Commercial Hollywood has its place. But as conglomerate propaganda? Pass

The Last Jedi tanked critically because, with Hillary NOT winning office, neoliberal's coercive methods are revealed, as the plot of Kathleen Kennedy's Disney franchise reboot was mapped to coincide with Hillary's pre-election. The series has trashed Han Solo and Luke Skywalker as desperate old guys who were better off dead and retired while Carrie Fisher maintain power and reverence in this 100% government-driven narrative that is feminist, liberal, inclusive, progressive, but still Neo Liberal: matriarchal, racist, capitalist, authority worshiping, fetishistic and demonizing of "the other". This is the exact weak morality that the Prequels warned and fought to expose when it attacked Bush Jr.

With Baywatch and Jumaniji, you see Obama's surrogate representative in Hollywood - The Rock - totally exposed for what he is. And the conservative, anti-progressive, faux-youth rights, religion-pandering, sexually confused and disrespectful to their own roots. Barack Obama was not of the people he represented, the working class blacks, the middle class whites. But he did a lot for Africans, Hawaiians, the gays, the CIA and a sentimental list of private interests that don't effect my life positively at all. So I don't reminisce or cherish the Obama years. Especially with the parade of hate spewed constantly at him - racist hate, religious hate, xenophobic hate, personal hate. It all came from Donald Trump, his most famous heckler. But plenty of rich people hated Obama just for being less conservative and more economically fair than they are.

Most of Hollywood's past in Republican or NeoLiberal. Which is to say they love slavery, love exploiting workers, love being in a high ruling class and love showing off expensive fashion and meaningless crappy melodramas for the poor. Soap operas are the elite's original brainwashing. Working class women in a newly rich economy, packed tightly into suburbia, listening to the radio and watching TV 24/7 as kids learned and husband worked and climbed the ladder meant only for middle class white men. That demographic has always been the company's first priority: conservative white women. They make her their trophy that everyone else aspires to and has to do more than, meanwhile she helps the white man keep dominance and mental slavery by government vote. White women are most guilty of many crimes against humanity. Women in general, but white women are the worst.

So no I am not impressed with Star Wars' long history of white feminism and making it the focus of the saga is probably not the direction George Lucas would've gone. He made Padme the ultimate example of white women's attraction and blind support of criminal white nationalist capital control. Lucas then married a black woman, so I think his next female protagonist would've been a more drastic leap than "Rey". This new character has no purpose that is original. She simply exists to make sure the next Jedi Master is white. Making her English, a peasant girl who becomes "princess", is classic Disney European monarchism. Walt Disney had that creepy fetish for little princess girls and it lives on. But in Star Wars? Thats too far. Disney has finally fucked itself beyond repair, at least in this generation's eyes.

Blade Runner 2049 also had a white feminism/NeoLiberal/pro-Hillary thing. Its not that this is evil or altogether terrible, but its such cowardice. "We will hand over White Male Supremacy only to someone who will hand it right back". We see through you, Warner Bros.

I respect that this is painful circumstance is inevitable with how closed and segregated white communities are and how its institutionalized and most people are asleep to its horror or they are trained to authorize it. But fucking get a clue and stop supporting these bloodthirsty industries and making billionaires out of old child rapists with the morals of vampires.

What else sucked? Power Rangers. You can't make a film that is famous for its identification with a certain generation and time period just to ignore all of it to brainwash, ego-stroke and "consumerize" kids. "Fuck you, Gen Y. Its all about these Beiber/Young Thug faggots." How dare you when Prince and David Bowie just died penniless compared to talentless bean counters who live 24/7 on island resorts. I hope global warming fucks them up first.

I enjoyed Ninja Turtles 2. I think its much more inspired than the majority of Hollywood movies, but its still mostly tone deaf, clueless, poser and without any positive direction. Because the first film, like the Transformers films, are just crappy commercials for the police, military, prisons, counter-intelligence, espionage, hacking, the whole industrial complex of protecting you from yourself. They feed crime more than prevent it. Its another empty racket that has nothing to do with movies, yet has taken over movies.

And I think its accidental 3/4ths of the time. Commercial product is inherently propagandist. They are advertisements ALWAYS. Every work of art is advertising an idea. But most shit just advertises "Advertising". Its just mindless consumption, "dog eat dog" cannibalism and self destruction. To be alive is to be famished and always seeking to be full. We are enslaved to our beast dimensions. Why? Because we don't let the intelligent run things. Leadership shouldn't be based on political maneuvering or even prior experience. Its on how well you pass the test without cheating. But the artists don't run things. The geniuses don't make the laws and the scientists don't map our futures. I say this is calling for revolution. Nature itself is disgusted with humanity's actions and that effects our collective mood and decision-making. The planet is being forced to change positively or suffer negatively.

How does cinema or art in general play into this? Should I be doing something? What can my camera do to help? Just help. Help in any way. Small or big. Its a start. Inspire others to help. This I believe is the ultimate message of all art and all communication. The aggressive noise is just animal barking, clouded bestial thinking and its been beaten into men & women for too long.

Check out filmmakers that make a difference positively: Bunuel, Jodorowsky, Franco, Ozu, Kurosawa, Coppola, Bertolucci, Kubrick, Spielberg, Lynch, Hitchcock, Greenaway, McQueen, Cronenberg, Argento, Godard, Snyder, Fellini, Chaplin, Kaufman, Waters, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Fassbinder, Truffaut. There are so many great stylists and technicians, but how many make you feel better, make you feel alive?

Enough of the pretty camerawork and moody lighting and scared models who can't act and who look like children. Well, most directors fall into using those tricks to get eyeballs, but they brought more to it. They brought themselves and a wealth of knowledge about more than just "craft". They were teachers, not "masters".