An Open Letter to Hollywood

Honestly, we miss the days when we’re at the ticket booth trying to decide which movie we want to see more because we want to see so many of them. We miss the days of waiting impatiently for a favorite to be available for home viewing because we loved it in the theater so much.

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That’s not what you’ve given us for years now.

Instead, we get actors and directors saying that their films aren’t for men, who then get upset when men don’t want to see their movies. We get actors who seek to lecture us who then don’t understand why we no longer care to watch their work.

Well, that and reboots and remakes of beloved properties that suck the very soul out of them, often in service to the same narrative that is keeping so many people away from the cinema in the first place.

Ed Morrissey

This is prompted by an open letter from A-listers to Hollywood studio execs to make more "important" films, filled with political lectures and tiresome didactic manipulations. These celebrities want Hollywood to make films that speak to them rather than their audiences ... which is what put Participant Films out of business in the first place. 

I guess they still haven't learned the lesson. Be sure to read both Tom and John Nolte (at the link above). 

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