Ex-Hollywood Writer: Why Modern Movies Suck

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Wokeness ruins everything

I finally figured out why Hollywood can only copy now. Because the writers now, are the first adults that don't know anything other than the internet. None of them have experienced anything real. None of them have confronted anything that matters. They've seen the world through a screen. That's also why there are so many movies that deconstruct something. Because the writers now have no experiences of their own, they only have the experiences of others. And the only thing you can do with that is to analyze what you've seen. We're not just coming to the end of movies, but the end of our society.

Destroying the studio system gave us the greatest era of movies in the 70s.

The story Andrew describes feels like Baby Boom with Dianne Keaton. She starts out as a powerful business woman, inherits a baby from her distant cousin who dies and tries to give it up for adoption but realizes she can’t do it. It’s all about a career woman who never wanted kids becoming a mom, if you like feel good 90s films it’s a good one.

So I watched Rambo for the first time about two days ago. All I'd ever heard about it was "war movie" so I avoided it for 40 something years. What a revelation it was. Here was a man who had been willing to fight, and die, for something bigger than himself. He loved his country and wanted to keep it safe. That rawness at the end when he finally lets go of the grief and horror hes been carrying... I'm not ashamed to admit it made me cry. Now that's some god damn storytelling. You want to copy something, Hollywood? Go find something real, something that matters, and then write a character that cares about it.

My brother-in-law is a screenwriter who finds himself constantly unable to participate in the utter rubbish they're putting on screens today.

How right he is! To me the root of the cause is the lack of culture in the industry. They only care about money but especially they know nothing of philosophy, the arts, the classics. Those are not just "knowledge", those are formative works that give you perspective into the human history and psyche. That's why they take themselves sooo seriously -nothing has a real sense of humor anymore.

I’m 80 and encountered my first screen in 1948. My grandfather’s 12 inch Dumont B&W TV. I can still remember watching the Republican convention that nominated Dewey and how it reworked my brain. Everything on the TV was more exciting, more involving than real life. I can remember telling my mother, beside myself with excitement, about the cowboy in a western: “He had two guns!” I have since adapted to computer screens, this iPad screen, and the phone screen. Become used to being able to look up just about anything on line and be reading an e-book about it 5 minutes later. But the loss of meaning you talk about is a positive thing to me as I approach death. The last time I do this or that no longer holds me. That part of me hasn’t died, I have died to it. I have come some fair way to dying to myself. Come to see and accept my insignificance and the insignificance of my end. I call it Holy Indifference. Some things still compel my attention. Certain forms of prayer and meditation, art projects, and intellectual understandings that are still possible. But all those must go in the end and I’m increasingly ok with that. Anyhow that my view from 80.

Writers back in the day used to have to have some life experience they could draw on to write good stories. Today most Hollywood writers come into the business directly from liberal universities without having any life experience, and their writing demonstrates that lack of lived experience.

Movies today are not inspirational, they are desperational.

Everyone just want to be a victim and pleasing others today. Modern Movies gotten too real world political, trash and boring.

There has been many moments in my life where a memory of a good movie or story has helped me carry on. I can only imagine kids growing up with movies and shows we have today, if there will be a single life lesson they'll remember when things get hard.

I’ve been going back and watching movies from the 1990’s that I never saw. What an incredible decade for quality dramas. Probably the last great decade for films.

I grew up on Star Trek and fell in love with the duty, honor, integrity, sacrifice yourself to protect others, taking risks, etc.

The writers guild is on strike. Best gift they could give the world.

Also, another factor adding to the worsening of the movie industry is the need to create FRANCHISES of movies. It isn't enough to make a movie, there has to be a sequel, a prequel, the second sequel, a tie-in, and a tie-in to the tie-in. So much so that the originality of creating a movie is gone -- as long as it makes money.

We're either bereft of talented writers, or talented writers are not being given opportunities or the creative space to write without outside interference

I watch Korean, Chinese, and Japanese dramas. There is no wokeness and no political correctness.

I don’t go to the movies anymore and I barely watch TV. My only regret is that I didn’t ditch hollyweird sooner