MeatHookGekko
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There's new talent all the time, doesn't mean you're going to like anything they have to write.I know it's an unpopular opinion here, but come on...when have I ever held back from sharing my unpopular opinions?
I say **** 'em all.
I have no sympathy for the mediocre writers that continue to churn out garbage and schlock. If you're so bad at your job that a computer algorithm can do it, and do it better, then clearly writing is not what you were meant to do. 99% of these people just want to be part of the system and get all the rewards and luxury and perks that come with it. It's not about art, it's not about telling great stories...it's all about being in a position of power and privilege and prestige. They churn out utter trash for Netflix and Disney and Hulu and dumbass cop procedurals and inane sitcoms for the dying legacy TV networks. That's not art. That's garbage. We've have plenty of it from the last 75 years. We don't need any more.
If a writer has something truly brilliant and innovative to say....write a novel. Self-publish a comic book with a fantastic artist. Write the screenplay but don't sell it for peanuts to a studio that will gut it like a fish.
These people aren't "writers"...they're typists. And most of them are just activists that only care about pushing propaganda, and not entertaining anyone.
Same goes for the actors. Boo hoo. I feel so bad for you. Would anyone want to be a movie star if they only made $30,000 a year and there were no hoards of groupies to sleep with or paparazzi taking their pics? Of course not. They just want the fame, the money, and the status. People want to be actors for the same reason they want to be politicians: cause they think they're better than everyone else.
We all have to work for a living. We work hard. Why shouldn't they have to? Why should playing make-believe for a few hours a day, a few weeks out of the year be worth millions? It shouldn't. It never should have gotten to the point it's at now.
It's time to just tear it all down and start over from scratch. Let talent and ideas and creativity be the new standard of excellence. Let the entertainment industry be a true meritocracy where the projects that are worthy of acclaim rise to the top and the mindless garbage is ignored and forgotten. Let all the millionaires and billionaires live in the real world like the rest of us do, without all the protection and comfort they demand but don't deserve. Let an entire generation of NEW talent give it a shot, whether that be writing or acting or directing.
Yeah. **** "old" Hollywood. Let it burn. I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
These people aren't the ones making millions. They are more likely living on 70K max per year and still need to pay their agent and manager their 10% cut from that.
Mate, you're on a forum that is all about collecting figures and statues from film and TV. If you think what they do is so pathetic, why are you even here?If that's the best argument you have for me to pity them, well...it failed miserably.
70K a year to play dress up and make believe?
But yet you are on this topic spouting your opinion about something you don't fully grasp, and not caring at all about the people who made the "QUALITY" films and TV shows you want to collect. The strike effects the ones you supposedly care about too.I'm here cause I collect things from QUALITY films and TV shows and comic books and video games, not the horse dung they churn out now.
You maybe done, but I'm not and you don't speak for me.So for the second time you insinuate that I don't "fully grasp" the magnitude of the situation.
Clearly you have no actual desire to converse with me or see my point of view. You only seem interested in lecturing me or "educating" me cause you clearly think I'm some kind of ignoramus just waiting for an enlightened individual like yourself to cure me of my wrong-think.
Well...we're done here. I stated my feeling and opinions quite clearly, and I stand by what I wrote. It's all there for you to read again if you didn't "fully grasp" it. If my ideas are offensive to you, I guess I'll just have to try to find some way I can live with that. I think I'll manage.
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