure out that most of the country can’t stomach the people who play in the films. Tell them to shut their traps and stop dictating to the rest of us how we should live when they had no idea how we live.
All these reasons but the nail in the coffin was forced diversity, inclusion, and representation. Movies 'feel' wrong because they're being made by diversity formulas.
My family stopped watching movies and stopped watching the Oscar nonsense over 20 years ago. We think the whole Hollywood entertainment industry is a sickening anti-American blight upon what’s left of our country.
Movie industry..at least in America.. has been dying since the 90s..
They make up for US sales overseas.
It will only get worse.
Have you heard about Aperture 2025?
It may sound like a Roland Emmerich sci-fi movie, but it’s actually more frightening. And much more controversial. It’s the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s latest initiative to make Hollywood more equitable and diverse—more woke—by changing the rules by which films are eligible for Best Picture nominations. Here’s how it works: Starting in 2024, producers will be required to submit a summation of the race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status of members of their movie’s cast and crew. If a particular movie does not have enough people of color or disabled people or gays or lesbians working on the set—and what is “enough” will be determined by a knotty tangle of byzantine formularies—then that movie will no longer be eligible for an Oscar.
Not surprisingly, the plan is not being universally applauded in Hollywood. Critics say it’s invasive, anticreative, opens the door to privacy issues, and is spectacularly unfair to actors and crew members, who may want to keep their sexual orientation or health profiles to themselves, not to mention to producers and directors who have enough to worry about while shooting a movie than to be saddled with the thankless task of tallying up the identity markers of their creative partners.
“I mean, why aren’t animals in this?” sneers one industry insider. “What if the main character is a horse?”
Unfortunately, Aperture 2025 isn’t the only Academy initiative to recently raise eyebrows in Hollywood. In February, Oscar organizers triggered a civil war in Hollywood over a plan to pretape many of the below-the-line categories—film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, the short-film selections—and roll edits of those awards into the live broadcast. Predictably, many Academy members (especially film editors, makeup and hairstylists, and production designers) balked at the change, but at least that one was designed to address an actual existential threat to the ceremony: that it’s become so long and boring that huge swaths of the audience have begun tuning out.
I thoroughly enjoyed Don't Look Up.
I realize it's supposed to be an allegory about climate change but I ignored the propaganda and bought into the basic premise, a comet is crashing to earth but nobody believes the scientists trying to warn the world. It also offered some clever commentary on modern social media and celebrity culture.
And Meryl Streep playing a female President Trump earned some laughs.
I have one rule for Hollywood. Entertain me. And DLU succeeded in the simple request.
The losers of that Aztec ball game got sacrificed an a bloody altar. :^) Just an idea.
Of the films nominated for Best Picture, I've already given CODA and Drive My Car as my two favorites. Belfast would probably rank third.
The Power of the Dog and Don't Look Up are the two woke agenda films. That doesn't necessarily make them bad movies and they may even have some fans here. But given the damage obnoxious wokeism is doing to the industry, any Academy voters who are thinking strategically should give them a pass because half the country will view a win as a deliberate thumb in the eye.
Since this discussion is broadening, as movie threads usually do:
Other 2021 films not in Oscar consideration that are worth viewing (IMHO): The Dig, I'm Your Man, After Yang, Stillwater, Free Guy, Old Henry, The Last Duel, Montana Story, and The Unlikeliest Convert: the Untold Story of C.S. Lewis. They are not all great movies but they are solid and watchable. They are not political and in terms of culture war tonalities, they are fair minded and balanced enough to give conservative themes a fair shake. I'm happy to recommend them to freepers.
After Yang and Montana Story only played festivals in 2021 (Cannes and TIFF respectively) and were only released to the public this year. If they get awards consideration, it will be in the 2022 cycle. After Yang already has my vote for Best Picture for 2022. It's Kogonada 2.0. Kogonada 3.0 is Pachinko, an eight part series just released on Apple; Kogonada directed four of the episodes. It's getting superb reviews and I expect it to get serious consideration for the 2022 tv awards.
Montana Story is a classic indie small movie, a character driven family drama with a notably spartan look and feel, partly because it was an extreme case of a COVID movie. The writer/director team was in the middle of something else which they shelved; they asked themselves whether they were just going to sit there until The Great God Fauci gave the all clear, or try to do something. They had no story and no money. They noodled for an idea, wrote Montana Story in about five weeks from scratch, produced it on an ultra low budget, and shot it with minimal cast and crew under strict lockdown rules. It's well written with abolutely no frills, and it's beautifully acted. Bleeker Street is releasing it in May. I will nominate it for Best COVID Movie.
Coming out of Sundance, I'll also mention Emily the Criminal, Watcher and Dual for 2022. These are not great movies but they are solid, well crafted and acted. Many here will enjoy them.
Looking back a few years: On the Rocks, Dear Comrades!, Greyhound, Little Women, Straight Up (this will surprise you, but a fun movie that brings some order out of moral chaos), Chernobyl, Tolkien, The Professor and the Madman, Mr. Jones, Balloon, Ashes in the Snow, Operation Finale, Support the Girls, Leave no Trace, Death of Stalin, Lady Bird, Gifted, First They Killed My Father, and Columbus. That takes me through 2017. I list them here for the "nuke Hollywood from orbit" folks.
Those are just idiosyncratic personal favorites, but I can make an argument that all of them are culturally conservative films. Some are U.S. Some are foreign. I'm not sure that really makes much of a difference.
So to all: what has "Hollywood" done for YOU lately? I don't care if you watched something in the theater or at home, but what good films have you seen that are relatively new?
I have all my favorite tv shows and movies on dvd. I’ll be fine :)
A dramedy really. Quite good. I heard that it was meant to skewer global warming deniers but actually skewers celebrity culture and the news media more so than anyone else. I found it very entertaining....just have to get past the obligatory conservative stereotypes...
Exactly Go Woke, Go Broke.
We’re not watching the end of movies, were watching the end of actors and Hollywood. So much is already CG greenscreen, locations can all be virtual. As computing improves, the characters too will be computer generated. All that’s left will be dialogue, and that’s in the works to be computer generated as well. I bet the future of film will be in the recussitation of long-dead actors in brand new roles.
They make too many movies about comic book characters I stopped reading about when I was 12. Why would an adult want to watch a superhero movie?
Do not expect movies or tv shows to get better.
This will not help at all....
Oscars CANCELS films that aren’t woke enough
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10651869/Academy-disqualify-films-not-black-queer-disabled-workers-set.html