Propaganda in Hollywood

[SlowwHand]

PIRATES!

I haven't seen the current release, but I will.

[Dinner]

It works fine for me so I can only guess you're using a cheap dial up connection or your trying to P2P to much gay porn while downloading just like all the other religious nuts.

[Dinner]

PIRATES!

I haven't seen the current release, but I will.

BTW the fact that Hollywood (and now even video game companies) prefer to keep producing endless sequels instead of new original stuff just goes to show how risk adverse they really are. That's why 9 times out of 10 they'll go with a sequel or poorly disguised copy of some previously successful movie and while we'll eventually get Total War 47 and Pirates part 99.

[Zevico]

I'm still waiting for my pre-order of Dragon Gate IV: Rise of the Sith Effect.

[C0ckney]

BTW the fact that Hollywood (and now even video game companies) prefer to keep producing endless sequels instead of new original stuff just goes to show how risk adverse they really are. That's why 9 times out of 10 they'll go with a sequel or poorly disguised copy of some previously successful movie and while we'll eventually get Total War 47 and Pirates part 99.

[Al B. Sure!]

Total War 47... That'll be the 17th iteration of Rome: Total War, right? Looking forward to it.

[Docfeelgood]

PIRATES!

I haven't seen the current release, but I will.

not as good as the other three

[-Jrabbit]

Oerdin is absolutely right about the cost factor being a major driving force behind reality TV. Unscripted shows have been around forever, but the genre really exploded in reaction to the writers' strike in Hollywood (07 iirc). They do cost far less to produce, and they are great vehicles for product placement, which advertisers adore.

With programming running dry due to the strike, the reality genre exploded out of necessity. (I believe the rise of YouTube was another big contributing factor.) Before long, it went far beyond situational stuff (Survivor, Real World) and into a ton of genres -- music, sport, food, fashion, weight loss, home decorating, dance, globe-trotting, game shows, you name it. People watched because nothing else new was on TV. And some of it stuck. Now there was a new, lower-risk game in town. So naturally, the risk-averse, follow-the-leader networks latched onto that and it became a much bigger part of the green-light game.

[giblets]

I think the explosion of reality TV was earlier- around 2000.

[Berzerker]

I saw the author this past weekend on cspan booknotes, he said "Laugh-In" was cancelled because the guy in charge of making the show was too anti-Vietnam War, LBJ complained to the bigshots at the network.

And the author used that as an example of left-wing propaganda

[Dinner]

Nikita Kruschev complained that the USSR was the first country to put a man in space but there were no Russians on the TV show Star Trek. The writers responded by creating the character Chekov.

Clearly that is just another example of Hollywood caving to leftist demands.

[Pax]

I don't know see how or why we should automatically say "passion of the christ" is a conservative movie because it deals with Christianity/religion. Too me the principles Jesus Christ espoused were liberal values.
That being said, what makes any of these movies liberal or conservative?
Top 11 for last year.

Toy Story 3 508,734,622
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 462,734,972
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I 391,538,669
Despicable Me 365,280,464
Alice in Wonderland 326,795,818
Inception 293,780,856
Iron Man 2 235,171,607
The King's Speech 231,019,583
Shrek Forever After 217,974,055
The Karate Kid 195,453,396
How to Train Your Dragon 180,017,078

There are of course writers, directors and actors who have a liberal agenda take George Clooney for instance, his personal politics don't stop him from playing a hitman just like Clint Eastwood. Nowadays, it seems like unless something is expressly conservative/republican then it must be liberal with a bias. Not true. And the same thing goes for the news. News is supposed to be unbiased, the minute FOX news starts adding there adjectives it's no longer news.

[MikeH]

Twilight Saga: Conservative, no sex before marriage.

Iron Man 2: Liberal, Gov't military industrial complex are the bad guys. Conservative, Private industry can achieve better things than government.

Alice in Wonderland: Liberal, promoting drugs

[Pax]

That's my point, you can find things in most of these movies that could make them seem liberal or conservative if you look. These movies are made by businesses who need too make a profit on every movie in order too stay in business. If they don't think the movie will sale then they usually don't make the movie. If they make the movie and they don't think it will sale then they either send it straight to video or put it in storage. If somewhere around 50% of americans would be opposed to a movie right out of the gate because of the politics of the movie then the movie probably would not get made or it would get made by a special interest/niche company that is catering too a specific group of people.

[MikeH]

if 50% are opposed but 50% love it and 10% of them actually go to see the movie it'd be a massive box office smash.