What is up with Hollywood?

"We need a new birth in moviemaking. A renaissance, so to speak. Our current playbook on how to make good movies expired years ago. We need family movies. Christian movies. Movies that EVEYBODY can see, no matter their age. Will a 100% work to save Hollywood? I could care less. It is not worth saving."

True confession. I, like many today, am disgusted with that Hollywood has become. It is a sewer. A cesspool. An expensive den of socialist vipers. Hollywood never was this bad in the past. Somehow, it got way, way to political, and way, way too immoral. Finding a family movie made these days is a struggle. A gamble. Maybe this is why new movie studios such as Angel are popping up. A safe venue to watch wholesome movies.

Meanwhile, Hollywood as a studio location for filming is dying. More and more foreign countries are luring production companies to travel offshore to make movies. How bad has it become in a very short time? Over the past three years, over 18,000 movie production jobs have been eliminated in Hollywood. Shooting movies is down 22% already this year. According to President Trump, the rush to shoot offshore is growing so fast, that "Hollywood is dying a fast death."

In true "Trumpian" fashion, the president has tossed a hand grenade into the gears to shake things up. Trump wants to impose a 100% tariff on all future movies being made offshore. That announcement hit Hollywood like a jolt from the San Andreas Fault. Speaking of which, did you know that the sequel to San Andreas was filmed mostly in Australia? Interesting, since the action takes place in LA - right by Hollywood.

Can Hollywood be saved? Maybe. Should Hollywood be saved? Now that is an interesting question. My opinion? Hollywood has outlived its usefulness. It has become vapid and corrupt. And as I have said earlier, way, way too political. I don't give two shoots and a holler if the current regime in Hollywood ever makes another film again. But here is the rub. I DO like movies. GOOD movies. Movies I can take my grandies to without worrying about salty language or "hidden" woke messages. 

We need a new birth in moviemaking. A renaissance, so to speak. Our current playbook on how to make good movies expired years ago. We need family movies. Christian movies. Movies that EVEYBODY can see, no matter their age. Will a 100% tariff work to save Hollywood? I could care less. It is not worth saving. The giant sucking sound you hear from SoCal, is the sound of Hollywood sucking more and more every year.