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“[Hollywood] cut their audience in half when they took a side against Trump and MAGA. They reduced their reach even further when they ‘wokeified’ their movies. When they married the Democratic Party, everything they did had to reflect the worldview of the Obama/Clinton/Biden coalition. There is no dividing line between the two. They are the same organism. If the Democrats are going down, so is Hollywood. They rely on news from inside the bubble, where journalists and major news media outlets also reflect the worldview of the Democratic Party. The problem is that this country and this world are much bigger than that. They have a class of film critics who parrot the party line and never push back. They have journalists who are as out of touch with the rest of America as they are. Anyone who loudly dissents is purged…Jerry Seinfeld did just that. He said movies are over, and comedy isn’t funny anymore because of the ‘far left’ crazies. He wasn’t wrong, but film critics on Twitter almost instantly threw him under the bus. When I want to read an honest take, I do not read film critics. Not anymore. Instead, I go to YouTube or TikTok to hear opinions that the hive mind hasn’t been cleansed for maximum purity. I can’t stand the collective fear of these people. Give me some truth…Audiences have mostly lost interest in what Hollywood puts out because the storytelling doesn’t reflect what is actually going on. Instead, it must adhere to the ‘good behavior’ of the Woketopia.”
-Sasha Stone on Hollywood Woketopia
*I’m the same: stopped reading critics, stopped working as one. Started reading comments and posts on YT and Twitter, where people say a lot of incisive, thoughtful, funny, and fearless things. Things I never read in “print” or official reviews anymore (and haven’t for almost two decades), which is one big State-sponsored ideological circle jerk. Regarding entertainment not reflecting what is actually going in the world, I wrote the same thing about Covid/post-Covid being left out of cinema and TV last week.
