Thry kinda had too. Communists have taken over. If they don’t play along they’ll be a target like us

At this point, if there is a female lead I immediately skip. Tired of woke feminist garbage. There’s plenty of guy stuff out there on the internet when I go for some entertainment.

@@rbu2136 totally agree

@@rbu2136White people really hijacked the word woke.

@@rbu2136 I find myself in the same boat... they have created a bias in me. Same for my GF I had to coax her to Ghostbusters...after the movie she said I'm to old to give a darn about a Teenage Lesbian and her angst with a Ghost, she just wanted some action and laughs. She use to love SW/Marvel/Harry Potter/STrek but she has checked out now. Well she still loves South Park making fun of stuff and she has Anxiety that they are going to ruin the King of the Hill her favorite show!! She being Black saw that the new showrunner and just groaned saying it will be Woke and horrible..my response was Racist much she replied she can't be in today's society.

Or just a woman in general. They’ve taken out nearly every male lead and replaced them with a rude crappy flat female knockoff. If a chick of any kind is put in it’s like the final straw for whatever it is. It’s on an aggressive downward slope thereafter.

*"woman" there fixed it for you.

Good one. Reminds me of Andy Kaufman as Jack Palance: "Pick up the gun!"

And, remove all the white characters.

Depression -- nah! Bipolar, yes... Constantly bipolar, don't take their meds or see psychiatrist, and they make everyone else suffer!

Your talking about Bob Iger.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Never heard that story, but it makes sense.

They don't speak 'Dog'. That's what the Marketing Departments are for, to translate "Stupid Plebe' to their Superiour Rich People brains. In little words they can understand.

Is it a true story, or a joke which is too close to reality?

@@Mouse_Metal It's an old story meant to make a point about institutional blindness. Similar to "the beatings will continue until morale improves."

I’ve been doing that more recently. I highly recommend it as well.

I impulsively purchased a vocabulary-building book, and my mind is expressing its gratitude.

hmmm..... looking at my bookshelf...the second one, the first is full 8-)

💪👍

I mostly watch movies & TV shows from about 2015 back - there's a lot of decent entertainment that hasn't been poisoned by the "woke mind virus".

10 years of Disney and other entertainment companies trying to tell us what we want. We stuck it out for a while, but people finally started resisting their propaganda.

The whole attacking customers thing as some sort of tactic just still amazes me. You can’t shame people into paying money to view something and you can’t force popularity.

@@petethehawk5186no, but you can implement some intense mental and emotional trauma based mind control operations on the population so that’s what they’re doing. Turn it off

@@petethehawk5186 It's a tactic that worked in politcs, but it seems that it failed in entertainment.

⁠@@blinkonceonsunday1325 “Behaviors are gonna have to change. One thing we’re asking companies… ya have to force behaviors, and at BlkRock we are forcing behaviors.” ~BlkRock CEO, Larry Fink BlkRock owns 120.9 million shares of Disney.

that and they need to stop trying to use and abuse the LBGTQ+ and POC as sheilds for critique. Just because you have a trans woman of color doesnt mean you are above critique if anything that brings in even more layers of critque because of the whole representation angle.

It’s not an obsession it’s an operation. Mockingbird

exactly, they can blame themselves and looks good on them for ignoring their base

Get physical media. They scrubbing the digital stuff.

@@mr.raslyon6626yeah I’d build a physical media library also. But you can still find a ton of stuff online or use the internet to find the kind of stuff you want to collect.

A couple of 5TB drives should hold everything you like. Just make sure to get a couple more for backing up.

That's all I watch now.

Until they start altering it like they’ve already begun doing. I’m snatching up as much physical media of the movies and shows I really enjoy before they ruin all of it.

Hollywood is in, as Gary from Nerdrotic calls it, a doom loop where the situation has gotten so much out of anyone’s control that collapse is inevitable. To put it in simple terms, it’s like a ship that’s sailing the North Atlantic during wintertime. The smartest people see that the captain is steering them towards a massive iceberg, one that can’t be broken by the bow of the ship, and decide to take a life raft to save themselves. Those who remain balk at the idea and say that the captain has never steered them wrong before so why should this time be any different. Some time passes and the waters are beginning to be filled with smaller icebergs that the ship can handle, but they’re steadily getting bigger as the ship approaches the unbreakable one. The smartest of those who remain now see that the first group to leave was right and they bail o it as well. Those who remain sing the same song as before and nothing changes. Some more time passes and the ship starts getting hit by larger icebergs. Some of these cut gashes in the hull, but the ship remains afloat. The smartest of those who remain see the writing in the wall and bail. The same song and dance is had of those who remain. A short period of time passes and now the ship has hit the iceberg. It’s now apparent to most onboard that this ship is going to sink and they scramble for the life boats. Remarkably, the captain along with a decent amount of people choose to remain on the ship, not because of some sense of honor or duty, but because they just can’t believe that their ship is sinking. They didn’t believe that it was even possible and cognitive dissonance prevents them from seeing that the unfolding crisis will have fatal consequences if they fail to act. The ship goes down with those who remain aboard while everyone else is cast adrift. Those who left in the first and second waves managed to get picked up by rescue vessels while only half of those who left when the ship sank do so since their lifeboats were crushed by the ice. Hollywood, and many aspects of the west in general, are at the sinking of the boat stage now. People tried to warn them of the impending disaster, but most refused to listen. Now we’re here at the crisis and many people still refuse to believe that it’s happening.

He’s just pushing the governments agenda too.

@@Fleshbag453 no Obama

Well Larry Fink wanted to force behaviours. He succeeded, he forced everyone to stop going to cinemas, and forced everyone to stop watching streaming shows by forcing companies to produce piles of dire unwatchable sh*t. Not sure that was his wish, as there won't be great returns on their investments, but they've got a lot to burn through so may take a while to course correct to sanity.

@@Roland_Butter killing entertainment by private enterprise is Fink's end game. The end result will be state funded entertainment and news ALL pushing "the message" with impunity.

Ok ok, don't want to sound dumb but who is he and what did he do

Down under... oh wait...

They have no choice as ESG has them bookended and the top 3 companies in finance own 80% of American business. It's the old "gotta nice company there, it'd be a shame if something happened to it". ESG has them on the backend with threatening to sell their shares which is 10% or more causing their stock to evaporate and no one will be "allowed to invest in them" (using the same tactic on investors) and on the frontend by forbidding any agent to buy into the company causing them to collapse in a day. So the choice is "lose it all or lose half or more". There should be an antitrust suit filed for StateStreet, Vanguard and most of all Blackrock. It's a mob like RICO.

@@bobothecryptohobo8513 ESG is part of the GREAT RESET planned by WEF. It is a social credit system for corporations. Companies who comply are rewarded with access to capitals. Refused and a company is CANCELLED. No capitals, no insurance, no access. It is instant DEATH for a company. GREAT RESET is another name for centralized gov't controlling every aspect of daily life. Modeled after CCP China. Planners behind WEF want to copy CCP style control on a world scale.

@@bobothecryptohobo8513They did, and still do, have a choice, but they refuse to make the hard decisions because they are also onboard with “the message.” These industries had the cash flow to be able to self finance for some period of time but they, like most other industries, fail to plan for worst case scenarios. They refused to stockpile some dry powder like Amazon and Apple for a rainy day so when that rainy day came they just continued doing what they were doing and that was deficit spending (sound familiar). If they really wanted to avoid preaching “the message,” they could have gone after financing from smaller banks or they could have gone overseas. They could have scaled back on the high spending, refused to participate in the streaming wars (all but Netflix have lost money during that time since Netflix had first mover advantage), cut a lot of the middle management bloat, had scripts that weren’t changed mid production, etc. Again, rhetoric problem is that they refused to change because they were so onboard with the message and so separated from the immediate consequences that they had a decade’s worth of material shot through the production line. That material is still being squeezed out now and will continue to be for at least the next 4 years assuming that the executives changed today (spoiler alert: they won’t). The only solution to this problem is an Elon Musk styled takeover of the whole industry with massive purges on all levels of the corporation. Nothing short of that will save hollywood

So, these ppl really are South Park characters incarnate. Which means, they could conclude that they just haven't made enough movies and shows with asexual girl bosses as the lead character?

@@RustCole01 South Park has first hand knowledge of Hollyweird, so yeah, they got some great material that hits it on the nose.

You will never solve a problem by having the people who got you into the mess in the first place remaining in charge.

@@AmericanAdvancement what you do is not put all your eggs in one basket (Hollywood) and work with productions in other countries

LinkedIn has turned into the unemployed support group.

Another important thing that desperately needs to happen is that the film making industry needs to decentralize. The reason why woke has polluted every single one of the major studios is because they are all in the same echo chamber that is Hollywood. This has made them disconnected from the average customer’s wants and needs to the point where foreign competitors actually have a chance in the U.S. Decentralization will also allow for many smaller studios to try new ideas, something which an industry full of sequels and remakes is in desperate need of.

Audiences also have a responsibility to support lower budget/smaller scale films as well if they want more diversity in the film projects that are made. Indie filmmakers take huge risks in making content that differs too far from the mainstream, and unless audiences respond it is difficult to justify the risk. There are people that have managed it of course, but it is very difficult. Outlets like Film Threat are in a great position to shine light on indie filmmakers, and I know they do, but we need more awareness of streaming platforms dedicated to low budget/indie films as alternatives to the big streamers. If anyone knows any good ones, I’d like to know about them.

Yep, I stopped spending on movies , Netflix etc and updated a lot of my sports equipment, then got back into a lot of sports. I'd forgotten how much fun they were. The new tech, from new skis all the way to a new mask, snorkel and fins are just great.

And blame the fans more...I've heard that's a neat trick that works.

The other problem is that they greenlight all of these projects so far in advance that they are incapable of pivoting when market forces show that their projects aren’t viable. Top Gun and No Way Home were greenlit long before woke became terminal in Hollywood. Oppenheimer was a personal project from Christopher Nolan and Minus 1 is a foreign film. If, and that’s a big if, Hollywood learns from these films then, at best, it will take them four years before we get to see some non-woke films. Unfortunately for them, I don’t believe they have that long before the general public completely abandons them.

I am, and I'm laughing.

Pride goes before a fall.

It’s a religion at this point and they’re fanatics.

That won’t happen until at least one of the major studios collapses and even then it won’t be an open admission. It’ll more likely than not take the form of a gradual (or sudden) change in the films being greenlit and produced than an open admission of wrongdoing for one simple reason: they don’t want to be sued. Saying you did wrong opens you up to lawsuits that none of these companies have the stomach for, so don’t expect an apology from them.

Echo chambers, confirmation bias, and cognitive dissonance are powerful mental blockers to overcome.

I think it will take at least two to collapse before anything is done and Disney has to be one of the two. The first to fall will be a warning sign that only the smartest executives will heed, but Disney falling will send shockwaves throughout the industry since it will show that even the mightiest can go bankrupt. It’s either that or a Musk style acquisition and purge, but I don’t see anyone with deep enough pockets willing to bail out a dying industry in that manner.

There's no chance of a resurgence while ever they value DEI over Meritocracy. People aren't stupid, they know what works, and its great talent, not politics.

Depressing in every sense of the word! :D

Sending out masses of resumes and not even getting a Dear John/Joan reply is nothing new, we have all done it.

So, "Sleepy Joe" is personally shit-canning her resumes but the Second Coming will fix your problems. Uh huh.

Ask her how Biden’s Build Back Better program is gong.

It’s not just you. They’ve run it into the ground. There is only so much pushing and shoving of a message that is tolerable before it becomes disgusting.

And this is happening in every sector of the entertainment industry. Videogames also have a similar problem with CEOs with obscene salaries to do what? Plan scummy ways to grab money from gamers, but at what cost? AAA is colapsing. They are not needed. The same is true with the comic industry. Because Marvel and DC belong now to big corporations and paid huge amounts of money, and their CEOs want their big dat check, they are going to milk them until bleeds with nothing but crap.

Not canceled. The audience can forgive hiccups like saying TWAM, or DEI principles were maybe forced agressively. Iger has shown he'll say whatever is popular in the moment as long as it keeps him getting money and seeming relevant. There's no way he doesn't see the tides turning. I believe it's that the company will lose huge sums of money from the ESG-enforcing investment firms, which would tank stocks for everyone, as Alan said in the vid, but most importantly, the greedy execs running the show. If it weren't a matter of money from Blackrock/Vanguard, I am convinced they'd have shown changes in their storytelling.

And may The Broke be with you.

The upside though is that the U.S. adopted a decentralized form of government, so at least half of the country will be spared from the worst of it. States like New York, Illinois, Washington, and California will unquestionably dive into the depths of despair before they finally reform while states like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee will happily eat their lunch. This is almost exactly what happened in the Roman republic/empire. As one region became decadent another region took the reins of power. Control shifted from Italy to Spain, to Illyria, and finally to the East before the western half fell.

They let their canary die. Ope. 🫠

I check Walmart $5 movie bin to see if there's anything interesting. We used to do it as kids. Nowadays theres not much that audiences reviewed well, but i think it's worth the look

But yeah, thrift stores would be the ultimate place to find classics. I think we got the entire 3rd Rock from the Sun collection from there

@@eerielampI spent $50 at a "Savers" and got 25 movies that would have retailed for $20 each.. Now they're ALL mine..

Sounds as American as Apple pie 😅

You keep thinking companies like Disney have to finally right the ship after losing so much money the last five years, and the then you see the trailer for The Acolyte and you realize “nope”.

The goal is to divide the people of this nation--pit us one against the other--and it's working. Revenue loss doesn't bother them; that's not their game. Even during the writer's strike, when a top exec was reported to have said he wanted the writers to lose their homes, money wasn't the issue; it was control. "The narrative" is told by who's in control. And social engineering is the least of it. (Side note: a couple of years ago I'd have thought that notion was crazy. Now I view the scenario as a given. They've played the long game, and now we're at the demise, almost to the point of no return.)

@@5Gburn The only people that are really in control is the audience/customer. They can spend $n multiple times but if no-one watches it, then it is dead money and no ROI. In order for them to spend they need someone to invest, and even Black Rock doesn't have limitless funds with no ROI being paid back.

@@5Gburnspot on. its all social engineering. may even be a controlled demolition of Hollywood so they can rebrand.

I didn't think it was that great. I know it's a miracle for a Hollywood production to leave out the woke garbage, but even then, there just aren't any more interesting stories to tell. Filmmakers also refuse to give up their colour grading addiction, which is the second biggest bane of the industry. These incorrigible idealogues are hellbent on running it into the ground. They would sooner die than admit they were wrong.