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Byron King's avatar

When I saw the news about Trump's desire to tariff foreign films to protect the American movie biz, my first thought was that someone had hacked Truth Social. Surely, Our President must know that most American movies suck anymore. Indeed, and for all the money which paves the golden streets of Hollywood -- as evidenced by all the fancy cars and lucrative cocaine budgets -- the place has descended into intellectual poverty and bankruptcy of thought and message.

In my moviegoing experience of recent decades, American movies tend towards awful. Scripts are shallow, plots are formulaic, storylines are miserable and emblematic of the juvenile brainiacs who somehow have come to dominate the industry. Worse, other (and presumably older, wiser) people actually write checks to fund this dreck and drivel.

If you want a momument to cinematic failure, look no further than Disney. Not only has the collective Disney C-Suite crashed the Star Wars franchise, they even hamburgered a remake of Snow White, aka Snow Woke. Pinnocchio would roll in his grave, if only his nose wasn't so long.

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Invector's avatar

Every time Trump does something I like, he turns right around and does something incredibly stupid like this.

Save Hollywood??? While I haven't watched a movie in over 20 years, from what I've read there isn't anything in Hollywood worth saving!

Let the industry die a slow, painful, self-inflicted death. The USA would be better off for it.

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