Posted on 03/08/2018 4:59:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Have they stopped making movies about sex and guns yet?
“Hollywood”,”Show Biz”, and all the “Award Shows” are nothing but a sleazy CIRCLE JERK.
No thanks. The sooner it dies the better.
I am doing everything I can to speed it up.
Hollywood has basically become comic book movies and art house message movies nobody wants to watch. Actually, with the advent of the great cable tv and streaming service cinema the two hour Hollywood movie is becoming pretty irrelevant.
Instead of pushing the liberal agenda, they should make more unique entertainment movies like: Beetlejuice, Young Frankenstein, Short Circuit, as well as the old spaghetti westerns (Clint, Eli, Terrence Hill), etc. Those types of movies were/are entertaining. There are dozens of more of that type, of course.
Who wants to spend money and a couple of hours to watch a film that was made to try to indoctrinate the viewers into believing some delusional liberal, perverted viewpoint?
What is seen in society now is a catastrophic failure of primary Virtues, Gratitude, Humility, Prudence, Fortitude, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Chastity, Charity, Patience, Kindness... Replaced by the false gods of “Values”Hollywood is repulsive because its filled with repulsive people. We have people without values lecturing to us about values. Enough of the hypocrisy. —goldstategop
The point of Haidt’s thesis inis the left is unbalanced, while conservatives value all the moral foundations. Well, his whole point is more like, “I am am atheist who wants to explain the world via evolution. And although I am a liberal, I perceive that liberalism leaves too much off the moral landscape. It is too simple, and I find that conservatism has far more explanatory power than I was taught to believe.” I recently read The Righteous Mind, and in it Haidt lists the moral foundations of conservatism (and their opposites) as
- The Righteous Mind:
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Care Liberty Fairness Loyalty Authority Sanctityharm oppression cheating betrayal subversion degradationHaidt suggests that Liberalism has two strains - now called “liberalism” and “libertarianism” - which split about a century ago. The commonality between them, he says, is that both liberals and libertarians drop “Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity” pretty much off the list. The difference between them being, in Haidt’s telling, that while Liberals emphasize care first and do not emphasize fairness, Libertarians emphasize Liberty uber alles, fairness second, and caring is no more on their radar screen than Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity are.My opinion is that Haidt’s characterization of the difference between conservatives and liberals is (never mind his reasons) is spot on. A liberal is a conservative minus loyalty, authority, and sanctity. IOW,
Any conservative has to consider any liberal a cynic.
Mostly I wait till today’s films come to DVD and the library gets a copy I can take out for free. That way I watch without guilt. I enjoy it more since it’s free.
Maybe. But no way I’m having sex with a fish!
No way.
I'd rather watch an awards show for lawyers.
You are correct. The very founding of our nation DEPENDS on the "civil society." That is what is eroding. And that will be our eventual undoing.
The civil society requires a shared set of values and morals. This is the basis of culture.
Did you mean to write “pubic school students?”
” Now, pubic school students are, too. “
Are you really naive enough to think that private schools are teaching conservative values?
They are as conservative as the private universities.
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Even before that it was starting to go political. The "best picture" of 1967 was In the Heat of the Night. While it is a good movie, I don't think it quite rises to the level of "best picture". The awards that year (1968) were postponed for several days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. I've always thought it seemed the fix was in when Hollywood postpones the show because of the King assassination, and then a good, but not great (IMO) movie about black/white relations in the south wins 5 Oscars. I think a last minute "re-vote" occurred that year.
There is a life span to nations as there is with people.
How long that life span is depends on many things, and the end is usually just a slow slide into oblivion.
This is the goal of our enemies within and without our borders.
The only bright side is knowing they will not enjoy their “victory” for long as the world also slides into chaos without the counter balance of the US to defend them.
The US provides much to the world. We will be missed.
Black Panther may be a really good movie. But I am reminded of the way Blacks, as a unit, vote for any Black running. I wonder if ‘Hollywood’ made this movie, assuming that all Blacks would go see it because it featured a Black hero. I hate to go there, but in elections, it is obvious that most Blacks vote their race before ideology. My one conservative Black friend confided in me that many of her Evangelical friends who are Black, still voted for Obama in 2012. So, for too many Blacks, race trumps ideology.
The MEDIA (in all it's various forms) IS the DEEP STATE.
Since its establishment, Hollywood “talent” has always trended left.
The studio moguls kept them in line as long as they ran things. But with the collapse of the studio system in the late 60’s, the leftward tendencies were allowed to slowly infest the entire creative system. Now it’s almost completely infected.
And the public is starting to avoid them like the plague.
The “Entertainment Industry” in general does not get it. They should provide a diversion from our day to day lives. When they start to constantly agitate, they become grating to us and we begin to turn them off.
Worse for them is the advancement of storage technology that enables me to enjoy so much of the best entertainment of the past that I do not need the current producers of entertainment. I already possess access to more great movies, plays, concerts, TV shows, video games, comic books, radio shows, music, novels and other books than i could possibly ever consume.
Hollywierd beware.
But I could make the case that all the good movies, and music has already been made. I don't need new stuff when the old stuff does just fine.
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