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re: Hollywood people are out of work
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:19 pm to TBoy
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:19 pm to TBoy
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t’s the ripples in the industry still from the Covid shutdown
It’s the ripples from wokeness. I won’t even bother watching a movie releases post 2020.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 9:22 pm
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Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:20 pm to stout
Ha, hope they have to go work at Burger King. The crappiest of crappiest fast food joints.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:23 pm to stout
I would rather support Youtubers and regular people being funny on the Internet, then actors who are so liberal and paid BLM rioters fines and court costs to get out of prison.
I could never support or look at Steve Carrell or Tom Hanks the same way….
I could never support or look at Steve Carrell or Tom Hanks the same way….
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:26 pm to stout
They must have found a few moments to film those spots between learning to code?
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:29 pm to wareagle7298
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My kids are 20 and 23 and they can barely sit through a movie
Which is also indicative of an attention span problem (not specific to your kids, but reflective of the entire younger crowd).
But yeah.
They don't consume entertainment the same way people did for 80-90 years or so.
I don't think that's good or bad (with the exception of the comment above). I think it just is.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:54 pm to wackatimesthree
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Which is also indicative of an attention span problem (not specific to your kids, but reflective of the entire younger crowd).
Oh yeah, I wasn't implying it was a great thing by any means. It just is what it is for that generation.
I was just looking at the movie release schedule for 1983 and 84 and almost every week you could go see a new movie that was just good, fun, unique. I picked out those years because I was 11 and 12, and I remember getting dropped off at the theater all the time.
1983
1984
Almost every movie now has to go through the corporate filter and is completely devoid of any real art. It doesn't help that film is gone and they movies look no different than anything you watch on TV.
I did watch the The Holdovers the other night and I do recommend it, as it was about as non-woke as a movie can get these days, and while not shot on film, was shot or filtered in such a way it look different than modern movies.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:20 pm to wareagle7298
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wareagle7298
You and I are almost the same age and our children are exactly the same ages.
So I grew up in the 70s/80s too.
Someone (I don't' know who) famously posted here, "In the 70s they made movies for adults. In the 80s they made movies for teenagers. In the 90s (actually, I don't remember who the 90s was supposedly for), and from the 2000s on they make movies for idiots."
My memory gap notwithstanding regarding the 90s, I think that's pretty accurate.
Think about the biggest movies of the 70s...definitely appealing to an adult audience (Godfather, Jaws, The Exorcist, Rocky, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters). There were some notable exceptions—Star Wars, Grease, Smokey and the Bandit, but the overall trend was trying to get adults into the movie theaters.
The 80s biggest movies were things like Back To The Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Batman, Crocodile Dundee, Ghostbusters, Coming To America, Lethal Weapon, Honey I Shrunk The Kids...not to mention all of the John Hughes teen movies. Definitely appealing to teens. In fact, I can only think of one really huge movie off the top of my head from the 80s that was meant to appeal to an adult-only crowd and that would be Fatal Attraction.
The 80s was a great time to be a teen as far as movies were concerned.
We also went (and were dropped off) frequently.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:23 pm to wareagle7298
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Almost every movie now has to go through the corporate filter and is completely devoid of any real art.
I would say that "art" was something that was striven for in the 70s. Less so in the 80s. By the 90s it was just a business.
What people don't understand now is that big-budget movies now cost so much to promote that they have to sometimes generate (literally) hundreds of millions of dollars just to break even.
So the international market is actually even more important than the American market for studios. They can't sell enough tickets just in America anymore. Which is why they've done the superhero thing to the point of throwing up (because it sells really, really well in Japan.)
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:30 pm to stout
I really wonder if people in that deep are able to realize why it's all happened to them. Or I wonder if people on the front line don't care either way but are bound to what the overlords/elite direct them to do.
Either way Hollywood is still incredibly broken, and by broken I mean out of touch with what the consumer actually wants and wasting insane amounts of money on each picture that fails.
Either way Hollywood is still incredibly broken, and by broken I mean out of touch with what the consumer actually wants and wasting insane amounts of money on each picture that fails.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:30 pm to TBoy
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It’s the ripples in the industry still from the Covid shutdown
Nope.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:31 pm to stout
I know this is redundant.
People are spending less because the entertainment sucks. Maybe come up with a better product. Or at least not crap on your customers.
People are spending less because the entertainment sucks. Maybe come up with a better product. Or at least not crap on your customers.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:31 pm to stout
I am about over Hollywood. I got fed up with the woke bullshite and have been trying to use my time more constructively. Instead of watching tv, I have been trying to teach myself to play the harp. I have not mastered it yet by any means but my family has stopped leaving the house while I practice.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:34 pm to stout
How much tv do you guys watch? Tonight was probably the first time I’ve watched a movie, 2 actually, in years. I usually get my info from here. Movies now days aren’t like what we all grew up with. Some still good but mostly shite.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:35 pm to stout
F'd Around
Finding Out.
I'm lovin' it.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:44 pm to TBoy
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It’s the ripples in the industry still from the Covid shutdown. People got out of the routine of going to the theaters. The entire industry is retracting. Performing arts are having the same difficulties
I had an idea who was typing this when I read the first seven words.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:46 pm to TBoy
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It’s the ripples in the industry still from the Covid shutdown.
I'd say it's mostly the shite content. Top Gun 2 was the only decent movie that wasnt trying to shove propaganda down my throat in the past 3 years.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 11:11 pm to stout
They should go sing Imagine with Gal Gadot
Posted on 3/25/24 at 11:21 pm to JackieTreehorn
They should try out for one of the new shows being produced for TMTG+
Posted on 3/25/24 at 11:22 pm to TBoy
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People got out of the routine of going to the theaters.
Nope.
Inflation.
shite movies, mostly due to woke BS. Sure people like you eat it up, but you're only 20% of the country.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 11:24 pm to Azkiger
Ppl also don’t have time. It’s easier to find a free stream at home. Idk how they keep the doors open and lights on.
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