In the middle of Schumer’s hateful speech she let loose with something most media outlets refuse to acknowledge. Progressive actors spouting progressive talking points are hurting their own bottom lines.
In the middle of Schumer’s hateful speech she let loose with something most media outlets refuse to acknowledge. Progressive actors spouting progressive talking points are hurting their own bottom lines.
“Speaking up about this puts literal targets on our backs, and for sick bullying and lies about us, and it narrows the people who will support our work. We sell half as many tickets because we’re standing up for what is right.” – Amy Schumer
Great news! They have no problem destroying the lives of people they don’t like, so we would have to have hearts of stone not to laugh at her problems.
My attendance at movie theaters has dropped dramatically. It’s not a hardship, because the movies mostly suck. Once in a while, a movie will come out that really needs a big screen for effect and I’ll see it. Why should I pay someone to insult me?
The Hollywood/Entertainment crowd are inflicted with the same delusional disease as our buffoon of a PM…an exaggerated sense of their opinions and capabilities beyond being dancing monkeys and playing dress-up. They should stick to entertainment and acting as cannon fodder for salacious gossip. Outside of that…we are not amused.
Darkest hour was the last movie I saw, preceded by 10:19 to Paris…You get my drift.
Lefty Hollywood is dying…A realignment is underway.
Lefty news media is dying…”FAKE NEWS” has been repeated enough by POTUS that it has gone viral.
There is hope my friend.
As long as the top management of the pop culture industry can maintain their uberwealthy status and sustain their Hugh-Hefner-culture access to young attractive sexual objects the overall popularity and financial performance of their product will be secondary, as long as it’s good enough and hanging in there they’re happy. I doubt they have any thoughts for the industry as a collective or their legacy, it’s all about themselves and the now.
This seems to be an infection running rampant through the Left. Ask anyone who is an ardent believer in global warming if they have read the IPCC Assessment Reports. “What’s the IPCC?” they will reply. Ask them what are the pre-Industrial and current CO2 atmospheric concentrations and they’ll reply “I don’t know”. Ask them if they have heard of Michael Mann and his famous ‘hockey-stick curve’, and they’ll reply “Who?”
Just because they don’t know anything about a subject doesn’t preclude them from feeling they have a valid opinion on the subject.
PM socks does stick to entertainment, and that is why we get b*ll$hit for governance
Yup, RELIGIOUS belief, and NO facts. That is how all beliers function!
I suspect that deep in the hearts of MOST Hollywooden Actors … is the overwhelming desire to be liked, nay – to be loved. So what better way to be loved … than to appeal-to and JOIN the herd. Join the dominant political side. It’s easy. Go with the flow (as created by the media).
I suspect that most of these -desperate to be loved- Actors, are stunned to learn that there REALLY STILL IS … a Silent Majority of Conservatives out here in the REAL world.
My point, exactly. Thank you.
“Just because they don’t know anything about a subject doesn’t preclude them from feeling they have a valid opinion on the subject.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/leonardo-dicaprio-chinooks-climate-change-1.3358972
“I’ve never experienced something so first-hand that was so dramatic. You see the fragility of nature and how easily things can be completely transformed with just a few degrees difference. It’s terrifying, and it’s what people are talking about all over the world. And it’s simply just going to get worse,” said DiCaprio.
“We were in Calgary and the locals were saying, ‘This has never happened in our province ever.’ We would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come.”
Experiencing a chinook, which we in southern Alberta look forward to.
This is the depth of understanding on issues these people have. Not to mention all out lying.
I have also consciously tuned out as much as possible. I haven’t been in a movie theatre since the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Don’t miss it one bit. I watch maybe 2 – 3 hours per week of entertainment tv aside from sports. I get my news from Fox News as the least bad alternative. I get my Canadian news from sites like this.
Also, television technology has reached the point where you can have a far better time at home watching a movie on the BIG SCREEN than going out.
We had meant to see “Darkest Hour” when it came to Ottawa but for one reason or another missed it. Fast forward a couple of weeks and there was the DVD in Walmart for twenty dollars.
So we enjoyed it at home, free to enjoy a couple of beers, eat pizza and pause the DVD to go for bathroom breaks – and all for far less than we would have paid to go out and see it.
Also, since we have the DVD, we can see it again whenever we want.
(More to the point of this thread, why would I want to go and pay good money to see third-rate films starring actors who insult me?)
Think of the stars of the past like Hope, Carson, Jimmy Stewart etc. Patriots all or at least in the case of Carson smart enough to keep their ideologies off the stage. The foolish Hollywood idiots of today cannot hold a candle to these giants. Like Kate says – Faster please!
Hollywood…..takin’ a knee
Looks good on the jackasses
“Patriots all …” Hollywood, early television, the MSM news used to be patriots.
They supported Western Civilization, the nations states founded on Liberty(the Magna Carta countries, ‘The English Speaking Peoples’, Winston Churchill’s book.
Now they don’t, and their anti-Western values product inspires no mass audience, but does inspire Cult. Marxists and the nihilists, who commit mass killings to express their resentment against life and being, itself.
As Prof. Jordan Peterson and Prof. Gad Saad point out humans respond to the ‘Archetypes of Meaning’, something based on our values, found in cultural and evolution.
The MSM now leads a bandwagon of destruction and chaos, and can’t understand why their shrinking audience is jumping off as their wagon heads towards the abyss.
The irony is as thick as the fog in the mind of the moribund Hollywood/MSM.
But Leonard has been butt raped by a Grizzly … on location. So he is an outdoor expert!
What Planned Parenthood wants for Disney:
https://tinyurl.com/y8u6n9oj
That’s sure a long way from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, isn’t it?
Consider a party where some guy spends the entire night lecturing everyone else on political issues, as if he has special insight into such things and no one else has any. But the guy isn’t all that smart, and worse, he’s out of touch with reality, with little concept of how the average citizen lives. He is, in other words, a crashing bore.
And that’s how audiences now feel about entertainers these days.
Except that audiences get to rebut by staying away.
Just like that, only the lecturer isn’t any good at their day job, either. E.g. Amy Schumer, comedy.
a LOT of the hollywood old timers saw action in WW II.
Jimmy Stewart, bomber command
Eddie Albert Iwo Jima or possibly okinawa
Lee Marvin, buried @ arlinton national, now why would that be?
even Ted Knight (mary tyler moore show) a DECORATED vet of D-day.
also Wm Hopper, son of the gossip hedda and of the Perry Mason series, a pioneer in the science and art of combat scuba missions.
and a host of others who may have otherwise seen the limelight but didn’t survive their contributions to the final victory.
….In ancient Greece and Rome, prostitutes were actors and actors were prostitutes…Nothing has changed in 2000+ years!
They are unionized in the S.A.G. (screen actor’s guild)
Others deserve mentioning too are: W W II :
Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Paul Newman, Charles Bronson, Don Adams, Rod Serling, Gene Roďdenberry, James Arness (Gunsmoke).
Marine Corps W W II : served not as fighter:
Beatrice Arthur (aka Bea)
USN: Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, and Van Heflin
Don’t forget that many directors also served or assisted the military. John Ford, USN, just happened to be on Midway Island when it was attacked and filmed what was going on. William Wyler (Army, I think) suffered hearing loss and then went on to direct one of the best movies ever made, The Best Years of Our Lives, a film about returning veterans trying to adjust to civilian life. John Huston made documentaries for the war effort. Frank Capra (also Army) directed training films.
John Wayne wanted to enlist but, apparently, football injuries he received while in college made him medically ineligible. Instead, he made movies that boosted the morale of the public as did Cary Grant (Destination Tokyo), and Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo).
Other actors assisted in military canteens, serving food and coffee to troops either on leave or in transit, while others, I believe, helped sell war bonds.
They saw it as their duty to their country.
The Duke didn’t serve in the military but he supported HUAC and was anti communist.
Audie Murphy was a highly decorated military vet who made it in Hollywood.
Today the Hollywood tough guys look like sissies….cuz they are.
We stopped going to the theatre some time in the ’90s. Independence Day was the last theatre show we went to.
We rarely buy movie DVDs.
Wife and I can’t stand so many actors/esses because of their politics they just ruin the whole experience for us.
Quit watching TV in May 2000. Watched the Twin Towers come down in 2001 on the internet.
Murphy wasn’t just highly decorated, he was the most decorated American soldier in WW II. He plays himself in the movie To Hell and Back and he definitely earned his medals.
Rod Steiger served on board a destroyer, I believe, that supported the Doolittle raid on Japan. Harry Belafonte also, apparently, served as well. The post-war G. I. Bill helped both of them, and many others, with their future careers.
While we’re at it, James Doohan was in Normandy on D-Day. One of his fingers was shot off during the fighting.
The last movies I saw in a theater were, Titanic, As Good as it Gets, Independence Day. Haven’t been in a theater in something like 20 years and don’t miss it. Watch a bit of sport on TV occasionally. Don’t miss it.
I’ve boycotted cinemas for nearly 25 years. The last film I went to see was Jurassic Park when it was being shown in a second-run house. (Note: never go to see a popular movie when school’s out for the holidays. I’m sure you can figure out why.)
The real reason I have cable TV now is largely for movies, particularly on TCM. When I first started watching cable regularly 40 years ago, PBS was my favourite channel. I supported it for 35 years but I’m finally letting my membership lapse as there’s hardly anything on it that I really want to see any more.
… and David Niven, Kirk Douglas, Mel Brooks, Jason Robards, Art Carney, Charles Durning, (Sir) Alec Guiness, Russell Johnson, Audrey Hepburn (Dutch Resistance) Josephine Baker (French Resistance) Carol Lombard ( War Bond Rally)
Agree that Murphy in “To Hell and Back ” is excellent, a real nail biter. Murphy was a farm boy and a sure shot since he was a kid.
Robards was s sailor at Pearl Harbour when the Japanese attacked. He was the narrator for the American Experience documentary about it that PBS showed on the 50th anniversary.
We have not patronized a movie theater for at least fifteen years and are very selective as to which DVDs we purchase and generally base those purchases on who the actors are and if we are interested in the story.
Great comments about the names of actors serving during the war.
Yes of course, American Experience on P.B.S is excellent.
James Michener’s ” Tales of The South Pacific” was a good read, based on Michener’s experiences albeit it is a novel, there is a reality factor there, marvelous descriptions and a bit of humoour even.
Yikes …albeit a novel and a bit of humour…rather
CORRECTION … my bad! Sorry!
The library has a ton of DVD s at no extra charge, check it out. A library card is affordable, even free in large cities in Canada.
Hope this is of interest to you and helps you!
I have a long mental list of movies I’d like to add to my DVD collection, largely due to what I saw on TCM.
There have been a few that I’ve seen on Encore Avenue that I’d like to get as well. However, for the most part, most of the flicks I’ve watched, or attempted to watch, on that channel I’ll avoid like the plague when it comes to purchasing DVD copies. I might start on a movie and if after, say, half an hour, it doesn’t interest or excite me, I won’t hesitate to switch it off. Sometimes I make my opinions known about it on IMDB and I’m not terribly charitable in expressing myself.
To his credit Clint Eastwood used the actual people, making his latest flick autobiographical for not only the main actors but the extras too, in 15:17 To Paris. No spoilers here.
I cried.
A big pardon me…Clint Eastwood is NOT Hollywood, we all know that, recalling his brave ’empty chair’ speech at the Convention.
Nevertheless his flick 15:17 To Paris is worth support, for the bravery of these men on that train that day. Bring tissues.
It’s amazing how these lefties have forgotten how JFK was banging Marilyn Monroe while he was president, even Bobby had a go with her. Also don’t mention Teddy who abandoned his mistress to drown in the river. Let us also not forget wee Billy Clinton who was having extramarital sex in the oval office regularly. Now some worn out porn whore looking to strike it rich makes an accusation against Trump that allegedly happened a dozen years ago has all the lefties salivating. Even the head queen Anderson Cooper is making a fool of himself every-night.It is painfully obvious the liberal democrats invented hypocrisy.