It’s unfortunate that they small people are being hurt most by the decisions of the bigwigs, but there is nothing that will interest me in seeing a movie ever.
Cue Joe Biden “I Did That” pic
Cue Joe Biden “I Did That” pic
Matt Hobin, former executive producer.
Jen, former editor.
Marsha, Producer and casting director.
Wilfredo Hernandez, TV editor.
Steve Mellon, reality TV editor. His wife Stephanie is post production supervisor.
Erin, SVP of development in unscripted. (She's nice looking)
BK, Editor.
Anna, TV post producer.
Sasha, former VP of production.
I won't pretend to know the reasons all of these people are out of work. My own experience is that I simply don't watch regular TV anymore. To me, so much of is repulsive and disgusting. I think revulsive would fit here too. They can take their woke agendas and shove it.
One thing that stands out in the video is that all the people are white. (Although Wilfredo Hernandez is Hispanic.) Surely, they must be aware that white people are vastly underrepresented in commercials and TV roles now. And, I suspect that non whites are getting preference over the people who can't find work. Further, I suspect that these unemployed Hollywood workers vote Democrat and support "woke" ideology and hiring practices. If they do, it's biting them in the butt. And that folks in Hollywood, is not reality TV - it's BRUTAL REALITY! By the way, if you all can get hired, McDonald's is hiring and they pay 20 dollars an hour.
So many of the actors are hateful and big mouth leftists. Hateful to the point people no longer want to see their movies.
The movies are preachy wokey crap or remakes of past stories done by actors far more accomplished than what we see now.
Creativity is dead, killed by wokeness. I miss good stories that haven’t been censored to the point of losing the original intent of the story.
I would bet most of these people voted for Biden and the left. This is what you get. They can add themselves in with the other Americans that the leftists have screwed over like in the oil industry and auto manufacturing etc.
There are many, many more TV series produced than in the old days of just three networks. Was there a boom and bust in cable channels’ original content which isn’t made up for by streaming services’ increase? Has the technology of digital editing improved so that one editor is needed where four used to be? Has the industry realized that executive producers don’t actually do anything?
Dang - you are all fast. LOL. See post #10.
Hollyweird now exists to launder money for Deep State.
And, at that, it’s very good.
Right wing propaganda.
Hollywood’s Death is what happens when you go 100% DEI with a pinch of Woke
How’s that Communism working out for you?
Too bad, so sad....
Learn to code.
Or maybe something actually productive.
Re: OP title......
Hollywood is making very bad movies..
Good current movies? I’ve not posted my freeper movie list of good recent movies in a while, so here it is. Try some of these:
The Way Back (2010); The Death of Stalin (2017); Arrival (2016); Brooklyn (2015); Mr. Jones (2019); Chernobyl (the miniseries, 2019); Leave No Trace (2018); Columbus (2017); Downfall (2004); Balloon (2018); The Professor and the Madman (2019); Lost in Translation (2003); Paterson (2016); Ashes in the Snow (2018); Dear Comrades! (2020); Within the Whirlwind (2009); The Dig (2021); Lore (2012); Conspiracy (2001); CODA (2021); On the Rocks (2020); Old Henry (2021); The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis (2021); Montana Story (2021); Drive My Car (2021); I’m Your Man (2021); After Yang (2021); Free Guy (2021); The Lost City (2022); Montana Story (2021); Petite Maman (2021); Another Round (2020); Compartment No., 6 (2021); Jockey (2021); Belfast (2021); See How They Run (2022); The Banshees of Inisherin (2022); Living (2022); TAR (2022); To Leslie (2022); Never Let Me Go (2010); Mr. Turner (2014); Nefarious (2023); Eternal Winter (2018); Sound of Freedom (2023); Oppenheimer (2023); The Florida Project (2017); Love at First Sight (2023); American Fiction (2023); Coherence (2013); Ladyballers (2013); The Holdovers (2023); Past Lives (2023); Primer (2004); Godzilla Minus One (2023); The Zone of Interest (2023); The Promised Land (2023)
Yes, Hollywood has problems. That’s nothing new, but the dominance of the streamers has created a new situation. It has led to unprecedented concentration as the streamers have bought up most of the legacy studios in order to get control of their film catalogues, and that has had several very destructive effects on the kinds of movies that are being produced. I won’t repeat that argument here.
An occasional good movie does get through the corporate maze of the big studios, but increasingly the good films are coming from the remaining small independent producers and from abroad. Even these will usually end up being picked up by one of the streamers for distribution, but at least they were independent at the front end. Since they are not the big franchise tentpoles, they usually don’t get much promotion.
In addition, the streaming system silos the audience so that something on Apple+ , Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. will be unavailable to a majority of the potential home viewing audience, at least initially. Some films remain siloed indefinitely but most get leased, travel the circuit, and will eventually work their way around to your platform of choice. But that will usually happen long after the moment they were getting some buzz, so it’s like finding a random book in the back stacks of a library. Ultimately most of them will be an inexpensive rental on multiple platforms, but unless you already know they’re there, you won’t find them. I’m willing to wager that most freepers have never heard of a majority of these films, and since they are intelligent, reasonably conservative films, that’s too bad.
So yes, good movies are still being made, but our target acquisition systems are broken. Until just a few years ago, I was in the nuke Hollywood from orbit camp. Then I had my Road to Damascus moment, tripped over a very good film that took me completely by surprise, and realized that I had a huge blindspot. Newly retired and with time on my hands, I became an active viewer and decided to go hunting for tolerably good “conservative” films, broadly defined. And since we all like assorted golden oldies and have our personal GOAT lists, I decided to focus on relatively recent films.
My list morphs each time I post it. My viewing tastes have changed as I’ve aged; I’m now more interested in great acting and serious character dramas, and I don’t give a fig about flying spandex or CGI heavy spectacles. YMMV. You won’t like all of these, but I don’t think you will be insulted or outraged by any of them. There are a couple of wildcards on the list, some of them suggestions from other freepers that I would not have found otherwise, given my own viewing habits. The oldest is Conspiracy (2001); most are within the last decade.
For those who take pride in not having seen any new movies since the last ice age, allow me to note that I’ve thrown these out for discussion on multiple movie threads in the past couple of years, and a fair number of freepers have mentioned some of them as well. Some freeper favorites that you should definitely check out before you say that no good movies are made today: The Death of Stalin (2017); Arrival (2016); Chernobyl (the 2019 miniseries); Conspiracy (2001); Old Henry (2021); Another Round (2020); and The Sound of Freedom (2023). There are a dozen others with smaller freeper viewership, but those of us who have seen them like them.
Coherence and Primer are outliers, but they caught my interest for another reason. Woke Hollywood — Disney being the worst of all — is blowing through hundreds of millions of dollars to produce flopbusters. I got interested in low cost indie films at the other end of the spectrum; it’s hard for the DEI commissars to complain about a writer-director team of one, and an indie film whose makers had to check under the couch cushions to find enough money to make it is too small for the grifters to target. At this end of the spectrum, the creatives are still in control of the project, not the corporate bureaucrats and the activist shakedown artists.
Anyhow, here’s my current freeper-friendly list. I will argue all day that these movies are, in most cases, “conservative” (broadly defined), or at least apolitical.
How many have you seen? Our viewing preferences differ so you won’t like them all, but which did you like? Other recommendations?