In your opinion, what are the biggest problems in Hollywood cinema today?

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OrangeTsar said:
Biggest problem IMHO?
The tendency of a bunch of shallow hacks, many of whom never even graduated high school, having the unmitigated gall to presume to lecture me about anything and everything from how to vote, what to eat, what to drive, and how to practice my faith when their only demonstrated life skill is the ability to pretend to be someone they are not.
Hypocritical Virtue signaling mental midgets with the self awareness of a clam.
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So the problem isn't the movies at all? It's just your aversion to actors?
 
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n_huffhines said:
So the problem isn't the movies at all? It's just your aversion to actors?
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That is my main problem. The writers and producers are out of ideas too. Instead of intelligent plots and writing they try to gain audience by shock value or blowing something up.
Star Wars and a few other things still tell a good story but so much is just follow the trend laziness
 
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OrangeTsar said:
That is my main problem. The writers and producers are out of ideas too. Instead of intelligent plots and writing they try to gain audience by shock value or blowing something up.
Star Wars and a few other things still tell a good story but so much is just follow the trend laziness
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There is more of that than ever before, it's just that almost all the smart projects have been moved from 2-hour films to 10-episode series. If you have an idea for a great courtroom drama, or a detective story, or whatever, they're going to try to make a series out of it.
 
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n_huffhines said:
There is more of that than ever before, it's just that almost all the smart projects have been moved from 2-hour films to 10-episode series. If you have an idea for a great courtroom drama, or a detective story, or whatever, they're going to try to make a series out of it.
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Well, if I could ever get some connections, I have some great ideas for historical or classic lit based miniseries. Not that anyone would buy them of course 😛
 
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Most of the movies are financed, directed, produced, and acted primarily by people who have contempt for Christians and all others who do not toe the line of their leftist ideology. Not only that, they often shove their ideology in the audience's face.

Also, the Communist China market is so huge that the, the movies censor themselves to please them.

There are plenty of other problems, as better noted above.
 
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I think the studios constant obsession with franchises has a lot to do with the fact that I’m mostly not interested in Summer movies. I’m not suggesting that studios haven’t always wanted a great franchise, but it seems to be driven that way more than it used to with the comic book films. With the exception of Batman, I’m not big on Superhero comic book stories. I know that puts me in the minority, but it’s just not my thing. I think the investments made into these films takes a lot away from other potential stories and like @n_huffhines mentioned it’s turned those 2.5 hour thought provoking movies into 8-10 part limited series on HBO, Netflix or whatever.

Selfishly, I do want the return of the buddy cop dramedies with funny writing, a little seriousness, some gun fights and gratuitous nudity. So basically Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop or a Die Hard. Who knows what would happen right now if you tried to make cop comedy with Mel Gibson as the star?
 
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Lately, mainly TV Shows, it has been the attack on white males. Take for example the Gabriel Iglesias tv show. He was one of my favorite comedians until I watched the new show.

Also, every new show is trying to shove the you're not woke enough but we are down your throat. I stopped watching about 3 of my favorite shows bc they all started off the new season with wanting to blame Trump or Republicans for Covid or start with the whole police are evil and blacks are persecuted in the US Bs.
 
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My gripe is that we've gone from unrealistic to unrealistic. The pendulum has swung too far with diversity.

Hear me out, I'm not trying to sound like an ignorant hick. I read an article that quoted a social sciences professor (Stanford maybe, going from memory) that said movies and tv are now "too diverse."

We went from Hill St Blues all the way up to Seinfeld with no minority representation (other than criminals) to today where settings are unrealistically diverse.

The professor (and I'm paraphrasing) said not every office has 1 white lady, 1 hispanic guy, 2 african americans and a homosexual Asian. He said statistical probabilities of this is astronomical.
 
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MurphyVol said:
My gripe is that we've gone from unrealistic to unrealistic. The pendulum has swung too far with diversity.

Hear me out, I'm not trying to sound like an ignorant hick. I read an article that quoted a social sciences professor (Stanford maybe, going from memory) that said movies and tv are now "too diverse."

We went from Hill St Blues all the way up to Seinfeld with no minority representation (other than criminals) to today where settings are unrealistically diverse.

The professor (and I'm paraphrasing) said not every office has 1 white lady, 1 hispanic guy, 2 african americans and a homosexual Asian. He said statistical probabilities of this is astronomical.
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I’ve thought about that too. I get that it has to happen because people have to cover their ass, but it is unrealistic.
 
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they're out of ideas. the edgy stuff is so far off the chain that it's often hard to appreciate. everything else seems like a redo.

i don't really think they're out of ideas. i just think they have a safe harbor within which they know they can expect an acceptable return on investment.
 
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There are too many remakes and reboots. Many of the originals being rebooted weren't that good the first time.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
they're out of ideas. the edgy stuff is so far off the chain that it's often hard to appreciate. everything else seems like a redo.

i don't really think they're out of ideas. i just think they have a safe harbor within which they know they can expect an acceptable return on investment.
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NOSTALGIA
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Ridiculous! This will never ever live up to the greatness that was the original!
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I'd have more faith if it was being done at Hallmark. I've enjoyed their show When Calls the Heart it's set in the Canadian frontier in the early 1900's-1910's. It's 8th season starts in February. It's a very similar show to Little House. In fact Michael Landon Jr. is one of its Executive Producers.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
I'd have more faith if it was being done at Hallmark. I've enjoyed their show When Calls the Heart it's set in the Canadian frontier in the early 1900's-1910's. It's 8th season starts in February. It's a very similar show to Little House. In fact Michael Landon Jr. is one of its Executive Producers.
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Is ML Jr involved with this reboot?
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Ridiculous! This will never ever live up to the greatness that was the original!
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Was it really that good? It was in syndication when I was a kid, and I could never make it through an episode. Was it meant for adults? When it came on, it was time to go outside.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Was it really that good? It was in syndication when I was a kid, and I could never make it through an episode. Was it meant for adults? When it came on, it was time to go outside.
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Maybe it was a "you had to be there" type of show. I grew up in the 70's as a kid and Little House was just one of the many shows my sister and I watched every week. I always found the time period interesting and seeing some of the struggles the characters went through.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Maybe it was a "you had to be there" type of show. I grew up in the 70's as a kid and Little House was just one of the many shows my sister and I watched every week. I always found the time period interesting and seeing some of the struggles the characters went through.
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I couldn't do Brady Bunch either, but I did like Lassie and Andie Griffith, so I did have tolerance for older stuff, but it was hit and miss.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Was it really that good? It was in syndication when I was a kid, and I could never make it through an episode. Was it meant for adults? When it came on, it was time to go outside.
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I was born in '79 and grew up on the reruns. I recently bought the entire series on Blu-ray.
It's a show that if I'm flipping channels and come across it I'm probably going to watch 20 or 30 minutes or finish the episode.

As for as it being that good it ran for 9 seasons a total of 204 episodes including 3 (95 min) television films after the original series ended.

Yes, while it had some episodes that were probably for kids it had a lot of episodes (and I'd say the entire series) was geared more for adults. Overall.

Here is what is posted on the LHOTP Wikipedia page regarding themes in the series....

"Little House explored many different themes including frequently portrayed ones of adoption, alcoholism, faith, poverty, blindness, and prejudice of all types, including racism. Some plots also include subjects such as drug addiction (e.g. Albert's addiction to morphine), leukemia, child abuse, and even rape. Although predominantly a drama, the program has many lighthearted and comedic moments, as well.

Some of the episodes written by Michael Landon were recycled storylines from ones that he had written for Bonanza. Season two's "A Matter of Faith" was based on the Bonanza episode "A Matter of Circumstance"; season five's "Someone Please Love Me" was based on the Bonanza episode "A Dream To Dream"; season seven's "The Silent Cry" was based on the Bonanza episode "The Sound of Sadness"; season eight's "He Was Only Twelve" was based on the Bonanza episode "He Was Only Seven"; and season nine's "Little Lou" was based on the Bonanza episode "It's A Small World"."
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
I was born in '79 and grew up on the reruns. I recently bought the entire series on Blu-ray.
It's a show that if I'm flipping channels and come across it I'm probably going to watch 20 or 30 minutes or finish the episode.

As for as it being that good it ran for 9 seasons a total of 204 episodes including 3 (95 min) television films after the original series ended.

Yes, while it had some episodes that were probably for kids it had a lot of episodes (and I'd say the entire series) was geared more for adults. Overall.

Here is what is posted on the LHOTP Wikipedia page regarding themes in the series....

"Little House explored many different themes including frequently portrayed ones of adoption, alcoholism, faith, poverty, blindness, and prejudice of all types, including racism. Some plots also include subjects such as drug addiction (e.g. Albert's addiction to morphine), leukemia, child abuse, and even rape. Although predominantly a drama, the program has many lighthearted and comedic moments, as well.

Some of the episodes written by Michael Landon were recycled storylines from ones that he had written for Bonanza. Season two's "A Matter of Faith" was based on the Bonanza episode "A Matter of Circumstance"; season five's "Someone Please Love Me" was based on the Bonanza episode "A Dream To Dream"; season seven's "The Silent Cry" was based on the Bonanza episode "The Sound of Sadness"; season eight's "He Was Only Twelve" was based on the Bonanza episode "He Was Only Seven"; and season nine's "Little Lou" was based on the Bonanza episode "It's A Small World"."
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My family and I just watched "Season One's "Christmas At Plum Creek" today. Its one of my favorite episodes of the whole series. There's another good Christmas episode (forgot the season or the name of it) where they were all snowed in together and they all reminisced about favorite Christmases of year past (complete with flashback scenes). That was a good one too.
 
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Totally devoid of any creativity. Add in this diversity/PC crap and you get...well...bad crap.
 
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