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Soundwave on 26 November 2019
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thismeintiel said:
Soundwave said:

Many reviewers have pointed out Rambo has a right leaning agenda, not a heavy one, but neither really does Terminator.

No one wants to see either of that shit because no one wants to see a 70 year old action hero, plain and simple. 

Young movie goers have liberal politics by and large by the way, they voted overwhelmingly against Trump, it's not 65-70 year old white people that go to the movie theater to begin with, and the no.1 movie going group per capita in the US is Latinos, lol, so "woke" politics is not keeping people away when the majority of movie goers are more on the liberal side of things anyway. 

Trump supporters are not the majority, he lost the damn popular vote by 3 million and the ratio was much larger among people 18-40. If you're trying to insinuate the majority of movie goers are "Trump conservatives" you're flat out wrong. They are the minority. 

Oh, so in other words, you have no examples?  And, yes, Terminator did.  I gave several examples within the film and the director's own words show it.  And people still came out to watch Rocky Balboa.  And all the old action stars in the Expendables franchise.  And Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4 and 5. 

And you keep that dream alive of most people liking woke politics over good storytelling and characters.  I'll continue to laugh as these films fail.

Not sure what Trump has to do with this.  Whether you know it or not, not everything has to involve Trump.

Hate to break it to you but here's a reality check ... Hollywood is WOKE. Always has been, not sure what fantasy world you were living in where James Cameron (maker of the biggest Hollywood hits of the 90s/2000s) is a conservative, lol. Or DiCaprio is the biggest movie star in the world and really the only person left who can carry a movie (like Once Upon A Time in Hollywood) on his shoulders, is very woke. 

A lot of the examples you're using are old as fuck to boot, most of these 80s/90s franchise retreads of the last 5-6 years have bombed. Because it's a NEW generation of kids. You're old dude, you're not the primary demographic for movies, just like once upon a time you displaced people of the 50s/60s.

These kids don't give a shit about Schwarzenneger, Stallone, I mean even Twilight now is "retro", that was 10 years ago, Kristen Stewart is 30 and old, she's not the "It" girl of Hollywood, not even close. "Retro" to kids is Fast & Furious, that's a retro franchise. Terminator and Rambo are fucking ancient. Bruce Willis can't even get a major movie anymore, he does straight to DVD/PPV crap these days aside from M. Night bailing him out with the Glass sequel. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 26 November 2019