What Hollywood thinks is good and most Americans (and people in general) thinks is uplifting are quite different.
Sometimes I scratch my head when I read reviews on movies. Movies about racial oppression, spousal abuse, typical stereotypes the left wants to force down our throats, these receive high ratings even though they are sometimes terrible movies.
A perfect example was "There Will Be Blood", a story about how a miner uses a church congregation to make himself rich while stealing oil from their land. A movie that allows moviegoers to see just how deplorable the oil industry was at it's beginnings, but it also gets to show how screwed up religion can be at the same time. Two for the price of one. It received praise and also some Oscars of course. Daniel Day Lewis got the best actor nod with his portrayal of a greedy Oil Barron so evil that he would put J.R. Ewing to shame. With it's foreboding soundtrack and twisted script it shows the dark underpinnings of the oil industry that Hollywood sees in everything they don't like. It's only memorable line is "I Drink Your Milkshake!!!!" Wow, that's some powerful stuff.
This was hoped to be the China Syndrome of fossil fuels. Didn't pan out like they hoped, but nice try.
Lately we are finding out just how twisted Hollywood is. Nobody in their right mind would want to be part of an enterprise that sexually abuses the innocent and plays to the greed of everyone involved. Driving children to drink booze and take drugs to forget the abuse that permeates the industry.
I like uplifting films that show the good in people, not the bad. Apparently there aren't that many good people left in Hollywood.
There's a movie out there that received a 100% rating Rotten Tomatoes called Lady Bird, about a British woman's fight with social services to get her kids back after 4 bad relationships. I may risk renting it on Netflix, but I'm afraid I will be disappointed, because it appears that critics don't have the same idea of what it takes to make a great movie as I do. I like movies that not only entertain but give us good examples on how to live our lives. I think this is asking too much from the film industry because good people are blacklisted and bad people rule.
Sometimes I scratch my head when I read reviews on movies. Movies about racial oppression, spousal abuse, typical stereotypes the left wants to force down our throats, these receive high ratings even though they are sometimes terrible movies.
A perfect example was "There Will Be Blood", a story about how a miner uses a church congregation to make himself rich while stealing oil from their land. A movie that allows moviegoers to see just how deplorable the oil industry was at it's beginnings, but it also gets to show how screwed up religion can be at the same time. Two for the price of one. It received praise and also some Oscars of course. Daniel Day Lewis got the best actor nod with his portrayal of a greedy Oil Barron so evil that he would put J.R. Ewing to shame. With it's foreboding soundtrack and twisted script it shows the dark underpinnings of the oil industry that Hollywood sees in everything they don't like. It's only memorable line is "I Drink Your Milkshake!!!!" Wow, that's some powerful stuff.
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 91% based on reviews from 216 critics, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The consensus reads, "Widely touted as a masterpiece, this sparse and sprawling epic about the underhanded 'heroes' of capitalism boasts incredible performances by leads Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is director Paul Thomas Anderson's best work to date."[29] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 93/100, based on 42 reviews indicating "universal acclaim".[30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood
Lately we are finding out just how twisted Hollywood is. Nobody in their right mind would want to be part of an enterprise that sexually abuses the innocent and plays to the greed of everyone involved. Driving children to drink booze and take drugs to forget the abuse that permeates the industry.
I like uplifting films that show the good in people, not the bad. Apparently there aren't that many good people left in Hollywood.
There's a movie out there that received a 100% rating Rotten Tomatoes called Lady Bird, about a British woman's fight with social services to get her kids back after 4 bad relationships. I may risk renting it on Netflix, but I'm afraid I will be disappointed, because it appears that critics don't have the same idea of what it takes to make a great movie as I do. I like movies that not only entertain but give us good examples on how to live our lives. I think this is asking too much from the film industry because good people are blacklisted and bad people rule.
