MAY I HAVE THE ENVELOPE PLEASE?
Well the annual Academy Awards have been handed out this year and ... did anyone care?
Of all the movies nominated for Best Picture over the past year, not one of them earned 100 million in receipts at the box office. That is, not one of them could be categorized as a box office hit.
“Brokeback Mountain”, the movie about two here-to-fore straight modern day cowboys finding gay love with one another, was been predicted to sweep the awards. It didn’t. How come? One Hollywood observer explained that while the Hollywood in-crowd loved the breath of fresh air that “Broke” brought to the subject of homosexuality existing in sacosant American themes, it secretly feared the backlash of conservative audiences pegging the Awards voters as being pro-gay if not secretly homosexual.
So if in the perception of Hollywood is correct, that movie audiences are predominantly conservative, then why does Hollywood continue to crank out movies with anti-conservative non-money making themes?
For example, some of this year's crop of movies tried to educate us in the belief that suicide bombers were really pitiful victims lashing out at an unjust world run by cabals of evil governments and eviler businesses. Movies showing us that dysfunctional families are fun to part of, particularly when they have family names sounding like obscene words. Or movies that loudly shout to the audience that there really is nothing that you can or should believe in. That corruption is everywhere -- except of course in the news media that is populated by crusaders who are trying to save us and movie studios that courageously publicizing that crusade. They, according to Hollywood screenwriters, are apparently incorruptible for some reason.
But honestly, with decreasing box office receipts for the main-stream studios while independent studios are raking in swollen profits, what is the problem with Hollywood today? Are all the studio decision-makers afflicted by some form of self-delusional group think that prevents them from recognizing what is popular to the majority of movie goers?
Or perhaps is it something else?
SCULLEY
Mulder that’s absurd! The heads of all the major studios being replaced by alien look-a-likes.
MULDER
Consider the evidence, Sculley. Year after year Hollywood makes movies that don’t make a decent profit. Movies that make you yawn.
Movies with stars in them who passed their prime ten years ago. What we have here, Sculley, is a secret alien plot to dumb us all down.
FILE UNDER: That’s Entertainment ;-)
Of all the movies nominated for Best Picture over the past year, not one of them earned 100 million in receipts at the box office. That is, not one of them could be categorized as a box office hit.
“Brokeback Mountain”, the movie about two here-to-fore straight modern day cowboys finding gay love with one another, was been predicted to sweep the awards. It didn’t. How come? One Hollywood observer explained that while the Hollywood in-crowd loved the breath of fresh air that “Broke” brought to the subject of homosexuality existing in sacosant American themes, it secretly feared the backlash of conservative audiences pegging the Awards voters as being pro-gay if not secretly homosexual.
So if in the perception of Hollywood is correct, that movie audiences are predominantly conservative, then why does Hollywood continue to crank out movies with anti-conservative non-money making themes?
For example, some of this year's crop of movies tried to educate us in the belief that suicide bombers were really pitiful victims lashing out at an unjust world run by cabals of evil governments and eviler businesses. Movies showing us that dysfunctional families are fun to part of, particularly when they have family names sounding like obscene words. Or movies that loudly shout to the audience that there really is nothing that you can or should believe in. That corruption is everywhere -- except of course in the news media that is populated by crusaders who are trying to save us and movie studios that courageously publicizing that crusade. They, according to Hollywood screenwriters, are apparently incorruptible for some reason.
But honestly, with decreasing box office receipts for the main-stream studios while independent studios are raking in swollen profits, what is the problem with Hollywood today? Are all the studio decision-makers afflicted by some form of self-delusional group think that prevents them from recognizing what is popular to the majority of movie goers?
Or perhaps is it something else?
SCULLEY
Mulder that’s absurd! The heads of all the major studios being replaced by alien look-a-likes.
MULDER
Consider the evidence, Sculley. Year after year Hollywood makes movies that don’t make a decent profit. Movies that make you yawn.
Movies with stars in them who passed their prime ten years ago. What we have here, Sculley, is a secret alien plot to dumb us all down.
FILE UNDER: That’s Entertainment ;-)