Glenn Reynolds links to Tammy Bruce’s explanation of why this year is the worst-ever for Hollywood. She waxes poetic on the Evil Lefty Disconnected Hollywood Syndrome.
I have the Occam’s Razor answer to that:
Most movies sucked this year.
Hollywood doesn’t need to be told their politics are out of touch with mainstream America. Hollywood needs to be told that their movies suck. Bad remakes of bad television series, bad remakes of movies that never needed to be remade, bad movies based on cartoons and computer games, and flat-out crappy writing is what makes us stay home. See the common thread?
Yep. Most movies sucked this year.
I should be a film critic. I have solved Hollywood’s problem: Stop making sucky movies.
Normally I go to 30 movies a year. So far I have seen only 16 and I walked out of one of them (Kiss Kiss, Bang, Bang) which I saw at a free screening and two other films – “Cinderalla Man” and “North Country” I also saw for free. Michael Medved spoke at a syangogue in my neighborhood last week and he said that Hollywood is not all about making money. Hollywood is about garnering praise from your leftist peers (see for example “Syriana” and Speilberg’s odious “Munich.”). If Hollywood were about making money it would not turn its back on the 52% of the country which voted correctly last November ’04 (yes Meryl that is you too). Patriotic films usually do quite well at the box office.
Sure most movies sucked. But they have sucked every year since 1979.
Gee! Wonder why people don’t want to spend $8 to see a 2 hour lecture on what assholes we are?
Okay, I’ll bite. What happened in 1979, Neil?
Posts like this one are one of the reasons I enjoy reading blogs so much. No PC hemming and hawing, no “nuance”, straight out and “dugri” (Hebrew slang for blunt).
Yes, hard to believe, the box office is slumping and yet for some reason no one is making the movie I’m thirsting for: “Police Academy 8.”
Fortunately, we have in the Detroit area a sixteen screen second run multiplex and you’d be surprised how many movies don’t look too bad for a buck fifty.
The cinema is no longer the primary determinant of a film’s success or failure. What determines success or failure is how much money a film makes overall.
Years ago the movie Dungeons & Dragons was made. it tanked in the U.S. Worldwide it barely made production costs. But it made a profit for its producers and its distributors thanks to deals made. Thanks to video cassette and DVD sales it actually made a profit.
Movie makers don’t care how movie theaters do, so long as they make money. And these days the money lies in DVD etc. sales. The day the infrastructure is in place for the widespread distribution of movies over the Internet is the day they start demolishing the cinemas.
I don’t think that Hollywood is obsessed with “pleasing” the left; if that were so Mel Gibson wouldn’t be working on directing a second film. Money is what it comes down to, pure and simple. Like the tobacco companies, they make a product because people buy it.
And I personally resent the characterization of 52% having voted “correctly.” The only places in the world where you can vote “correctly” are the same places where an “incorrect” vote gets you killed. Perhaps that’s the sort of country some people want to live in , but not this Doctor…
Yeah, Doc, I’m agreeing with that voting thing, too.
Joel is going to be so mad at me in 2008… I’m laying odds now that I’ll be voting Democratic again. In fact, I’m thinking of getting on board the Warner campaign already.
I knew you could be brought back from the Dark Side…next we get you over to Temple Sith-El…
So not gonna happen, Doc. I really like where I am (please don’t name it on this very public place), and really, really like teaching. Plus, I can’t afford the dues of the Sith.
That’s the great thing about having choices and options [insert plug for new dayschool here]. Everyone should be at the where they’re happy.