Just like my performance in Beyond Blunderdome
Or D'oldfinger
Posted on 03/08/2018 4:59:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Hollywood in the 1930s kissed Hitler’s ass because they didn’t want to lose access to the German market.
Hollywood has never been loyal to this country.
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Those people don’t care. They have F you money.
Historically, we agree. The story of America is unique in most of history, mostly because of our young age. The "Roman Empire" existed for a very long time, having bouts and fits along the way. And it's governance style and approach changed with it's leaders. But it largely imploded as well as it prospered.
Reagan made that statement about America being the last bastion of freedom on the planet. It was true then and is truer now. There will be no new nations any time soon where a people might be inclined to be governed benevolently. As life becomes easier for the human population, we tend to become less individualistic and more dependent on the collective. This is sad. America once stood as the example. And many nations in the world sought to emulate what America was doing (Europe).
I am not sure what world chaos lies at the twilight of American greatness, but I hope that time is several generations away. We have gone through ups and downs. If we only have another 100 years or so. America will someday be a historical "flash in the pan". It will be studies as the reason Freedom doesn't work. THAT is scary.
Just like my performance in Beyond Blunderdome
Or D'oldfinger
I do have favorite movies, the overwhelming majority of them were made prior to about 1980. They serve to remind me just how bad most contemporary movies are by comparison.
It seems like nearly every movie made today is either an inane comic superhero movie, an uninspired remake of a much better earlier film, or a glorified propaganda film that beats viewers over the head with politically correct messages about "diversity."
I was never a Star Wars fan, I thought the storyline was a bit on the immature side. But young kids were the target demographic, not a 20-year-old (when the movie came out). Doesn’t make it a bad movie, you just have to understand who the audience is intended to be. The question really is; was it a good movie for the target audience? The answer is yes, very much so. The photography and special effects were outstanding for the time.
Annie Hall sucked, still sucks, and was never a good movie because the storyline was bad. Dreary in fact. I was not the target audience, and cannot relate to it.
I agree with you.
Would the US be as tolerant of homosexuals and their agenda as it is now, without every show portraying them in a positive light?
It is also now filled with people of mediocre (or less) talent, looks and personality; nothing of any great interest to the public. For example, why does this year’s best actress winner seem to go out of her way to make herself look unattractive and unglamorous? She also predictably gave everyone a boring lecture when she won.
And Star Wars is the best thing to happen to Family Guy. ;^)
‘...believable characters and plot;’
you found the Sidney Greenstreet/Peter Lorre pair believable...?
‘Did you mean to write “pubic school students?”’
yeah, you know, guys who like to ‘beat about the bush...’
‘For example, why does this year’s best actress winner seem to go out of her way to make herself look unattractive and unglamorous?’
frankly, she doesn’t really have to go much out of her way...
The problem is that libs and Hollywood celebs want to be the one who sets the rules, who decides on right and wrong and demands everyone tosses their bibles for the new world order. Or else.
Celebs will have sex with anything and they will film it while doing it.
“I’ve said many times Hollywood was dying, and it should. It isn’t even a ghost of what it once was over eighty years ago. It has become a slop of hedonism, debauchery, left-leaning crap that mocks America, Christian values and just plan talentless gits no one wants to watch. Besides, the internet, XBox and so many other forms of electronic entertainment have been competing with it and most families just couldn’t be bothered trooping out to some theater and paying almost a weeks wages to see garbage. Let Hollywood die. It deserves to.”
Needs repeating.
And unfortunately the hate filled entertainers are very predictable - the above prediction is 100% accurate.
You are spot on! Star Wars( the most popular movie in the WORLD in 1977) ignored for weirdo Woody ALlen’s ‘Annie Hall’ perfectly demonstrated that the PUBLIC didn’t matter. What the audience wanted and loved didn’t matter and it hasn’t since! You have to be maliciously vindictive to ignore a movie phenomenon in favor of quirky, sleazy Annie Hall.Star Wars in 77 didn’t just deserve Movie of the Year-it deserved Movie of the Century!
Gary Cooper:
[on Hollywood] This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another . . . They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.
[October 1947] I feel very strongly that actors haven’t any business at all to shoot their faces off about things I know we know very little about.
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