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Miss Potter is a great film. I just rewatched it a few weeks ago after having not seen it in several years and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Renee is incredibly charming in the film.
Alexander is not great but it's not terrible either. While I was hoping for more from the movie, especially since it was directed by Oliver Stone, this one also got a revisit from me a while back and my conclusion was that, while not an excellent film, it's okay and worth at least one watch.
He's only 74. There are plenty of actors who have continued to work at a high level into their 70s. But regardless of that, his sudden decline in terms of being cast in noteworthy movies that got wide releases happened in the late 00s, right about the time he turned 60. I don't think it was the fact that he turned 60 that made producers suddenly disinterested in him.
It should be MORE fashionable to criticize China, but sadly, China's growing economic and military power means that far too many people and nations are cozying up to them instead.
Dafuq? Secret of the Ooze better than the original movie? Maybe for children under 7. Not for anyone else.
This is a question that can easily be reversed: Why should Christian folk care that unbelievers object to what it is that we want to see in our entertainment?
In any case, the fact of the matter is this: If Hollywood pushes a bunch of gay stuff into movies and shows, then they are going to alienate a large part of their hoped-for audience, and they're doing it all for a tiny portion of society. NOT pushing gay stuff into movies and shows doesn't make the 7% of gay folks hate those movies and shows, though.
It seems then that it's just good economics, at least most of the time, to try to please as many people as possible.
It is very clear to me that you have no regard for God's will. It was unnecessary to state that.
As for the USA being a theocracy, what I would instead like is for Americans of their own free will to choose to be a decent and moral people. But we've been headed in the wrong direction on that since the 1960s.
It actually aired in 1980.
In regard to your point about the book, I haven't read the book and I haven't seen the original mini-series since the mid-90s, but I have seen some people say that the series neglected to portray the Japanese viewpoint that was the subject of a good chunk of the book.
I suspect we're just going in circles here so I will just answer your last question: Because it is God's will and the morally right thing to do.
I'm sure you'll just respond again with, "Not everyone is religious or believes that." Yeah, I know. Not everyone believes the earth is round either.
You can have "issue" movies, but they go in their own corner of the entertainment-sphere. I agree not everything has to be a popcorn movie. But the real point I'm getting at is that we need entertainment that everyone can enjoy and that is offensive to no one.
Here's an example of a film that isn't a popcorn flick: Apollo 13. Great movie that EVERYONE should be able to enjoy without getting uptight, unless they hate America, in which case they have bigger problems than not enjoying a movie.
In regard to your Netflix comment, there are plenty of people who suffer through the gay shit because a show is otherwise good. So they help to boost the numbers. But that doesn't shouldn't be taken as approval of everything in the show.
As for your last question, my question is: What is their interest in "depicting gay people?" Does it make the story better? If so, in what way? (Spoiler: It doesn't make the story better. It's done for reasons of political and social ideology.)
It is my religiously-derived belief, yes. It is also my belief based upon the simple observation of the human body and reproductive system, and my conclusions regarding the obvious reality of how things were designed to work.
The fact of the matter is that nearly all of America was on the same page regarding this issue until just in the last decade or two. The reality is that my view, for most of this country's--and its society's--existence, has been the standard, normal view on this issue. And I still suspect that the average American does not really want to see two dudes kissing.
To be fair, I wouldn't mind mostly keeping politics and hot button political issues out of movies entirely. Look at a movie like Independence Day. Everyone should think that's a fun and enjoyable movie, regardless of your political, social or sexual persuasion. We need more movies like that.
In regard to your last statement, I don't know what crowd you run with, but in my circles everyone is sick of the gay shit. I literally got a text message just a few hours ago from someone complaining about more lesbian shit in some show that she just started watching.
I wouldn't mind gay people being portrayed in storylines as cautionary tales. Essentially my belief is that we shouldn't normalize homosexuality anymore than we would want to normalize kleptomania. It's not that I am without understanding that people have natural urges to do unfortunate shit. I just think that we should fight such urges.
I think that if gay people want to have shows and movies, then they should do that in specifically gay productions (e.g. that show The L Word from back in the day). It doesn't belong in mainstream entertainment that is meant to cater toward a broad range of people with varying social viewpoints.
Basically, what we see today is that Hollywood just decided to say, "Fuck Christians and other conservatives."
I understand it was taken from the source material. I pass the blame on through the showrunners to Martin also.
And it would've been fine if Siuan was a man because males and female were meant for each other. That is normal and natural human sexuality, not deviant sexuality.
In regard to A Small Light, I don't know if they use one of her actual brother's name or not, but if they day, they defamed a dead person for no good reason.
Re: Game of Thrones, there were multiple homo characters in that show.
Re: Wheel of Time, totally unnecessary lesbian relationship between Moiraine and Siuan.
Re: A Small Light, they're taking artistic license regarding real people in a show about a very serious subject? Will you argue that is for "creative reasons" and not political ones?
Off the top of my head (and I'll include mini-series):
Game of Thrones*
Silo
Monarch*
Lessons in Chemistry
A Small Light**
For All Mankind*
All the Light We Cannot See
Westworld*
Cobra Kai
Tulsa King
Yellowstone / 1883 / 1923 (grouping these since they're all related)*
Rings of Power
Wheel of Time*
The Peripheral
Fargo
Stranger Things*
Godless*
The OA
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*
* All shows with gay shit shoved into the storyline unnecessarily.
** A Small Light is a particularly egregious example, because it is about Anne Frank and the girl who tried to save the Frank family (Miep Gies). In the show, they give Miep a gay adopted brother even though, by the admission of the producer himself, they "took liberties" and there is no evidence that Miep had a gay brother.
In my view, the best decade for movies was the 90s. There were so many great films in the 90s, and the emphasis from the big studios was largely on making broadly crowd-pleasing films that weren't pushing a political message and that were designed to appeal to as many people as possible.
For TV, the best era was probably right around 2010, because production quality was high but far-left messaging and philosophy had not yet seeped into every nook and cranny of the industry.
The subject matter and, especially, Kurt Russell's inclusion, made me hopeful that this would be something of a throwback to an earlier, better time in entertainment.
In most shows, for the vast majority of their characters there is no emphasis placed at all on their sexuality. You never know if they are gay or straight or whatever because it is unimportant to the story. I suppose if you want to you can make one of those characters gay, but never tell anyone outside the writer's room.
Yea, especially when nearly every show and movie now seems to think it needs to include a gay storyline when actual gay people are pretty rare in society (about 7% of the population). Writers over-representing them and constantly including homosexual storylines is not done for creative reasons.