When I still worked in the biz, I lost an entire series' employment to the last writer's strike. Six month's slam-dunk income. And 95% of SAG-AFTRA aren't actors, and haven't been for years, they're washing cars and waiting tables, and never even work enough to make their medical benefit requirement in any year. Yet are still allowed to vote on whether all 160K members will strike. (And most actors good enough to become "producers", thus the ones having exactly the most to lose by going on strike, aren't allowed to vote on that. Spasibo, comrades.) But those unemployed assholes are also fucking with the livelihoods of 200,000-400,000 working class people behind the camera with few other options (not a lot of work for grips, for example, outside the biz, except at moving companies, but without them on set, the movie doesn't happen), because the precious above-the-line primadonnas "don't make enough" when they do work. How oppressive. And they're doing it just as TV shows go back into production, and this summer's movies would be getting made, for release next summer. So they're screwing the entire town, and the entire industry, at the height of the working year for Hollywood. Fuck them all sideways, with a rusty chainsaw. Brighter lights might have noticed that the 299M people in this country outside their bubble don't give a wet fart for them, and they'd take a good deal, and continue working. But that would be easy.
First they're going to spend all this season home choking their chickens, and then they're going to wake up one day and realize they strangled the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of high-functioning autistic retards.
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All they know how to do is remake old titles and plots from 30-40 years ago. Not much of anything that comes out of either one of those mediums these days is worth watching anyway. So no great loss, IMHO.
Nemo
Some have noted that the 'smart money' left Hollywood years ago for streaming, gaming, and now social media outlets.
Sunset for another institution.
Au contraire.
While politics is Hollywood for ugly untalented people, Hollywood is the only industry outside the Treasury Dept. with a license to print money.
Just take a ream of copier paper that costs $9 at Staples, type a screenplay onto it, and you can turn it into a billion dollars.
I've seen them do it.
There's nothing else in the world that compares to that.
But it starts with telling stories that people want to see.
They've forgotten (and ignored) that part of the equation, and it's costing them, yuuuuugely.
No more woke preaching instead of the alleged entertainment they are supposedly providing? As a comment said on another blog there’s lots of things I need, the output of screenwriters and actors aren’t on the list.
The point is that while currently they CAN do it, they AREN'T doing and haven't in at least a decade.
I hope the strike goes long enough the current system loses enough strength that new blood can make headway.
We've seen it to a small degree, but it'll take weakening the current system to make real change.
Hopefully this will ultimately lead to a more decentralized model, rather than the “good ‘ol boys club” crap we have now.
So the propaganda machine is shut down....no tears here....
However, sympathy for everyone getting screwed that is not part of SAG or the writers union. While they whine, the grips, caterers, makeup artists and set people (the nuts and bolts that make it happen) will lose money and gain nothing when it finally settles.
The fuckwittery in that industry is staggering.
They don't even realize they are dancing monkeys.
Buncha useless self-absorbed dolts.
This is not a coincidence maybe? Could they be using this to shut down and purge anything from the system with ties to pedo? Just a thought.
Pretty much the same is true of any industry that is slave to the unions.
Considerig the crappy propaganda that they have been producing, Ihopemthat thenstrike is long and painful. Maybe they will find useful jobs. You did.
Hopefully, the result of this will be even more woke movies with trannies, drag queens, amazing wimminz telling us about oppression, gay men doing each other and every race, gender and religion under the sun scolding the audience to do the work to be better.
Then it will die even faster than it is now, and good goddam riddance to them. They're the spawn of Satan.
Maybe if they made movies around people instead of effects, they could get me back in the theaters. Wouldn't you like to see story reminiscent of The Maltese Falcon.
And yet, the rare movie with an interesting story and well done special effects comes out, and doesn't do very well at the box office. I'm referring to Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Family friendly, geeky enough for us old D&D players(and GW fans); I think it took a hit because of the corporate parent Hasbro, who is hated among many of us.
I'm interested in the upcoming Warhammer 40K movie, assuming that the production company doesn't f%ck it up.
Overall, I won't mourn the death of Hollywood, nor the TV industry, and even Broadway.
Once upon a time I'd see a movie a week for weeks on end. Back when the movies ran in a continuous loop I'd watch the show, slump in my seat get up when the movie police departed and watch it again. Double features were a gift from heaven, Saturday serials were a must.
The only movies I've seen on the big screen recently (as in 3 or 4 years) Way of water (sucked), Maverick, loved it, big screen by my lonesome, saw it again with a nephew old enough for it and I've seen it on the streams, Dune, loved it also. and that's it since before the jabademic.
They'd have to pay me to go to a Spiderman 30th repeat.
I miss going to the movies, but now try to minimize my funding of companies that hate me.
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