Spot on! It’s also worth noting that “the industry” @ large has been taken over my man-hating harridans who eschew a traditionalist mindset. It’s all a “revolution of The Woke” now where color/gender/sexual orientation is preference driven rather than storylines. Add to this the DEI (Didn’t Earn It) selectees writing scripts they don’t have the talent for & what you have is a real dumpster fire. Lessons on how to make a successful feature production like “Top Gun II” will be ignored just as the success of Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” was. They’ll go down with the ship.
The upside is that this will produce a revolution once again in independent film (see Angel Studios, for example). I have a dog in this fight in that I’m in the industry; can’t tell you how many times I’ve auditioned for a role only to find out later it’s gone to a minority (my Mgr gives me the inside baseball). Right now the industry hates white people. Ok - so I’m doing my part to help spark the independent revolution with this project here: www.theprussianmovie.com ; a classic tale of a man of honor standing up against the “woke” revolution of its time.
It’s high time; the industry’s product has been extremely sub par IMHO for quite some time.
Running right alongside this in abject blindness is the Met Gala. Lots of stories this weekend on the "excitement" of the upcoming event. The participants seem unaware that they are LARPING the French just prior to the point that the people separated their heads from their shoulders.
Sasha, I agree on all points, but the truth is Hollywood and the Democratic Party have been married for decades, it was just covert before. Look into CAA/Clinton cabal, for example. The thing I don't understand is if no one is going to see the Fall Guy, why is it being promoted everywhere? Why are so many movies still being made all the time and celebrated at award shows? None of this has tapered off. MET Gala is still happening, huge actor salaries are still being paid. So if our economy is crumbling, and no one is seeing these movies, as you argue, where is the money coming from to make and promote them? I don't get it. Something has to give.
The point is not that no one sees them, it is that half the potential audience (or more than half likely), have walked away. It is no longer worth the effort to drive to see a film that lectures the audience about how we ought to be living, meanwhile #Metoo and the revelations about child stars. Despite being one if the most self absorbed groups on the planet, they are apparently short on mirrors. The movies make just enough, and the film credits subsidize their creation just enough, to keep the engine humming, so everyone inside is able to nestle in their cave all the while pointing fingers about streaming stealing their audience. It is always the other guy's fault.
I'm not Sasha but we can read everything you write on this feed. You might as well address your missives to us. BTW you're a joke. Keep your opinions in your cupboard where they belong..
Here might be a reason...it's crazy expensive. For example, the AMC theater by us: 2 tickets for 7 p.m. show, 2 drinks, large popcorn and a candy costs $69.38. VERY few movies are going to get us there.
Beyond the cost, there is the string of LOUD advertisements before the film. By show time my nerves are rattled. At least, at home one can mute the commercials...
It’s not the loud advertisements (though they are awful), but the loud audience members.
I went to the movies at LEAST once a week for a years. Knew everything that was coming out. As movies got worse so did the audiences. Even before the pandemic I had become a very infrequent goer. That fully broke the habit.
I honestly don’t care if I ever step foot in a movie theater again.
Not to ask a dumb question, but why do you need that much food in the theater? Both the popcorn and the candy are enormous - especially the popcorn, and even for two people.
I am attending all the movies put out by Angel Studios and any of it's affiliates .... I am going to the movies quite often recently .... Unsung Hero, Cabrini, The Chosen season 4, Sound of Freedom, After Death .... and probably some I have forgotten to list here ....
"Joker"--now there is a notable exception to the "modern movies suck" thesis... few actors in movie history have inhabited a character as fully as Joaquin Phoenix did in it.
Well, yeah, I guess I meant darkest movies that I would actually watch... can't think of any others off the top of my head that created the same sense of foreboding and despair that Joker did... my wife and I were recently tempted to watch it again but did not feel emotionally up for it.
I loved “Joker.” Back in the 2000s, Gen X people claimed Jack Nicholson was the definitive Joker and Heath Ledger could never be good enough; unfortunately, I didn’t learn from that enormous mistake and said the same thing about Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. JP and HL were each fantastic in their own ways as two different takes on the Joker. Well-earned Oscars, IMO.
"We all know what kinds of stories are out there that no one in Hollywood tell. Imagine making a movie about a man wrongly accused of sexual harassment, and it snowballs into an episode of mass hysteria at the company."
That made me think of the Danish movie Mads Mikkelson made "The Hunt" a few years back. But then your point is still made, because that wasn't Hollywood that made it. My wife and I almost _never_ watch movies made in Hollywood anymore. They're just unwatchable. We've been exploring the big wide world of Indie and foreign films. The blinders have dropped. There are some incredibly good films being made out there, but they're not made in Hollywood anymore.
Right now it is the Minnesota Twins and Timberwolves. Otherwise, I listen to podcasts. No TV for me especially since Prime dished off to their sublets to charge separately.
I have a Facebook friend who became an actual friend, but who is quickly dropping from that status. As for FB, I had to unfollow her.
She hates Trump with the same kind of intensity anti - Semites bring to their hatred of Jews, and as is true of the latter, she can't say why. I asked her to cite just one act of policy of Trump's which appalled her, and she couldn't do it. I told her that she hates Trump the way some women hate first husbands.
Maybe someone needs to make an updated version of "Ninotchka"...a movie that humorously holds a mirror up to the woke and gently nudges them back to humanity and sanity.
Not feasible for them to admit now their hypocrisy and damage they have done to the youth and straight white males. They know they need to defend their malice to the grave. Good article in RCP today about this titled “ unscientific America”; woke can’t yield an inch on their propaganda or the hand folds.
It's really very simple. People no longer go to movies because they don't have to. Why bother? They can pull up a movie on streaming and watch it from their recliner. My wife and I watched Road House yesterday. I didn't particularly like it because they made it woke and it's all fighting but what caught my attention is that the movie was made by and for Amazon, not for theater release. The reason Oppenheimer, which is a piece of leftist baloney that ignores that Soviet archives revealed that Oppie was a spy, was big was because there was a lot of hoopla about it and it was kept off of streaming channels. I predict that it won't be long before theater chains go out of business.
Back when movies were OK I used to sneak into theaters to watch for free. Not anymore. Free is to expensive to waste my time.
Or another thing I did was I was a good patron of the arts. I would go ahead and buy a ticket to say New York Minute with the twins. but then as that movie sucked, I'd leave that plex, sneak across the hall into another plex playing another movie such as sideways, which like a classic rock album, I could watch (rather than listen) again and agian.
I date myself. No litteraly. I ask myself out for a date. The answer isn't an aoutmatic no.
The three listed above, look good. But I also factor in these directors/producers and most definitely actors 'politics' now. It's just another factor of why people don't go to movies now.
Just bought two tickets to see Fall Guy on Thursday with my daughter. £40!!! If it doesn’t turn out to be the single best movie since Bring It On I will be demanding my money back.
You just want to see it for free by being refunded. I did that before with that perversive movie feature Sasha Barron Trump Cohen. I watched the whole thing then complained. But all I really got was a voucher to watch another one of their suck A movies.
Spot on! It’s also worth noting that “the industry” @ large has been taken over my man-hating harridans who eschew a traditionalist mindset. It’s all a “revolution of The Woke” now where color/gender/sexual orientation is preference driven rather than storylines. Add to this the DEI (Didn’t Earn It) selectees writing scripts they don’t have the talent for & what you have is a real dumpster fire. Lessons on how to make a successful feature production like “Top Gun II” will be ignored just as the success of Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” was. They’ll go down with the ship.
The upside is that this will produce a revolution once again in independent film (see Angel Studios, for example). I have a dog in this fight in that I’m in the industry; can’t tell you how many times I’ve auditioned for a role only to find out later it’s gone to a minority (my Mgr gives me the inside baseball). Right now the industry hates white people. Ok - so I’m doing my part to help spark the independent revolution with this project here: www.theprussianmovie.com ; a classic tale of a man of honor standing up against the “woke” revolution of its time.
It’s high time; the industry’s product has been extremely sub par IMHO for quite some time.
Hand maids tale was a Rubicon of sorts. Feel me?
You're asking man-hating harrdans to feel you? Good luck with that!
Running right alongside this in abject blindness is the Met Gala. Lots of stories this weekend on the "excitement" of the upcoming event. The participants seem unaware that they are LARPING the French just prior to the point that the people separated their heads from their shoulders.
I'm too busy preparing for the catalina wine mixer to pay any notice.. Cheers participant boy.
Sasha, I agree on all points, but the truth is Hollywood and the Democratic Party have been married for decades, it was just covert before. Look into CAA/Clinton cabal, for example. The thing I don't understand is if no one is going to see the Fall Guy, why is it being promoted everywhere? Why are so many movies still being made all the time and celebrated at award shows? None of this has tapered off. MET Gala is still happening, huge actor salaries are still being paid. So if our economy is crumbling, and no one is seeing these movies, as you argue, where is the money coming from to make and promote them? I don't get it. Something has to give.
I suspect movies are one of the best tax shelters/avoidance business around.
follow the moolah
The point is not that no one sees them, it is that half the potential audience (or more than half likely), have walked away. It is no longer worth the effort to drive to see a film that lectures the audience about how we ought to be living, meanwhile #Metoo and the revelations about child stars. Despite being one if the most self absorbed groups on the planet, they are apparently short on mirrors. The movies make just enough, and the film credits subsidize their creation just enough, to keep the engine humming, so everyone inside is able to nestle in their cave all the while pointing fingers about streaming stealing their audience. It is always the other guy's fault.
I'm not Sasha but we can read everything you write on this feed. You might as well address your missives to us. BTW you're a joke. Keep your opinions in your cupboard where they belong..
Jeezaloo. Go pet a bunny or something and cheer up.
Here might be a reason...it's crazy expensive. For example, the AMC theater by us: 2 tickets for 7 p.m. show, 2 drinks, large popcorn and a candy costs $69.38. VERY few movies are going to get us there.
Beyond the cost, there is the string of LOUD advertisements before the film. By show time my nerves are rattled. At least, at home one can mute the commercials...
No sub titles
It’s not the loud advertisements (though they are awful), but the loud audience members.
I went to the movies at LEAST once a week for a years. Knew everything that was coming out. As movies got worse so did the audiences. Even before the pandemic I had become a very infrequent goer. That fully broke the habit.
I honestly don’t care if I ever step foot in a movie theater again.
yep, we've had to wear earplugs to see a movie in the theater.
Yep. You're a nervous wreck. go of yourself.
Well, in W. H. we manage with crazy good time with tickets and all that with plenty good time at bathhouse boogie.
come over to my place. I have bigscreen and pop you corn. I have everything to show you. What else do you want?
You, not to be there.
Not to ask a dumb question, but why do you need that much food in the theater? Both the popcorn and the candy are enormous - especially the popcorn, and even for two people.
Haha! Yeah, it’s a nice treat for us. I don’t agree that the candy is enormous…maybe the box is but…
I am attending all the movies put out by Angel Studios and any of it's affiliates .... I am going to the movies quite often recently .... Unsung Hero, Cabrini, The Chosen season 4, Sound of Freedom, After Death .... and probably some I have forgotten to list here ....
Same.
Like two peas in a pod.
Yes!! I saw Sound of Freedom, The Chosen, and Cabrini. All were excellent. Very well done and enjoyed.
"Joker"--now there is a notable exception to the "modern movies suck" thesis... few actors in movie history have inhabited a character as fully as Joaquin Phoenix did in it.
I was really shocked at the "excellence" of Joker. It was an appalling masterpiece, but still a masterpiece.
Maybe one of the darkest movies, ever... but agreed, a masterpiece.
I don’t think it’s anywhere near one of the darkest ever…but most of the darker ones I can think of are ones I wish I’d never seen. 😱
Well, yeah, I guess I meant darkest movies that I would actually watch... can't think of any others off the top of my head that created the same sense of foreboding and despair that Joker did... my wife and I were recently tempted to watch it again but did not feel emotionally up for it.
Recommend pink flamingoes movie for a-h's like you. enjoy, s-hole
Actually, the title is "Pink Flamingos," and yeah, I have seen it.
I got under somebody's skin, didn't I? Good.
I loved “Joker.” Back in the 2000s, Gen X people claimed Jack Nicholson was the definitive Joker and Heath Ledger could never be good enough; unfortunately, I didn’t learn from that enormous mistake and said the same thing about Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. JP and HL were each fantastic in their own ways as two different takes on the Joker. Well-earned Oscars, IMO.
I loved myself so good back in the day. No fall guys. No stunt work. Did it all myself. Cheers.
"We all know what kinds of stories are out there that no one in Hollywood tell. Imagine making a movie about a man wrongly accused of sexual harassment, and it snowballs into an episode of mass hysteria at the company."
That made me think of the Danish movie Mads Mikkelson made "The Hunt" a few years back. But then your point is still made, because that wasn't Hollywood that made it. My wife and I almost _never_ watch movies made in Hollywood anymore. They're just unwatchable. We've been exploring the big wide world of Indie and foreign films. The blinders have dropped. There are some incredibly good films being made out there, but they're not made in Hollywood anymore.
I liked “The Hunt.”
Me too.
Agreed, Sasha. I would like to add that Hollyweird is mostly trying to appease its largest market: Communist China.
What's your favorite TV show?
Right now it is the Minnesota Twins and Timberwolves. Otherwise, I listen to podcasts. No TV for me especially since Prime dished off to their sublets to charge separately.
‘Imagine making a parody of Hollywood called The Woke Movie. It would be hilarious‘ South Park did just that. And it was.
https://youtu.be/TWhsjai-OVE?si=ZUM8hdj7ELqSVmTm
I clicked your link and laptop died. FU!
I have a Facebook friend who became an actual friend, but who is quickly dropping from that status. As for FB, I had to unfollow her.
She hates Trump with the same kind of intensity anti - Semites bring to their hatred of Jews, and as is true of the latter, she can't say why. I asked her to cite just one act of policy of Trump's which appalled her, and she couldn't do it. I told her that she hates Trump the way some women hate first husbands.
Maybe someone needs to make an updated version of "Ninotchka"...a movie that humorously holds a mirror up to the woke and gently nudges them back to humanity and sanity.
Not feasible for them to admit now their hypocrisy and damage they have done to the youth and straight white males. They know they need to defend their malice to the grave. Good article in RCP today about this titled “ unscientific America”; woke can’t yield an inch on their propaganda or the hand folds.
I Found this Mike Rowe interview to be very interesting ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0byfugLJKk
I almost went to see the Fall Guy yesterday but decided to wait til I heard what you have to say about it!
It's really very simple. People no longer go to movies because they don't have to. Why bother? They can pull up a movie on streaming and watch it from their recliner. My wife and I watched Road House yesterday. I didn't particularly like it because they made it woke and it's all fighting but what caught my attention is that the movie was made by and for Amazon, not for theater release. The reason Oppenheimer, which is a piece of leftist baloney that ignores that Soviet archives revealed that Oppie was a spy, was big was because there was a lot of hoopla about it and it was kept off of streaming channels. I predict that it won't be long before theater chains go out of business.
Back when movies were OK I used to sneak into theaters to watch for free. Not anymore. Free is to expensive to waste my time.
Or another thing I did was I was a good patron of the arts. I would go ahead and buy a ticket to say New York Minute with the twins. but then as that movie sucked, I'd leave that plex, sneak across the hall into another plex playing another movie such as sideways, which like a classic rock album, I could watch (rather than listen) again and agian.
I date myself. No litteraly. I ask myself out for a date. The answer isn't an aoutmatic no.
The three listed above, look good. But I also factor in these directors/producers and most definitely actors 'politics' now. It's just another factor of why people don't go to movies now.
Just bought two tickets to see Fall Guy on Thursday with my daughter. £40!!! If it doesn’t turn out to be the single best movie since Bring It On I will be demanding my money back.
You just want to see it for free by being refunded. I did that before with that perversive movie feature Sasha Barron Trump Cohen. I watched the whole thing then complained. But all I really got was a voucher to watch another one of their suck A movies.
Have a nice day.