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How Hollywood Destroyed Itself
They Can't Make Movies for People They Don't Understand

Now that COVID is long gone, and studios are putting out blockbusters again, it almost seems like things are back to “normal.” Yet, movie after movie keeps underperforming, which is a polite way of saying Hollywood movies are bombing at the box office.

Why? Well, I don’t have to tell you why. You know why. Everyone knows why except the people tasked with covering Hollywood who are too afraid to say why. You can’t fix a problem you can’t name.

In a recent poll, 42% cite movies getting worse as the main reason they no longer pay to see them. Why have they gotten worse? Because Hollywood swapped great storytelling for franchise movies long ago, then they transformed those franchise movies into agenda-delivery devices. ...

A film produced outside of Hollywood, Sound of Freedom, has now made around $40 million in one week...

By now, audiences have become wary of spending their time and money only to get “woked.”

Getting “woked” means you trust the studios to deliver a good movie that meets expectations, not one that foists an ideology upon you that you may or may not go along with.

It’s a transgender character suddenly appearing in a film about Conservative Mennonite women escaping sexual assault (Women Talking), maybe it’s a movie that kills off a traditional male icon to replace him with a female (Star Wars, No Time to Die, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), or maybe formerly glamorous female icons like Charlie’s Angels have now been stripped of their sexuality, or maybe it’s all that lgbtqia ideology suddenly making an appearance in kids movies (Lightyear and Elemental).

And just like that, you’re taken out of the story. That is what is called getting “woked.” It’s one thing to know it’s there. It’s a whole different thing to have it sprung on you after you’ve invested around $100 for a family of four. ...

Hollywood can’t make movies for an America they do not understand. They certainly can’t make movies for people they detest. It is unseemly to see so many of the richest people in the world position themselves as morally superior to the people who have been their bread and butter for decades.

Yet, that’s what happened when half of America betrayed them by voting for Trump. The entire industry, along with corporate America, took a side, and that side was to demonize half the country as racists.

We’ve slipped into a two-tiered society where half the country has been pushed out unless they’re willing to comply enthusiastically with the New Woke Order. Sporting events, concerts, even advertising all must be in strict compliance to signal their virtue or else. ...

Top Gun Maverick soared to $800 million, blowing a hole through every excuse offered up by critics and journalists. Word of mouth revealed two things: it was good, and it wasn’t “woke.” ... But most of all it met and surpassed all expectations because it gave the audience what they wanted, not what Hollywood thought they should want. ...

I was an early “woke” blogger who constantly criticized the film industry and the Oscars for being so white and so male for so long. I know I am as responsible for the house that Woke built, just as I am partly responsible for an America at the hands of a cult. But you have to start somewhere. Dissent isn’t easy, but if you love movies, like I do, you can’t stay silent and watch it all disappear. ...

When American theaters emptied out in 2020, Chinese movies dominated - The Eight Hundred, along with My People, My Homeland, A Little Red Flower and The Legend of Deification all topping the chart...

Chinese propaganda movies strengthen the whole country, where woke propaganda weakens ours. Chinese movies unite the country in common purpose, woke movies divide us into categories, conditioning us to hate our history, our traditional role models, our communities, and the nuclear family.

Chinese propaganda movies strengthen the whole country, where woke propaganda weakens ours. Chinese movies unite the country in common purpose, woke movies divide us into categories, conditioning us to hate our history, our traditional role models, our communities, and the nuclear family.

Chinese propaganda movies strengthen the whole country, where woke propaganda weakens ours. Chinese movies unite the country in common purpose, woke movies divide us into categories, conditioning us to hate our history, our traditional role models, our communities, and the nuclear family.

Houtermans was not Jewish, but his mother was, and under Jewish halachic law and German racial laws he would have been counted as a Jew. He never hid his Jewish background. When he was taunted for being Jewish, he would reply "When your ancestors were still living in the trees mine were already forging checks."

Patrick says

Chinese propaganda movies strengthen the whole country, where woke propaganda weakens ours. Chinese movies unite the country in common purpose, woke movies divide us into categories, conditioning us to hate our history, our traditional role models, our communities, and the nuclear family.

"Is it just too much to ask that our propaganda be good?!"

Arguably, there is no other country that deliberately weakens its citizens through indifference and propaganda.

Is their good? Have you seen any Soviet, NoKo or Chinese propaganda movies? I've seen some from the 1st and 2nd category and it's fucking wall-to-wall cringe.

Chinese propaganda movies strengthen the whole country, where woke propaganda weakens ours. Chinese movies unite the country in common purpose, woke movies divide us into categories,

Booger says

Strike is over now., unfortunately.

World War Z was pro-Israel or Zionist

They ran it 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 60 years ago, and 80 years ago.

World War Z was pro-Israel or Zionist. One scene some Mossad agent smugly gloats how Israel is compassionate and opened its doors to Arabs and the rest of the world.

"There, an imprisoned CIA officer directs Gerry to Israel, where the Mossad learned about the virus before the outbreak and managed to build a safe zone."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film)

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Hollywood Never Would’ve Made This: Mel Gibson Developing Show About How Christians Fought off Muslim Invaders ...

“I’m also working on a TV limited series about the Siege of Malta, which is an incredible story, and there’s only one place to film that, I mean, in Malta,” Gibson said, according to Movieweb.

“Because that’s where it happened, at these fortresses where 700 knights defended Malta against an onslaught from the Turkish and Suleiman sent 40,000 men and ships and, wow, the knights won. So, it’s a pretty crazy, great story,” he said. ...

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Siege of Malta took place from May to September in 1565 when the powerful Ottoman Empire sought to take the Mediterranean island as part of its conquests.