The American film & entertainment industry



"Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago."

- John Ratzenberger

As far as the film (and television) industry goes, the American film industry became the worst offender of preaching about "political correctness" and similar topics. Here's some backstory.

Things at least started to go bad during the 2000s, as most cinema became less and less original in it's material, pointless sequels and/or remakes and reboots happened more regularly, and the film industry became more money obsessed than ever. But even then, the film industry was quite alright. Come circa the mid-2010s however, the industry started to get so toxic by appealing and/or pandering to SJWs from both the left and the right of the political spectrum, which winded up being the straw that broke the camel's back. It doesn't even have to be political-related to even have a flaw. Here are examples of these, and why the industry itself is painfully average now for the most part.

However, on the other hand, it has also been proven that the industry still is or tries to be as, good as it was back before and up until the 2000s, proving that the industry isn't all that bad as people make it sound.

Bad Qualities
Editor's Note: The following reasons only apply to the film industry from the American perspective, as it may be better or worse in other countries.
 * 1) To start with: It outright panders and/or sends an over preachy message to both sides of the left and right. In fact, a lot of films have become overly preachy about their political themes to the point where they may even become SJW or political propaganda.
 * 2) Many pointless reboots/remakes/sequels/spin-offs/adaptations for the sake of so-called "diversity" (e.g. Ghostbusters, Men In Black: International, Charlie's Angels, A Wrinkle in Time, etc) instead of creating fresh new stories with women or POC as main characters or adapting media which have these types of people, to begin with.
 * 3) In fact, there are just as many pointless reboots/remakes/sequels/prequels/spin-offs/adaptations in general, and this true even long before 2016, proving Hollywood's severe lack of general creativity.
 * 4) * Most of Hollywood trends in 2010 onwards were based on something instead of being original, some of them were: adaptations of romantic/dystopian teen novels (Twilight, The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent, The Mortal Instruments, The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, After), famous musicians biopics (Get on Up, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Stardust) and cinematic universes which the only purpose was to cash in the MCU (Universal's Dark Universe which was cancelled after The Mummy, the DCEU, the Monsterverse, the Hanna Barbera Cinematic Universe, The Conjuring Universe, and the failed Amazing Spider-Man saga which never saw anything other than one sequel).
 * 5) Some movies have become hated for being too discriminatory (racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, etc.), which, for the SJWs case, contradicts any claims of justice :
 * 6) * Scarlett Johansson played a whitewashed version of the main character from Ghost in the Shell.
 * 7) * The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot and the 2019 movie adaptation of Charlie's Angels have become infamous for being misandrist films disguised as feminist movies.
 * 8) * The trailer to the upcoming Karen movie (we're not joking about this movie's existence) is said by many through word of mouth that it makes nearly all the white people in the movie look racist (including Karen herself for obvious reasons), because Karen in her typical fashion is tormenting people of color and her friends support her for doing so.
 * 9) * Sia's 2021 film Music, which is outright ableist to the autistic community. It even depicts Music in blackface, proving that Sia is also racist.
 * 10) Many of the actors/actresses/directors/producers etc. in the industry have become SJWs and Celebtards who constantly act like social media maniacs.
 * 11) In fact, one of the reasons the film industry went downhill is because certain celebrities in the industry were revealed to be absolute monsters: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, Bill Cosby, and John Kricfalusi were revealed to be rapists, pedophiles and sex predators, Amber Heard abused Johnny Depp (yet Depp got punished for being abused by removing him from all his future roles, thus destroying his reputation while Amber got away with it as of now), Silentó who murdered his cousin, and Sia who slept with Maddie, who was an underaged child at the time, and a complete stranger by the way, and also openly supports evil groups like PETA, etc.
 * 12) Each Oscars ceremony ever since has gotten arguably worse and dull since 1989 (although they still have their moments, such as Eminem performing "Lose Yourself" at the 2020 Oscars and Parasite's big victory).
 * 13) Speaking of the Oscars, The Academy has become a very, very idiotic and obnoxious association. The reasons are several:
 * 14) * The fact that most films nominated in the serious categories are always dramas and rarely nominate comedies, horror, science fiction, or other genres.
 * 15) * They don't recognize stunt work, motion-capture CGI performances, or voice acting. Jackie Chan or Tom Cruise could break their backs in their next movies and the academy would act like nothing happened.
 * 16) * Undeserved victories in various categories: The King's Speech for BP, Green Book for BP, Driving Miss Daisy for BP, Shakespeare in Love for BP, Tom Hooper for Best Director, Bohemian Rhapsody for Best Editing, Michael Caine for Supporting Actor, Crash for BP, Roman Polanski for Best Director (in this case, while his direction was phenomenal, he didn't deserve an award as he had been revealed to be a rapist), etc. While many of these films are good, you realize that they did not deserve the award as their fellow nominees outperformed them on several levels.
 * 17) * Another infuriating reason about the academy is the infamous "Oscars Club" theory: The fact that various veteran actors like Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Leonardo Dicaprio, Octavia Spencer, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, Charlize Theron, Denzel Washington, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Lawrence are nominated out of favoritism instead of actually earning it. Like, Glenn Close for Hillbily Elegy?! Anthony Hopkins for The Two Popes instead of Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse?!
 * 18) * And last but not least, their undeserved snubs. To name some:
 * 19) ** Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick never won Best Director. Quentin Tarantino hasn't won one yet and his next film will be his last one.
 * 20) ** Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler
 * 21) ** Toni Colette for Hereditary
 * 22) ** David Oyelowo for Selma
 * 23) ** Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
 * 24) ** Lupita N'yongo for Us
 * 25) ** Awkwafina for The Farewell
 * 26) ** Andrew Garfield for The Social Network
 * 27) ** Rooney Mara for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
 * 28) ** Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers
 * 29) ** Uma Thurman for Kill Bill
 * 30) ** Charlize Theron for Mad Max: Fury Road
 * 31) ** Emily Blunt for Sicario
 * 32) ** Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems
 * 33) ** Delroy Lindo for Da 5 Bloods
 * 34) ** Jim Carrey for The Truman Show
 * 35) ** Christian Bale for American Psycho
 * 36) ** Samuel L. Jackson for The Hateful 8
 * 37) ** Steve Carell for Little Miss Sunshine
 * 38) ** Mads Mikkelsen for Another Round
 * 39) ** Andy Serkis for Planet of the Apes
 * 40) ** Bill Murray for Rushmore
 * 41) ** Christopher Nolan for Best Director (Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, etc.)
 * 42) **Hoop Dreams for Best Documentary
 * 43) ** The LEGO Movie for Best Animation
 * 44) ** See You Again from Furious 7 for Best Original Song
 * 45) ** Plenty of female directors (Mary Harron - American Psycho, Greta Gerwig - Little Women, Celine Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ava DuVernay - Selma, Claire Denis - Beau Travail, Lulu Wang - The Farewell, Mati Diop - Atlantics, etc.). Ironic that they promote feminism but don't nominate these people.
 * 46) **2001: A Space Odyssey, Singin' in the Rain, Blow Out, The Big Lebowski, The Shining, Boogie Nights, Drive, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Almost Famous, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Shaun of the Dead, Memento, The Lion King, Uncut Gems, Knives Out, The Lighthouse, Heat, Do the Right Thing, The Searchers, Psycho, Boyz N the Hood, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Dark Knight, Some Like it Hot, North By Northwest, Silence, Sin City, Spider-Man 2, The Master, Cool Hand Luke, Manhattan, King Kong (1933), Magnolia, Vertigo, The Third Man and plenty of other iconic and amazing movies (both classic and modern) never received Best Picture nominations despite being considered some of the best films of their years, as well as nominations in other, deserved categories.
 * 47) Several horror films heavily relies too much cheap jump-scares, rather than atmosphere, like The Nun, Annabelle, The Quiet Ones, Ouija, Chernobyl Diaries, 11-11-11, The Apparition, The Gallows, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Slender Man, The Devil Inside, Wish Upon, The Bye Bye Man, Rings, The Last Exorcism: Part 2, The Curse of La Llorona, ect., even though it does focus on atmosphere.
 * 48) * Here's a video explaining the problem. (See the videos section below)
 * 49) Movie adaptations don't often do their source material justice and are usually most prominent with movies based on video games, books, or TV shows. However, this was also evident even before 2016.
 * 50) Following dark and problematic events like the Charlottesville riots, the downfall of Weinstein and it's aftermath, this led to and intensified movements like #MeToo, Time's Up, Black Lives Matter and the "Woke" movement in general which made SJW propaganda even more prominent.
 * 51) Hypocrisy: They are promoting diversity as shown above yet fine of demonizing male/white characters by making them dumb and stupid like how men/white people used to do the same to females or POC in the very old days.
 * 52) * There is also another case of hypocrisy through the French movie industry for the movie Cuties, where it tries to promote anti-pedophilia messages, although the movie fully contradicts itself and fully participates in pedophilia with underaged women (11-year-old children) participating in sexual activities in which the director, parents of these children, or anyone else on production, possibly forced them to do so.
 * 53) One of the problems of the industry is the fact that many "important" movies are made for a specific audience under the guise of promoting diversity and equality so that minority audiences see themselves on screen. While promoting this is good, the problem is that being movies with a politically correct theme, if you don't like the movie and you say so, you will be labelled as sexist/racist/homophobic saying things like "You didn't like it because the director is a woman", "You didn't like it because the main character is black/female/gay" and the infamous one: "It wasn't made for you so shut up" (Brie Larson used this excuse to defend A Wrinkle in Time). Frankly speaking, making films for a single audience segment is discrimination; we need good movies made by women and minorities and good movies about women and minorities, no one needs movies made for women and minorities. The fact that a film is progressive does not automatically make it good and those quotes only serve as an excuse to dismiss criticism of those films, to the point where some critics and celebrities, at worse their ego, promote those movies more for the progressive message than for the film itself. Some examples are:
 * 54) *BlacKkKlansman, Get Out, A Wrinkle in Time, Crazy Rich Asians and Black Panther were promoted as films made mainly for African American or Asian viewers, if you say you did not like any of these movies, corrupt critics (and definitely audiences) may call you racist. While not all of them are bad, some of them are real good, these acts essentially give these films a bad name.
 * 55) * The 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters, MIB International, Thunder Force, Moxie, and the 2019 remake of Black Christmas are films with feminist themes but they end up being misandric because in these the male characters are portrayed as evil idiots (sometimes with one or two well written male characters) while the women are the only good ones but do nothing but preach; But since its theme is female empowerment, if you say you didn't like them, they can call you a misogynist or sexist, even if it's with Wonder Woman.
 * 56) * Speaking of Wonder Woman, while it's an amazing movie, movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse hosted women-only screenings of the movie to promote the feminist message; when people complained about this, they were called sexist and made fun of.
 * 57) * Another infamous example is the background of the 2019 movie adaptation of Charlie's Angels, director Elizabeth Banks (known for being an SJW feminist on social media) said in several interviews that this movie was not for men but women specifically; When the movie flopped at the box office, Banks publicly blamed men for not watching her movie saying men don't see or like movies starring women (which is false) and that she was "forced" to watch movies starring men all her life which contradicts her previous statements and makes her hypocritical and cynical for not accepting her mistake, she also victimizes herself because nobody forces you to watch movies, you do it because you want to. The movie, anyway, has the same bad characteristics mentioned above.
 * 58) **What's upsetting is that Hollywood has proved that they are actually capable of making good feminist films where male characters are not demonized and women are not "mary sues": The Lovely Bones is a film that shows the dangers that girls and teenagers can face in their own neighborhoods; Catfish and Trust_ show in a disturbing and tragic way the dangers to which adolescents, especially girls, are exposed through the internet and social networks; North Country amazingly shows the struggles women face in America's dark areas; Thelma and Louise, The Color Purple, Little Women, Aquamarine and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants address the theme of friendship, sisterhood and union in a memorable and moving way.
 * 59) Quantity over Quality: Many modern-day films only cared about making money than making good quality films themselves, even long before 2016 (as long as the film industry itself, to be frank). This is especially true nowadays, hence the phrase "Hollywood's running out of ideas" due to unoriginal ideas, remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, countless adaptations, or franchise milking (Terminator, Ice Age, Transformers, Despicable Me, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Fast and the Furious and Star Wars are franchises that declined in quality because of their forced sequels). The live-action remakes of classic animated Disney films are the best example.
 * 60) Since the Covid 19 Pandemic era in 2020, Hollywood has charged absurd prices for movie rentals of recent movies, which often costs more than a ticket to see the movie in a cinema or to buy the movie in any format. It even costs about the same price to buy the movie on either a 4K UHD/Blu Ray bundle, or a limited edition copy of the movie on any physical format. Even buying a bundle or box set containing an entire film franchise would be a better use of your money than a worthless, overpriced movie rental.
 * 61) * Not helping is that people have lost their jobs or are struggling to earn money in this current climate, so they are not able to pay for these rentals in the first place, let alone barely have enough to pay for their food or bills.
 * 62) * Because of this system, this is a major reason as to why online piracy has massively increased since then.
 * 63) In previous decades, Hollywood made pretty bad movies; However, many of them earned a cult following for being films "so bad that they are good" or simply because a viewer could see them due to the affection that had them in nostalgic way like Troll 2, The Room, Steel, The Wicker Man, Batman and Robin, The Happening, Norbit, White Chicks or even Freddy Got Fingered; Now, however, most of the bad movies that Hollywood made from 2010 onwards have just been bad and that's it: they're not memorable, almost everyone seems to hate them and they're just movies that come and go. Clear examples would be The Last Airbender, The Emoji Movie, Fantastic Four, The Human Centipede: Full Sequence, Left Behind, Piranha 3DD, Fifty Shades of Grey, Saving Christmas, Cats, Movie 43, United Passions, Dirty Grandpa, Nine Lives, Max Steel and London Fields.
 * 64) There are often terrible ideas that Hollywood tries to adapt into movies, for example: The Emoji Movie, Karen, The Boss Baby, Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, or any board game-based movie besides Cluedo (whether it be already released or upcoming).
 * 65) Movies often try to copy other movies just to cash in on the success of one movie.
 * 66) Several movies these days (such as mh:greatestmovies:Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Emoji Movie, Space Jam: A New Legacy and most Happy Madison films) have tons of product placement in them (sometimes through way too many character cameos), and often feel more like advertisements for said products or other franchises than a movie, with Ralph Breaks the Internet and Space Jam: A New Legacy being feature-length commercials for their own respective studios that made them.
 * 67) Studios and executives don't give chances to rising, underrated or fading actors; instead, they keep giving big parts and roles to the same big names over and over again. This was even true before 2016.
 * 68) * Because of this, tons of talented actors who were once quite famous (such as Adrien Brody, Clive Owen, Forest Whitaker, Antonio Banderas, Val Kilmer, Brendan Fraser, Matthew Broderick, Mo'nique, Drew Barrymore, Naomi Watts, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Zooey Deschanel, Aaron Eckhart, Crispin Glover, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Green, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gene Hackman, Josh Hartnett, Emile Hirsch, Jason Segel, Jamie Kennedy, Jon Heder, Alexis Bledel, Amanda Bynes, Rachel Nichols, Sara Paxton, Liv Tyler, Hayden Christensen, Seann William Scott, Elijah Wood, Elisha Cuthbert, Tobey Maguire, Taylor Kitsch, Elliot Page, Wesley Snipes, Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Steve Martin, Dennis Haysbert, Martin Short, Gary Sinise, Mike Myers, Christina Ricci, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sam Worthington, etc.) have passed into oblivion with their careers almost finished while some of them only get supporting/minor roles in series or movies simply because of either a career-killing movie, a controversial act they did that negatively destroyed their reputation or because the industry decided to "throw them out of the bus" forgetting them just like that. It's really sad if you consider that these people were pretty famous and loved back then. But take note that those big-name actors aren't to blame for appearing more frequently, as it is the film industry at fault for employing them repeatedly.
 * 69) *This also causes overlooked actors like Ben Foster, Lakeith Stanfield, Cillian Murphy, Andrew Garfield, Dan Stevens, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, John C. Reilly, Ralph Fiennes, Casey Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Karl Urban, BJ Novak, Miles Teller, Harvey Keitel, Rainn Wilson, Steve Zahn, Tim Roth, Kevin Harrilson Jr., Andres Wiese, Stephanie Cayo, Marion Cotillard, Sienna Miller, Eva Green, Jodie Comer, Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Gabourey Sidibe, Tilda Swinton, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Carrie-Anne Moss, Carey Mulligan or Rachel McAdams remain "in the shadow" simply because the industry prefers giving roles to the "popular" ones.
 * 70) *Different groups of actors are always casted for movies of the same genre:
 * 71) **Almost every comedy in the last decade has starred the same people: Kevin Hart, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Kate Mckinnon, Jason Sudeikis, John Cena, Zac Efron, Hannibal Buress, Jason Mantzoukas, Maya Rudolph, Awkwafina, Melissa McCarthy, and Bill Hader. They even cast almost plenty of them for animated movies, just look at the voice cast for The Angry Birds Movie.
 * 72) **Most action movies nowadays always star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Common, Dave Bautista, Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Jason Statham, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon, Mark Walhberg, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, Sylvester Stallone, Vin Diesel and Will Smith.
 * 73) **Whenever a director is making a drama they choose the same actors: Leonardo Dicaprio, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Denzel Washington, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Ben Affleck, Sarah Paulson, Michael Keaton, Bradley Cooper, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Ruffalo, Octavia Spencer, Frances Mcdormand, Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman, Tom Hanks, etc. This is something directors like Clint Eastwood, Wes Anderson and David O' Russell do a lot; check out Woody Allen's filmography and you'll see that ALL of his films always have widely-known actors as the main characters.
 * 74) **Other actors like Ryan Reynolds, Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr, James Corden, Awkwafina, and others have starred in too many movies within a short time frame just because they became popular unexpectedly.
 * 75) * Adam McKay's new movie's cast is actors that audiences have already seen countless times and are already very famous.
 * 76) * Popular actors nowadays can even replace voice actors just because of their popularity rather than for their talent. For Space Jam: A New Legacy, Kath Soucie was initially going to reprise her role as Lola Bunny from the original Space Jam, but the day the trailer was released, it was announced instead that Zendaya will be voicing Lola instead in the finished film, despite that Soucie has been voicing the character since her debut. Another example would be SCOOB!, where the entire cast from the TV shows (except Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo), are replaced with popular celebrities for no reason other than to get people to watch it.
 * 77) The leaked script for CW's infamous PowerPuff Girls live-action reboot is so bad, that it easily beats everything they've ever made just from the script alone based on abusing the source material than even makes its 2016 animated counterpart, the Super Mario Bros movie from 1993, The Last Airbender movie, the Death Note movie, or any other CW adaptations look tolerable compared to it. We're talking beyond Dragonball: Evolution-level of embarrassing. It flanderizes the characters beyond redemption, follows many of the terrible story arcs from other propagandic CW projects like Batwoman, tries to include as much propaganda as humanly possible, and has some of the most laughably awful dialogue out there. Had it been released to the public, which it thankfully didn't, it would have ended up being one of, if not, THE worst live-action reboot, remake, or adaptation to date. There are many bad live-action adaptations, reboots, or remakes made over several decades, but this perfectly proves the point of many of the reasons above, and is essentially a blueprint in "How not to make TV shows or movies".
 * 78) *Judge it for yourself.
 * 79) As a result of their actions, certain dreadful movies being made, and exposures, several audiences lost faith in the film industry and many of these former supporters started to backlash at them. Even then, their pleas and criticisms are most of the time, ignored. This is another reason that was true even before 2016, because it's been happening since around the mid-2000s and onward, giving birth to nostalgiatards.
 * 80) * What doesn't make this any good is that it only causes already bad communities to grow more toxic, pessimistic, and arrogant (Obsessive Anti-SJWs and nostalgiatards for example).
 * 81) Certain kids/family films movies (Especially animated films) tend to use the infamous "It's Made For Kids" excuse just to make a quick buck on kids films. Examples include The Emoji Movie, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Ice Age: Collision Course Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, and Norm of the North. Even average films use it as well such as The Boss Baby, Ratchet & Clank, Uglydolls, or The Adams Family (2019).
 * 82) *Some would shoehorn certain pop culture jokes that are forced just to appeal to younger audiences like for example Ice Age Collision Course has Crash and Eddie make references to hashtags or when The Emoji Move had Pikotaro from PPAP making a brief appearance. Even some films before 2016 were guilty of shoehorning forced jokes related to pop culture or tried to be hip like Shark Tale, Mars Needs Moms, The Lorax, The Ant Bully, the live-action Smurfs movies, the live action Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Doogal, Minions, Chicken Little, etc.
 * 83) * Speaking of which, many modern movies would make references to certain memes that were popular at the time, include social media references (most notably Instagram), internet slang, emojis (specifically aimed at its movie adaptation, The Emoji Movie), and outdated dances like the floss and dab, both of which are still used in movies even to this very day. Even films on Greatest Movies Wiki are still guilty of adding those types of jokes and memes like The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), The Angry Birds Movie 2, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Trolls, and Ralph Breaks the Internet.
 * 84) *Some family films nowadays tend to overuse gross-out humor to the point where it becomes childish and redundant. Some instances would be certain scenes that are hard to look at.
 * 85) **Speaking of humor, even some jokes that do not relate to gross-out humor tend to fall flat.
 * 86) Sometimes some films tend to have production that is rushed just so the films can be released on a certain day (notably in the summer or Christmas season). It can be very noticeable in some films like Cats, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, or Justice League (2017). To be fair, it always has been a major problem before 2016 like with Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Batman & Robin or Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.
 * 87) While this has been a problem before 2016 (because of films like Rock: It's Your Decision and Blackfish), some documentaries have a tendency to now be used as a weapon like with Leaving Neverland which ruins the legacy of Michael Jackson or Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party being used as a weapon against the democratic party.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Despite the industry going downhill during the 2000s, there are obviously still many fantastic movies released ever since, especially in the 2010s; such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Deadpool, basically every Marvel Cinematic Universe film released since 2016 (except Captain Marvel), It, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Tenet, La La Land, Nomadland, Bad Times at the El Royale, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Quiet Place, The Shape of Water, Logan, The Nice Guys, Paddington 2, Minari, Her, The Handmaiden, Da 5 Bloods, Knives Out, Jojo Rabbit, The Irishman, A Star is Born, 1917, The Disaster Artist, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Ready Player One, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Promising Young Woman, The Father, Soul, Hereditary, Phantom Thread, Toni Erdmann, Get Out, Brigsby Bear, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Uncut Gems, 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lady Bird, Moana, Roma, Marriage Story, Widows, Annihilation, The Lighthouse, Parasite, Coco, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Whiplash, The Favourite, Birdman, Luca, etc. Thus proving that Hollywood, despite wanting what they deem "political correctness", is not all that bad and aren't always trying to push their political agenda, thus somewhat retaining the feel of what the industry was like up until 2015.
 * 2) *Likewise, they also do make decent movies as well, such as Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
 * 3) 2017 and 2019 were pretty good years for film.
 * 4) Even if they have become annoyingly politically preachy or at least controversial (which, by the way, doesn't make them heinous), plenty of the celebrities in the film industry are still good (or at least decent) actors/directors/producers, etc. and are (still) somewhat decent and/or charming people in real life and some even remain civil or even quiet about their political opinions (as mentioned in bad quality #4), excluding the obvious such as Harvey Weinstein and Amber Heard.
 * 5) Plenty of Hollywood celebrities (including big-name artists who appear too often) are against and criticized the film industry for its SJW-ism or its other practices, such as Clint Eastwood.
 * 6) The film industry still did a good job handling the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with many studios delaying most of their movies (e.g. Black Widow, F9, A Quiet Place Part II) from the original 2020 release slate to 2021, and theaters shutting down for the safety of the public, as well as movies and the like halting production, or sending them to streaming services and/or the digital marketplace either earlier than expected or directly. Even those involved in the film industry encouraged their fanbases to stay at home, wash their hands, etc. That also included even controversial celebrities, showing that celebrities do have standards (even if they at least tried to be well-meaning as far as their controversial behavior went) and care deeply about the interests of those who idolize them.
 * 7) Some films, as always, are still only disliked for more general reasons than political (e.g. plot holes, lazy writing, bad acting, overdosed and cliched tropes that are badly handled, etc.) just like many of those that came out before 2016.
 * 8) On that note, even SJW films can sometimes be good for a particular reason that isn't political e.g. Chris Hemsworth's performance in the Ghostbusters reboot, depending on one's view, is still somewhat likable, even if his character is a bit annoying and definitely unlikeable. Where else would you think he got his comedic chops for Thor: Ragnarok from?
 * 9) There are still some great actors who are both amazing on the screen as in real life, such as the late Chadwick Boseman, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, Sylvester Stallone, Paul Rudd, Morgan Freeman, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Dwayne Johnson, John Krasinski, Chris Hemsworth, Dan Stevens, Jodie Comer, Bradley Cooper, Zach Braff, Zachary Levi, Chris Pratt, Ryan Gosling, Hugh Jackman, Jack Black, Adam Sandler, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Hamill, Robert Downey Jr., Sienna Miller, Tom Cruise, Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Ryan Reynolds, and Taika Waititi; as well as directors such as Edgar Wright, Greta Gerwig, mh:greatestmovies:Guillermo del Toro, Barry Jenkins, Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson and mh:greatestmovies:Martin Scorsese who really seem to care about cinema.
 * 10) Another reason that a film could only be criticized nowadays, other than the SJW-ness, is due to a lack of originality in the plot, as many of the plots that one could come up with when pitching a movie, have been done before (albeit in different ways), something that has flawed the film industry even before 2016.
 * 11) As said in good quality #1, the industry isn't always about straightforwardly preaching politics. Some studios may be relatively civil in their approach to diversity, for example, such as Marvel Studios, who nearly always approaches diversity in a relatively civil manner if one were to put aside the over preachy feminism of Captain Marvel but not count out the otherwise civilly perfect Black Panther.
 * 12) As a result of the above qualifications, the only ongoing film franchise (mainly so far) that started before 2016 that still has some excellence added to it is Marvel Studios' own shared universe: none other than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's even a multimedia franchise now!
 * 13) Although the industry is not as good as it used to be by now, those involved in it (e.g. actors, actresses, screenwriters, directors, etc.) still try and put much effort into the work they make for film buffs alike (even if it lacks quality for political or general reasons like many movies that were released before 2016), thus showing that the film industry is still loved, still makes plenty of money, and still has many loyal fans as well as supporters (also, many audiences still have faith in the industry and many still go to theatres)  and film buffs despite its downfall (more so for political reasons, unoriginality, etc.), thus proving that there's still a lot of hope for this painfully average film industry.
 * 14) There are still many completely original films out there made by Hollywood even today, This is especially true in the animation department. Pixar is a big example.
 * 15) There are still plenty of aspiring actors and filmmakers out there who want to join to industry to actually make quality cinema and get the industry back to what it used to be.
 * 16) Although certain celebrities in this industry and the gaming/music/TV etc. industries have said or done dumb or controversial things, that doesn't automatically make them pure evil/heinous. That only makes them more human like the rest of us (except certain ones). After all, nobody's perfect.
 * 17) Depending on your opinion, there can be some 2010s bad movies that can be pretty enjoyable (ironic or not) due to the nature of certain films (basically films that in someone's opinion can be seen as a "so bad, it's good" film). Especially to those who like to watch bad movies just for kicks.
 * 18) Sometimes remakes can be pretty good or decent like the 2017 remake of It being a notable example. Even before 2010s, we got some good remakes as well that do justice to source material like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) or The Nutty Professor (1996).
 * 19) Some sequels that are based on already existing movies can still be good or at least decent for 2016 and above. Take a look at Despicable Me 3, It Chapter Two, Toy Story 4, The Incredibles 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Hotel Transylvania 3, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Cars 3, some MCU related sequels, Creed II, and Kung Fu Panda 3.
 * 20) *Speaking of sequels, some can be big improvements towards the predecessors of certain sequels. Take a look at Cars 2 and Cars 3 for example as well as Justice League 2017 and Zack Snyder's Justice League.

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