Seinfeld: 'The Movie Business is Over'

Jerry Seinfeld says that movies have lost their relevance in culture and society, saying that 'the movie business is over.'

The comic-actor, 69, speaking to GQ magazine Monday in promotion of his debut as a film director with Netflix film Unfrosted, mused on what he felt was a lost relevance in Hollywood amid a lessened impact with its current slate of silver screen offerings.

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'Film doesn't occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives,' the Brooklyn, New York native said. 'When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked.


Ed Morrissey

In fairness, as some of Seinfeld's critics point out, Barbie occupied that level of cultural zeitgeist last year. It's not as if Hollywood can't make those kinds of films. It's that they choose more often to shovel cash into comic-book franchises and Woke AF didactics, and treat their audiences like rubes rather than people of equal standing. 

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