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2006-07-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Hollywood Gospel: And its War on American Culture

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-10 01:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry, I find this to be rubbish, even though it's true that Hollywood is aweful. I can't think of an obeservation more mundane or unoriginal. How lame are people such as this who rant about communist conspiracies and the evils of "Midnight Cowboy"? This article is like a parody of some evil combination of Church-lady, Archie Bunker and Grandpa Simpson.

The good news is that Hollywood never had as much influence as it wanted to believe it had, nor the amount its alarmist critics attribute to it. No matter because this influence is waning. Better to focus on offering alternatives than clownish fulminating the wickedness of "Hollywood".

Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-07-10 05:51|| 2006-07-10 05:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, then. Based on MM's review, I shan't waste my time with this article.

Posted by Bobby 2006-07-10 06:18|| 2006-07-10 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Pure rubbish? How easy to dismiss the overall point by looking at ONE movie and saying ... with regard to this one movie or that one movie, I declare the premise to be an exaggeration.

The only good thing I can say about the Hollywood Gospel is that it's high priests and priestesses have become as hypocritcal, predictable, overly dramatic, shrill and insular as Tammy Faye Baker and the 700 club bunch. I know they still have a following, but they such a bunch of geezers now that the can't escape that rotting stench of " I used to be cool"

Posted by 2b 2006-07-10 09:13|| 2006-07-10 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm going to disagree. It's a rant, not a great rant, but not a bad one either. Most of the bases it touches are on the money.

I don't think Hollyweird should be peddling a milk and cookies view of life/America, but it shouldn't be peddling a 'everything is a conspiracy by really really evil people' either, not least because there are much better and interesting stories out there.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-10 09:36|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 And I meant to add.

While I like some hollywood movies - Terminator 3 was great and my daughter raves about Pirates of the Caribean, but too much feels like agitprop and I switch off or walk away.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-10 09:40|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 There's plenty of great movies available at Netflix. Just about anything made between 1934 and 1962 is worth watching. That's about the time when we had the Hayes Code. Funny how censorship helps artists be creative and "freedom" takes away the challenge.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-10 09:57|| 2006-07-10 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Hollywood has become an avatar of cultural change. They have become legends only in their own minds.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-10 10:33|| 2006-07-10 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 The average person, especially young person, need a role model. Hollywood has not provided a worthy role model since Patton. Without a good role model, a person needs a moral creed. Hollywood has invented anti-morality. Today, some young people just don't know how to act. But, in corporate America, only the proper dress and behavior are allowed. Because of a disfunctional Hollywood, corporate America has taken up the slack left by religion.
Nobody walks around with their pants below their ass in my office. Bet on it.

Posted by wxjames 2006-07-10 10:46|| 2006-07-10 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Just about anything made between 1934 and 1962 is worth watching

I luv 'ya man but... jeeebus!

Posted by 6 2006-07-10 10:47|| 2006-07-10 10:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I didn't see it in the article but they shoud've mentioned "Passion of the Christ." A religious movie produced by a pre-Vatcian II Catholic that made tons of money. Though Mel is hardly normal hollywood person other then his stance on the environment. Private Ryan would be another good pro-American movie (imho) that deservedly made good cash.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-07-10 11:32|| 2006-07-10 11:32|| Front Page Top

#11 The Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers" about Vietnam was a pretty decent recent movie.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-10 12:24|| 2006-07-10 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12 MM, though it may be 'unoriginal', the writer makes an extremely valid point. If I were looking at this from a purely secular standpoint, devoid of any moral foundations or 'antiquated' notions of right and wrong, I'd agree with you. But alas, color me antique.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-10 15:00|| 2006-07-10 15:00|| Front Page Top

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