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Hollyweird Articulated


I used to have a love of movies.  I have over 1500 DVDs/Blu-Rays/4K disks in my collection.  I could be counted on to buy multiple movies a month.

2022 I bought 5 total new movies.  I upgraded a handful of older things.

This fellow, a published author, has articulated the problem rather nicely.

 

As a gay guy, I rather prefer men.  And Hollyweird can't even fake having those any more.

It's a growing problem in books too, especially since 2015.  I was rereading a Mercedes Lackey series and there was a very sharp tone/theme change in an ongoing series where it had a cool male lead.  After reading it the first time, I kept not finding time to read more of the books... I think it was coincidental that's where I stopped, but yeah, it went distinctly naggy about women and was published in 2016.  The same year Hollyweird went all in on this obnoxious gender swapping crap. (Hello Ghostbusters 2016, which lost money).  Same on the TV Show front as I got all of 30 seconds into Amazon's Wheel of Time before the obnoxious nag of a narrator said the world sucks because of men.  And 31 seconds was as far as I watched that shit.  I've had far more fun watching reviewers destroy the Wrangs of Power on Amazon then I ever could watching that dreck.

And the only power I have over it is to not fund the shit.  So, I'm not funding the shit.

New Release Movies I did buy in 2022:  Ghostbusters Afterlife, Uncharted, Top Gun Maverick, The Kings Man, and Spiderman No Way Home. 

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Libby Drew

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Cool Hand Luke

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Fight Club

I know very little about movies, (But I knew all three of these images. Go me!) so I'm not necessarily qualified to comment, however... Top Gun: Maverick - saw that one. More than once. Once in the theater, once in the tattoo studio, and once in the wee hours of the morning in my living room. All by myself.

Don't judge.

 

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Myr

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1 minute ago, Libby Drew said:

Cool Hand Luke

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Fight Club

I know very little about movies, (But I knew all three of these images. Go me!) so I'm not necessarily qualified to comment, however... Top Gun: Maverick - saw that one. More than once. Once in the theater, once in the tattoo studio, and once in the wee hours of the morning in my living room. All by myself.

Don't judge.

Everyone likes what they like.  And Top Gun Maverick was a great movie.  And point of fact, there was a scene when he's standing outside the bar looking in where you can see the emotions playing off Maverick's face, but he's not stomping/crying/howling at the moon.  He's behaving... modern stoic?

There is a lot from that video and stoic male trope that can be rolled back into writing.  Don't tell me he feels gut wrenching pain hearing that old song is friend sang... show me.

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Libby Drew

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9 minutes ago, Myr said:

Everyone likes what they like.  And Top Gun Maverick was a great movie.  And point of fact, there was a scene when he's standing outside the bar looking in where you can see the emotions playing off Maverick's face, but he's not stomping/crying/howling at the moon.  He's behaving... modern stoic?

There is a lot from that video and stoic male trope that can be rolled back into writing.  Don't tell me he feels gut wrenching pain hearing that old song is friend sang... show me.

An excellent writing exercise is to take a visual moment like this and do your best to translate the mood and emotion of it into words. And then do it again with another movie/tv scene that touches you. As with any skill, practice helps hone skill. Soon, you will be a shower, not a teller.

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Aditus

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Well, let's say I've become extremely picky for various reasons. The last movies I bought was an updated version of LOTR. The last I watched was The Glass Onion. 

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