Too bad for Hollweeds liberals their movies have bombed and movies like Miss Slone and Southside with You and A Incocvent Squuel have flopped big time and i hope in continues bad news for liberals
He means tell a fictional story. But you knew that, right?
I was thinking the same thing Bang, but then do politicians even know the difference between telling the truth and selling a fictional story?
As for Hollywood having another bad year….BOO HOO…….movies largely seem to fall into one of three groups: blood/gore/crime, stuff with so much CGI that they are fodder only for 10 year olds and comedies that are insulting and not funny. I’ve pretty much quit going to films in the theatre.
Yea, tell us a story about selling your capitalist earned multi-million dollar mansions and giving your ill gotten gains to the poor of Venezuela or anywhere but USA.
If Capitalism was a drug, Moore and his Comrades are some of the biggest addicts.
Hollywood, Mainstream Media, NFL, etc, etc are all reaping the benefits of their arrogance, contempt, even hatred, displayed towards a large swathe of Americans(otherwise known as customers, the stupid dipshits). In the case of Hollyweird, they have twisted themselves into such a politically correct pretzel that they seem completely devoid of any truly edgy, original, inspiring or even intelligent scripts.
Good riddance.
Yes, by all means – Embrace Hollywood. Also Antifa, Black Lives Matter, transgender everything, kneeling for the national anthem, protests shutting down highways, tearing down monuments, etc etc etc. Have at it progressives. We’ll reap the bounty at the ballot box.
If Democrats embraced Hollywood any closer than they do currently, the entire gaggle of both groups would be wearing the one set of underwear.
It’s about time the useful (working) public started boycotting the Hollywood propaganda machine.
I have gnashed my teeth while so many people condemned the movie industry then trotted off to the theater on Saturday night to see their favorite demi-gods in action. I guess it takes a while to get your brain used to different forms of entertainment.
Hollywood has been feeding us anti-us propaganda for decades,almost every piece of their crap showing how bad,stupid,inept and evil white people are,and the evils of capitalism. They crap on us,we continue to buy movie tickets. Unbelievable.
I’m glad to see some people are finally waking up.
Yes, it was pretty dismal choices for movies this year. There’s been many explanations why Hollywood movies are in decline: reliance on old successes through remakes and Part 6,7,8, too many comic book movies, overtly politically correct movies are a deterrent to half the voters and those who just want entertainment not “wokeness”, lack of political and ideological diversity.
I agree but I think there’s other reasons why movies are boring, predictable and uncreative. Fear of white-washing, cultural appropriation and other charges from progressives. Inbreeding and nepotism has replaced merit so Hollywood blocks new, creative talent because they’re not members of the old boys/girls club. Most movies are cinematic version of the mere exposure effect or familiarity principle. Locations, people and ideas Hollywood progressives find appealing. All things progressive are good and charmingly flawed, everything else is cast as cartoonishly evil and stupid. Ironically it is now the male and female leads who are cookie cutter-like characters who speak and think exactly the same in every movie. The only diversity is skin color.
You’ve got things exactly backwards. Those things are symptoms, not causes.
Movie box office takes have been in free fall since the invention of the DVD and big screen TVs/5.1 systems, which let people have the big movie experience cheaper at home. Hollywood has been panicking about the decline if Big Hollywood and all that money flying around for decades.
for a while, they realized that DVD sales could be a stopgap. Remember the era of the Extended Cut Special Edition DVD? Movies became, essentially, trailers for the eventual extended DVD release (for that matter, remember when DVDs cost $30?). But piracy and streaming services killed that revenue stream, as did the market splitting between DVDs and Blu-Ray.
What’s going on now is the studios are in full cost-cutting mode. The reason for “reliance on old successes through remakes and Part 6,7,8, too many comic book movies” is that marketing for a film is between 100% and 250% of the cost to make the film. Make a sequel, a comic book movie, an adaptation of a TV show or a well-known property and not only do you not have to spend very much on marketing, you have a guaranteed box office from the fans who will see it no matter what just to see what you’ve done with it.
Hollywood has been wacko left forever. The reason they’re banging out SJW crap now is that they’ve always been bad at understanding what audiences want (but when you’re rolling in cash, that doesn’t matter). They’re desperate, and they have no decent customer demographic information, so they’re doing what a floundering, panicked business does: listening to the loudest people screeching at them, telling them what they’re doing wrong. It isn’t working and they probably won’t be able to right the ship in time. We’re already past peak superhero and the coming fragmentation of the home streaming market is going to destroy that market, too.
Doesn’t al gore have a new PowerPoint presentation out? Or was that just a clip from anderson’s regular show that I was clicking by. Yawn, all this fake outrage is wearing me out..
Hollywood has been in decline ever since the old studio system was started being dismantled some 50 years ago. The old movie moguls usually knew what audiences wanted and were willing to make the effort and spend the money to give it to them. They knew that if they did things properly, they would get their investment back and then some.
That’s one reason why older movies are still quite popular. Back then, writers knew how to tell a story and actors knew how to play their roles. Nowadays, it’s little else than pretty faces and CGI-enhanced explosions, all in Dolby stereo. Movies have become mix-and-match interchangeable.
I stopped going to the cinema more than 20 years ago. Since then, there are a handful of films that I wish I’d seen on the big screen because they were good. The rest I can see on cable almost any time and, when I do, I’m usually glad I didn’t spend the time and money to watch them in a theatre.
Good riddance is right. We have quite going to theaters and research any movies we buy for who the actors are and SJW or leftist content. Other than a few decent actors such as Gary Senise and others whose names escape me at the moment the vast majority of the Hollywood set dislikes us and our values so why should we support them in any way.
They have made politics an issue and so can I.
I’m waiting for the Sean Penn “what went wrong Sean” interview on Venezuela and the ensuing discussion about the wrong type of socialism.
I’m writing this while I’m watching the movie Giant on Turner Classic Movies.
They sure don’t make ’em like they used to! That film has everything one can ask for: a great story, great acting (Rock Hudson! Elizabeth Taylor! James Dean!), and excellent cinematography.
This is the second time I’m seeing it on a flat-screen TV. It’s almost as good as viewing it in a cinema. Can anyone tell me why I should go and spend my time and money to watch whatever half-baked crapola that Hollywood produces nowadays?
I mentioned earlier that I was watching Giant, a movie which was directed by George Stevens.
One thing I noticed about many movies that were made in that era was that one was actually expected to watch them. Stevens was an example of a director who, with a well-made camera shot, told more in a single view which lasted a few seconds than several minutes of dialog and action. There are numerous such examples in that movie.
Unfortunately, many present day directors don’t do that, if at all. Each scene, each shot has to come wham-bam-slam, one immediately right after another or the audience, which, like you mentioned, consists of younger people, becomes bored. Their attention spans have been numbed due to music videos and computer games.
As for social issues, many classic movies dealt with many of them, doing so with style, grace, and intelligence. Giant has race relations between Caucasians and Hispanics as part of the plot. The Best Years of Our Lives discussed the problems of veterans re-adjusting to civilian life after serving in a war, including one character who was physically disabled and another who suffered from what is now known as PTSD.
Unfortunately, such movies are far too sophisticated for the audience that Hollywood tends to cater to nowadays.
So true ! Such cinematic camera techniques, that simply allow an image to … tell the story … is much like “rests” in music, and “tempo” changes. The tempo and spacing of rests … SILENCE … is more dramatic than the notes themselves. It is essentially what is meant when someone is described as playing … “with feeling”. Stringing notes together is the lowest form of making NOISE (banging on the boilers like a chimpanzee) … but notes played with tempo and rests … is ART.
I judge acting talent by the ability to communicate silently … through facial expression and/or body language … not by words alone. I respect Directors who tell the emotional story by using the actors TALENT without reliance on dialogue alone.
oh ya, hollyweird.
watched a couple episodes of ‘America: facts vs fiction’.
seems hollyweird and the MSM of old colluded to rewrite a LOT of ‘history’.
ie the pernicious problem of the collosal FAILURE of media to ‘get it right’ goes waaaaaaaayyyyyy back.
complete absence of independent confirmation, recanted versions of events, ‘witnesses’ proven to be elsewhere, on and on and on.
also watched an expose of the infamous rolling stone campus rape farce.
and the way the media latched onto the Jon Benet case and railroaded Patsy ‘in the court of public opinion’. 12 yrs later a new forensic thingy called ‘touch DNA’ found said evidence on the child’s panties that DID NOT BELONG to ANY of the Ramseys. prompting the brand new DA to exonerate Patsy. in other words the myopic cops and media got it horribly WRONG WRONG WRONG and MISSED the trail of the REAL perp.
Im so sorry Patsy did not live to see this, but personally, at the time, I said it many times, she was either the most consummate liar on the planet capable of bluffing her way past the pearly gates, or, was the victim of one of the worst injustices on the entire planet for many decades. anyone with a precious beloved child could hear and see the terrible grief that lady experienced.
“the truth will out”. not if THAT bunch have anything to do with it.
Todays movies are visual disco music.
Too bad for Hollweeds liberals their movies have bombed and movies like Miss Slone and Southside with You and A Incocvent Squuel have flopped big time and i hope in continues bad news for liberals
He means tell a fictional story. But you knew that, right?
I was thinking the same thing Bang, but then do politicians even know the difference between telling the truth and selling a fictional story?
As for Hollywood having another bad year….BOO HOO…….movies largely seem to fall into one of three groups: blood/gore/crime, stuff with so much CGI that they are fodder only for 10 year olds and comedies that are insulting and not funny. I’ve pretty much quit going to films in the theatre.
Yea, tell us a story about selling your capitalist earned multi-million dollar mansions and giving your ill gotten gains to the poor of Venezuela or anywhere but USA.
If Capitalism was a drug, Moore and his Comrades are some of the biggest addicts.
Hollywood, Mainstream Media, NFL, etc, etc are all reaping the benefits of their arrogance, contempt, even hatred, displayed towards a large swathe of Americans(otherwise known as customers, the stupid dipshits). In the case of Hollyweird, they have twisted themselves into such a politically correct pretzel that they seem completely devoid of any truly edgy, original, inspiring or even intelligent scripts.
Good riddance.
Yes, by all means – Embrace Hollywood. Also Antifa, Black Lives Matter, transgender everything, kneeling for the national anthem, protests shutting down highways, tearing down monuments, etc etc etc. Have at it progressives. We’ll reap the bounty at the ballot box.
If Democrats embraced Hollywood any closer than they do currently, the entire gaggle of both groups would be wearing the one set of underwear.
It’s about time the useful (working) public started boycotting the Hollywood propaganda machine.
I have gnashed my teeth while so many people condemned the movie industry then trotted off to the theater on Saturday night to see their favorite demi-gods in action. I guess it takes a while to get your brain used to different forms of entertainment.
Hollywood has been feeding us anti-us propaganda for decades,almost every piece of their crap showing how bad,stupid,inept and evil white people are,and the evils of capitalism. They crap on us,we continue to buy movie tickets. Unbelievable.
I’m glad to see some people are finally waking up.
Yes, it was pretty dismal choices for movies this year. There’s been many explanations why Hollywood movies are in decline: reliance on old successes through remakes and Part 6,7,8, too many comic book movies, overtly politically correct movies are a deterrent to half the voters and those who just want entertainment not “wokeness”, lack of political and ideological diversity.
I agree but I think there’s other reasons why movies are boring, predictable and uncreative. Fear of white-washing, cultural appropriation and other charges from progressives. Inbreeding and nepotism has replaced merit so Hollywood blocks new, creative talent because they’re not members of the old boys/girls club. Most movies are cinematic version of the mere exposure effect or familiarity principle. Locations, people and ideas Hollywood progressives find appealing. All things progressive are good and charmingly flawed, everything else is cast as cartoonishly evil and stupid. Ironically it is now the male and female leads who are cookie cutter-like characters who speak and think exactly the same in every movie. The only diversity is skin color.
You’ve got things exactly backwards. Those things are symptoms, not causes.
Movie box office takes have been in free fall since the invention of the DVD and big screen TVs/5.1 systems, which let people have the big movie experience cheaper at home. Hollywood has been panicking about the decline if Big Hollywood and all that money flying around for decades.
for a while, they realized that DVD sales could be a stopgap. Remember the era of the Extended Cut Special Edition DVD? Movies became, essentially, trailers for the eventual extended DVD release (for that matter, remember when DVDs cost $30?). But piracy and streaming services killed that revenue stream, as did the market splitting between DVDs and Blu-Ray.
What’s going on now is the studios are in full cost-cutting mode. The reason for “reliance on old successes through remakes and Part 6,7,8, too many comic book movies” is that marketing for a film is between 100% and 250% of the cost to make the film. Make a sequel, a comic book movie, an adaptation of a TV show or a well-known property and not only do you not have to spend very much on marketing, you have a guaranteed box office from the fans who will see it no matter what just to see what you’ve done with it.
Hollywood has been wacko left forever. The reason they’re banging out SJW crap now is that they’ve always been bad at understanding what audiences want (but when you’re rolling in cash, that doesn’t matter). They’re desperate, and they have no decent customer demographic information, so they’re doing what a floundering, panicked business does: listening to the loudest people screeching at them, telling them what they’re doing wrong. It isn’t working and they probably won’t be able to right the ship in time. We’re already past peak superhero and the coming fragmentation of the home streaming market is going to destroy that market, too.
Doesn’t al gore have a new PowerPoint presentation out? Or was that just a clip from anderson’s regular show that I was clicking by. Yawn, all this fake outrage is wearing me out..
Hollywood has been in decline ever since the old studio system was started being dismantled some 50 years ago. The old movie moguls usually knew what audiences wanted and were willing to make the effort and spend the money to give it to them. They knew that if they did things properly, they would get their investment back and then some.
That’s one reason why older movies are still quite popular. Back then, writers knew how to tell a story and actors knew how to play their roles. Nowadays, it’s little else than pretty faces and CGI-enhanced explosions, all in Dolby stereo. Movies have become mix-and-match interchangeable.
I stopped going to the cinema more than 20 years ago. Since then, there are a handful of films that I wish I’d seen on the big screen because they were good. The rest I can see on cable almost any time and, when I do, I’m usually glad I didn’t spend the time and money to watch them in a theatre.
Good riddance is right. We have quite going to theaters and research any movies we buy for who the actors are and SJW or leftist content. Other than a few decent actors such as Gary Senise and others whose names escape me at the moment the vast majority of the Hollywood set dislikes us and our values so why should we support them in any way.
They have made politics an issue and so can I.
I’m waiting for the Sean Penn “what went wrong Sean” interview on Venezuela and the ensuing discussion about the wrong type of socialism.
I’m writing this while I’m watching the movie Giant on Turner Classic Movies.
They sure don’t make ’em like they used to! That film has everything one can ask for: a great story, great acting (Rock Hudson! Elizabeth Taylor! James Dean!), and excellent cinematography.
This is the second time I’m seeing it on a flat-screen TV. It’s almost as good as viewing it in a cinema. Can anyone tell me why I should go and spend my time and money to watch whatever half-baked crapola that Hollywood produces nowadays?
I mentioned earlier that I was watching Giant, a movie which was directed by George Stevens.
One thing I noticed about many movies that were made in that era was that one was actually expected to watch them. Stevens was an example of a director who, with a well-made camera shot, told more in a single view which lasted a few seconds than several minutes of dialog and action. There are numerous such examples in that movie.
Unfortunately, many present day directors don’t do that, if at all. Each scene, each shot has to come wham-bam-slam, one immediately right after another or the audience, which, like you mentioned, consists of younger people, becomes bored. Their attention spans have been numbed due to music videos and computer games.
As for social issues, many classic movies dealt with many of them, doing so with style, grace, and intelligence. Giant has race relations between Caucasians and Hispanics as part of the plot. The Best Years of Our Lives discussed the problems of veterans re-adjusting to civilian life after serving in a war, including one character who was physically disabled and another who suffered from what is now known as PTSD.
Unfortunately, such movies are far too sophisticated for the audience that Hollywood tends to cater to nowadays.
So true ! Such cinematic camera techniques, that simply allow an image to … tell the story … is much like “rests” in music, and “tempo” changes. The tempo and spacing of rests … SILENCE … is more dramatic than the notes themselves. It is essentially what is meant when someone is described as playing … “with feeling”. Stringing notes together is the lowest form of making NOISE (banging on the boilers like a chimpanzee) … but notes played with tempo and rests … is ART.
I judge acting talent by the ability to communicate silently … through facial expression and/or body language … not by words alone. I respect Directors who tell the emotional story by using the actors TALENT without reliance on dialogue alone.
oh ya, hollyweird.
watched a couple episodes of ‘America: facts vs fiction’.
seems hollyweird and the MSM of old colluded to rewrite a LOT of ‘history’.
ie the pernicious problem of the collosal FAILURE of media to ‘get it right’ goes waaaaaaaayyyyyy back.
complete absence of independent confirmation, recanted versions of events, ‘witnesses’ proven to be elsewhere, on and on and on.
also watched an expose of the infamous rolling stone campus rape farce.
and the way the media latched onto the Jon Benet case and railroaded Patsy ‘in the court of public opinion’. 12 yrs later a new forensic thingy called ‘touch DNA’ found said evidence on the child’s panties that DID NOT BELONG to ANY of the Ramseys. prompting the brand new DA to exonerate Patsy. in other words the myopic cops and media got it horribly WRONG WRONG WRONG and MISSED the trail of the REAL perp.
Im so sorry Patsy did not live to see this, but personally, at the time, I said it many times, she was either the most consummate liar on the planet capable of bluffing her way past the pearly gates, or, was the victim of one of the worst injustices on the entire planet for many decades. anyone with a precious beloved child could hear and see the terrible grief that lady experienced.
“the truth will out”. not if THAT bunch have anything to do with it.
hmmm. maybe another push is required . . . .