John Hinderaker has done it again in his Powerline blog post on Pepsi's latest contraversial commercial. He has explained why I can no longer sit through the pap movies coming out of Hollywood ... see: Why Movies No Longer Move Me. Here is Hinderaker's observation that had escaped me:
Let’s start with Hollywood: why are most of its films so mind-numbingly stupid? Why do most have no dialogue above a grade-school level? Why are they mainly about explosions, superheroes, car chases and so on? And why are American movies no longer patriotic? A big part of the answer is that the Hollywood studios don’t care much about Americans anymore. Their biggest market is China, and foreign sales overall dwarf U.S. sales. American movies are made mostly for Chinese and Indian film-goers. If you think about it, that explains a lot.If you want to see the context of this ah ha moment, see: Powerline Blog.
