Posted on 01/01/2022 4:40:31 PM PST by Rummyfan
Not covid’ fault they can’t make original movies people really want to go see
It is like Siskel and Ebert said years ago.
The early movie makers were raised on great literature and made movies of the same. Today’s movie makers were raised on comic books.
Covid merely accelerated the trend.
That is one flick that I would see on the big screen. If it ever gets released....
It doesn’t help that they make a lot of movies approaching the length of Gone With the Wind, minus the plot or quality cast.
I blame Hollywood egos. I don’t have the patience to watch a lame 3-hour movie.
The only movie either now in theaters or being advertised for future release that I want to see is “Fantastic Beasts #3: The Secrets of Dumbledore.”
“Grown up” movies are synonymous with woke movies. People are tired of being preached to and they’re spending their money accordingly.
Movies today are all about comic book characters. Stuff for kids. Our culture has become stunted and juvenile. It is disgusting.
Read later, about what’s actually in movie theaters now.
I would love to see such a film, along with a true-to-life movie about the life of Whittaker Chambers.
Corrected:
The stupendous success of the latest Spider-Man sequel, No Way Home, indicated that fears of the Omicron variant have not deterred audiences from coming out in the millions far too many Conservatives are emotionally shallow hypocrites or ignorant twits who don't know Disney owns Marvel:
“I don’t think covid has anything to do with it. Woke culture is ruining the arts.”
I read not too long ago thst comic book franchised movies are ruining the artform. Film, Cinema, whatever it’s called, money is being applied to what’s hot.
I love the Marvel movies. I don’t care if the DNC was producing them.
Schadenfreude by any other name would smell as sweet.
“I think Hollywood’s ‘grown up’ movie potential was exhausted long before the emergence of Covid, frankly.”
Frank Zappa said something very similar about pop music and how the industry’s target advertising and production audience was young teens. That was 30+ years ago!
Now that same circumstances has foltered over to film.
If you think about it pop music is popular music, the popular music of the 40s was swing and big band and now it’s associated with old fogey music but in its day it was the hot stuff and the target audience was teenagers for the most part.
Franz Liszt and Paganini made women swoon and were considered somewhat vulgar because of their music and the strange effects upon women.
My dad who was a vacuum tube era electronics technician, grew up during the infancy of radio and later on television. He said he noticed that the social climate started changing fairly rapidly after the invention of radio and specifically broadcast radio. I don’t disagree with that. Advertising and subliminal seduction are powerful forces.
You couldn't make a film like that. Hollywood wouldn't allow a truthful representation of him to be made, the only thing they'd finance would depict him as the devil incarnate. He's so hated by leftists that they dug up his body along with his wife's last year from where they were buried in Memphis. The city of Memphis essentially robbed and vandalized their graves. It was one of the most appalling, disgusting things I've ever seen and the mainstream media stood by cheering while it was done.
Indeed, foolish to lament poor revenue for movies audiences didn’t want. Woke doesn’t sell; horror at happy seasons doesn’t sell.
That said, still seems the industry just isn’t acknowledging the great shift of audiences away from theaters and to screens at home. Large-size 4K screens with good speakers are cheap. Streaming hardware is cheap. Streaming services are cheap, provide instant access to far more than anyone can watch, and bring latest content soon after release. HBO Max has same-day release of major theatrical releases - one family viewing of a blockbuster can pay for months of the flat-rate service, watched on hardware that already paid for itself. Apple TV has pretty much everything within weeks of theatrical release, if not same day, for less than a theater ticket.
Yeah, a lot of people still want the “go to the theater” experience. A growing number don’t.
There’s much to be said about Drive-In theaters in times
like these. Should there actually be a decent movie released, one might easily gather the family and travel to
the nearest screen. No fear of the pesky little virus particles, only the horror of what has been done to this
segment of what was once called *entertainment*.
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