I love movies – there’s nothing like them for escapism and entertainment – but Hollywood is something else entirely. It is an orgy or narcissism and rape; casting couch feminists and private jet environmentalists. The extremely wealthy who set up “charities” named after themselves to filter income through to avoid paying the taxes they advocate should be raised on everyone else. They are largely hypocrites and just plain bad people.
They are also destroying themselves, which is something worth noting and celebrating.
Box office numbers and high-profile flops like the Joker sequel (did anyone need or want that?) are some prime examples of just how far down the toilet Hollywood has slipped. People are not interested in what they are selling.
Then there are the awards. No industry celebrates itself more than Hollywood does. They create award shows, awards in award shows, and new categories to constantly be able to market something as “nominated for this many of that award” before the winner ultimately brags of being a “winner” of those awards.
Only, those awards don’t mean anything if the movies don’t, and the movies don’t.
The reason movies don’t matter anymore is the industry doesn’t know how to make movies people like anymore. When was the last time there was a movie you had to see in theaters that did not involve you having to take a kid to see it? I saw Deadpool and Wolverine in theaters because I wanted to, but that’s about it for non-kid movies for about 3-4 years, if not more.
I don’t know who the specific people greenlighting movies the public collectively yawns at, but I know the type – you can’t avoid them in politics. They are the uber-leftists who are ready to be offended; bandwagon jumpers who likely haven’t given politics a serious thought in their entire lives, but promote causes because doing so will lead to social status. They hold jobs and move up as their boss and their boss’s boss get a golden parachute from the parent company too disinterested to truly examine why they keep having to replace people.
The first half of the opening line in the Associated Press story about the Golden Globe nominations this week perfectly encapsulate everything I’ve stated thus far. It reads, “Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical ‘Emilia Pérez,’ about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday…”
On what planet does that movie appeal to anyone?
I tend to follow movies (used to a lot more) and enjoy going down a good trailer rabbit hole now and again, and I’ve never heard of this movie. You could pay me to watch it, but you’d have to pay me an awful lot.
After looking at the nominees, the end of the AP story reads this year’s Globes are “the first after the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their acquisition by Dick Clark Productions and billionaire Todd Boehly’s private equity firm Eldridge Industries.”
The Hollywood Foreign Press no longer controls the Golden Globes? I knew they’d fallen out of favor for not having any black members, but that was mostly because no one wanted to join. Plus, who cares?
Well, leftists in Hollywood care, or at least have to pretend to.
So, who the hell votes for them now? According to its own website, “The voting body for the Golden Globes currently numbers 334 and is made up of experienced entertainment journalists representing 85 countries.” OK, whatever. But the answer continues, “The voting body is 47% female with 60% self-identifying as racially and ethnically diverse: 26.3% Latinx, 13.3% Asian, 11% Black, and 9% Middle Eastern.”
A woke leftist billionaire buys it in conjunction with a dead rich white guy’s company, and the president they installed a rich white liberal woman and her number 2 is a rich white man, but they make damn sure to use “Latinx” in their FAQ section and care very deeply about the skin tone of everyone not them.
This dovetails perfectly with the new “diversity” requirements for nominations for Oscars. Merit and ability can go to hell.
It will destroy the industry. Not all of it, it will always exist, just not like it has been. Rather than celebrate, and therefore inspire, creativity, they will discourage it in exchange for a racial headcount. That will kill the awards that used to mean money, cutting off an important revenue stream and lead to more layoffs.
You almost feel badly for them…until you remember just how horrible they are.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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