Embrace Hollywood!

11 Replies to “Embrace Hollywood!”

1. But you’ll still pay to watch their crap.
   Allow me to suggest looking for “Daywatch” from Russia or “The Quiet Earth” from Australia.
   …or one of the most disturbing movies I’v ever seen :”Predestination”, also from Australia.

   1. Nope. Won’t watch most of it for free.
      Have recently discovered and re-discovered many old shows (the fact I’m saying 70s and 80s is old makes me feel old), in spite of todays HD cameras and whiz bang CGI, TV and movies from back then were just better.

      1. I’ve been investigating dead genres and I’ve been enjoying The Rockford Files and a number of classic westerns – most recently The Loner, a Rod Serling-written western noir that’s inadvertently amusing for starring many actors who went on to headline Zucker Brothers comedies.

         Star Trek has always been leftist/collectivist. Was “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one” too subtle?

2. Just enjoyed “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” with Steve Martin…
   Why would I NOT want to be entertained?

3. The illegal overthrow of President Trump, and the inability or unwillingness of patriotic Americans to do what was necessary to prevent it, removed a major obstacle to our masters’ waging a genocidal war against Russia, which will inevitably end in nuclear holocaust.

   So the Star Trek scriptwriters’ scenario wasn’t that unrealistic, honestly. They just refuse to admit that they’re the bad guys—perhaps even to themselves.

4. All media as we know it, is no longer in the business of entertainment or providing information.
   With few exceptions their goal is influencing opinion.
   They don’t care about your principles, they don’t get paid unless you react they way their sponsor wants you to.
   So the way to respond so that their sponsor ends the contract is, “that show isn’t believable and it has a serious continuity issue.”

5. Competing notions of freedom? As in the freedom to impose your will on everyone else?

   Looks like some screenshots from Sri Lanka and the freedom they have to starve.

   1. As the Critical Drinker says about Star Trek:
      “It’s Dead Jim.”

6. If you want o watch real Sci-Fi… try The Expanse.

7. for the record Star Trek has always been woke. And in the Star Trek lore, there has always been a conflict around this general Era, called varyingly the eugenics wars or ww3. They showed some footage, big whoop

   Nothing to be offended by or get upset about, it’s fantasy.

8. I’m ashamed to admit that I gave in to my curiosity, and watched the first season of Picard. I managed to procure a copy (legally) for free, so I gave it a look-see, and I promptly threw away the disks, never to be seen again.
   I’ve lost faith in the Trek franchise, as I did for Star Wars.
   Season 2 and 3 of Picard looks to be even worse, judging by the audience reviews in Rotten Tomatoes. (Critics loved it, though. Gee! What a surprise!)
   Never again! There’s no way in this universe that I’ll be suckered in like that again.