Comments on: Conservative Hollywood Hooey?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:20:48 +0000

That Hollywood has not suffered from even greater domestic sales decline is actually a case study on elasticity and the strength of brand inertia and habits.

The irony of the post is the national story of the moment, wherein a pale little effeminate Wiener lies about his attraction to indecent exposure, then refuses to man up and resign like any self-respecting idiot would do.

By: Westie

Westie — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:05:06 +0000

I agree that the attention deprived type of Conservative always has to project dissatisfaction onto the hated and collectivist pop culture. A a happier and better strategy is to ignore what one cannot change and focus on yourself and those you can influence.

By: Michael Marks

Michael Marks — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:26:34 +0000

PS I will admit I watch college football, a baseball game once in a while, and some pro footbal. I like sports.

By: Michael Marks

Michael Marks — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:23:55 +0000

I find that I don’t really watch as much TV or go to as many movies because 1) lousy plots, 2) tired of having the preaching of the environmental left, 3) men are almost always idiots, 4) women are almost always geniuses and capable of enormous feats of strength, and 5) kids are always right and the parents are idiots, to name a few. Other than that I love to go to the movies and watch TV (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

I do like to watch the old Monty Python shows when the mood strikes me. Sometimes there’s nothing better than some good British Comedy.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:33:29 +0000

Mercer, you hit so many nails on the head with this post I started not to comment for fear of going a thousand words over the limit. Suffice it to say the twits of show biz and current culture are encouraged by people who mistake cleavage for brains, or so to speak. Right minded people should just avoid the fools of entertainment and stop contributing money by way of tickets. Just like Republican candidates should bypass the NAACP convention. Another excercise in futility.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:53:46 +0000

If one wishes to be pedantic, one scene in RIO features a wild pair of Eclectus parrots (my favourite), which are in fact indigenous to the solomon islands, parts of Australia, and other such places which are NOT South America. But it’s really only if one wishes to pick at nits. Your point about the toes is much more powerful. Also, shame on them for making a bare-eyed cockatoo a villain. They are among the friendliest and playful parrots. But then, Pretty = good, ugly = bad, according to Hollywood.

By: Milos

Milos — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:50:56 +0000

Has anyone noticed the abnormal amount of remakes done over the past couple of years? What better evidence is there of the impoverishment of ideas Shapiro is talking about?

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:05:48 +0000

I have seen a sum total of ZERO movies in theaters since 1993 – I guess if I had gone every month to a movie, I would have seen about 200 bad movies and maybe 10 decent ones in that time period – so I doubt I missed very much. Well, I did see a very nice HMS Pinafore at Wolf Trap National Park last Friday for $ 8 – probably less than to see some mediocre mind-numbing movie in a theater with half the audience yakking to each other or on cell phones.

By: sunny black

sunny black — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:24:17 +0000

Be honest, Ilana: your aversion to AMC's The Killing has more to do with the liberal, silver-spooned councilman, Richmond, and his disdain for the Ayn Rand loving, Paul Allen-esque entrepreneur whom Richmond goes to when his campaign is in need of financial help. The trust-fund baby begs the tech nerd (who presumably earned his wealth) for money, and then has the gall to paint tech nerd as the bad guy because he believes in the power of markets rather than Richmond's after-school basketball program (or his community outreach pledge to the local Muslim community). This fictional character wants austerity measures but he also wants the taxpayers to foot the bill for his social programs?! This show certainly understands the vanity of the 21st century progressive politician. After all of that, and watching so many episodes of AMC's "best show" (overhyped), I no longer care who killed Rosie Larssen (after X number of episodes I'm left with the conclusion that the lead detective is unusually incompetent relative to her other network TV colleagues in the police force). I just want to make sure Richmond, aka John Edwards with sharper hair, isn't allowed to enact his budget-busting social programs; though I suspect his Republican rival is a bit of a big-government stooge himself. [Hilarious; thanks. You made me laugh: I no longer care who killed Rosie Larssen.]

By: Abelard Lindsey

Abelard Lindsey — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:02:13 +0000

This is why Hollywood has become boring.