Former entertainment industry professional here. While the reasons given for the death of Story are valid, there is another consideration -- economics. The cost of producing entertainment has been steadily going up for decades, and as a result studios have become more risk averse. With the millions of dollars that are at risk with every project studios are increasingly nervous of making investments without as close as they can get to a guarantee of a return. Given a choice between coming up with something new that might not catch on and a reboot or sequel of an existing (highly popular) IP studios will frequently choose the latter. It's not so much that Hollywood is out of ideas, it's that Hollywood is unwilling to take a chance on a new idea unless it comes from a creator with a proven sales record.
I can certainly see that. However, when they do a reboot of an IP that has a track record, in a phrase, they kill it with those things that I mentioned in the video. Thank you much for your insight. 👊🏿
I’ve also seen cases where a director with a SOLID track record gets turned down because they don’t fit the mold: case in point Zack Snyder’s attempt to market Rebel Moon to Disney as a Star Wars story. Disney turned him down flat
That's why they go back to King Arthur and Robin Hood. They don't have to pay for the IP. Remakes aren't a new trend either as 'Total Recall' (2012), 'Robocop' (2014) and others prove. I'm assuming they made some profit, even if they weren't blockbusters. but since 2016 (see Ghostbusters (2016)) it has gotten so bad that people started to reject them and insulting potential customers hasn't helped either. That's in the same vein as they tended to reduce the budget for sequels as they assumed it wouldn't do as well as the original. Though in many cases that was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hollywood also has a tendency to learn the wrong lessons. 'Cutthroat Island' (1995) was the death of pirate movies, which are seen as poisonous since then because Hollywood interpreted that flop as 'people don't want to see pirate movies any more'. 'Pirates of the Caribbean: : The Curse of the Black Pearl' (2003) was a high risk movie and since then they were busy finding reasons why 'Pirates' was successful. No one hit on the idea that 'Cutthroat Island' was simply a bad movie and they< could make more pirate movies. Given, they are a bit more expensive even with modern CGI if you want to show entire crews fighting.
I love that they say "make a movie off of a popular IP" and then they hire people who either HATE the IP , don't understand the IP, want tk "modernize" the IP, or want to use it as a propaganda for their personal politics. ...when i see a movie based on an existing IP, I've been trained (by experience) to wait a week or two, and find out what my youtubers say about it. If they say it's good, i go see it! If they say it was destroyed and perverted, i don't see it. I have been burned by bad movies being made using existing IPs. I'm sick of wasting my money on cruddy movies and cruddy people in the industry.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg They have been having issues going back to classic stories too, as many of the people making them want to do a "reinvention" of the story which ends up killing it. I think the last good Robin Hood film which came out was Men In Tights.
I don't know if this is part of the Marxist viewpoint you mentioned, but the opposing political party and Christianity has lately been shown in very negative tones within movies. As a member of both the political party, and a proud Christian, these viewpoints are very obvious to me.
I can't talk about her. I have never seen Discovery, Picard, or Strange New Worlds, but I regularly watch the 5-hour block of Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT) that shows on one of the nostalgia channels in these parts.
Preach it!! You had me at "murderers of story and THEY KNOW IT!" My kids have watched all the classic and next gen star treks, we are finishing up Stargate ( one of my all-time favorites) and I am now binging Classic Dr Who on Tubi. There is nothing on TV today for my family to watch.
I just thought it was hillarious that the closest thing we got to Star Trek now is the Orville, aka, the guy behind Family Guy did a better job than the people who actually own the IP. Who are extremely hypocritical considered that ST:D was a massive rip off of a poor Egyptian man's game dev.
there is nothing in modern media that isn't done better in older material. this is not limited to TV or movies. this is across comics, books, video games, you name it.
Great video. I hope that as there are more RPG content being made by independent creators that we can get content that exalts those good qualities also.
As a fellow Twilight Zone fan, the episode "The Obsolete Man" seems especially poignant, relevant and timely. But I guess we can say that about many of the episodes from that series. Don't forget to sprinkle in some Outer Limits too!
@@RPGElite Before the release of the entire series on DVD, I was at a place called Movie Gallery and they had the classic episodes done as radio dramas hosted by Stacy Keach. They scratched that itch when I didn't have the episodes I could just pull up. I have that exact set now that sits behind you. Love it. Still love it. Nothing tops the classics. Funny thing is it was the 1990s series that came on every Friday night that got me into the classic series
I just picked up my favorite dvd boxed set,same as yours.They just dont write them like that any more (que the Greg Khin band) and rest in peace Mr.Serling you were the best of the best.
Last night my roommate and I started watching the 90s Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and it's really, really good and very funny. Its so much better than I remember it and after the dregs of CW over drama and darker supers shows we've gotten for the last 15 years... Lois and Clark is the best Superman TV show ever made.
First thing first: Thank you. I'm going to go with a variant or perhaps specification on things. In my view, the most insidious thing they have done by far is perpetuate the death of the author's voice. By this I mean the view that what the author, the person who put in the time and effort to create the work, intended is not so important as what the audience, the lazy masses who did nothing, think they are interpreting or reading in themselves. My biases on on full display here because this is a topic that angers me greatly. The author's intent is the ONLY one that matters. If the reader just wants to read their own whims into anything that they can do that as easily with the patterns of bark on a tree as they can the words in any book. For some reason we still call doing that with the bark on a tree insanity but we in the supposedly first world validate them when they do it with the works of long dead authors. We need asylums back and we need hard disciplinary teaching back. Enough rewarding poor performance and even poorer behaviours. As far as entertainment goes, 99.9% of mine is from non-western sources or TV shows and novels that are from the last century or earlier. Doctor Who ended in 1989 for me. I have DVDs of the 6 Million Dollar Man, SOAP, Married with Children, Adam West Batman, Get Smart, Quantum Leap, Filmation He-Man, Stargate, Ultraman, classic Donald Duck, etc, etc... The old stuff is still better than the current stuff by a land slide. A friend loaned me The Ice Pirates last summer and that was a blast.
Some of that is also due to not having to list all the "less important" participants in the production, but also that people used to work themselves to death making entertainment as well as taking on very risky work if you were a stunt double in the early years. Quite a few stunt doubles bought the farm or were crippled for life in those old Western flicks. Hate to say it but life is cheap in Hollywood, and it always has been.
@@ottawamonsterpocalypse7729 “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” -- Marilyn Monroe
Last time I flew transatlantic, the only movie I watched which came out after 1995 (or so) was John Wick. The newer films just feel like they forgot how to make stories, plot, and characters and are focused on trying to be "new". Reminds me of the joke "Your paper was certainly novel, I'll give you that. The conventional parts were well-written, but the innovative ideas were rather poorly developed."
For Mother’s Day I went to the movies, we saw Fall Guy, absolutely fun, no agendas, just good real action film and fun. Not an edgy artistic expression, just good guys vs bad guys and great stunts, real stunts, real special effects… real acting, real skills being displayed by all involved. Did I mention fun. Stay to the end of the credits on that one, there is more movie at the end. Why I rarely go… 1) Not being entertained the storylines are trash, the writing is inferior to movies from 1930-80. The activism and agendas are not good entertainment. 2) The use of foul language to replace clever writing and constant attempt to make PG13 the new R and R really X with unnecessary sex scenes that don’t even make sense in the film. 3) To much CGI (yes we can tell) 4) Cost of tickets and incidentals 5) Obnoxious people 6) decreasing quality of experience of things no longer offered in the experience 7) last movie I went to had at least 30 minutes of Commercials before the start. 8) The film industry continues to follow boring, predictable and often out of touch (in for Hollywood, edgy, agenda riddled tripe but not what we the audience want to see or take our kids to) formulas in their movies that also result in bad story. The current formulas are boring or not what I want to see. They are not looking at their formulas (which are many) and asking why the movie flopped but instead blame the audience. They hate the elements the audience wants to see in movies now. Also don’t tell me it’s a Mad Max movie but has nothing to do with Mad Max and expect me to go. Things I miss Double Features, Intermissions, Cartoons before the show. The old taste of popcorn, the new oil being used makes blander popcorn. But really Cartoon shorts were awesome now we get endless commercials for all sorts of crap. Things they have improved… seats are nicer, some theatres serve alcohol but honestly I don’t care about booze. Some offer better food too. Preorder tickets is cool. But number one reason that I rarely go is the movies suck! So sick of Hollyweird storylines.
The only thing I would add for the video question at the end is: Your '3 tools' are really all the same tool - marxism - which I realized a while ago was just rebranded feudalism, but without the dictator being heriditary. Marxism is feudalilsm without the worry of hemophilia, but still with all the poverty, plague, starvation, and degredation of education and general social standards that aren't hedonism or stagnation. I can't stress enough just how unquestionably America has proven beyond any shadow of a doubt and to the absolute highest logically sound and scientifically verifiable standard - that the feudal system of government is simply wrong, and that the only true value a government can uphold is the freedom and inalienable rights of its citizens. Every country that isn't the USA can be measured in their success directly proportional to how close they replicate our Constitution. Now all we have to do is figure out how to make a fiat currency that isn't debt-based and therefore designed to fail by way of runaway inflation...
First, like button crushed! Great perspective on the topic. Secondly, I feel extreme left ideology is the master plan, with the identity politics and social upheaval being the minor tools used to push the agenda. Keep up the good works, and God bless.
The Twilight Zone is wonderful. My personal fave episode is "Time Enough At Last" starring Burgess Meredith! But my favorite show of all time is Andor, the Star Wars series on Disney+. It's perfectly done in almost every way; one of the few modern SW products which hasn't been soiled by Disney's ownership.
QotV: Identity Politics is the worst. These types try to make it seem so important what boxes you fit into, and if you don't announce your "tribe" you're considered a pariah. I have deeper concerns than skin color, sexuality, or political preferences! Are you virtuous? Do you seek to better yourself and those around you? Would you help someone in a time of need? These are important questions--not the other crap.
So just some clarification the virus was in fact a pandemic as the diffinition is as follows: widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time. Now what increased the risk of that particular virus was several factors, one was politicizing the virus, and it's impact. So with tribalism, and the fact that this virus had a R0 (R Naught) of 2 to 3 vs seasonal flu of R0 of 1.3. R0 is how infectious a disease was or how many people an infected person will spread it too. Add to the fact that most hospitals just did not have the beds available to support this outbreak with all the regular crap they had to deal with. To give you an idea the hospital I worked at was said to have about 100 beds across the whole hospital. These were spread across multiple departments, like ICU, ER, Inpatient and Mother Baby. Couple that with burnout, it the impact was real. The other problem , flipping hollywood, making it seem like for a disease to be a nasty piece of work it has to be deadly, and it has to spread worse than measles (R0 of 16). Not true, if a disease disables a person and makes it so they have to be taken care of by others or exacerbates pre existing conditions. Not including the impact it has on existing medical infrastructure. The other problem is that America occupying so much territory it tends to not take into consideration anything out side the village (what they can't see with their own two eyes is hard to fathom), much less out side thier own city, state or even country.
Yes a pandemic where we saw death carts loading the dead homeless off the streets of LA. Or a Navy Hospital ship which was barely used. Or ignoring the case study called the Diamond Princess.
@@RottenRogerDM if by Diamond Princess , you mean a guide on how not to run a quarantine and decon. Cause I'm not sure what you are angling at chief. But any one even remotely aware of how a crisis is often handled, (badly in the begining), or even just a routine exercise is often a clown show until the end when everything gets tightened up till the last moment and all the players get thier head unlocked from thier fourth point of contact, because it turns out these events are often unrehearsed and the teams are often thrown together with different actors and agencies. Heck even planning an event such as a festival feels like a disaster untill the last decoration gets put away.
Its been really interesting and unfortunate to watch the decline into sockholm syndrome, particularly on the Left. Between the winner of the 2016 election, and the global mind virus of 2020, the left got hit with the Jedi mind trick HARD. I was raised and grew up with these people who were so kind and distrusted the government, regulatory agencies and corperate interests. Now, 99.9% of them beg to be enslaved. Im grateful for your realness and not shying away from these topics because so many do out of fear of being ostracized, cancelled, silenced etc. There are so many amazing artists and untapped iP's out there, but if they dont have sjw undertones or are an already successful franchise and a sure thing, they get no funding.
I've been seeing the stockholm syndrome in the gaming industry for a lot longer than that, but you're right, it really took an exponential turn for the worst in 2016
@@GamesbyMarcWolff oh it's definitely been going on for longer, by design it started like 120ish years ago with the buying out of universities by John D Rockefeller, Prussian model of compulsory public education, the eugenics movement, etc. but it peaked to heights of total surrealist insanity in the past 8 years.
It blows my mind people trust the government or big pharma when there are dozens of examples of things like Tuskegee, the bombing of Black wall street, DTT(silent spring), etc.
@@Bearwiffa228 What really started catching my attention was around 2008 when the entire gaming industry basically became flooded with schlock board games and also video games stopped being creative and innovative.
@@GamesbyMarcWolff I wasn't huge into board games so missed that. Video games though definitely went downhill around that time. Id just graduated highschool in 2007 and there were so many good ones up to that point. Since then it's been maybe a good one every year if you're lucky. Every once in a while I'll pick up a controller when a good one comes out. Most recent were Elden ring and diablo2 resurrection. Before that ghost of tsushima and cyberpunk(after it was fixed). Before that I didn't play anything for a long time besides a few seasons of SMITE
I went to the theater to watch Godzilla X Kong opening week. The last time I had been to the theater before that was to watch a movie based on a popular TTRPG which shall not be mentioned here. I don't remember what I went to the theater to see before that. Endgame, perhaps? Movies just don't have the magic anymore, which doesn't justify spending the crazy prices. I wish the good movies that I do want to see were released in the summer so we can make the 45 trip to the closest drive in and spend "old fashioned" ticket prices of $10 a person or less. But the good movies are getting fewer and farther between. Some would be better waiting to watch on a streaming service - which isn't much of a wait since a lot of movies are now streaming while they are still in the theaters. But the story is the most important thing. I don't want to be preached at, and I especially dislike the current trend of being told if a movie is not well received then it must be because of straight white men. If a movie bombs at the box office and the producers and director start blaming my race, sex, and orientation for the movie's failure that is a big clue to not see it, and I will stay home and rewatch Babylon 5 instead.
I don't think the tools are equivalent. Cultural propaganda is basically the tool of telling a "lie" often enough that it becomes the truth. While in the 1950s this tool was expressed in shows like Leave it to Beaver, in this time period the tool serves different agendas. Identity politics, rather than a method of messaging (like cultural propaganda) is, instead, the ideology behind some of the messaging being conveyed. The same is true for Marxism, though the variety many of our elite institutions have been captured by is its French offspring Post-Modernism. The first is a poison pill for democracy. The second, for Western Civilization (use of this term and its triggering effect intended). The messaging in Leave it to Beaver, while it made some of us sick of its bland repetition, was not so detrimental. So, while I agree with your overall points, I think only one of the tools is a true tool in the sense of a method or mechanism, while the other two are the agendas.
I couldn't agree more with what you said. So people out there that want to help fight this, when you start things like a forum or get moderators make 100% sure you vet these people. It is far better to "gate keep' than to have your hobby destroyed. If you look at companies like Black Rock, they would ONLY fund movies with Disney that pushed DIE programs (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity). On the surface this sound fine, but what it really meant was to force an ideology down peoples throats while denigrating straight people. Specifically you will seldom if ever see a straight white Catholic family seen in a positive light. Now to a lesser degree you won't see any strong straight Christian male figure seen in a positive light. You will see all the Alphabet people seen in a positive light. Even though these groups of people make up less than 3% of the total population you will see them represented at a significantly higher rate. All this to say Disney for a while created moves and they would tack on some of this, but still make money. Then they made it a focus of their movies and people stopped going and thus those movies lost money. What did Disney and others do? Blamed the fans of course. Called fans names when they brought this up. However it is somewhat changing. I have hope. Blackrock has came out and changed their direction as ultimately money talks. If you pay millions for a movie to use it as propaganda, and nobody sees it, does it really work as intended? Nope. Men and women out there with young children, teach them how to spot this stuff. Teach them that when you see a man dressed as a woman in a show, that this is being pushed on them. Trust me, in that my son who is now an adult is better at spotting this crap than I am and thus avoids it in the future.
The identity politics one makes the most predictable story. Avatar: The Last Airbender was my generation’s best cartoon. It had amazing deep characters. The new live action adaptation took away the personality of the main female character and replaced her with a faceless girl who starts as a master skill-wise and removes all of who she is, and all her character growth. The show did such a good job of killing the original that the original writers from the cartoon left the show publicly and wrote a letter saying that “there will be a show, but it’s not the show we had planned”
Picking the worst grievous fault in modern entertainment is akin to picking which of your fingers hurts the most when you slam them in a car door. I'll pick one you didn't mention: the ineptitude of the writing. Forget the moral lessons or questions of right or wrong... The absolute disregard for forming narrative is appalling. The clunky dialogue, lack of nuance, reliance on convenient plot moments, outright holes in plot, and ye lawful the slaughter of Show, Don't Tell. "Somehow, Palpatine returned" is a line of dialogue so bad, it will be studied for decades and, in more civilized times, would have compelled the writer to hurl themselves from a building to avoid the shame.
1. Reboots, repeats, and sequels. Reboots which insult old fan base. Repeats which just update the graphics and dumb down story. And fan service which does not advance the story. I talking about your Ghostbusters 2024. 2. Price. We only do matinees to save money. But If we buy snacks it is about $50 for the both of us. But Price has always been a gripe. 3. Streaming, and other modes of getting movies. Why pay an upcharge when the movie will be on streaming in three months? It used to be 6 months before the dvd hit. Now Ghostbusters Frozen Empire is still in theatres and on Amazon for $23. 4. Writing, advertising, and trailers. The bad writing and lame plots. Advertising to include actors who either down talk the audience or the product. Advertising which insults the loyal fan base. Trailers which show the best scenes. QotV The murders proclaim the message is more important than the story.
“This video will trigger my haters” Brother, when you’re taking flak, that’s how you know you’re over the target! 😃 Proverbs 6:16-19 (with an emphasis on verse 18 for the serial killers of story)
Lack of subtlety. Writers have been weaving messages into their works for ages. "The Lord of the Rings," for example, contains Christian metaphors and messages about the effects of industrialization on the world. But they're skillfully woven into the story, so readers don't feel as if their faces are being rubbed into them. And even the classics that are almost completely void of subtlety, like "Animal Farm," are clearly understood to be satire, and so it's more acceptable; you have an idea about what you're going to get before you read it. Even a story that tackles social issues nearly head-on, like "The Expanse" series, does it in a way that tries to present all viewpoints equally while refraining from making judgements for the audience. Much of modern entertainment, particularly film and television, tosses all subtlety out the window. They include "talking head" characters who take moments to outright preach to viewers with dialogue that seems as if they were cribbed from some manifesto or other. In a medium which often relies on the audience's willing suspension of disbelief, the soapbox moments make it impossible to do so. And I think a sizable portion of audiences don't mind -- or even prefer -- having ideologies crammed down their throats. But I also believe there are many more smart, sophisticated people than creators have bargained for, and their pushback is slowly (infuriatingly so) beginning to register with them. They can continue to deride the intelligence of these people for only so long.
So Citations needed lol? At least prove example of these attacks not a vague recollection like you are running for a political office trying to influence the emotions of your most already in house crowd. How is wokeness invading RPG's? How is the movie industry, that is almost always left of center(with some statistical outliers like red dawn), more so now? I'll agree movies an tv seem to be losing some creativity but what are some examples of this.
Yeah... tired of the "your perspective, my perspective." No, we're talking about right and wrong. Funny how the biggest proponents of RPG Safety Tools hold the most offensive views.
Woke is nazism with a communist philosophy. It has the three elements of nazism; which are identity politics, authoritarianism, and corporatism. It also uses rules for radicals.
Funny how the Neo Nazis of today like to shout, "We're not the Nazis, you are!" BTW, Corporatism is defined as a political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together on and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests. How does that fit into your argument?
Former entertainment industry professional here. While the reasons given for the death of Story are valid, there is another consideration -- economics. The cost of producing entertainment has been steadily going up for decades, and as a result studios have become more risk averse. With the millions of dollars that are at risk with every project studios are increasingly nervous of making investments without as close as they can get to a guarantee of a return. Given a choice between coming up with something new that might not catch on and a reboot or sequel of an existing (highly popular) IP studios will frequently choose the latter. It's not so much that Hollywood is out of ideas, it's that Hollywood is unwilling to take a chance on a new idea unless it comes from a creator with a proven sales record.
I can certainly see that. However, when they do a reboot of an IP that has a track record, in a phrase, they kill it with those things that I mentioned in the video.
Thank you much for your insight. 👊🏿
I’ve also seen cases where a director with a SOLID track record gets turned down because they don’t fit the mold: case in point Zack Snyder’s attempt to market Rebel Moon to Disney as a Star Wars story. Disney turned him down flat
That's why they go back to King Arthur and Robin Hood. They don't have to pay for the IP. Remakes aren't a new trend either as 'Total Recall' (2012), 'Robocop' (2014) and others prove. I'm assuming they made some profit, even if they weren't blockbusters. but since 2016 (see Ghostbusters (2016)) it has gotten so bad that people started to reject them and insulting potential customers hasn't helped either.
That's in the same vein as they tended to reduce the budget for sequels as they assumed it wouldn't do as well as the original. Though in many cases that was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Hollywood also has a tendency to learn the wrong lessons. 'Cutthroat Island' (1995) was the death of pirate movies, which are seen as poisonous since then because Hollywood interpreted that flop as 'people don't want to see pirate movies any more'. 'Pirates of the Caribbean: : The Curse of the Black Pearl' (2003) was a high risk movie and since then they were busy finding reasons why 'Pirates' was successful. No one hit on the idea that 'Cutthroat Island' was simply a bad movie and they< could make more pirate movies. Given, they are a bit more expensive even with modern CGI if you want to show entire crews fighting.
I love that they say "make a movie off of a popular IP" and then they hire people who either HATE the IP , don't understand the IP, want tk "modernize" the IP, or want to use it as a propaganda for their personal politics.
...when i see a movie based on an existing IP, I've been trained (by experience) to wait a week or two, and find out what my youtubers say about it. If they say it's good, i go see it! If they say it was destroyed and perverted, i don't see it.
I have been burned by bad movies being made using existing IPs. I'm sick of wasting my money on cruddy movies and cruddy people in the industry.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg They have been having issues going back to classic stories too, as many of the people making them want to do a "reinvention" of the story which ends up killing it. I think the last good Robin Hood film which came out was Men In Tights.
MAN O MAN IS MY BRO BASED
Keep the faith my friend.
You 1000 percent correct on this one!
I don't know if this is part of the Marxist viewpoint you mentioned, but the opposing political party and Christianity has lately been shown in very negative tones within movies. As a member of both the political party, and a proud Christian, these viewpoints are very obvious to me.
At least Rome got a decent circus with their bread...they're killing our circus and raising the price of bread. Makes for a volatile combination.
The drones still have the colosseum, but they're definitely destroying art.
My wife is watching Star Trek: Voyager, no interest in the newer series besides they are behind a pay wall. Remember when watching TV used to be free?
I can't talk about her. I have never seen Discovery, Picard, or Strange New Worlds, but I regularly watch the 5-hour block of Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT) that shows on one of the nostalgia channels in these parts.
It was never free… you paid with your time by watching ads. If you want FREE television… that would be communism. Not sure whose side you’re on here.
As someone who has seen his beloved Dr Who hijacked and dismembered I couldn’t agree more
Preach it!! You had me at "murderers of story and THEY KNOW IT!" My kids have watched all the classic and next gen star treks, we are finishing up Stargate ( one of my all-time favorites) and I am now binging Classic Dr Who on Tubi. There is nothing on TV today for my family to watch.
I just thought it was hillarious that the closest thing we got to Star Trek now is the Orville, aka, the guy behind Family Guy did a better job than the people who actually own the IP.
Who are extremely hypocritical considered that ST:D was a massive rip off of a poor Egyptian man's game dev.
there is nothing in modern media that isn't done better in older material.
this is not limited to TV or movies. this is across comics, books, video games, you name it.
Great video. I hope that as there are more RPG content being made by independent creators that we can get content that exalts those good qualities also.
My man! Twilight Zone (Rod Serling Era) Is my absolute jam!
Great minds, bruh. 👊🏿😎
As a fellow Twilight Zone fan, the episode "The Obsolete Man" seems especially poignant, relevant and timely.
But I guess we can say that about many of the episodes from that series.
Don't forget to sprinkle in some Outer Limits too!
@@RPGElite Before the release of the entire series on DVD, I was at a place called Movie Gallery and they had the classic episodes done as radio dramas hosted by Stacy Keach. They scratched that itch when I didn't have the episodes I could just pull up. I have that exact set now that sits behind you. Love it. Still love it. Nothing tops the classics. Funny thing is it was the 1990s series that came on every Friday night that got me into the classic series
My wife has to be responsible for skewing NCIS' view minutes upward.
I just picked up my favorite dvd boxed set,same as yours.They just dont write them like that any more (que the Greg Khin band) and rest in peace Mr.Serling you were the best of the best.
Last night my roommate and I started watching the 90s Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and it's really, really good and very funny. Its so much better than I remember it and after the dregs of CW over drama and darker supers shows we've gotten for the last 15 years... Lois and Clark is the best Superman TV show ever made.
Me too! I love that show.
First thing first: Thank you.
I'm going to go with a variant or perhaps specification on things. In my view, the most insidious thing they have done by far is perpetuate the death of the author's voice. By this I mean the view that what the author, the person who put in the time and effort to create the work, intended is not so important as what the audience, the lazy masses who did nothing, think they are interpreting or reading in themselves. My biases on on full display here because this is a topic that angers me greatly. The author's intent is the ONLY one that matters. If the reader just wants to read their own whims into anything that they can do that as easily with the patterns of bark on a tree as they can the words in any book. For some reason we still call doing that with the bark on a tree insanity but we in the supposedly first world validate them when they do it with the works of long dead authors. We need asylums back and we need hard disciplinary teaching back. Enough rewarding poor performance and even poorer behaviours.
As far as entertainment goes, 99.9% of mine is from non-western sources or TV shows and novels that are from the last century or earlier. Doctor Who ended in 1989 for me. I have DVDs of the 6 Million Dollar Man, SOAP, Married with Children, Adam West Batman, Get Smart, Quantum Leap, Filmation He-Man, Stargate, Ultraman, classic Donald Duck, etc, etc... The old stuff is still better than the current stuff by a land slide. A friend loaned me The Ice Pirates last summer and that was a blast.
Totally agree, you only need to look at what has happened to Dr Who to see the utter destruction of beloved IP
What blew me away with older films is how small the crews were during the credits
Some of that is also due to not having to list all the "less important" participants in the production, but also that people used to work themselves to death making entertainment as well as taking on very risky work if you were a stunt double in the early years. Quite a few stunt doubles bought the farm or were crippled for life in those old Western flicks. Hate to say it but life is cheap in Hollywood, and it always has been.
@@ottawamonsterpocalypse7729 “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” -- Marilyn Monroe
Yeah, like how the John Earl Jones wasn't credited in Star Wars even though his work on it was very obvious.
Because they didn't credit VAs.
I stopped watching halfway through so I could log in to like and subscribe.
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Last time I flew transatlantic, the only movie I watched which came out after 1995 (or so) was John Wick. The newer films just feel like they forgot how to make stories, plot, and characters and are focused on trying to be "new".
Reminds me of the joke "Your paper was certainly novel, I'll give you that. The conventional parts were well-written, but the innovative ideas were rather poorly developed."
For Mother’s Day I went to the movies, we saw Fall Guy, absolutely fun, no agendas, just good real action film and fun. Not an edgy artistic expression, just good guys vs bad guys and great stunts, real stunts, real special effects… real acting, real skills being displayed by all involved. Did I mention fun. Stay to the end of the credits on that one, there is more movie at the end.
Why I rarely go… 1) Not being entertained the storylines are trash, the writing is inferior to movies from 1930-80. The activism and agendas are not good entertainment. 2) The use of foul language to replace clever writing and constant attempt to make PG13 the new R and R really X with unnecessary sex scenes that don’t even make sense in the film. 3) To much CGI (yes we can tell) 4) Cost of tickets and incidentals 5) Obnoxious people 6) decreasing quality of experience of things no longer offered in the experience 7) last movie I went to had at least 30 minutes of Commercials before the start. 8) The film industry continues to follow boring, predictable and often out of touch (in for Hollywood, edgy, agenda riddled tripe but not what we the audience want to see or take our kids to) formulas in their movies that also result in bad story. The current formulas are boring or not what I want to see. They are not looking at their formulas (which are many) and asking why the movie flopped but instead blame the audience. They hate the elements the audience wants to see in movies now. Also don’t tell me it’s a Mad Max movie but has nothing to do with Mad Max and expect me to go.
Things I miss Double Features, Intermissions, Cartoons before the show. The old taste of popcorn, the new oil being used makes blander popcorn. But really Cartoon shorts were awesome now we get endless commercials for all sorts of crap.
Things they have improved… seats are nicer, some theatres serve alcohol but honestly I don’t care about booze. Some offer better food too. Preorder tickets is cool.
But number one reason that I rarely go is the movies suck! So sick of Hollyweird storylines.
I went to the theater for Godzilla minus 1. That was a solid experience. I try not to waste my entertainment budget on mediocre propaganda
The only thing I would add for the video question at the end is:
Your '3 tools' are really all the same tool - marxism - which I realized a while ago was just rebranded feudalism, but without the dictator being heriditary. Marxism is feudalilsm without the worry of hemophilia, but still with all the poverty, plague, starvation, and degredation of education and general social standards that aren't hedonism or stagnation.
I can't stress enough just how unquestionably America has proven beyond any shadow of a doubt and to the absolute highest logically sound and scientifically verifiable standard - that the feudal system of government is simply wrong, and that the only true value a government can uphold is the freedom and inalienable rights of its citizens. Every country that isn't the USA can be measured in their success directly proportional to how close they replicate our Constitution.
Now all we have to do is figure out how to make a fiat currency that isn't debt-based and therefore designed to fail by way of runaway inflation...
I think apathy is far more dangerous ,so many are completly ensnared by apathy and just dont care anymore.
Truth is what alot are seeking. Thank you for speaking it. God bless you and a new follow earned brother.
First, like button crushed! Great perspective on the topic. Secondly, I feel extreme left ideology is the master plan, with the identity politics and social upheaval being the minor tools used to push the agenda. Keep up the good works, and God bless.
The Twilight Zone is wonderful. My personal fave episode is "Time Enough At Last" starring Burgess Meredith!
But my favorite show of all time is Andor, the Star Wars series on Disney+. It's perfectly done in almost every way; one of the few modern SW products which hasn't been soiled by Disney's ownership.
QotV: Identity Politics is the worst. These types try to make it seem so important what boxes you fit into, and if you don't announce your "tribe" you're considered a pariah.
I have deeper concerns than skin color, sexuality, or political preferences! Are you virtuous? Do you seek to better yourself and those around you? Would you help someone in a time of need? These are important questions--not the other crap.
So just some clarification the virus was in fact a pandemic as the diffinition is as follows: widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time.
Now what increased the risk of that particular virus was several factors, one was politicizing the virus, and it's impact. So with tribalism, and the fact that this virus had a R0 (R Naught) of 2 to 3 vs seasonal flu of R0 of 1.3. R0 is how infectious a disease was or how many people an infected person will spread it too. Add to the fact that most hospitals just did not have the beds available to support this outbreak with all the regular crap they had to deal with. To give you an idea the hospital I worked at was said to have about 100 beds across the whole hospital. These were spread across multiple departments, like ICU, ER, Inpatient and Mother Baby. Couple that with burnout, it the impact was real.
The other problem , flipping hollywood, making it seem like for a disease to be a nasty piece of work it has to be deadly, and it has to spread worse than measles (R0 of 16). Not true, if a disease disables a person and makes it so they have to be taken care of by others or exacerbates pre existing conditions. Not including the impact it has on existing medical infrastructure. The other problem is that America occupying so much territory it tends to not take into consideration anything out side the village (what they can't see with their own two eyes is hard to fathom), much less out side thier own city, state or even country.
Yes a pandemic where we saw death carts loading the dead homeless off the streets of LA. Or a Navy Hospital ship which was barely used. Or ignoring the case study called the Diamond Princess.
@@RottenRogerDM if by Diamond Princess , you mean a guide on how not to run a quarantine and decon. Cause I'm not sure what you are angling at chief. But any one even remotely aware of how a crisis is often handled, (badly in the begining), or even just a routine exercise is often a clown show until the end when everything gets tightened up till the last moment and all the players get thier head unlocked from thier fourth point of contact, because it turns out these events are often unrehearsed and the teams are often thrown together with different actors and agencies. Heck even planning an event such as a festival feels like a disaster untill the last decoration gets put away.
Its been really interesting and unfortunate to watch the decline into sockholm syndrome, particularly on the Left. Between the winner of the 2016 election, and the global mind virus of 2020, the left got hit with the Jedi mind trick HARD. I was raised and grew up with these people who were so kind and distrusted the government, regulatory agencies and corperate interests. Now, 99.9% of them beg to be enslaved. Im grateful for your realness and not shying away from these topics because so many do out of fear of being ostracized, cancelled, silenced etc.
There are so many amazing artists and untapped iP's out there, but if they dont have sjw undertones or are an already successful franchise and a sure thing, they get no funding.
I've been seeing the stockholm syndrome in the gaming industry for a lot longer than that, but you're right, it really took an exponential turn for the worst in 2016
@@GamesbyMarcWolff oh it's definitely been going on for longer, by design it started like 120ish years ago with the buying out of universities by John D Rockefeller, Prussian model of compulsory public education, the eugenics movement, etc. but it peaked to heights of total surrealist insanity in the past 8 years.
It blows my mind people trust the government or big pharma when there are dozens of examples of things like Tuskegee, the bombing of Black wall street, DTT(silent spring), etc.
@@Bearwiffa228 What really started catching my attention was around 2008 when the entire gaming industry basically became flooded with schlock board games and also video games stopped being creative and innovative.
@@GamesbyMarcWolff I wasn't huge into board games so missed that. Video games though definitely went downhill around that time. Id just graduated highschool in 2007 and there were so many good ones up to that point. Since then it's been maybe a good one every year if you're lucky. Every once in a while I'll pick up a controller when a good one comes out. Most recent were Elden ring and diablo2 resurrection. Before that ghost of tsushima and cyberpunk(after it was fixed). Before that I didn't play anything for a long time besides a few seasons of SMITE
I went to the theater to watch Godzilla X Kong opening week. The last time I had been to the theater before that was to watch a movie based on a popular TTRPG which shall not be mentioned here. I don't remember what I went to the theater to see before that. Endgame, perhaps? Movies just don't have the magic anymore, which doesn't justify spending the crazy prices. I wish the good movies that I do want to see were released in the summer so we can make the 45 trip to the closest drive in and spend "old fashioned" ticket prices of $10 a person or less. But the good movies are getting fewer and farther between. Some would be better waiting to watch on a streaming service - which isn't much of a wait since a lot of movies are now streaming while they are still in the theaters. But the story is the most important thing. I don't want to be preached at, and I especially dislike the current trend of being told if a movie is not well received then it must be because of straight white men. If a movie bombs at the box office and the producers and director start blaming my race, sex, and orientation for the movie's failure that is a big clue to not see it, and I will stay home and rewatch Babylon 5 instead.
Preach on, brother! Preach on
I don't think the tools are equivalent. Cultural propaganda is basically the tool of telling a "lie" often enough that it becomes the truth. While in the 1950s this tool was expressed in shows like Leave it to Beaver, in this time period the tool serves different agendas. Identity politics, rather than a method of messaging (like cultural propaganda) is, instead, the ideology behind some of the messaging being conveyed. The same is true for Marxism, though the variety many of our elite institutions have been captured by is its French offspring Post-Modernism. The first is a poison pill for democracy. The second, for Western Civilization (use of this term and its triggering effect intended). The messaging in Leave it to Beaver, while it made some of us sick of its bland repetition, was not so detrimental. So, while I agree with your overall points, I think only one of the tools is a true tool in the sense of a method or mechanism, while the other two are the agendas.
Coincidentally, i'm also watching pysch and twilight zone. ❤
Great minds, my man. 👊🏿😎
Spot on!
I couldn't agree more with what you said. So people out there that want to help fight this, when you start things like a forum or get moderators make 100% sure you vet these people. It is far better to "gate keep' than to have your hobby destroyed. If you look at companies like Black Rock, they would ONLY fund movies with Disney that pushed DIE programs (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity). On the surface this sound fine, but what it really meant was to force an ideology down peoples throats while denigrating straight people. Specifically you will seldom if ever see a straight white Catholic family seen in a positive light. Now to a lesser degree you won't see any strong straight Christian male figure seen in a positive light. You will see all the Alphabet people seen in a positive light. Even though these groups of people make up less than 3% of the total population you will see them represented at a significantly higher rate. All this to say Disney for a while created moves and they would tack on some of this, but still make money. Then they made it a focus of their movies and people stopped going and thus those movies lost money. What did Disney and others do? Blamed the fans of course. Called fans names when they brought this up. However it is somewhat changing. I have hope. Blackrock has came out and changed their direction as ultimately money talks. If you pay millions for a movie to use it as propaganda, and nobody sees it, does it really work as intended? Nope. Men and women out there with young children, teach them how to spot this stuff. Teach them that when you see a man dressed as a woman in a show, that this is being pushed on them. Trust me, in that my son who is now an adult is better at spotting this crap than I am and thus avoids it in the future.
The identity politics one makes the most predictable story.
Avatar: The Last Airbender was my generation’s best cartoon.
It had amazing deep characters.
The new live action adaptation took away the personality of the main female character and replaced her with a faceless girl who starts as a master skill-wise and removes all of who she is, and all her character growth.
The show did such a good job of killing the original that the original writers from the cartoon left the show publicly and wrote a letter saying that “there will be a show, but it’s not the show we had planned”
Picking the worst grievous fault in modern entertainment is akin to picking which of your fingers hurts the most when you slam them in a car door.
I'll pick one you didn't mention: the ineptitude of the writing. Forget the moral lessons or questions of right or wrong... The absolute disregard for forming narrative is appalling.
The clunky dialogue, lack of nuance, reliance on convenient plot moments, outright holes in plot, and ye lawful the slaughter of Show, Don't Tell.
"Somehow, Palpatine returned" is a line of dialogue so bad, it will be studied for decades and, in more civilized times, would have compelled the writer to hurl themselves from a building to avoid the shame.
1. Reboots, repeats, and sequels. Reboots which insult old fan base. Repeats which just update the graphics and dumb down story. And fan service which does not advance the story. I talking about your Ghostbusters 2024.
2. Price. We only do matinees to save money. But If we buy snacks it is about $50 for the both of us. But Price has always been a gripe.
3. Streaming, and other modes of getting movies. Why pay an upcharge when the movie will be on streaming in three months? It used to be 6 months before the dvd hit. Now Ghostbusters Frozen Empire is still in theatres and on Amazon for $23.
4. Writing, advertising, and trailers. The bad writing and lame plots. Advertising to include actors who either down talk the audience or the product. Advertising which insults the loyal fan base. Trailers which show the best scenes.
QotV
The murders proclaim the message is more important than the story.
“This video will trigger my haters”
Brother, when you’re taking flak, that’s how you know you’re over the target! 😃
Proverbs 6:16-19 (with an emphasis on verse 18 for the serial killers of story)
The only new shows i watch are animes. They still understand story in Japan.
Lack of subtlety. Writers have been weaving messages into their works for ages. "The Lord of the Rings," for example, contains Christian metaphors and messages about the effects of industrialization on the world. But they're skillfully woven into the story, so readers don't feel as if their faces are being rubbed into them. And even the classics that are almost completely void of subtlety, like "Animal Farm," are clearly understood to be satire, and so it's more acceptable; you have an idea about what you're going to get before you read it. Even a story that tackles social issues nearly head-on, like "The Expanse" series, does it in a way that tries to present all viewpoints equally while refraining from making judgements for the audience.
Much of modern entertainment, particularly film and television, tosses all subtlety out the window. They include "talking head" characters who take moments to outright preach to viewers with dialogue that seems as if they were cribbed from some manifesto or other. In a medium which often relies on the audience's willing suspension of disbelief, the soapbox moments make it impossible to do so.
And I think a sizable portion of audiences don't mind -- or even prefer -- having ideologies crammed down their throats. But I also believe there are many more smart, sophisticated people than creators have bargained for, and their pushback is slowly (infuriatingly so) beginning to register with them. They can continue to deride the intelligence of these people for only so long.
Psych is awesome! Ha. Nice to see another Psycho. 😎
AMEN!!!
So Citations needed lol? At least prove example of these attacks not a vague recollection like you are running for a political office trying to influence the emotions of your most already in house crowd. How is wokeness invading RPG's? How is the movie industry, that is almost always left of center(with some statistical outliers like red dawn), more so now? I'll agree movies an tv seem to be losing some creativity but what are some examples of this.
Yeah... tired of the "your perspective, my perspective."
No, we're talking about right and wrong.
Funny how the biggest proponents of RPG Safety Tools hold the most offensive views.
Marxsism 101
Woke is nazism with a communist philosophy. It has the three elements of nazism; which are identity politics, authoritarianism, and corporatism. It also uses rules for radicals.
Funny how the Neo Nazis of today like to shout, "We're not the Nazis, you are!"
BTW, Corporatism is defined as a political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together on and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests. How does that fit into your argument?