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It's going to be interesting to see the entertainment industry try to win their audience back. When they finally run out of dark NGO money to produce shit art, and propaganda.
I don't think they have the talent or know how left in Hollywood to produce a new entertaining thrilling original movie. They will try to stitch together clichés to try to make a story that is not woke, and fits the classic story telling model. The exiled Canceled directors, writers and actors, will have to be hired almost exclusively to just to rekindle the culture they once had. Even Harvey Weinstein as creepy as he was, his Miramax production was the one of the last proper studios left in Hollywood at the time they brought him down.

James Cameron has ruined his reputation beyond repair, and Steven King has turned into a joke. And none of the new guys in the past 15 years at Director helm has produced anything worthy of my attention.

Stephen King is beyond over-rated, another mentally ill radical. He named Cujo after one of the Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists.

Once you've read on King book you've read them all. And the endings are usually lousy compared to the lead up.

Tenpoundbass says

It's going to be interesting to see the entertainment industry try to win their audience back. When they finally run out of dark NGO money to produce shit art, and propaganda.

That will never happen.

There's just momentum in any establishment technology. People are used to having HBO, television, CNN, MSNBC, Youtube, etc. They're comfortable with it, but by the time people become uncomfortable with it, and seek alternatives, they become comfortable with THAT and they're not going to return just because the former corporations have seen "the error of their ways".

It takes years to establish a brand and to create an audience, and once you lose it, people have moved on permanently. I used to listen to NPR and PBS. I thought the Young Turks were useful at one point - but when they sold out and started producing propaganda, I'm not going to return, I already have found other people and sites to get information. Entertainment I've pretty much given up on entirely, but I can see why people get fed up with having a transgender or gay male, or some "under-represented" person being shoe horned into a role, and then having the failure of the poorly written and dumb movie or television show fail THEN blame consumers for not liking it because they are bigots of some sort.

This should have ended 7 years ago when they pulled this shit in force with Ghostbusters 2016. They tried to blame the failure of the film on it being all women. That wasn't a problem, the problem was that the movie sucked. The 2015 film Spy was OK, I saw that, it's a comedy with Melissa McCarthy. PART of the humor is that an overweight woman working for an intelligence agency turns out to be a crack spy ala James Bond, but she ends up being an assistant to another spy, because she doesn't look the part. Much of the humor is physical, simply because nobody that over-weight could be that physically active and powerful.

i watched an episode or two of the first series HBO Perry Mason when they had a free week on cable. Looked pretty good, not what I expected. Nice period piece drama. Nothing like the Raymond Burr stuff they had on TV.

I don't have cable but I bet it's no Boardwalk Empire.

Coincidentally the year after Boardwalk Empire ended is when I cut ties with Cable. I realized what a rip off HBO was. They are only interested in keeping people riveted to their seats, with their serial content. But they are like easily distracted toddlers. The audience is two seasons into a compelling drama, which leaves the season with cliffhanging plots. Only to decide before the next season to just outright nix the series. Even the way the Saprano's ended. It made the 5 years or so that I watched the show a huge waste of my time.
I would have rather Sapranos had just been a two hour movie, that resolved with Saprano either getting wacked in the Diner or the Feds busting in and arresting the whole family.
The Nucky Thompson story in Boardwalk Empire was left dangling 1000 feet over a cliff.

Never again!