Pretty much all the reasons I haven't even thought about going to a movie. I mean I've heard Nobody is good. I might have gone to see it. Oh, but the movie theater website is full of mask rules and pictures of hand sanitizer dispensers. Nope, I've moved on from WuFlu world and I'm not going to go back, certainly not for entertainment purposes. I don't really mind though, I'm not sure movie theaters are a big loss anymore.
You're right about scared leftists. I sort of knew it a bit already that they were legitimately afraid. I mean what other reason could there be that I still see tons and tons of masks. When there's no sign on the door, no one is asking you to, and even the leftist government says it's ok, I can only conclude that these people are too afraid to take their mask off. I know some first hand that are very much afraid too.
But good movies/TV are endangered species. Even if a TV series starts good, like The Boys, it will eventually degenerate into wokeism sooner or later.
My anecdotal evidence is that I've consistently added content to my media library for the last 10 years. The annual storage usage added peaked at 2tb added in 2015 or so when everything become readily available in 1080. That number has been steadily decreasing since, to the point where I don't think I added 100gb in 2020.
There almost nothing being made that isn't in-your-face agenda pushing. To the point where the signal to noise ratio is bad enough that I don't bother to download anything that doesn't have low critic scores and higher audience scores.
There's also nothing interesting to watch, wokeism aside.
Used to be, at any given time, there were a small handful of movies I was interested in seeing.
These days, I scroll through Amazon's new release section and not a single one piques my interest.
Movies from the 90s that have a gimmick or fascinating hook are all but replaced with shitty rom-coms and throw-away horror flicks (oh no the door closes by itself, and look, there's a ghost! How novel!)
The only movies that still got my attention recently were the Marvel Avenger movies. And now that seems pretty well over since they're retiring the A-team.
I got HBO to try out the Snyder cut of Justice League and I can't get fuckin 10 minutes in I'm so bored by the idea. The mishandling of the DC properties were so bad I just can't even bring myself to watch anything related. That goes for the Birds movies and all.
What's left to fucking watch? I don't know. Where did good movies go? I really don't know.
This trend started well before covid, too. Friday nights used to be the night the family would sit down and pick a new release to rent. Now, it's so sparse and padded with low-budget and indie flicks, I just don't bother looking for new releases anymore.
We just watch reruns of impractical jokers now. Only thing worth a damn and it's (thank god) not woke.
I'm even fine with woke stories if they are well acted and written. One of my top 3 series is Black Sails which has ends up having a full on progressive fantasy plotline. But the production value is off the charts, the characters are interesting including the "diverse" characters which have flaws and aren't tokens, and the actors pour their heart into it.
Black Sails is pretty great. I lost momentum in the last season, because it veered into the GoT model of "Everything that happens to anyone anywhere is super bad and awful and depressing."
The keelhauling was graphic enough that I lost the will to watch much more past that.
Pretty much all the reasons I haven't even thought about going to a movie. I mean I've heard Nobody is good. I might have gone to see it. Oh, but the movie theater website is full of mask rules and pictures of hand sanitizer dispensers. Nope, I've moved on from WuFlu world and I'm not going to go back, certainly not for entertainment purposes. I don't really mind though, I'm not sure movie theaters are a big loss anymore.
You're right about scared leftists. I sort of knew it a bit already that they were legitimately afraid. I mean what other reason could there be that I still see tons and tons of masks. When there's no sign on the door, no one is asking you to, and even the leftist government says it's ok, I can only conclude that these people are too afraid to take their mask off. I know some first hand that are very much afraid too.
Oh yea that one's great. If 90s action movies and John Wick 1 had a baby it would be Nobody.
It is good, I even posted a review :) https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12iNGllmwj/nobody-review/
But good movies/TV are endangered species. Even if a TV series starts good, like The Boys, it will eventually degenerate into wokeism sooner or later.
My anecdotal evidence is that I've consistently added content to my media library for the last 10 years. The annual storage usage added peaked at 2tb added in 2015 or so when everything become readily available in 1080. That number has been steadily decreasing since, to the point where I don't think I added 100gb in 2020.
There almost nothing being made that isn't in-your-face agenda pushing. To the point where the signal to noise ratio is bad enough that I don't bother to download anything that doesn't have low critic scores and higher audience scores.
There's also nothing interesting to watch, wokeism aside.
Used to be, at any given time, there were a small handful of movies I was interested in seeing.
These days, I scroll through Amazon's new release section and not a single one piques my interest.
Movies from the 90s that have a gimmick or fascinating hook are all but replaced with shitty rom-coms and throw-away horror flicks (oh no the door closes by itself, and look, there's a ghost! How novel!)
The only movies that still got my attention recently were the Marvel Avenger movies. And now that seems pretty well over since they're retiring the A-team.
I got HBO to try out the Snyder cut of Justice League and I can't get fuckin 10 minutes in I'm so bored by the idea. The mishandling of the DC properties were so bad I just can't even bring myself to watch anything related. That goes for the Birds movies and all.
What's left to fucking watch? I don't know. Where did good movies go? I really don't know.
This trend started well before covid, too. Friday nights used to be the night the family would sit down and pick a new release to rent. Now, it's so sparse and padded with low-budget and indie flicks, I just don't bother looking for new releases anymore.
We just watch reruns of impractical jokers now. Only thing worth a damn and it's (thank god) not woke.
I'm even fine with woke stories if they are well acted and written. One of my top 3 series is Black Sails which has ends up having a full on progressive fantasy plotline. But the production value is off the charts, the characters are interesting including the "diverse" characters which have flaws and aren't tokens, and the actors pour their heart into it.
If the diverse characters have flaws, then you don't have woke media on your hands, you just have normal stories.
Black Sails is pretty great. I lost momentum in the last season, because it veered into the GoT model of "Everything that happens to anyone anywhere is super bad and awful and depressing."
The keelhauling was graphic enough that I lost the will to watch much more past that.
Believer is not too bad. But you have to be extremely picky with your choices or you're going to end up watching beastality with a negro.