“There are many reasons for the failure of these movies, but chief among them is not what the right-wing blogs say – that they are out of touch with the public. [. . .] It is that they are fake – these films are not really believed by their makers in any deep sense.”
I respectfully disagree. Moviegoers are willing to accept all sort of unrealistic things in films for the sake of pure entertainment. For example, the action-movie genre is full of conventions, plot points, and visual effects that we all know are “fake” because things don’t work that way in the real world. But we suspend our disbelief because the movie is fun.
The recent left-wing movies have failed not because they are fake, but because they are boring. The Hollywood crowd have completely forgotten that their job is to entertain us. They have convinced themselves that they are our moral and intellectual betters, and it’s their job to take us by the hand and lead us out of our ideological darkness. The result is a slew of movies that condescendingly lecture us on how stupid and evil we are.
Moviegoers are not willing to pay good money to sit in a room for two hours and be scolded and patronized. So they take their time and money elsewhere. Video games and YouTube are far more entertaining than the leftist screeds now playing in theaters. It’s as simple as that.
