The Death of Hollywood?
The Oscars were a flop again, notwithstanding
the usual media hype. Perhaps more than ever given that one of the actresses
nominated for an Oscar was a man! He didn’t win it. The leading Oscar
contenders Emilia Perez and Conclave were ultimately about the alphabet people,
they didn’t do too well either, probably given the backlash they were the
biggest flops in Hollywood history. Of course a lot of glitterati attended the
award ceremony the hall was full of actresses wearing dresses that cost more
than a year’s salary of their illegal immigrant gardeners and maids. There were
the usual speeches about climate change, which is brave given that quite a few flew
in on their private jets, the usual dig at the Orange Man with general virtue
signalling regarding what is the thing this year. It’s just that no one watched
it, the numbers were down this year from an already low level. Perhaps this is
not surprising given the quality of the films they are churning out.
The
problem is Hollywood doesn’t have new ideas anymore, Action hero films get
worse every year, as they descend into the realms of girl bosses running around
and kicking everything. Hasn’t someone told them that this genre is usually
watched by boys and men and while seeing some “chick” girl boss in a tight
costume Karate kicking the living daylights out of burly men three time her strength
is ok for a novelty but a film has to be more than that, even a superhero film.
Romantic Comedies must have “Gays” in them, melodramas descend to little more
than adverts for the Alphabet People. So despite the critics and Hollywood
academy linking this stuff the ordinary cinema goers, the people who ultimately
pay for all this nonsense doesn’t and they are losing the habit of going to the
theatre.
Why
can’t Hollywood find interesting and exciting subjects to make films about
anymore? Is there nothing left for them to exploit, apart from the usual sex,
nudity and the Alphabet people?
Given that there is the
vast history of Christendom to make films about surely there could be some
wonderful films to be made, but no they won’t go there. So no I doubt they will
learn their lesson, and there will be ever diminishing returns until Hollywood
becomes irrelevant, and most cinemas close.
