Posted on 08/16/2010 11:14:20 AM PDT by roses of sharon
Critics aren’t dumb, they know the public doesn’t much care which way their thumbs point. But critics do know that based on their opinions and reviews they can enjoy an influence over what kind of films get made. And that’s not a small amount of power. Culture is upstream from politics, after all.
If you have 95 percent of critics savaging a faithful retelling of the Gospels as anti-Semitic, no matter how successful “The Passion” is, no one’s going to go near that subject matter again. And that’s the goal. Same with anything that comes close to patriotism or conservatism. Such cinematic rarities are frequently labeled “jingoistic, fascist or simple minded.” This is all done consciously and for a desired effect.
You have to understand that when I look at the critical community I only see it for what it really is: a journolista cabal of left wingers deeply engaged in a cultural and ideological war, deeply committed to shaping the powerful messaging of sound and fury that emanate from our pop culture masters.
As if to prove my point, this very morning Left-winger Steven Zeitchik of the L.A. Times ran this propaganda piece; a not very subtle attempt on his and the paper’s part to tamp down any enthusiasm development execs might have to copycat what made “The Expendables” such a box office success and cultural phenomenon: [emphasis mine]
But the Stallone picture — with its hard-charging, take-no-prisoners patriotism unbothered by the vagaries of the real world (it takes place in a fictional country, for starters) and its caricature of freedom-hating enemies (”We will kill this American disease,” as the TV spot enticed us) — planted itself squarely in the old-school genre. And this weekend, the movie showed that there’s life in that category yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
Hollywood isn’t interested in always making blockbuster films. They will bury a film out of spite or even write the losses of a “protected” film off against a successful modestly budgeted film (burying it and it’s production team).
They have 75 years of film to sell/lease on cable and home video to remain solvent.
Stallone did a fund raiser for Obama. F Him
The only one in that movie who is not a lib is Mickey Rourke.
Hollywood can go to h*ll.
The Expendables is being reviewed better than Eat Pray Love (barf) by the critics.
Eat Pray Love review: Self-indulgent... a talky travelogue — like riding a tour bus with a passenger who won’t shut up about her inner journey.
If you’ve ever been there, you’d know they’re already there and just putting on a pretty face to deceive everyone into thinking they don’t notice.
Bruce Willis is in the movie, along with Schwarzenegger.
Willis is a conservative ~ Arnold?-Phfftt...
The “paint by numbers” line was so worth reading this article.
Expendables, A-Team, Red Dawn. Is it time to wallow in 80s nostalgia already? I thought we’d have a few more years. What next? Sixteen Candles with Megan Ringwald?
Wills and Schwarzie are in it so momentarily they shouldn’t be listed in the credits, cameos at best.
My girlfriend went to see Eat, Pray, Vomit at the same time. I wish I had gone with her.
Saw it and loved it.
They aren’t listed in the credits but they are there - just grasping at Republicans and Rinos ;)
The last line of the Arnold scene was funny though....
Saw it this weekend. thought the lines were crappy. the one-liners that could have been funny were lame.
(Ahnold had the one decent one and only one the audience chuckled at) Lundgren still sounds like Ahnold’s more retarded brother.
I did like Sly’s rat-rod pickup.
“They have 75 years of film to sell/lease on cable and home video to remain solvent.”
I agree with your first statement, but this one isn’t as true as it once was. MGM thought it could handle excessive debt due to its catalog of films. That turned out not to be the case :-).
I would rather have another Dark Knight than another Expendables, but maybe that is just me.
MGM of 1968 or MGM of Time-Warner-Turner media empire today?
Yet another remake of the Batman-Joker origin stories? That’s all it appears Hollywood is interested in filming.
“...like riding a tour bus with a passenger who won’t shut up about her inner journey.”
LOL, and it fits with your name!
Sounds like a Planet Hollywood reunion.
But Hollywood appears to be against it as they’ve been on a decade run of anti-American films and even “heroic” films are quick to denounce any support for “the American way”.
I fail to see the appeal of The Dark Knight. And I loved Batman Begins. I thought the only people who loved The Dark Knight were Heath Ledger fans.
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