{"id":12877,"date":"2023-07-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=12877"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:44:32","slug":"hollywood-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/15\/hollywood-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood on Strike?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meh, who cares?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

I haven\u2019t been to a theater in a decade. I killed Netflix and Amazon Prime a couple years ago, and Hulu is Next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t watch network TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Most of the movies I\u2019m interested in are either old, or from independent or foreign production houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not even about \u201cWoke\u201d vs. \u201cNonWoke\u201d, it\u2019s about the quality of the story. I\u2019ll grant you, I don\u2019t like being preached at. So about the time something looks preachy I\u2019m out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

With the streaming services, I found myself asking, \u201cHow is it that I have 3 streaming services and still can\u2019t find anything I want to watch that I don\u2019t already own?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Hulu has started to annoy me because of their algorithms. I can\u2019t confirm this for a fact. But it seems that when I add a movie to my personal Apple TV library, suddenly Hulu starts showing me the exact same movie and encouraging me to view it on their service. Uh\u2026 look dumbasses I already own it commercial free, why the hell would I watch a movie that I own through your service with<\/strong> <\/em> commercials?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Perhaps Hulu, you should have been showing me something new!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The only reason I\u2019ve kept Hulu to this point is that they were more or less cheap and sometimes I\u2019d be able to find a movie I hadn\u2019t seen. They\u2019ve saved me purchasing some real turkeys. But since I enjoy campy sci-fi, even the turkeys in my collection are amusing sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of campy sci-fi I saw a photo of what looks like Jane Fonda protesting with the writers. Honestly, the photo made me smile. Jane Fonda did a lot of protesting when I was a young person. There\u2019s a sweet nostalgia seeing her out protesting now. I think I\u2019ll have to fire up Barbarella<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Lilly Tomlin was in that same photo and I thought that was very cool homage to Grace and Frankie<\/em> which was a show I enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Personally I think this strike is ill timed and is going to hurt the writers, producers, and actors much more than it helps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Like it or not, the COVID years, got everyone used to not going to movies, and a lot of folks, myself included got used to looking for old shows or movies that we remembered fondly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

I can speak for myself when I say I don\u2019t have a clue what is new on the boob tube. When we cut the cable years ago, it seemed that every other show was some form of \u201cReality TV\u201d that we weren\u2019t interested in at all. So why were we paying over $100 a month to Not<\/em> watch TV? We didn\u2019t miss it once it was gone and if I put that $100 into old movies and TV shows that we did like we still came out ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

But for other folks, this strike is going to feel like nothing more than an extension of COVID production halts and likely, whatever shows or movies aren\u2019t being produced won\u2019t be missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d strongly suggest that the writers and actors not push this too long. People are fickle and have the attention span of a gnat these days. Give it 6 to 9 months and stupid TicToc challenges will be all the entertainment people remember or need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

On the plus side Alec Baldwin\u2019s epic Rust<\/em> will probably rot on an editing computer, never to see the light of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meh, who cares? I haven\u2019t been to a theater in a decade. I killed Netflix and Amazon Prime a couple years ago, and Hulu is Next. I don\u2019t watch network TV Most of the movies I\u2019m interested in are either old, or from independent or foreign production houses. It\u2019s not even about \u201cWoke\u201d vs. \u201cNonWoke\u201d, … <\/p>\n

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