If you make any effort to consume popular films and television shows, you will notice that much of the content is now locked away on streaming services.
Yeah, Hollywood is in trouble and deserves every bit of it. Who doesn’t hate those smug, out-of-touch wokesters with their predictable tropes and lack of imagination? Die, Hollywood, die!
Despite the billions they spend on "original" programming I would rather rewatch older TV shows and movies. Even when I piggyback on someone's streaming service odds are I am only watching movies and shows two decades old or more.
Thank you for giving me the framework for evaluating my disaffection with two successful enterprises which used to give me great pleasure. One was a music festival in my hometown, which has grown into an international attraction after very humble beginnings. Locals who used to plan their schedules around the seven day festival, looking forward to seeing friends and family there, now go out of their way to avoid it. The second is a coastal resort town, which initially gained a reputation for its homespun charm, but which has now been overrun by aspirational influencers, destroying the goodwill of the local, as well as the original patrons. Both enterprises were begun by our ancient friends, who cleverly developed their base of support, until they were no longer needed, at which point they were thrown over for a deeper pocketed market.
I caught the Led Zeppelin movie in one of rick Caruso’s over the top theaters decked out in gold leaf and lazy boys during the Super Bowl. I bought a 15 dollar beer that I used to wash down the 1/2 pint of knob creek. I needed that to get through the coming attractions. The movie was awesome. Might be my last trip to the cinema unless they screen triumph of the will . I’m not holding my breath. I did catch triumph of the will in an art theater back in the 90’s. No lazy boys needed.
Also dumping on & trashing fully half of your prospective audience is not a smart business strategy either. Money is green, not blue, not red. TBOMK only two actors refrain from & eschew any kind of political comments: Tom Cruise & Jason Statham.
Watching 30 minutes or so of tv before I go to bed helps me sleep which is the only reason I even turn it on. But the process goes like this - scroll through the hundreds of streaming offerings only to go back to a series I’ve already watched just to get the alpha wave hit. Most of them are pre-2015. Maybe once a year something worth watching comes out amongst all the dreck: The Crown, White Lotus, The Gilded Age, and a handful of foreign series are tolerable (in no small measure for the relative lack of diversity).
It’s not like producers can’t see what people like. But the urge to use this medium to shove agendas down our collective throat is apparently too strong. It’s a curious thing when the need to control outweighs the desire for money from this crew.
Maybe that explains why Minecraft was the only movie to actually make money this year. People didn't go for the movie, they went to make public fools of themselves over Chicken Jockey. Strange times.
"Oxpecker"...does A/i approve of using that word? I have a decent DVD collection and all of them have no ads. I have a couple of streaming services and sometimes it takes my wife and I about 1/2 hour to find something decent that we haven't seen before. Then, over half the time we don't get but 15-20 minutes into something and jettison it. Netflix is now so filled with foreign series...some of them fine but many of them very rough around the edges.
I have the same issue. I have Amazon for the free shipping, but I use the video service. I find it hard to locate anything worth my time, other than old films I have no seen or have not seen in a long time. I mostly watch YouTube and whatever is on Pluto when I need video.
“500 channels and nothing on” is an old joke becoming a reality. Your tribe is also your filter. They can point you toward something good, like a long line to Star Wars in 1977.
When you can't even escape ads on a streaming service, what's the point? I watch YouTube movies, even though the number of ads can get ridiculous, because in a flash of a tap I can skip them. Amazon bundles them. Additionally, the movies I care about watching, few that there are, I still have to pay for. Consequently, I watch very few movies, even with 2 streaming services plus YouTube.
Yeah, Hollywood is in trouble and deserves every bit of it. Who doesn’t hate those smug, out-of-touch wokesters with their predictable tropes and lack of imagination? Die, Hollywood, die!
Not just movies. Bookstores, libraries, debutant balls, fraternities, churches, and others were important to the social unity.
Despite the billions they spend on "original" programming I would rather rewatch older TV shows and movies. Even when I piggyback on someone's streaming service odds are I am only watching movies and shows two decades old or more.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/streaming-ratings-march-3-9-2025-1236180953/
Gunsmoke claimed #8 in the top ten streaming March 3-9. It ended in 1975.
Thank you for giving me the framework for evaluating my disaffection with two successful enterprises which used to give me great pleasure. One was a music festival in my hometown, which has grown into an international attraction after very humble beginnings. Locals who used to plan their schedules around the seven day festival, looking forward to seeing friends and family there, now go out of their way to avoid it. The second is a coastal resort town, which initially gained a reputation for its homespun charm, but which has now been overrun by aspirational influencers, destroying the goodwill of the local, as well as the original patrons. Both enterprises were begun by our ancient friends, who cleverly developed their base of support, until they were no longer needed, at which point they were thrown over for a deeper pocketed market.
The Hollywood crowd became an America-hating racket inhabited by people who don't know us and who despise us. It took a while, but normie caught on.
I caught the Led Zeppelin movie in one of rick Caruso’s over the top theaters decked out in gold leaf and lazy boys during the Super Bowl. I bought a 15 dollar beer that I used to wash down the 1/2 pint of knob creek. I needed that to get through the coming attractions. The movie was awesome. Might be my last trip to the cinema unless they screen triumph of the will . I’m not holding my breath. I did catch triumph of the will in an art theater back in the 90’s. No lazy boys needed.
Sorry to ask again, but can you please post the link to your weekly discussion with Paul Kersey et al.? I can't for the life of me find it on X.
Politics is downstream from culture, said Trump to the Marines… 🤣 . Lol.
Culture is downrange from bullets said the Marines.
Also dumping on & trashing fully half of your prospective audience is not a smart business strategy either. Money is green, not blue, not red. TBOMK only two actors refrain from & eschew any kind of political comments: Tom Cruise & Jason Statham.
Watching 30 minutes or so of tv before I go to bed helps me sleep which is the only reason I even turn it on. But the process goes like this - scroll through the hundreds of streaming offerings only to go back to a series I’ve already watched just to get the alpha wave hit. Most of them are pre-2015. Maybe once a year something worth watching comes out amongst all the dreck: The Crown, White Lotus, The Gilded Age, and a handful of foreign series are tolerable (in no small measure for the relative lack of diversity).
It’s not like producers can’t see what people like. But the urge to use this medium to shove agendas down our collective throat is apparently too strong. It’s a curious thing when the need to control outweighs the desire for money from this crew.
Maybe that explains why Minecraft was the only movie to actually make money this year. People didn't go for the movie, they went to make public fools of themselves over Chicken Jockey. Strange times.
"Oxpecker"...does A/i approve of using that word? I have a decent DVD collection and all of them have no ads. I have a couple of streaming services and sometimes it takes my wife and I about 1/2 hour to find something decent that we haven't seen before. Then, over half the time we don't get but 15-20 minutes into something and jettison it. Netflix is now so filled with foreign series...some of them fine but many of them very rough around the edges.
I have the same issue. I have Amazon for the free shipping, but I use the video service. I find it hard to locate anything worth my time, other than old films I have no seen or have not seen in a long time. I mostly watch YouTube and whatever is on Pluto when I need video.
“500 channels and nothing on” is an old joke becoming a reality. Your tribe is also your filter. They can point you toward something good, like a long line to Star Wars in 1977.
When you can't even escape ads on a streaming service, what's the point? I watch YouTube movies, even though the number of ads can get ridiculous, because in a flash of a tap I can skip them. Amazon bundles them. Additionally, the movies I care about watching, few that there are, I still have to pay for. Consequently, I watch very few movies, even with 2 streaming services plus YouTube.