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The Reason Why Movies Are Failing That No One Is Talking About

2025-11-19 Entertainment
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Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh
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Hollywood’s Crisis: The Phone Replaces the Movie Theater

Stop blaming wokeness or quality alone for Hollywood's current failures. Discover the true, uncomfortable market shift replacing traditional movie attendance and why the successor culture might be significantly worse.

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  • Studio releases, especially original dramas and comedies, are failing to meet historical benchmarks for success.
  • The primary force supplanting the movie business is the direct consumption of atomized content via personal smartphones.
  • The physical experience of theaters has declined severely due to poor etiquette and environment, making home viewing preferable.

This analysis examines why major studio films are failing financially, arguing the dominant factor is the shift to personalized mobile content consumption, not simply film quality or progressive messaging. It outlines how sequels and remakes alone sustain the industry while original efforts languish.

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Top Comments (10)

@danielprivate7442 2025-11-20

Hollywood's collapse is the only thing about Hollywood that is entertaining to me.

246 2 replies
@Mat-ss8uw 2025-11-20

Bad writing, bad films. Woke trash. Woke actors saying they hate you. Endless remakes. 3 weeks and it's on streaming. High prices, inflation.

282 6 replies
@DannyCaine-k6p 2025-11-21

Why would we support an industry that openly hates us and our values? Hollyweird can’t die soon enough.

273 3 replies
@roymarshjiujitsu 2025-11-21

Why pay a fortune to see a movie written by someone whose goal isn't to entertain but rather to lecture me and who despises me? And, these people are usually terrible at their crafts so even if I agreed with "The Message" I'm in awe of how amateurish and uncreative the writing and directing often is. Then, more likely than not, I'm going to have people talking loudly throughout the movie and I know if I say anything it's going to turn into a huge problem. I think I'll keep my $50. And, I'm someone who has loved going to movies all my life.

114 3 replies
@MaxDerhund 2025-11-21

I'm so sick of seeing films which are filmed against greenscreens. Even scenes that could be filmed on a set or on location are CGI'd - - and they think nobody notices the difference. Going to a movie today is like watching someone play a video game.

79 2 replies
@crowbar_the_skull 2025-11-19

Youre wrong Matt. It IS wokeness and the drop in the quality of cinematic storytelling wokeness causes.

501 23 replies
@sjones277 2025-11-19

Pretty sure Hollywood is straight up money laundering at this point. No other industry can consistently lose millions (billions?) And continue to do the exact same thing

576 43 replies
@dandewizzle2479 2025-11-20

Movies are also failing because the "stars" involved in these films won't shut their mouths about politics, and alienate half of the country by thinking they need to insert themselves into every controversial topic. Movies stars are no longer mysteries. We know too much about Robert Deniro, and Mark Ruffalo, and many others

171 6 replies
@1914AD 2025-11-21

Writers. Directors. Producers. No imagination. No creativity. Hollywood is dead.

203 8 replies
@jdmitchell3077 2025-11-20

It seems now, in every movie and TV show, one of the main characters is one of the LGBTQ letters. If there are 5 main characters, there's only a 5% chance that one of them would be one of these letters. This is propaganda by misrepresentation. That I believe, is one of the reasons people are sick of Hollywood.

57 2 replies

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