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Quite right. And interestingly, in all those examples, the looney lefty celeb won the sincere admiration of even the most hardened right-wing member of the audience, provided he brought some real talent to the table. Who among us would deny Mr. Hanks the applause that is his due?

And it never even occurred to me, how little enjoyment I've ever had for any of Ms. Roberts' movies, until she started funding the Florida recount. To this day I still think Alyssa Milano is one of the sexiest ones (provided she leaves her hair grown out). Her wretched politics are, I think, a product of faulty judgment; it would take only a tiny nudge to make her into a Winehouse or a Lohan. Hot and brainless. Like the rest of them, she needs to just flaunt what she's got and shut her pie hole. The cold hard truth is, whether she wants to admit it or not, that's what her job is. And that's true of all of 'em.

Every dollar you spend on Hollywood is a dollar given to the enemy. Does the world really need more people fantasizing or distracting themselves? Who wins when people tune out?

Don't tell me about stars of the past and maybe one day we will have patriotic stars again. The Left won't tolerate so much as a conservative flea in their midst. If they have to fake a hate-crime or thought-crime to to get rid of an interloper they will. Face this reality and starve the enemy, not reward him.

I kinda miss the old days when studios controlled every aspect of a star's image. Can you imagine Bette Davis or Maureen O'Hara talking about Brazilian waxing?

...studios controlled every aspect of a star's image.
The studios did that. Those they controlled were just as decadent and dumb as today's crowd.

I have vowed never to see another movie in any theater ever again, after the assault on all five of my senses at the local IMAX where my daughter and I went to see Tintin in 3D. The sensory overload was such that for 11 hours following the 31 dollar ordeal, I was left with a nausea inducing migraine. Most times, migraines start out slowly, but this was instant pain.

Going to the movies is now not worth it. Used to be that you could sit quietly in an expansive theater with a gently sloping ramp or well-lit stairs up to an equally expansive balcony. The theater, itself was like a temple, with beautiful decorations and a curtain that opened to reveal what you'd been waiting to see.

All of that is gone with the new theatres.
I try finding my way up awkwardly spaced stairs lit with eye-confusing runway lights, only to be sat in an airline seat.

The noise is excessive with an emphasis on the likely stupidity of the audience. And the endless loop of bad commercials.

Nope, let the bad boys and girls be themselves. They are a reflection of the theaters whose screens they flicker upon.
I will miss smuggling food into the movie house, though. That was the one thing I looked forward to.

IMHO one of the problems with Hollywood movies is that other ways of watching movies are available; this means that big special effects and CGI (which work much better on a big screen and theatre sound system) are needed to draw in the punters. Movies relying on subtle character interactions and method acting are likely to bomb at the theatre, and maybe then sell well on DVD or whatever.

Unfortunately, this means that the special effects and CGI take over the film. Hollywood, for example, insists on putting at least one car chase in virtually every movie, even where completely irrelevant to the story. Ditto huge, and unrealistic, explosions.

And although Hollywood relies on technology, it is anti-technology down to the bone. I can think of many SF books that would make amazing films - but the theme of the books is too pro-tech for Hollywood. Lucifer's Hammer and many of Ben Bova's works, for example.

Let us not forget Linda Ronstadt, who still had a nice singing career going on performing vintage numbers. In a toss-way insult during an interview, she expressed her potential horror at unknowingly performing in front of Republicans and evangelical Christians. Turns out, a LOT of her audience had been Republicans and evangelical Christians, who were happy to oblige Ms. Ronstadt by NOT coming out to hear her sing.

"Hollywood is like a child, a spoiled child you can’t help loving but desperately want to see do and be better."

Funny, I have absolutely no trouble not loving the spoiled child that is Hollywood. Number 567 in a long list of reasons that I'm glad I never had any kids I guess: I'm not obliged to love spoiled brats everywhere.

I agree about starving the enemy, and I've been doing it for years. I used to see a lot of movies and concerts, but I rarely do today. The last movie I saw in a theater was Atlas Shrugged Part 1 just this past year, and the last one before that was Team America: World Police, which was a few years ago.

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