The rise and fall of Hollywood: How it all fell apart

I just spent 19 minutes watching a guy in a cowboy hat walking through a park in Texas talking to a camera, and it was better than most "movies" these days. So thank you for the relevant and well presented video. Hollywood is indeed dying and the moviegoing experience is all but dead. Why, mostly what you said, greedy out of touch studios, overblown preachy wokeness, phone zombies and social media, covid social distancing and social retardation, etc. Very few good movies made in the past decade and going to a theater is annoying and expensive. Meanwhile we can sit at home and watch whatever we want on a big crisp screen with great audio and cheap snacks with quiet and privacy, instead of sitting with a bunch of self-entitled kids playing with their phones and eating $20 popcorn. Oh yeah, an Ai is a huge threat to movies, music, photography, basically any medium which can be faked convincingly is under threat and it is up to the individual to push back and ask for genuine human artistic material.

Go woke go broke for many of the companies your channel discusses.

Extreme liberalism happened.

I actually think CGI ruined movies. Visual spectacle became more important than storyline. Since value comes from scarcity, having heavy CGI everywhere all the time made it worthless.

You're an intelligent guy, but uttering CCP makes you sound like a shill. Do better.

Once a creative industry is solely focused on money the bells of doom chime loudly. Utter drivel pumped out for years now.

I don’t mind a message in a film. That’s been a thing for over 50 years. My issue is there just hasn’t been a lot of quality. The last few moves I have gone to have been, so so. In fact I can’t even remember the name of the last one I saw and that was just a few weeks ago.

If the production is so forgettable, why would I spend the money.

It’s not about being woke. It’s being corporate.

"milquetoast slop designed to not offend anybody." Dude, I don't know what you're watching but the reality is, Hollywood has doubled down on content that offends. I've been to thousands of church services in my life, but if I really want to be preached at, I've GOT to go to the movies! Every single film that comes out has to have a Woke / DEI theme and the audience does NOT want to see it.

Hollywood movies are LESS "preachy" today than in the past.

Whats happening now is that there is a huge conservative media machine that tell people about it. And much of it is imagined.

You didn't notice it before, thats all.

Dont fall for righty propaganda,.please.

In my opinion, Hollywood lost the ability to tell a good story. One example: in the late 50s a swiss-german movie got made based up on a story by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The film makers then were wise enough to alter the story a bit and change the ending to a happy one. In 2001 Hollywood remade the film under the direction of Sean Penn with Jack Nicholson in it. Penn went with Dürrenmatt and gave the movie a shitty ending. But honestly, who wants to see that after they invested two hours of their live time to watch a movie? Old Hollywood would have known and would have followed the script of the 1958 movie, and not the book.

Politics didn’t kill Hollywood (if Hollywood started pandering to those conservative viewers you speak of then you would have 61% of liberals would start mistrusting Hollywood), producing crappy content did.

When I was a kid (I was born in 1987), I would go to the movies with my parents and we would see movies that were funny, gripping and/or interesting like Batman Forever, Lion King, Tommy Boy and The Waterboy and many of my favorite movies I do watch are from the 1970s to 2000s. Now all Hollywood makes is comic book content that’s riddled with CGI garbage that makes movies imho look faker than hell. That’s why I stopped watching.

I think the last movie I saw in theaters was Vice (shocker a movie made by Adam McKay was very good) and that was what? 2018? I don’t feel compelled to go back.

I’m sorry, but we can only make so many Star Wars prequels before it just gets tiring.

I also want to say I discovered your channel today and I LOVE your content. You do great work, Michael. Keep it up!!!

Love your videos! Perfect length and super informative.

AI slop is on YouTube now.

What? Hollywood can't make movies that piss people of? Or challenge norms do you live in a alternate reality? That's the majority of the movie out put. You are confusing the lack of creativity with not being offensive. In fact movies have gone telling people how terrible and bad they are time and time again.

I used to take my mom once or twice a month to see a movie. It was great. We had a good time. Now they don’t make anything that is worth watching the last movie I saw was top gun Maverick that was a good movie! No desire to go see the left leaning movies since then keep up the good work Hollywood. You’ll be dead soon.

I can't think of any industry that is more susceptible to oblivion via AI than the movie industry. I keep waiting for the day when the first totally AI movie comes out and nobody knows until all find out about it. No writers, no actore, no directors, no studios. Just someone with a high powered laptop that can make a decent a decent movie for a tiny fraction of what most movies now cost.

In the 1990s, I went to a movie a week. There were lots of small theatres and I was willing to travel to get to them. There always seemed to be something worth seeing (my favorites were art house films). Now, it's sequels (IV, V, VI - ridiculous!) where the original wasn't very good, superhero slop and game-related garbage. What ever happened to good acting and great stories?

There are two spectacular failures I'd love to see you cover: Quibi and Segway! Both were hyped to a ridiculous degree and were "the future", until they weren't. They turned out to be NOT what the public wanted.

That beard makes you look 15 years older all of a sudden.

SLOP, slop, slop!!!!!!!! Everything about Hollywood is SLOP, including SLOP celebrities.

Reality TV and Rush Limburger are worse

I know watching anything Hollywood creates will have far left messaging and themes throughout, so I've basically given up giving them a shot. They failed in their primary duty, to entertain.

They don't make good movies anymore. 1999 was the high water market.

Last movie I went to was Nobody 2, apt because nobody was there besides me.

Cali is red tape cocky. IE corrupt like non other. Greasing palms more than than a diddy party til actual producers said ENOUGH. Now they're begging for the revenue to return. Not so much the movie makers, just the revenue. They caRe abt the money, not the art. Not bad, but not good.

Hi I’m here now

When you go woke you go broke

I got rid of cable in 2013. I questioned why I was spending so much money for garbage.

I went to the movies the other day and it was like 60 bucks

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"Hollywood is too woke" is just the angle that right wing media pushes to make you angry.

Hollywood saw sales declining, and ROI per movie went way down. Thus to get ROI up, they made "safer" movies (G and PG rated films instead of fun R flicks).

Tucker Carlson and his ilk told you it is the liberal agenda so he could get his own views up.

Hollywood just made a bad business decision, that's all.

I really like your videos and insights into companies like Sears and Hollywood. Very informative

Loved this video one of your best work in the industry and love old Hollywood the golden age of Hollywood

Hollywood went from entertaining the masses to pandering to the left.

Thanks!

Let me guess. You won’t talk about it being go woke go broke, dei agendas, and feminist empowerment while trying to gaslight the world that toxic madculinity exists, right?

It’s gonna be all about digital and home theatre’s, right? right?

Not to mention how much Hollywood clings to virtue signaling, social messages and identity politics in place of interesting stories and relatable characters.

4:06 Tootsie??? 🥴
How is that a classic...

What is a thee-ay-tar?

I'm tired of my entertainers preaching to me