For the first time since 1960, both actors and screenwriters are on strike for more money and they can't blame all the usual suspects. Besides an antiquated system for residuals (royalties), they also recognize that streaming has choked off their previously reliable income.

But they don't seem to recognize that audiences don't like the increasingly woke content and the worsening quality of scripts and dialog. It appears that film and TV will have to return to the tricks used 20 years ago—like reality shows and moving game shows to prime time—in order to keep the industry from collapsing.

I have a different idea: make films based on actual news events with dialog from video clips—all put together by amateurs. Hollywood has been killing off escapism in entertainment anyway. Here's an idea for a horror film they could sell right away:


https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment ... id-strike/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/0 ... n-lawsuit/
https://www.theblaze.com/news/montana-s ... -a-marxist
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/04 ... -identity/
https://www.breitbart.com/education/202 ... ex-change/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023 ... m-schools/

Twas Woke Realism killed the beast.

Gee, contrary to what most of these people believe, Americans are not the vast land of people with mental disorders or drug disabilities. In fact, these Hollywoods are the same people who pretend to be other people with better hair who would rather sit around a small bonfire of burning U.S. flags and give instructions about always facing Mecca when remembering many noble crusaders who gave their lives to allow suicide bombers the right to live.....and I am expected to feel sorry for them????

trashmouth wrote: ↑

7/18/2023, 5:13 pm

and I am expected to feel sorry for them????

Hardly. They have sagged to the breaking point under the weight of their own culture. It takes thousands of people to make a big blockbuster film, and thus the cut for each is diminished with every crew member when a profit isn't turned. So, that's why I point to the biggest culprit of all—the marketing departments.

The greatest error being made by studios lately has been to pump out lots of super-expensive shitty films because the imbeciles in marketing concentrate on what has historically made money while oblivious as to why they made money. Add to that an overarching compulsion to abide by the dictates of CRT and DEI and a witch's brew of failure forms. So marketing advises the studios to make ten more of any franchise film because the dumb cattle (public) will flock to snatch whatever red meat the studios toss at them.

Marketing doesn't consider much more than money, so it wrongly assumes that audiences will go for whatever made a hit in the past. Marketing pushes studios to make such films but few of the younger writers have the imagination or talent to match their predecessors and audiences are angered by their unusual or bizarre treatments of once-beloved franchises, so fatigue and ambivalence sets in and thus big films are bombing at the box office.  

If marketing got shut out and studios took a gamble on great scripts over cookie-cutter plots and sequels—heavily burdened by CRT and DEI requirements—studios would prosper and audience interest would return. But since no cast or crew member could survive long if they step outside of the groupthink of their peers in the liberal-leftist Hollywood bubble, no one dares speak out and thus the system is killing itself.

What I've written is greatly generalized, but I'd rather not get into the weeds of nuance upon nuance as liberal are prone to do. That is what got Hollywood into this situation in the first place.

 

Well, there is always China, which can create films of remarkable remakes of historical conquests, Kung Fu episodes, and the brilliance of Chinese military or space command over the feckless Yankee idiot.

trashmouth wrote: ↑

7/20/2023, 4:09 pm

Well, there is always China, which can create films of remarkable remakes of historical conquests, Kung Fu episodes, and the brilliance of Chinese military or space command over the feckless Yankee idiot.

Having seen hundreds of Chinese amateur videos over the past 15 years. I'd be surprised if anyone over there can find their own asses with both hands and a flashlight.
 

'' Having seen hundreds Chinese amateur videos over the past 15 years  
of press conferences when all manner of stupidity were hidden or given some resemblance of reason. I'd be surprised if anyone over there here can find their own asses with both hands and a flashlight when they project such clownishness in the "Mysterious Case of the Tiny Cocaine Baggie™." Yes, the Chinese are real amateurs compared to us.....