The American film & entertainment industry

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"Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago."

— John Ratzenberger.

"Hollywood is unoriginal, and they love money."

— ralphthemoviemaker

"Why wouldn't a movie try to be great? Every movie should try to be great! If you're gonna have an opportunity to make a good movie, make one!"

— Chris Stuckmann, on Hollywood not caring about making good movies anymore

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...”

As far as the film (and entertainment in general) industry goes, The American film industry is the worst offender of extreme greed, preachiness, and other bad things.

The American film industry is well known for creating an amazing amount of cinema every single decade, some good, some bad, and some in between. However, with everything good, there is always a downside. Over the last few decades, the film industry itself has become synonymous with the stereotype of an unbelievably greedy corporate business: obsessed with money, continuously milking franchises, crushing dreams, and botching the outcomes of products from genuine creativity.

From 2011 onwards, the industry's habits grew worse and worse and it later adopted even worse habits along the way, like pandering to certain groups rather than audiences and running certain franchises into the ground.

Also, while TV series are occasionally going to be mentioned here, this is mainly going to focus on the film side of things.

Why It Isn't Hollywood

See The American film & entertainment industry/Bad Qualities

1. To write down the main problem on paper, it outright panders and/or sends an over-preachy message to both sides of the left and right. Many films have become overly preachy about their political themes to the point where they may even become political propaganda. The fact that the entertainment world has become so over-politicized in the last couple of years is very worrying.
2. Many pointless reboots/remakes/sequels/spin-offs/adaptations for the sake of so-called "diversity" (e.g. Ghostbusters, Men In Black: International, Charlie's Angels, A Wrinkle in Time, etc.) instead of creating fresh, new, and completely original stories with women or POC as main characters or adapting media which have these types of people, to begin with.
   • Mattel has also decided to make a Mattel Cinematic Universe after the success of the Barbie movie.
3. In fact, there are just as many pointless reboots/remakes/sequels/prequels/spin-offs/adaptations in general and this is true even long before 2016, proving Hollywood's severe lack of general creativity.
   • Many Hollywood movies from 2010 onwards have been based on already existing media rather than being freshly original. Some examples are:
     • Adaptations of romantic/dystopian teen novels or just books in general: Twilight, The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, Maze Runner, Divergent, The Host, The 5th Wave, The Mortal Instruments, The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You, The Kissing Booth, After, etc.
     • Superhero movies: the MCU and DCEU
     • Famous musicians biopics: Get on Up, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Stardust, Respect, Love & Mercy, Nina, Miles Ahead, All Eyez on Me, Nowhere Boy, Jersey Boys, Elvis, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
     • New installments/sequels/spin-offs/reboots/remakes
     • Video game adaptations: Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Uncharted, Angry Birds, Werewolves Within, Rampage, Warcraft, Ratchet & Clank, Mortal Kombat, Five Nights at Freddy's, and the Resident Evil films (though this one can be excused, as they have only become successful in recent years).
     • Cinematic universes whose only purpose was to cash in on the MCU: Universal's Dark Universe, which was canceled right after The Mummy (2017); the DCEU; the Monsterverse; The Conjuring Universe; Hanna Barbera's Cinematic Universe; and Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
4. Two words: Executive meddling, considered by many to be the ultimate sign that a movie will suck. Executives have interfered with the creativity and making of films before (Ghostbusters II, Aladdin, Toy Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Airplane!, Back to the Future), but this has become more and more commonplace as time has gone on. In most cases, executive meddling only causes the movie to become really bad. Some examples include:
   • Many of the DCEU films fail because no one else behind the movies seems to care about what they're adding to the paper.
   • Spider-Man 3 including Venom only to please the fans.
   • The entire backgrounds of Alien 3 and 2015's Fantastic Four.
   • Suicide Squad changed its original tone to make it more like popular comic-book movies of the time (mainly Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy).
   • Scooby-Doo going from an R rating to a PG-13 rating to a PG rating.
   • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker resurrects Emperor Palpatine, which many people agree was what essentially ruined the film.
   • The Cat in the Hat has a lot of cringeworthy, unfunny, and inappropriate humor for kids.
   • Chicken Little turning into a fractured fairy tale to cash in Shrek's formula and success.
   • Slender Man became a generic shockfest.
   • Scoob! was recast with big-name celebrities for the Scooby-Doo and Hanna Barbera characters, although it still got Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo. Another instance of executive meddling would be how the film is portrayed as a crossover that is only used to build up the Hanna Barbera Cinematic Universe instead of just being a movie about Scooby-Doo.
   • Shrek the Third is an inferior sequel letdown with bad elements compared to the first two Shrek films.
   • Sony forcing set-ups for the Sinister Six movie in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
   • Phil Lord and Chris Miller got fired from Solo: A Star Wars Story four months into shooting.
5. Some movies have become hated for being too discriminatory (racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, etc.).
   • Scarlett Johansson played a whitewashed version of the main character from Ghost in the Shell. This ultimately gave her a bad reputation.
   • 2016's Ghostbusters, 2019's Charlie's Angels, 2019's Black Christmas, MIB International, Moxie, and Birds of Prey have become infamous for being misandrist films disguised as feminist movies.
   • Sia's 2021 film Music, which is outright ableist to the autistic community. It even depicts Music in blackface, proving that Sia is also racist.
   • Pocahontas, The New World, Gone With the Wind, and Django Unchained have not aged well due to their inaccurate portrayals of slavery and white colonialism.
   • Still today, most movies portray non-Americans as either uncivilized, ignorant, uneducated, and still living in the past in modern-day or as evil terrorists or criminals, especially African people in the former and Arabs as well as all Eastern Europeans (except for Greeks) for both.
   • While those films have become infamous for correct and justifiable reasons, others have become hated for pathetic reasons:
     • Good movies like Green Book, Amistad, The Help, Glory, Freedom Writers, Hairspray, The Blind Side, and The Last Samurai are now infamous for featuring the "white savior" complex (which is when a POC has a problem and a white person helps them), which is not racist, but many political activists hate it. The term was made up by them, similar to the fake "POC fetish" trope of a white person falling for a POC. This complex is problematic, we know, but that doesn't make those films necessarily bad. When you think about it, the idea of the complex is not wrong, it's the way those movies play it that makes it look bad, but the idea of a white person helping a POC is not racist, it's just that they came up with this labels only because they're usually not pleased by anything; literally: If a white person helps a POC, it's a "white savior" for them and if a POC helps a white person, it's a "magical negro" for them.
     • The movie Joker, while awesome, earned a bad reputation for the character "being an incel", which resulted in multiple people on Film Twitter poking fun at the film's fan base and even SNL made a skit making fun of the movie itself.
     • Several people on Letterboxd have started to look down on the movie Boyhood simply because they feel the need to compare it to Moonlight due to both films having similar concepts. Just because Moonlight pulled the concept better doesn't mean Boyhood is necessarily bad. Other people reject the movie due to being infamously way too popular when it came out and due to its long runtime.
6. Many actors/actresses/directors/producers etc. in the industry have become hated because they are known to either be overly preachy about their political/religious/general worldviews, to be rude to their fans or everyone else, to support questionable people/ideologies, to being hypocrites about what they believe in, to even being outright criminals. Especially when you consider that many of them currently behave like rabid and passive-aggressive maniacs on social media. While they are human like us and, as such, share many of the same flaws, and while at least the majority of them aren't malicious and might be insecure about how others feel about them (hence them behaving this way in the first place) or were raised into thinking that way beyond their control, there are quite a few who do it out of spite. There are plenty of them were sadly affected by this, some unfortunate, yet not so surprising, examples being Armie Hammer, Chelsea Handler, Amber Tamblyn, Steven Seagal, Rose McGowan, Lena Dunham, Rosanna Arquette, Mel Gibson, Cara Delevingne, Michael Rapaport, Chevy Chase etc., and even the more likable ones such as Seth Rogen, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Ruffalo, Letitia Wright, Sophia Bush, Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Tessa Thompson, Danny Glover, Vin Diesel, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Reubens, Will Smith, etc., whom, despite their charm and charisma, still tend to be controversial from time to time.
   • And look, the issue is not that they like being political; in fact, some celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger managed to have a fairly good involvement in politics; but the problem with most of them nowadays, is that they seem to have no life outside of being political! They also take it way too seriously, and instead of using their political views to help people, most of them use the political agenda to push their ego and use the words are "activism" and "human rights issues", as an excuse for their actions on social media, although some of them do genuinely care about these causes (like Mark Ruffalo, who is mentioned here, who at least takes the time to attend rallies to prove his stance, unlike the others), even if it is indeed annoying. Hell, if you check their social media accounts, like those of Mark Ruffalo, Rob Reiner, Judd Apatow, Milla Jovovich, Piper Perabo, Debra Messing, Sophia Bush, Jane Fonda, George Takei, or John Cusack, you'll see that it's everything they talk about!
   • They're hypocrites:
     • They condemn sexual abuse and harassment, but they ignore the fact that they covered Harvey Weinstein and collaborated with Woody Allen.
     • They condemn racism, yet some of them made racist remarks/jokes early in their careers and have been easily forgiven.
       • Think about this: Roseanne Barr was justifiably canceled for writing a racist tweet; yet, Sarah Silverman has worn blackface, dressed up like Hitler live on TV, and mocked Britney Spears' breakdown. How come she hasn't been canceled yet?
       • Speaking of racism, some of them will complain and protest about how racism exists, but will completely support racism in China. The best example would be Disney and John Boyega, where the former would fire some cast for old racist tweets while the latter protested for BLM; yet, Disney removed black characters from Chinese posters of their movies.
     • Plenty of them have participated in several political PSAs in which they promote the "every vote matters" message. However, on social media, they constantly insult, ridicule, vilify, and make fun of people who disagree with their political views, which gives the idea that your vote only matters when you're on their side. Which is a terrible moral.
     • They're against capitalism; however, they ignore that they've become rich thanks to it, accept Oscars and major awards, and let their projects be produced by millionaire companies like Disney, Warner, Universal, Amazon, or Netflix.
     • They're against abuse, but almost all of them supported Amber Heard after she was revealed to have abused and framed Johnny Depp.
     • They've boycotted Russia and supported Ukraine, which is a good thing of course, but most of them support attacking the Middle East and act like it's different. This has become even more apparent, especially regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict.
   • They treat social activists like the Obummers, Yashar Ali, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsourourur, Gloria Steinem, Cecile Richards, Shannon Watts, or Greta Thunberg like literal gods, thus ignoring their flaws.
   • In plenty of situations they've proved that they can't take criticism.
   • Many of them tend to side with POC and political bloggers, mainly to hide their controversy.
   • Some of them don't respect their fans; in fact, sometimes they treat them as their army.
   • They're willing to go as far as disrespecting the dead. For example, when Rush Limbaugh passed away in 2021, several famous actors celebrated his death. Sure, Limbaugh was a bad person, but with this, they seem to be no better.
7. Speaking about China, due to the Communist Party's rule about what is allowed or not allowed in films, many film companies try to pander to them by cutting out or adding pointless scenes just for money from Chinese box offices. More info shown here.
8. One of the main reasons the film industry went downhill is because many celebrities and big names in the industry were revealed to be absolute monsters. Or at the very least, narcissistic jerks with a god complex who see everybody else as beneath them. Some examples include:
   • Harvey Weinstein (founder of Miramax), Bill Cosby (comedian, creator of Little Bill), Roman Polanski, Kevin Spacey (comedian, voice of Hopper from A Bug's Life), Woody Allen, R. Kelly (singer, songwriter of "I Can Fly"), Ian Watkins (former lead singer of Lostprophets), Brett Ratner (creator of the Rush Hour series), James Toback, Bryan Singer, John Lasseter (animator, director of Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Cars and Cars 2), Steven Seagal, Jeffrey Jones, Dan Schneider (producer, creator of Drake & Josh, Sam & Cat, among many others), Victor Salva, Aries Spears, Tiffany Haddish, Kyle Massey, Ansel Elgort, D.C. Douglas (voice actor), Vin Diesel, Stephen Collins, Allison Mack, Gary Busey, Mark Salling (who committed suicide before being tried for his evil crimes), Jared Fogle (Subway spokesperson), Julia Vickerman, Chris Savino (creator of The Loud House), and John Kricfalusi (creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show) were revealed to be involved in sexual scandals.
   • Amber Heard, who physically and mentally abused Johnny Depp while playing the victim and accused him of being the abuser; yet Depp got punished for being abused by being removed from all his future roles, thus destroying his reputation while Amber got away with it as of now. The most hypocritical thing about her is that, before the truth about her was revealed, Heard used to pose as a progressive and political feminist activist speaking against gender abuse and promoting human rights to the point where she even became a women's rights ambassador for the ACLU, and she still is.
     • Fortunately, as of now in 2022, the world finally started to realize Heard's true colors after Depp put her on trial for the defamation he's been suffering in recent years because of her, which she thankfully lost. Likewise, the world has also begun to support Depp and apologize to him.
   • Alec Baldwin, who got away with murder on the set of Rust (although it was justifiably accidental thanks to incompetent on-set weapons handlers, and all blame on him has since been revoked).
   • Joss Whedon, who has been revealed to be a toxic and abusive person to work around, as revealed by the people who worked with him on the sets of Justice League and Buffy. As with Amber Heard, Whedon also used to be a self-proclaimed feminist who constantly preached on social media, also making him a hypocrite.
   • Actor and director Mel Gibson, who gained a bad reputation for his antisemitic comments and overall being very aggressive towards people. However, he has improved in more recent years, becoming a nicer person and even being remorseful about it.
   • Sia, who has a very poor relationship with Maddie Ziegler, who, at one point, was an underaged child at the time, and a stranger by the way, and was also forced by Sia to star in her movie, which insults the autistic community, and openly supports controversial groups like PETA and Autism Speaks.
   • Michelle Williams, who, through her infamous 2020 Golden Globe speech, revealed that she had an abortion only to get a role in a show. Now we get that it's her right to choose, but why would you go through something like that instead of giving the part to someone else and also brag about it as if it was the smart thing to do?
   • Ezra Miller, who, by now, has essentially become a criminal and has done a lot of heinous stuff over the last months; including choking and assaulting women, attacking couples in Hawaii, grooming Tokata Iron Eyes, who was 12 years old at the time, supplying her with LSD and marijuana, and deleting their Instagram account after taunting authorities via memes. It's gotten to the point where several DC fans reasonably wanted him to be replaced in the The Flash film or have the film itself get canceled.
   • Colleen Ballinger, who groomed underage fans such as Adam McIntyre, Kodee Tyler Dahl, and others in past years while the fans were minors and she was an adult. Because she openly made sexual remarks towards a 13-year-old boy in a video in 2014, none of this should be surprising.
   • Chevy Chase, who has an infamous reputation of being a narcissistic bully to all his co-stars and co-workers and always mistreats them by saying either racist, sexist, or homophobic things about them, or by manipulating them. Think of his character Pierce Hawthorne from the show Community, except while Pierce's insensitivity comes off as light, bumbling, and not anything too serious, Chevy's is actually on purpose. In fact, here's an article explaining, in great detail, Chase's history of being a terrible person in general.
   • Then there's Bruce Willis, who is known for being a bully in general to everyone on set as well as being difficult to work with and only wanting to come on set on certain days just to film all his scenes - a practice many have called "Bruce Willis days". He also doesn't seem to care about his profession either and seems like he only wants the money, as evidenced by his firing from The Expendables 3 (which then led to his absence) just because he wanted to get paid. Though, this was later justified due to his dementia.
   • Liu Yifei revealed on social media that she was a communist who supported the police in the Hong Kong protests and even had the nerve to say "what a shame for them."
   • Rachel Zegler, who's racist against white people despite being half Polish, saying things such as that "they're all conservative white supremacists", and, in response to the criticism of the upcoming Snow White movie, she says things like "No, I'm not bleaching my skin" and "You don't usually see Latinas in these stories, and Blancanieves is a big deal in Spanish speaking countries", ignoring not only that it would make no sense for a Latina to be in 16th century Germany, especially considering Latino people didn't exist back then, it was the Aztecs), and that by saying "Spanish speaking countries' she's including the very white, European country of Spain, and also trying to make excuses to why wokeness is okay and trying to defend her hypocrisy and straight-up arrogance.
     • As if that didn't make her an unlikable Figure, she made some comments about the original 1937 Snow White that would be downright disrespectful to people who worked on the film like Walt Disney, The Nine Old Men, Art Babbitt, and Pinto Colvig, among many others.
   • Keira Knightley, a radical feminist who bashed Disney princesses for dumb reasons, such as Cinderella waiting for a "man to rescue her", even though she was not a damsel in distress, she was in no danger, just under pressure, and that's not even touching on the fact that she was a female orphan in 1800s France with zero money, so she was lucky Prince Charming fell for her. And the fact that Charming is much more passive than Cinderella and the whole "Ariel gave up her voice and tail for Eric", then goes to star in a princess movie, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Not to mention that she played a literal damsel-in-distress in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, making her a big hypocrite.
   • Then there's Alyssa Milano, who is mostly known for being the beloved child star of the 1985 film, Commando, along with starring in Fear from 1996 and in the TV series Charmed. In the mid-2010s, she sadly became a radical political activist as she's a supporter of PETA and attacks everything conservative or Republican.
   • There was FINNEAS (Brother of Billie Eilish), He was a great singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor who is mostly known for being the star of Glee. Alongside Billie Eilish, became the youngest 2-time Academy Awards winners (No Time to Die and Barbie) ever. Since the late 2010s, FINNEAS was sadly known as a wokie who disrespected Rush Limbaugh's death by feeling sorry for the "people of Hell" on his Twitter account. Has reshared a tweet that encouraged people with pro-Trump parents to commit gerrymandering by throwing out mail ballots that were for Trump or to drive their parents away from voting stations. When a civil conservative called him out for bashing all Trump supporters, he threw a hissy fit and accused her of "condoning and promoting politicians with racist, xenophobic, misogynistic agendas." Called America a "gun-loving racist ass country" and referred to Kyle Rittenhouse as a "white 17-year-old who thinks his life is a Mark Wahlberg movie" despite the footage clearly showing Rittenhouse getting attacked by the protesters, two of whom were convicted murderers. He used "human rights issues" as an excuse to tell everybody to stay out of politics.
   • Jon Schaffer used to be a beloved bassist from Iced Earth, He was sadly known as a right-wing extremist from Oath Keepers, He was among the rioters participating in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol building, after which he was charged with using bear spray on police officers and engaging in physical violence on Capitol grounds.
   • Danny Masterson, who was currently going to prison due to the allegations of sexual assault with women. Even his former co-stars, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, defended him, ignoring his crimes.
   • Lea Michele, who's best known for her performance as Rachel Berry from Glee, was racist and has been bullying her castmates on Glee, such as Samantha Marie Ware. Not to mention, in 2020, when Lea posted about George Floyd's death, Samantha called her out for being racist to her, and saying that she'd dump on her wig, making her a complete hypocrite.
   • Daniella Pineda mocked fans of the Cowboy Bebop anime for disagreeing with the new costume and the erasure of Faye Valentine, a woman from Singapore. She says things like 'I'm sorry I don't fit the original Faye character from the anime -- Double-D breasts", "You know, we tried, but the costume kept getting slurped up in my various crevices", (which proves her a hypocrite because she has shown pictures of herself in lingerie), and by saying she doesn't look like the original Faye, she is pretty much saying "I don't like Singaporeans, f*ck Singapore! Latina pride, si, si, si!". Compare that to John Cho, who played Spike. His response (not to the costume, but the general dislike of the show) was respectful, where he shared his opinion, but didn't mock fans for disliking changes because he gets it, unlike people like Daniella and the producers.
   • Chrissy Teigen, who harassed notable celebrities like Courtney Stodden (who encouraged them to take a "dirt nap" and kill themselves while they were minor and in an abusive marriage to Doug Hutchison in 2011 when Stodden was 16), Michael Costello, Farrah Abraham, Quvenzhané Wallis (who's 11 years old at the time), and much more, etc. However, she apologized to Stodden (except to other celebs in general) and described herself as "an insecure, attention-seeking troll." in May 2021. A month later, she made a lengthy statement admitting to cyberbullying. Target and Macy's pulled her cookware as a result.
   • And then there's Seth Rogen! Yes, the guy is still likable in most aspects and even still has his charms, like genuinely caring for the causes he fights for (unlike other celebrity "activists"), just like Mark Ruffalo (despite being over-preachy), such as combating Alzheimer's since his wife Lauren Miller Rogen has it, and founded the production company Point Grey Pictures (which puts out good or decent movies/shows). His humor is sometimes subjectively decent (depending on who you ask). Still, he has gone downhill recently as he attacked those on social media for disagreeing with his political views (though sometimes it can be justified), and there's that one time where he called haters of Santa Inc "white supremacists" (despite him being hypocritical as he depicted a child actor with a blackface during the scene of Good Boys, though in 2019 he did apologize for that statement). Thankfully, he's not entirely bad and is just average (in fact, he's still better than most examples), and is still a fairly nice and friendly guy and still has his fans and, even with his flaws, can still be mentioned in RQ#15 as an actor who is as "amazing on the screen as in real life", he also doesn't mind people with different political views, as he starred alongside the conservative Chris Pratt in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
   • And practically almost everyone else in the entertainment industry, really, due to either being hypocritical, over-preachy, or at least confusing about their political/religious/general worldviews, acting like cruel jerks on set, being rude to their fans, or even being heinous individuals.
     • This has become even more apparent recently regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, which has been ongoing since 1948, and in light of recent events of Israel–Hamas war since October 2023: A now infamous letter known as the "No Hostage Left Behind" letter which thanked Biden for the release of four hostages named Judith Ranaan and her daughter Natalie Ranaan, Nurit Cooper, and Yocheved Lifshitz, which while releasing hostages is a good thing, has Zionist propaganda written all over it, as it only lists the hostages imprisoned by Hamas yet completely ignores the Israeli government's illegal occupation of Palestinian land and its mistreatment and dehumanization of Palestinians since 1948, and only blames Hamas (who've done their fair share of hiccups) for the mistreatment of Palestinians, and yet, it was sadly signed by many celebrities from all walks of the entertainment industry (films, TV, music etc.), both unsurprisingly and surprisingly, such as:
       • Gal Gadot (actress)
       • Amy Schumer (comedian)
       • James Corden (late-night host)
       • Chelsea Handler (comedian)
       • Tiffany Haddish (actress and comedian)
       • Mila Kunis (actress and comedian, voice of Meg Griffin on Family Guy)
       • Madonna (singer)
       • Sacha Baron Cohen
       • Taika Waititi (New Zealander filmmaker, actor and comedian)
       • Will Ferrell (actor, first voice of Megamind, played Buddy the Elf)
       • Molly Shannon
       • Olivia Wilde (Actress)
       • Mary Elizabeth Winstead
       • Justin Timberlake (singer)
       • Jesse Plemons
       • Bradley Cooper (actor and filmmaker)
       • Ben Stiller (actor, filmmaker and comedian)
       • Eugene Levy (actor and comedian)
       • Kirsten Dunst
       • Zachary Gordon (first actor to play Greg Heffley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
       • Joey King (former child actress)
       • Laura Dern (actress)
       • Rita Ora
       • Lana Del Rey
       • Harvey Keitel
       • Henry Winkler (actor, Fonz from Happy Days)
       • Gwyneth Paltrow
       • Josh Brolin (actor)
       • Jack Black (actor, main voice of Po from Kung Fu Panda, voice of Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie)
       • Judd Apatow
       • Katy Perry (singer, voice of Smurfette in The Smurfs (2011))
       • Bella Thorne (actress and singer)
       • Elizabeth Shue
       • Chris Jericho (wrestler)
       • Bob Odenkirk
       • Paul Rudd (actor)
       • Adam Sandler (comedian and actor)
       • Chris Rock (comedian, first voice of Booda Sacc in King of the Hill, voice of Alex the Zebra in Madagascar)
       • Courteney Cox
       • David Schwimmer
       • Brooke Shields
       • Brett Gelman
       • Noah Schnapp (actor, Will in Stranger Things, Charlie Brown in The Peanuts Movie)
       • Aubrey Plaza (actress and comedian)
       • Dean Cain (actor for Superman in Lois & Clark)
       • Eric Andre (comedian and cartoonist)
       • Sarah Paulson
       • Martin Short (comedian)
       • Tyler Perry (Atlanta-based filmmaker and actor)
       • Juliette Lewis
       • Michelle Williams
       • Sean "Diddy" Combs (singer and convicted criminal)
       • Lea Michele
       • Holland Taylor
       • Debra Messing
       • and amongst some others, which is disheartening as it caused many of their former fans (more particularly pro-Palestine ones) to turn against them, and thus give them a bad (or even worse, if that celebrity was already bad to begin with) reputation.
         • Thankfully enough, another letter known as the "Artists 4 Ceasefire" letter asked Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine and was signed by a different lot of celebrities, from all different walks of the entertainment industry, such as:
           • Mo Amer
           • Mark Rylance
           • Bella Hadid
           • Gigi Hadid
           • Jeremy Allen White
           • Jesse Buckley
           • Andrew Garfield
           • Florence Pugh
           • Billie Eilish (singer)
           • FINNEAS (brother of Billie Eilish)
           • Ava DuVernay
           • Susan Sarandon
           • Joaquin Phoenix
           • Alan Cumming
           • Cree Summer (voice artist, the voice of Susie Carmichael from Rugrats and All Grown Up!)
           • Kathy Najimy (actress, voice of Peggy Hill from King of the Hill)
           • Sophia Bush
           • Mark Ruffalo (actor, played The Incredible Hulk)
           • Lily Gladstone
           • Marisa Tomei
           • Macklemore (singer, and songwriter of "Thrift Shop")
           • Oscar Isaac
           • Ilana Glazer
           • Bruce Cohen
           • Rachel McAdams
           • Emma Seligman (who had initially signed the "No Hostages Left Behind" letter but expressed remorse and asked for her name to be removed from the former letter)
           • Tom Hardy
           • Riz Ahmed
           • Hari Nef
           • Connie Britton
           • Melissa Barrera
           • Margaret Cho (comedian)
           • Wanda Sykes (comedian)
           • Ben Affleck (actor)
           • Jennifer Lopez (singer)
           • Wallace Shawn (voice artist, voice of Rex from Toy Story)
           • Ayo Edebiri
           • Jenna Ortega
           • Annie Lennox
           • and amongst some others, though confusingly,
             • David Oyelowo
             • Bradley Cooper
             • Ewan McGregor
             • Mary Elizabeth Winstead
             • Jesse Plemons
             • and Kirsten Dunst also signed this letter as well as the other one.
   • Even non-actors are pretty cruel, as POC and trolls online have a problem with cyberbullying actors, with these two examples: Asian audiences, who were touchy, bullied Constance Wu because some of the roles she had were roles they didn't agree with or thought were too "stereotypical; and occasionally "not Asian enough", and, for a while, had depression and suicidal thoughts because of the trolls! Luckily, she didn't kill herself and is back into acting, but that was not okay. And now, alleged "Halle Bailey fans" have been bullying Jodi Benson, the original voice actress of Ariel, saying her voice stinks and making up lies and conspiracies about her, and that Halle's going to be better than her, obviously motivated by Benson being white and not a pop star who auto-tunes her voice (keep in mind that Benson supports Halle). What princess actress will they target next? Are they going to hate Paige O'Hara because they think her version of Belle's singing voice is too shaky? Are they going to target Broadway actresses who voiced princesses like Lea Salonga and Idina Menzel simply because they're jealous that they sing with their natural voices instead of using computers, or because they are qualified to play a character in a musical movie? Or will a remake of Brave in the future make people complain about Kelly Macdonald sounding "too Scottish" or "like she's speaking gibberish"? Not cool. What is people's problem?
9. Each Oscars ceremony has got arguably worse and dull since 1989, although they still have their best moments, such as:
   • Robin Williams performing "Blame Canada" at the 72nd Academy Awards (2000)
   • Eminem performing "Lose Yourself" at the 92nd Academy Awards (2020)
   • Lord of the Rings: Return of the King winning Best Picture at the 76th Academy Awards (2004)
   • Troy Kotsur's win at the 94th Academy Awards (2022)
   • Leonardo DiCaprio's win at 88th Academy Awards (2016)
   • Tom Cruise's post-9/11 introduction at the 74th Academy Awards (2002)
   • Shrek, Spirited Away, The Incredibles, Wallace and Gromit, Ratatouille, WALL-E, and Spider-Verse winning Best Animation
   • The majority of the 2023 Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards (2023)
   • Adam Lambert and Queen opening the 2019 ceremony at the 91st Academy Awards (2019)
   • Animated characters appearing in the Oscars
   • Heath Ledger's posthumous win at the 81st Academy Awards (2009)
   • Parasite's big victory at the 92nd Academy Awards (2020)
10. Speaking of the Oscars, the Academy has become an extremely idiotic and obnoxious association. There are so many reasons:
    • The fact that about 75% of the films nominated in the main categories are mostly dramas and have rarely nominated comedies, action, horror, science fiction, or other genres.
    • They don't recognize stunt work, motion-capture CGI performances, ensemble cast work or voice acting.
      • Hell, Jackie Chan or Tom Cruise could break their backs in their next films and the Academy would act like nothing happened.
      • Since 2010, they haven't given motion capture CGI films a chance to be nominated, such as The Adventures of Tintin or Disney's A Christmas Carol.
      • As for voice acting, it's a missed opportunity for the Oscars to nominate voice acting regardless if it was voice acting for a hybrid movie or a purely animated film. Yes, it's not the same as legit acting, but voice acting, in general, is still a big effort because you are still acting for a feature film. Some examples of actors who would win for best voice acting can include, but are not limited to: Dwayne Johnson in Moana, Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy in Shrek, Shameik Moore and Jake Johnson in Into the Spider-Verse, Robin Williams in Aladdin, James Earl Jones in The Lion King, Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda, Will Ferrell in Megamind, Tom Hanks in Toy Story and The Polar Express, Chris Pratt in The LEGO Movie, Andy Serkis in Lord of the Rings, Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Scarlett Johansson in Her, Christian Bale in Howl's Moving Castle, Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman in Zootopia, John C. Reilly in Wreck-It Ralph, Billy Crystal and Steve Buscemi in Monsters Inc., Craig T. Nelson and Jason Lee in The Incredibles, Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy in Cars, Ed Asner in Up, Jeff Garlin and Ben Burtt in WALL-E, Patton Oswalt and Lou Romano in Ratatouille, Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith in Inside Out, Albert Brooks in Finding Nemo, Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey in Soul, Steve Carrell in Despicable Me, Patrick Warburton in The Emperor's New Groove, George Clooney in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alan Rickman in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tim Allen in Toy Story, John Leguizamo in Ice Age and Encanto, Will Arnett in LEGO Batman, Ed Helms in The Lorax, Seth McFarlane in Ted, Gary Oldman in Kung Fu Panda 2, Ralph Fiennes in Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, James Gandolfini in Where the Wild Things Are, Charles Fleischer in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Liam Neeson in Narnia, Trey Parker and Matt Stone in South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police; the list goes on.
    • The lack of diversity in the nominees, from people of color to female directors. This doesn't mean that they must be nominated just for being minorities; it means that when they do an outstanding work of film that's worthy of a nomination, they must be recognized.
      • The Academy also has a problem when it comes to nominating black people that goes far from the #OscarsSoWhite thing: Remember in Bowfinger when Eddie Murphy says that black actors are only nominated or win awards when they play slaves? That's kind of the problem: The fact that many black actors won and were nominated for playing negative stereotypes: Denzel Washington won for playing a corrupt cop, Halle Berry won for playing a drug addict, Lupita Nyong'o won for playing a slave, Mo'Nique won for playing an abusive ghetto mother, Mahershala Ali won for playing a drug dealer. In the year 2019, there were several good performances by black actresses like Lupita Nyong'o in Us or Alfre Woodward in Clemency; out of them all, The Academy nominated Cynthia Erivo for the movie Harriet, in which she plays a runaway slave.
        • The worst part is that when there are movies with really original black performances like Straight Outta Compton, Dope, Da 5 Bloods, Do the Right Thing, Blindspotting or Us, the Academy ignores them.
    • Undeserved and infamous victories in various categories. While many of these films are good, you realize that they didn't deserve the award as their fellow nominees outperformed them on several levels. Some notorious examples are:
      • Roman Polanski for Best Director (in this case, while his direction for The Pianist was phenomenal, he didn't deserve an award as he had been revealed to be a rapist before winning.
    • The infamous La La Land/Moonlight mix-up.
    • The winners, and also nominees, in the main categories have become very predictable. You just have to check who won the Golden Globe (or previous major award) in the same category and there you have it. To the point where the Best Picture award is now more of a Most-Likely-to-Win Picture award.
    • Sometimes they come up with ridiculous ideas like the infamous "Best Popular Film" award or having presenters for presenters in the 2020 ceremony.
    • The infamous moment where The Boss Baby, of all things, was nominated for the 90th Academy Award for Best Animated Film caused lots of rage among those who wanted films like The Lego Batman Movie, Your Name, and A Silent Voice to get a nomination. Heck, this wasn't the first time a movie with mixed to negative reception got nominated, as Shark Tale, Norbit, Batman Forever, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Into the Woods, Hillbilly Elegy, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close are also infamous examples of bad movies that received nominations.
    • It's really common for Disney and Pixar to win an Oscar for the best-animated film, thus being predictable almost similar to how SpongeBob, most of the time, keeps winning the Kids Choice Awards. While it's true that some of their animated films were well received, there have been fans that demand another film to win thus being disappointed.
    • Ever since the Kevin Hart's tweets controversy back in 2018, the Oscars went through 3 ceremonies without a host
    • Back in 2019, the academy made the infamous statement that they would be presenting awards during the commercial breaks, they eventually retracted after a massive backlash However, in 2022, they seemed to have learned nothing as they didn't present several craft awards live during the telecast.
    • Due to their choices of presenters, there are often quite awkward and cringe moments during the ceremonies, such as:
      • James Corden and Rebel Wilson dressed as their laughable characters from Cats
      • Anne Hathaway and James Franco hosting the 2011 ceremony
      • Sacha Baron Cohen throwing ashes on Ryan Seacrest
      • Any time the winner's speech gets interrupted by the music
      • Every time the winner goes political during their speech
      • Brie Larson refusing to clap to Casey Affleck
      • Seth Macfarlane's awful "We Saw Your Boobs" song
      • Adrien Brody kissing Halle Berry and then Charlize Theron
      • Eugenio Derbez' wall joke in 2018
      • Sean Penn making a green card joke
      • Jennifer Aniston having to present an award right in front of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt only 5 years after divorcing the latter
      • Kate Mckinnon and Jason Bateman presenting in 2017
      • Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry dressed as the Best Costume Design nominees
      • Sam Smith assuming that he was the first openly gay man to win an Oscar (which he wasn't)
      • Gwyneth Paltrow's absurdly emotional speech in 1999
      • Kirsten Wiig and Maya Rudolph "acting" and then "singing" while presenting an award
      • Jennifer Lawrence attempting to be funny while presenting Best Actor
      • John Travolta mispronouncing Idina Menzel's name
      • Michael Moore going on a preachy rant during his speech
      • Neil Patrick Harris appearing half-naked on stage (but He wears his underwear)
      • Amy Schumer calling Kirsten Dunst a "seat filler"
      • The infuriating moment where Halle Bailey, Lily James, and Naomi Scott demoted animation as something "kids enjoy and adults endure"
      • The uncomfortable skit in which Regina Hall called up a bunch of actors to do "PCR tests"
      • Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, that awful rendition of We Don't Talk About Bruno
      • Robert Opel's streaking incident at the 1974 ceremony
      • John Cena presented the award for Best Costume Design naked and covered only by the envelope
      • The majority of the 1989, 2021, and 2022 Oscars.
    • Since we mentioned Halle, Lily, and Naomi making a very tasteless “joke” about animation being just a “kids” thing, it goes to show how hypocritical the Oscars are; as they nominated movies like Triplets of Belleville, Isle of Dogs, Persepolis, My Life As A Zucchini, The Breadwinner, Loving Vincent, The Wind Rises, Flee, and recently, the Boy and the Heron which are all rated PG-13, as well as Chico and Rita and I Lost My Body which, despite being unrated, also count as they’re also adult animated films, and even Waltz with Bashir for Best International Film and Anomalisa for Best Animated Feature both of which were rated R. Speaking of that, they also nominated "Blame Canada" for Best Original Song at the 72nd Academy Awards, which came from the South Park movie, which was based on an ADULT cartoon, and Robin Williams sang it live.
      • To make the joke from the live-action Disney Princesses aged poorly, because two years later, The Boy and the Heron, which is a PG-13 animated film, even won Best Animated Feature.
    • The Academy has been criticized for often giving several nominations to films that aren't that impressive when those spots could have easily been given to a snubbed film. Some examples being King Richard, Avatar, The Blind Side, Bohemian Rhapsody, Vice, Elvis, Darkest Hour, Don't Look Up, The Danish Girl, American Sniper, American Hustle, The King's Speech, etc.
    • Another infuriating reason about the academy is the infamous "Oscars Club" theory, similar to the "secret committees" theory that ran at the Grammy Awards until 2021: It's the fact that various popular names like Julianne Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Octavia Spencer, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, Charlize Theron, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Gary Oldman, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Lawrence, and even directors like Adam McKay and David O'Russell are nominated out of favoritism instead of deserving it; in other words, they get nominations simply because they're the academy's "favorites".
      • Meryl Streep's case proves this entirely. We know she's a great actress and some of her best performances have been reasonably nominated. However, the Academy seems to literally be obsessed with her as they have been giving her nominations even for average performances like those of Postcards from the Edge, Music of the Heart, Julie & Julia, The Iron Lady, August Osage County, Into the Woods, Florence Foster Jenkins, and The Post. It becomes very annoying and causes you to not take her new nominations seriously due to the several ones that she got in the past. Even Meryl, herself, has made fun of this.
    • The academy also has this terrible tendency of rewarding a person, not for the work/performance for which they were nominated, but more to recognize their trajectory and in compensation for the times they didn't win in the past, which becomes very upsetting when you consider that they have done a lot better work in other films than the one they're being awarded for, even if they did do a fairly amazing job with the material that they were given and they still had their merits. Let's say this person is a remarkable name in the film industry but has never won an Oscar and all of his/her fans are very upset over this that they expect him/her to win this time, but he/she doesn't and everyone gets angry, then this person gets nominated once again and gets a huge Oscar campaign rooting for him/her. However, they're not doing it because their work/performance was truly outstanding, but because they want him/her to win once and for all and become an Academy Award winner. And that's pretty much what's been happening in recent years as the academy doesn't award veteran actors for their nominated work, but for their trajectories overall. Some examples are:
      • Leonardo DiCaprio: Won for The Revenant, should've won for The Wolf of Wall Street
      • Gary Oldman: Won for Darkest Hour, should've won for Léon: The Professional or Tinker Taylor: Soldier Spy
      • Al Pacino: Won for Scent of a Woman, should've won for The Godfather trilogy
      • Morgan Freeman: Won for Million Dollar Baby, should've won for The Shawshank Redemption
      • Kate Winslet: Won for The Reader, should've won for Titanic or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
      • Denzel Washington: Won for Training Day, should've won for Malcolm X
      • Jeff Bridges: Won for Crazy Heart, should've won for The Big Lebowski
      • Paul Newman: Won for The Color of Money, should've won for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
      • Whoopi Goldberg: Won for Ghost, should've won for The Color Purple
      • Henry Fonda: Won for On Golden Pond, should've won for Grapes of Wrath or 12 Angry Men
      • Reese Witherspoon: Won for Walk the Line, should've won for Election
      • Nicole Kidman: Won for The Hours, should've won for Eyes Wide Shut
      • Julianne Moore: Won for Still Alice, should've won for Far from Heaven
      • Jessica Chastain: Won for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, should've won for Zero Dark Thirty
      • Christian Bale: Won for The Fighter, should've won for American Psycho
      • Will Smith: Won for King Richard, should've won for The Pursuit of Happyness
      • Spike Lee: Won for BlackKklansman, should've won for Do the Right Thing
      • Guillermo del Toro: Won for The Shape of Water, should've won for Pan's Labyrinth
      • Martin Scorsese: Won for The Departed, should've won for Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, or Raging Bull
    • Their undeserved and infamous snubs, have been a problem since the Golden Age of Hollywood. Here are some notorious examples:
      • Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler
      • Toni Colette for Hereditary
      • David Oyelowo for Selma
      • Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
      • Lupita N'yongo for Us
      • Awkwafina for The Farewell
      • Andrew Garfield for The Social Network and Silence
      • Malcolm McDowell for A Clockwork Orange
      • Christian Bale for American Psycho
      • Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers
      • Uma Thurman for Kill Bill
      • Emily Blunt for Sicario, Edge of Tomorrow, and The Devil Wears Prada
      • Charlize Theron for Mad Max: Fury Road and Young Adult
      • Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube for Boyz N' the Hood
      • Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse, Spider-Man, and The Last Temptation of Christ
      • Alan Rickman for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Die Hard
      • Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love
      • Robin Williams for One Hour Photo
      • Benicio Del Toro for Sin City and Sicario
      • Clive Owen for Children of Men
      • Carla Gugino for Gerald's Game
      • Eminem for 8 Mile
      • Emma Stone for Easy A
      • Delroy Lindo for Da 5 Bloods
      • Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation
      • Tom Hardy for Locke
      • Samuel L. Jackson for The Hateful 8
      • Jim Carrey for The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
      • Steve Carell for Little Miss Sunshine and The 40-Year-Old Virgin
      • Will Ferrell for Elf and Stranger than Fiction
      • Zach Galifianakis for The Hangover
      • James McAvoy for Split
      • David Thwelis for Naked
      • Miles Teller for Whiplash
      • Trevante Rhodes for Moonlight
      • James Franco for The Disaster Artist
      • John Cusack for Being John Malkovich
      • Matthew McConaughey for Interstellar
      • Stephen Root and Jennifer Aniston for Office Space
      • Mads Mikkelsen for Casino Royale, Another Round, and The Hunt
      • Mel Gibson and Gary Sinise for Ransom
      • Zach Braff for Garden State
      • Shia LaBeouf for Honey Boy
      • Tobey Maguire for Brothers
      • Jude Law for The Holiday
      • Dan Stevens for The Guest
      • Jodie Comer for The Last Duel
      • Megan Fox for Jennifer's Body
      • Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams for Mean Girls
      • Taraji P. Henson for Hidden Figures
      • Amy Adams for Arrival and Enchanted
      • Zooey Deschanel for (500) Days of Summer
      • Hailee Steinfeld for The Edge of Seventeen
      • Rachel Zegler for Spielberg's West Side Story
      • Sienna Miller for American Woman and Factory Girl
      • Kirsten Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria and Adventureland
      • Matthew Broderick for Glory, Biloxi Blues, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
      • Steve Martin for The Jerk, Roxanne, and Father of the Bride
      • John Belushi for Animal House and The Blues Brothers
      • John Candy for Planes, Trains & Automobiles
      • Bob Hoskins for Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
      • Michael Fassbender for Shame and Hunger
      • Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard for Shattered Glass
      • Domnhall Gleeson for About Time
      • Will Smith for I Am Legend
      • Javier Bardem for Skyfall
      • Steve Zahn for Rescue Dawn
      • Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool
      • Jack Black for High Fidelity
      • Robert De Niro for The Irishman
      • Charles Grodin for Midnight Run
      • Lakeith Stanfield for Sorry to Bother You
      • Ewan McGregor for Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge
      • Joseph-Gordon Levitt for 50/50, Brick, and Mysterious Skin
      • Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl, Drive, The Ides of March, and Blade Runner 2049
      • Tom Cruise for M:I - Fallout, Collateral, and A Few Good Men
      • Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd for Back to the Future
      • Val Kilmer for Tombstone, The Doors, and Wonderland
      • Robert Pattinson for The Lighthouse and Good Time
      • Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips
      • Simon Rex for Red Rocket
      • Guy Pearce for Memento
      • Bill Skarsgård for IT
      • Rainn Wilson for Super!
      • Joaquin Phoenix for Her
      • Josh Brolin for Avengers: Infinity War
      • Ben Affleck for Chasing Amy and Gone Girl
      • Robert Downey Jr. for Avengers: Endgame and Iron Man
      • Nicolas Cage for Face/Off, Pig, Lord of War, and Mandy
      • Michael B. Jordan for Creed, Black Panther, and Fruitvale Station
      • Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, and Jennifer Connelly for Requiem for a Dream
      • Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, and Malin Akerman for Watchmen
      • Eddie Murphy for The Nutty Professor, Beverly Hills Cop, and Dolemite is my Name
      • Andy Serkis for the modern Planet of the Apes movies and Lord of the Rings
      • Hugh Jackman for Prisoners, and Logan
      • Song Kang Ho and Park So-Dam for Parasite
      • Taron Egerton for Rocketman
      • Patrick Stewart for Logan
      • Bill Murray for Rushmore and Life Aquatic
      • Robert Eggers for Best Director (The VVitch, The Lighthouse)
      • Denis Villeneuve for Best Director (Blade Runner 2049, Dune)
      • Ridley Scott for Best Director (Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian)
      • Christopher Nolan for Best Director (Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, etc.)
      • Spike Lee for Best Director (Do the Right Thing, 25th Hour, and Malcolm X)
      • Hoop Dreams, Grizzly Man, Life Itself, Fahrenheit 9/11, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, and Val for Best Documentary
      • Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, Taare Zameen Par and RRR for Best International Film
      • Waking Life, Mary and Max, Tangled, Megamind, Despicable Me, The Peanuts Movie, Rio, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Flushed Away, Over the Hedge, Curious George, The Polar Express, Arthur Christmas, The Adventures of Tintin, The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Simpsons Movie, Paprika, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The Cat Returns, Waltz with Bashir, Ponyo, Arrietty, Your Name, A Silent Voice, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, A Letter to Momo, Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop, the CGI Doraemon films, Lupin III: The First, Millennium Actress, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Suzume, The Boy and the Beast, and Weathering With You for Best Animated Feature. Hell, a lot of anime films get snubs with Belle and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train being the biggest offenders.
      • For Best Original Song:
        • "Love Me Like You Do" from 50 Shades of Grey. Sure, "Earned It" was good, but this one was a worldwide hit.
        • "See You Again" from Furious 7. Very hypocritical from them, considering that this was one of the most popular songs of 2015.
        • "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto. As with "Love Me Like You Do", this was also a worldwide hit and deserved the nomination more than "Dos Oruguitas".
        • "For You" from Daredevil
        • "Maniac" from Flashdance
        • "Porcelain" from The Beach
        • "Danger Zone" from Top Gun
        • "Kiss Me" from She's All That
        • "Zero to Hero" from Hercules
        • "I'm Alright" from Caddyshack
        • "You're Welcome" from Moana
        • "Keep Holding On" from Eragon
        • "Men in Black" from Men in Black
        • "Alice" from Alice in Wonderland
        • "No Easy Way Out" from Rocky IV
        • "I Believe I Can Fly from Space Jam
        • "Upside Down" from Curious George
        • "Will You Be There" from Free Willy
        • "He Mele No Lilo" from Lilo & Stitch
        • "I'm Still Here" from Treasure Planet
        • "Scream" from High School Musical 3
        • "Cry Little Sister" from The Lost Boys
        • “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from EuroTrip
        • "Lady Marmalade" from Moulin Rouge!
        • "Everything Burns" from Fantastic Four
        • "Darling I Do" from Shrek Forever After
        • "The Heat is On" from Beverly Hills Cop
        • "Never Say Never" from The Karate Kid
        • "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale
        • "Princes of the Universe" from Highlander
        • "Little Wonders" from Meet the Robinsons
        • "Fight the Power" from Do the Right Thing
        • "Drive It Like You Stole It" from Sing Street
        • "Playground Love" from The Virgin Suicides
        • "Gangsta's Paradise" from Dangerous Minds
        • "Rocking the Suburbs" from Over the Hedge
        • "Exit Music (For a Film)" from Romeo + Juliet
        • "Brighter Than Sunshine" from A Lot Like Love
        • "Take This Job and Shove It" from Office Space
        • "Please Mr. Kennedy" from Inside Llewyn Davis
        • "The Climb" from Hannah Montana: The Movie
        • "When Can I See You Again" from Wreck-It Ralph
        • "How Deep Is Your Love" from Saturday Night Fever
        • "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" from Crossroads
        • "Sunflower" from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
        • "America, F Yeah" from Team America: World Police
        • "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from St. Elmo's Fire
        • "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from The Breakfast Club
        • "God Bless Us Everyone" from Disney's A Christmas Carol
        • "Forever May Not Be Long Enough" from The Mummy Returns
        • "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" from Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
        • "What I've Done", "New Divide", and "Iridescent" from the Transformers films
        • "Decode", "Eclipse (All Yours)", and "A Thousand Years" from the Twilight films
        • "Hero", "Ordinary", "Vindicated", and "Signal Fire" from the original Spider-Man trilogy
      • Legendary directors like Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Andréi Tarkovski, Akira Kurosawa, Agnès Varda, George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick never won the Oscar for Best Directing. Quentin Tarantino hasn't won one yet and his next film will be his last one.
      • Several female directors, for example: Mary Harron for American Psycho, Greta Gerwig for Little Women, Celine Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ava DuVernay for Selma, Claire Denis for Beau Travail, Lulu Wang for The Farewell, Mati Diop for Atlantics, Regina King for One Night in Miami. Ironic that they promote feminism, but don't nominate these people.
      • Plenty of iconic and amazing films, both classic and modern, like King Kong, Duck Soup, M, The Third Man, Singin' in the Rain, Rear Window, Seven Samurai, Tokyo Story, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Some Like it Hot, Psycho, The Searchers, Cool Hand Luke, 8½, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Mirror, Alien, Manhattan, Airplane!, The Empire Strikes Back, The Shining, Blow Out, Blade Runner, The Thing, Scarface, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, Ran, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, After Hours, Aliens, The Princess Bride, Full Metal Jacket, Grave of the Fireflies, Die Hard, When Harry Met Sally, Do the Right Thing, Boyz N the Hood, Terminator 2, Reservoir Dogs, Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day, Clerks, The Lion King, Se7en, Toy Story, Heat, The Usual Suspects, Before Sunrise, Sling Blade, Chasing Amy, Princess Mononoke, Boogie Nights, The Truman Show, Being John Malkovich, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Toy Story 2, Office Space, The Matrix, Fight Club, In the Mood for Love, Requiem for a Dream, Almost Famous, Memento, Shrek, The Royal Tenenbaums, Signs, Spirited Away, City of God, 8 Mile, Oldboy, School of Rock, Kill Bill, Shaun of the Dead, Mean Girls, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Incredibles, Spider-Man 2, Before Sunset, Collateral, Sin City, Caché, A History of Violence, The Prestige, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93, Hot Fuzz, Into the Wild, I'm Not There, Superbad, Ratatouille, Taare Zameen Par, Tropic Thunder, The Wrestler, WALL-E, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Where the Wild Things Are, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shutter Island, I Saw the Devil, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Drive, Skyfall, The Avengers, The Master, Prisoners, Miracle in Cell No. 7, Gone Girl, The LEGO Movie, Interstellar, Wild Tales, Inside Out, Silence, Your Name, Zootopia, The VVitch, Sing Street, Blade Runner 2049, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Disaster Artist, I Tonya, Coco, A Silent Voice, Logan, Paddington 2, A Quiet Place, Eighth Grade, If Beale Street Could Talk, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Avengers: Endgame, Booksmart, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Uncut Gems, Knives Out, The Lighthouse, Soul, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Another Round, Spencer, Tick Tick Boom!, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Red Rocket, and RRR never received Best Picture nominations, despite all of the films being considered some of the best films of their years, as well as nominations in other deserved categories.
        • Also, speaking of the above, the Academy rarely usually considers comedies as Best Picture nominees with rare exceptions, which is pretty ironic and hypocritical, because a good vast of the Academy's members are/were comedians and also the fact that all, if not at least most, of the Academy's members have been involved in a comedy film at least once during their respective careers. Also, many comedy films over the years were loved by both critics and audiences that could've easily been Best Picture nominees, but were sadly snubbed: Some good examples being Modern Times, Some Like It Hot, Pink Panther, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, The Heartbreak Kid, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Animal House, The Jerk, Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Trading Places, Caddyshack, Local Hero, The King of Comedy, Tootsie, Coming to America, Ghostbusters, This is Spinal Tap, Top Secret!, Beverly Hills Cop, The Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to School, Spaceballs, The Naked Gun, A Fish Called Wanda, Withnail & I, Beetlejuice, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, When Harry Met Sally, Christmas Vacation, Hot Shots!, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Home Alone, Father of the Bride, Wayne's World, Groundhog Day, Dazed and Confused, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy, Clueless, Mallrats, The Nutty Professor, Grosse Point Blank, The Big Lebowski, Liar Liar, The Wedding Singer, Rush Hour, Baseketball, Rushmore, Bowfinger, Galaxy Quest, Office Space, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, There's Something About Mary, Zoolander, The Royal Tenenbaums, Old School, Elf, School of Rock, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Shaun of the Dead, Anchorman, Dodgeball, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Team America: World Police, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wedding Crashers, Thank You for Smoking, Grandma's Boy, Talladega Nights, Borat, Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Superbad, Enchanted, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Tropic Thunder, Step Brothers, Role Models, Be Kind Rewind, In Bruges, The Hangover, Zombieland, Four Lions, Easy A, Crazy Stupid Love, Bridesmaids, Goon, Seven Psychopaths, This is the End, The World's End, Paddington, 22 Jump Street, Deadpool, The Death of Stalin, The Disaster Artist, The Big Sick, Deadpool 2, Paddington 2, Booksmart, Dolemite Is My Name, etc.
        • The same can be said for action films of any kind, including superhero films that were considered maybe the best over the years: If the Academy can nominate films such as Mad Max: Fury Road, The Lord of the Rings, Avatar or Black Panther for Best Picture, then why not films such as The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Predator, The Matrix, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Point Break, Enter the Dragon, 300, Wanted, Watchmen, Top Gun, V for Vendetta, Rambo: First Blood, Independence Day, Sin City, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Guest, John Wick, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Iron Man, Taken, The Dark Knight, The Raid: Redemption, Edge of Tomorrow, Star Trek, Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Logan, Avengers: Endgame, Shoot Em' Up, Spider-Man: No Way Home and the like?
        • Animated movies have been mistreated by the Academy and almost all the time snubbed for the Best Picture nomination at the Academy. The only animated films that managed to get nominated were Beauty and The Beast, Up, and Toy Story 3. Good examples of animated movies that were snubbed, but considered worthy, for a Best Picture nomination are: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, The Castle of Cagliostro, The Secret of NIMH, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, The Land Before Time, My Neighbor Totoro, Akira, Grave of The Fireflies, The Little Mermaid, Kiki's Delivery Service, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King (the most infamous example), Toy Story (since it was THE first 3D animated movie, this also counts as another infamous example), Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke, The Prince of Egypt, Perfect Blue, Mulan, Toy Story 2, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, The Iron Giant, Chicken Run, The Emperor's New Groove, Shrek (AKA the first ever animated movie to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature), Monsters, Inc., Waking Life, Spirited Away, Ice Age, Lilo & Stitch, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Shrek 2, Howl's Moving Castle, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Ratatouille, Persepolis, The Simpsons Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Ponyo, WALL-E (another infamous example), Waltz with Bashir, Coraline, Mary and Max, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Secret of Kells, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon, Arthur Christmas, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Adventures of Tintin, Rango, Wreck-It Ralph, The Wind Rises, The LEGO Movie, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Big Hero 6, Song of the Sea, Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, Inside Out, Zootopia, Kubo and the Two Strings, Moana, Coco, A Silent Voice, The LEGO Batman Movie, Your Name, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (Come on Academy, this one could've easily made it), How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Toy Story 4, Klaus, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train, Wolfwalkers, Soul, Encanto, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Flee, Belle, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (yet another infamous example), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Boy and the Heron, Nimona, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and Suzume.
        • And with horror movies; that's another case that's worthy of an entire page. The Academy has been shamelessly ignoring horror movies ever since its beginning, although horror is one of the most popular and iconic movie genres, and that a lot of them have received positive reviews from both critics and audiences. The only horror movies that got nominated for Best Picture were The Exorcist, Jaws, The Sixth Sense, and Get Out, while Silence of the Lambs was the only one that managed to win. Clear examples of awesome horror movies that were sadly snubbed for both Best Picture and other categories are: Vampyr, Frankenstein, King Kong, Dracula, The Night of the Hunter, Eyes Without a Face, Psycho, The Innocents, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Haunting, The Wicker Man, Duel, Don't Look Now, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Carrie, Halloween, Suspiria, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Omen, House, Dawn of the Dead, Eraserhead, Nosferatu, Alien, The Shining, The Evil Dead, An American Werewolf in London, Scanners, The Thing, Poltergeist, Videodrome, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gremlins, The Lost Boys, The Fly, Evil Dead 2, Fright Night, Dead Ringers, They Live, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Manhunter, Jacob's Ladder, Misery, Candyman, Braindead, Interview with the Vampire, Se7en, Scream, Ringu, Audition, The Blair Witch Project, The Devil's Backbone, Mulholland Drive, The Others, The Ring, 28 Days Later, Signs, Saw, The Descent, The Host, The Mist, The Orphanage, [REC], Trick R' Treat, Inside, Thirst, Let the Right One In, The Loved Ones, Zombieland, Drag Me to Hell, I Saw the Devil, Insidious, Attack the Block, The Cabin in the Woods, The Conjuring, The Babadook, Creep, It Follows, Bone Tomahawk, The VVitch, Train to Busan, IT, Annihilation, A Quiet Place, Hereditary, Us, Midsommar, and The Lighthouse.
    • And finally, here's an infuriating fact about the Academy in general that, while it sounds logical at first, then starts to make no sense: The only people who get to become members of the Academy and, therefore choose the nominees/winners of each year's ceremonies, are people who are involved in the film industry (actors and actresses, directors, screenwriters, producers, cinematographers, costume designers, set designers, film editors, makeup artists and hairdressers, etc). But not only are we the ones who pay tickets to see a movie, but we're the ones who have the power to make a film popular (or at least a cult classic) and/or succeed at the box office. So why can't we, the audiences, as well as the critics, be the ones who get to choose the best in film of each year? Simply put, Hollywood is practically and literally congratulating itself.
11. Several horror films heavily rely on cheap jump-scares rather than the atmosphere, like The Nun, Annabelle, The Quiet Ones, Ouija, Deliver Us from Evil, Devil's Due, Chernobyl Diaries, 11-11-11, the entire Paranormal Activity series, the Insidious sequels, Winchester, As Above So Below, The Apparition, The Gallows, Texas Chainsaw 3D, V/H/S Viral, Slender Man, The Devil Inside, Silent Hill Revelation, Wish Upon, Mirrors, The Eye, Friend Request, The Devil Inside, The Woman in Black, The Rite, The Boy, The Bye Bye Man, Rings, The Last Exorcism: Part 2, The Curse of La Llorona, etc. And if it's not with jump scares, they tend to overuse shock content. Some examples being: The Hostel franchise, the Saw franchise, the Human Centipede trilogy, or Piranha 3DD.
    • Here's a video explaining the problem. (See the videos section below)
12. Ever since the 2000s, certain action movies have poorly done CGI/special effects, bad cinematography such as shaky cam, too many jump cuts, and overall bad editing in fight sequences, or just downright weak acting, although this isn't always the case.
13. Movie adaptations that don't often do their source material justice or are loosely based on them are usually most prominent with movies based on video games, books, or TV shows (or in some cases, they are based on other things like toys, board games, or internet-related stuff).
14. Following dark, problematic, and controversial events, such as Donald Trump winning the 2016 presidential election; the Charlottesville riots; the tragic murder of George Floyd, which led to pillaging and riots across the U.S.A. for months; the 2021 United States Capitol storming; Anthony Fauci, who has been revealed to be repeatedly misleading the public in health and the pandemic; the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse; the acquittal of George Zimmerman; the Robb Elementary school shooting; and the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and its aftermath; this led to intensified movements like #MeToo, Time's Up, Black Lives Matter, and the cancel culture from both right and left being more prominent in general, which made progressive propaganda even more prominent in media and entertainment.
    • In fact, many of these events are the main reasons many celebrities in the industry have become incredibly toxic, out of control, or downright terrible people in general.
15. Hypocrisy: They promote diversity, as shown above, yet they are fine with demonizing male/white characters by making them dumb and stupid like how men/white people used to do the same to females or people of color many years ago.
    • There is also another case of hypocrisy through the French movie industry for the movie Cuties, where it tried to promote anti-pedophilic messages, but, in true Cuties fashion, the movie fully contradicted itself and fully participated in pedophilia with underaged women (11-year-old children) participating in sexual activities that Maïmouna Doucouré, the director of the movie, the parents of these children, or anyone else on production, possibly forced them to do!
16. Often nowadays, many "important" movies are made for a specific audience under the guise of promoting diversity and equality so that minority audiences see themselves on screen. Representation and diversity are good things, but the problem is that being movies with a progressive theme if you don't like the movie and you say so, they will accuse you of being racist or sexist. Frankly speaking, making films for a single audience segment is discrimination; we need good movies made by women and minorities and good movies about women and minorities, no one needs movies made for women and minorities. The fact that a film is progressive does not automatically make it good and quotes like "It wasn't made for you, so shut up!" only serve as an excuse to dismiss criticism of those films, to the point where some critics, POC, political vloggers and celebrities at worse their ego promote those movies more for the progressive message than for the film itself, which leads towards what is called "Inclusivity Bias" as coined by BlackLightJack. Some examples are:
    • BlacKkKlansman, Get Out, A Wrinkle in Time, Crazy Rich Asians, and Black Panther were promoted as films made mainly for African American or Asian viewers. If you say you disliked any of these movies, many corrupt critics, some of the people involved with these projects, and some of their audiences may call you racist, even when you're not being so. While not all of them are bad, some of them are good, these acts essentially give these films a bad name.
    • 2016's Ghostbusters reboot, MIB International, Birds of Prey, Thunder Force, Shadow in the Cloud, Moxie, The 355, and 2019's Black Christmas are films with feminist themes, and while they mean well, they end up being misandrists because in these, the male characters are portrayed very negatively while the women are superior to them in any way. Dislike them and you're automatically a misogynist. Even if it's with films with a good balance of female-to-male representation like Wonder Woman.
    • Speaking of Wonder Woman, while it's an amazing movie, movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse hosted women-only screenings of the movie to promote the feminist message. When people complained about this, they were called sexist and made fun of.
    • Another infamous example is the background of the 2019 movie adaptation of Charlie's Angels. Director Elizabeth Banks (known for being an avid feminist on social media) said in several interviews that this movie was not for men, but women specifically; When the movie flopped at the box office, Banks publicly blamed men for not watching her movie, claiming that men don't see or like movies starring women (which is false) and saying that she was forced to watch men-led films all her life, which contradicts her previous statements and makes her hypocritical and cynical for not accepting her mistake. She also victimizes herself because nobody forces you to watch movies, you do it because you want to. The movie, anyway, has the same bad characteristics mentioned above.
    • When Santa Inc. got tons of criticism online for being a hardcore feminist fantasy sadist show, Seth Rogen labeled the haters of the show as "white supremacists", while there were some comments made by the alt-right due to the show’s progressive themes, all political affirmations agreed that the show was bad on its own merits, This shows Seth Rogen is taking his views a little too far
    • What's upsetting is that Hollywood has proved that they are actually capable of making good feminist films where the male characters are not demonized and the female characters are not "Mary Sues": The Lovely Bones is a film that shows the dangers that girls and teenagers can face in their neighborhoods; Catfish and Trust_ show, disturbingly and tragically, the dangers to which adolescents, especially girls, are exposed through the internet and social networks. There are also films like North Country that show the struggles women face in America's dark areas and those that address the theme of friendship, sisterhood, and union in a memorable and moving way like Thelma & Louise, The Color Purple, Booksmart, Little Women, Aquamarine, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and even Sucker Punch.
17. Quantity over Quality: Many modern-day films and TV shows only care more about making money than making good quality films and shows themselves, even long before 2016 (as long as the entertainment industry itself, to be frank). This is especially true nowadays, hence the phrase "Hollywood's running out of ideas" due to unoriginal ideas, remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, countless adaptations of stuff that originated from other media, or franchise milking.
    • The live-action remakes of Disney's classic animated films are the best example.
      • As a matter of fact, The Walt Disney Company has become one of the perfect examples of everything that's wrong with Hollywood today, as they seem to care more about making money and profit from its properties than actually making quality art and content, despite also making some great content from things like the MCU and Pixar. And this became even more evident after they acquired 20th Century Fox.
    • Star Wars, Fast and Furious, The Hangover, Terminator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Die Hard, Men in Black, Home Alone, Despicable Me, Dumb and Dumber, Ted, Hotel Transylvania, and Ice Age are franchises that declined in quality because of their forced sequels. Hell, some people even believe that the MCU of all franchises (despite it chiefly still being good) is now starting to veer into this territory! That is how bad it is!
    • Not even the rest of the entertainment industry is safe, as shows like Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Loud House, Grey's Anatomy, Sesame Street, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Fairly OddParents have gone downhill due to milking.
    • While it is true that Hollywood stood as a business just so they can make revenue, these days it no longer balances making original artwork and profiting, instead of weighing on the latter.
18. Since the COVID-19 pandemic era in 2020, Hollywood has charged absurd prices for movie rentals recent movies starting with Trolls: World Tour, which often costs more than just one ticket to see the movie in a cinema or to buy the movie in any format once a given amount of time has passed. It even costs about the same price to buy the movie on either a 4K UHD/Blu-Ray bundle or a limited edition copy of the movie in any physical format. Even buying a bundle or box set containing an entire film franchise would be a better use of your money than a worthless, overpriced movie rental.
    • On PVOD, you are only given 2 weeks to 1 month to press play and only 2 days to watch it once you start it, meaning that your money will quickly go down the drain if you pay this much for a movie rental.
    • Usually the case with Warner Bros films, you are also given the option to pay $5 more to buy it, normally as a shameless attempt to get more money off impatient consumers who aren't willing to wait an extra 2-3 months for the price to drop.
    • One of the most infamous examples is Disney's "Premier Access" program, where Disney+ users can choose to pay $30 (or $35 in some countries) on top of the monthly subscription to rent a theatrically-released Disney film (except Mulan, which went straight to Premier Access) for up to 3 months before users can see it at no additional cost. Thankfully, at the moment, Disney gave this practice a rest to avoid future piracy issues and loss of revenue.
    • The breaking point for this practice was in January 2022, when Google Play Australia initially offered The Boss Baby: Family Business on PVOD for $38 to rent the movie for 48 hours once you press play after cinemas across the country stopped playing it. The backlash was so bad, they had to quickly reduce it to $30AUD, and we thought Disney's prices were outrageous. See it for yourself.
    • Because of this system, piracy has increased massively as a result.
    • Not helping is that people have lost their jobs or are struggling to earn money in this current climate, so they are not able to pay for these rentals in the first place, let alone barely have enough to pay for their food or bills.
19. There are often terrible ideas that Hollywood tries to adapt into movies, for example: The Emoji Movie, Karen, The Boss Baby, Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, or any board game-based movie besides Clue.
20. Several movies these days (such as Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Emoji Movie, Space Jam: A New Legacy and most Happy Madison films) contain tons of product placement in them (sometimes through far too many character cameos), and often feel more like advertisements for said products or other franchises than a movie. For Ralph Breaks the Internet and especially Space Jam: A New Legacy, they often feel like giant commercials for their respective studios that made them. While there are great films featuring product placements or cameos, such as the first Wreck-It Ralph movie, Ready Player One, or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, at least they focus on the story instead of making the audiences hunt Easter eggs for showcasing their products.
21. Studios and executives don't even give chances to rising, underrated, overlooked, or fading actors; instead, they keep giving big parts and roles to the same big names over and over again. This was even true before 2011, when this problem would worsen, although the late 2010s defined this worsening even more than it already has. And Because of this, many talented and highly regarded actors of past decades and even those who were popular during the 2010s have faded or started fading into oblivion with their careers on the brink of being near-completely forgotten; whilst others have only gone for lower scale films or supporting/minor roles in movies or TV series.
    • The movie industry also has this awful tendency of ditching actors simply because they had the misfortune of being in a terrible movie that ultimately gave them a bad reputation, this is known as a "Career-Killing Movie". This move is wrong on so many levels because the film industry needs to understand that being in a bad movie doesn't make someone a bad actor. Not only that but the industry also, alongside the "career-killing movie" stuff, tends to give parts to rising actors only within a certain time because they are popular or have potential, only to ditch them shortly afterward. This is strictly particularly bad with teen sensations or undervalued actors, but made even worse with child actors.
    • Sometimes, one of the key reasons for an actor fading at least slowly back into obscurity is when the actor confirms that they are going to "take a break" from acting to focus on another cause, like a musical career or sociopolitical activism or even personal stuff, but the industry misconstrues the actor simply taking a break for the actor outright retiring so that by the time they are ready to shine again, they are sadly forgotten about and are overshadowed by actors who have become more popular than that actor, which has sadly happened to so many actors like Meg Ryan or Rick Moranis for example. Another reason for an actor being rejected by the industry is when the actor is often underutilized or unnoticed by the industry they are often on the rear end of things and are glossed over to the point where they are forgotten about after some time and just like that.
    • Popular actors nowadays can even replace professional voice actors from certain source material just because of their popularity rather than for their talent, most of the time without informing the voice actors they were going to replace, which is often noticed in remakes of earlier films or animated adaptations of TV shows and video games (or sometimes, live-action CGI hybrid movies).
22. Certain kids/family film movies (Especially animated films) tend to use the infamous "But it's made for kids!" excuse just to make a quick buck on kids' films. Many non-Disney-Pixar films often suffer this treatment.
    • Some would shoehorn certain pop culture jokes that are forced just to appeal to younger audiences like, for example, Ice Age: Collision Course has Crash and Eddie make references to hashtags or when The Emoji Move had Pikotaro from PPAP making a brief appearance. Many kid's films before 2016 were guilty of shoehorning and forced references to popular culture, such as Doogal (The US version of the 2005 Magic Roundabout movie), Chicken Little, and The Thief And The Cobbler (Miramax version) for example.
    • Speaking of which, many modern movies would make references to certain memes that were popular at the time but are now irrelevant, including social media references (most notably Instagram), internet slang, emojis (specifically aimed at its movie adaptation, The Emoji Movie), and outdated dances like the floss and dab, both of which are still used in movies even to this very day.
    • Some family films nowadays tend to overuse gross-out humor to the point where it becomes childish and redundant. Some instances would be certain scenes that are hard to look at.
      • Speaking of humor, even some jokes that do not relate to gross-out humor tend to fall flat.
    • And now, thanks to this, many foreign animated films have a chance to shine in a very mature way like, for example, When Marnie Was There or even Song of the Sea.
    • Many animation fans, even outside the US, called out that with a quote from Bob Flynn, "Animation is not a genre, but a medium." If that wasn't enough, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Brad Bird, and Guillermo del Toro called out how animation is treated.
    • Heck, even Netflix appears to treat animation terribly nowadays. Recently, they canceled some of their anticipated animated shows like Bone and The Twits (even though the latter was eventually reworked into an animated movie) to get canceled by firing nearly 100 of their animation employees. What's worse is that Netflix treasures The Boss Baby just because it makes a lot of money. Animation isn't about money or popularity, it's about attempting to be fun or just be art.
    • Not only that, but as of today, even other streaming services like HBO Max treat animated series like nothing!
23. Sometimes, some films tend to have rushed production just so the films can be released on a certain day (notably in the summer or Christmas season). It can be very noticeable in some films like Cats, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, or Justice League (2017). To be fair, it always has been a major problem before the 2010s.
24. While this has been a problem before 2016 (because of films like Rock: It's Your Decision and Blackfish), some documentaries have a tendency to now be used as a weapon like Leaving Neverland, which ruined the legacy of the late Michael Jackson, or Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party being used as a weapon against the Democratic Party.
25. Some films tend to advertise their actors and cast in the wrong way. In animated films, the Hollywood cast members always get the top bill, discrediting longtime voice actors. For example, My Little Pony: The Movie's poster features the names of Emily Blunt, Zoe Saldana, and Liev Schreiber billed, but none of the actual voice cast.
    • Some trailers/promotional material seem to give a bad impression simply because they make their characters do hip or edgy (depending on the film's target audience) stuff like dance to a popular song or try too hard to be dark. Even if the film doesn't turn out to be bad, it can still be annoying to sit through. Take The Nun for example as it did have a YouTube advertisement that received so much backlash that it was removed (the ad depicted a volume gauge of a phone that went down complete with a jumpscare just to trick people).
    • False advertising is present in some films. Let's say a movie poster or promotional material seems to be heavily focused on a certain character or scene, yet it does not appear in the film despite ads saying otherwise. For example, in The Emoji Movie, Patrick Stewart's character is heavily marketed in trailers and posters, but in the actual movie, he only gets a few dialogues and doesn't play an important role in the movie. This can also happen to ads that depict a certain character as the main character or are said to be the main character when the actual film says otherwise.
26. Several movies have mainly plagiarized scenes and/or entire plots of different pre-existing media, such as movies, with The Emoji Movie ripping off Inside Out, Wreck-It Ralph, and The LEGO Movie being one of the worst examples
27. To be frank, even well-received and praised movies can become unfairly hated for the wrong reasons, although some can be justified, either due to being subject to controversy at the time of its release or being offensive to certain groups of people, or even due to getting an age rating in a certain country that was too high or too low, or many other reasons. Some unfortunate examples including Logan (due to its depiction of child abuse), Monty Python's Life of Brian (due to its religious satire having been considered too blasphemous for certain religious groups), Django Unchained (having been unfortunately released around the same time as the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, the fact that the protagonist is a gunslinger, and its inaccurate portrayal of slavery), Gerald's Game (the infamous scene where Carla Gugino's character Jessie Burlingame gets raped disturbed many viewers, and even made some pass out), and Joker (there were concerns that this film would promote violence).
28. When it comes to voice actors, Hollywood movies based on independent movies and cartoons put Hollywood actors in the movies when they don't need to even remake independent projects in the first place (Both MLP films recently did this: My Little Pony: The Movie put celebrities like Emily Blunt in the movie, but kept the Canadian voice actors as the Mane Six, but A New Generation is just Hollywood actors as the new characters, and the Canadian voice actors only play the Mane Six in a brief opening scene and then are gone.)
29. Sometimes, the people behind some of their movies seem to not accept criticism of certain movies that went bad or at least mediocre. You have those who would do things like put a lawsuit or outright insult on social media.
30. Many modern-day kids' movies are repetitive and formulaic, especially the Disney and Pixar ones. To be fair, both Disney and Pixar did make some good movies no doubt, but they are prone to be formulaic regardless if the movie is good or not.
31. It's hard to trust critics nowadays depending on the movie. While it's true that some movies can be good, decent, average, or bad, some critics come up with outlandish reviews while others are nitpicky. For instance, some reviewers for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 complained about Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles getting too much focus without realizing that those characters are supposed to be the main/prominent characters of the movie. If that wasn't enough, one reviewer compared the afformed characters to that of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia of all things due to the color of the characters.. Like, for real, how can three fictional characters become comparable to that of real-life war?
    • Then you have the reverse part of this problem. You also have critics who defend bad movies (as in really bad movies like Ghostbusters 2016). Since we mentioned Ghostbusters 2016, why don't you compare the critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to the much more polarizing reception from the fans?
    • Even a few Youtuber Critics can't be trusted, as seen in the case of Canadian user: Mathieu Brunet (better known as AniMat or ElectricDragon505), who has been exposed for attacking anyone who is against his views. He used to harbor a deep hatred for Sony just because he thinks their animated films are "too cartoony", which makes no sense, since that's what cartoons are supposed to do! (He's toned down the Sony hate since Spider-Verse, but the internet lasts forever.) While it's true Sony had a rough edge with some of its films, it doesn't mean that they're a generally bad company! To make things even worse, in his review of The Emoji Movie and his 2017 best and worst films, he blatantly said that he wishes for Sony Pictures Animation to go out of business (though he regrets saying this), and numerous times before, he insults the intelligence of SPA workers by saying they can't do anything right. What's worse, he has been hired as a film critic on Rotten Tomatoes and has become a voice actor working with D.C. Douglas, who is a pedophile on the internet, in the film project The Heart of Them. Much like Whedon and Heard, Mathieu is a self-proclaimed activist who constantly preaches on social media that he supports free speech, making him a huge hypocrite.
32. As a result of their actions, certain dreadful movies being made, and exposure, several audiences have lost faith in the film industry and many of these former supporters started to backlash against them. Even then, their pleas and criticisms are, most of the time, ignored. This is another reason that was true even before 2016 because it's been happening since around the mid-2000s and onward, giving birth to nostalgia purists.
    • What doesn't make this any good is that it only causes already bad communities to grow more toxic, pessimistic, arrogant, and, in the worst of cases, nihilistic (Obsessive Conservatives and nostalgia freaks for example).
33. Most summer blockbusters and movies tend to become mediocre, average, or just boring in general, with some exceptions.
34. Starting on May 2, 2023, movie studios (e.g. Universal) are refusing to pay writers and actors fairly just showing how greedy movie studios are now (such as intellectual property rights, artistic integrity, the lack of residuals from streaming services, and new developments within artificial intelligence and synthetic media technology), causing the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and many movies and TV series (mostly live-action) being delayed because of this. It has caused the largest interruption to the American film and television industries since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Fortunately, the strikes finally ended in late 2023 as a tentative agreement was reached: the WGA strike ended on September 27 and the SAG-AFTRA strike ended on November 9, in the same year.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Despite the industry going downhill during the 2010s, there are still many fantastic or at least decent (meaning that they aren't exactly perfect, but are still enjoyable enough to be entertaining and fantastic in their own right) movies and shows made from Hollywood released in the past and present, especially in the 2010s. Movies like:
   • Pixar movies (except Cars 2, and Lightyear)
   • Most of the MCU movies (except for Thor: The Dark World, Captain Marvel, Eternals, Thor: Love and Thunder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and The Marvels)
   • Zack Snyder's Justice League
   • Boyhood
   • It, and its sequel, Chapter Two.
   • La La Land
   • The Mitchells vs. The Machines
   • The Batman
   • The Northman
   • Top Gun: Maverick
   • Everything Everywhere All at Once
   • The Whale
   • Jackass Forever
   • Joker
   • Zootopia
   • Shutter Island
   • Baby Driver
   • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and it's sequel Across the Spider-Verse
   • A Quiet Place, and it's sequel, A Quiet Place Part II
   • The Shape of Water
   • Deadpool
   • The Nice Guys
   • Logan
   • Minari
   • Skyfall
   • Her
   • Hacksaw Ridge
   • Tropic Thunder
   • Superbad
   • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
   • The modern Planet of the Apes trilogy
   • The How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy
   • Black Swan
   • The Town
   • 127 Hours
   • Midnight in Paris
   • 50/50
   • The Descendants
   • Crazy, Stupid Love
   • Edge of Tomorrow
   • Warrior
   • Beginners
   • Moneyball
   • Hugo
   • Super 8
   • Argo
   • Moonrise Kingdom
   • Zero Dark Thirty
   • Looper
   • Django Unchained
   • Life of Pi
   • Oppenheimer
   • Les Miserables
   • The Cabin in the Woods
   • The Dark Knight
   • The Grey
   • The Place Beyond the Pines
   • Before Midnight
   • 12 Years a Slave
   • The World's End
   • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
   • Prisoners
   • Nebraska
   • The Wolf of Wall Street
   • The Handmaiden
   • Da 5 Bloods
   • Knives Out
   • Jojo Rabbit
   • The Irishman
   • A Star is Born
   • 1917
   • The Disaster Artist
   • Arrival
   • Moonlight
   • If Beale St. Could Talk
   • Blade Runner 2049
   • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
   • Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   • Promising Young Woman
   • The Social Network
   • Inception
   • Drive
   • The Master
   • Hereditary
   • Nightcrawler
   • Snowpiercer
   • X-Men: Days of Future Past
   • Frances Ha
   • Fruitvale Station
   • John Wick
   • Interstellar
   • The Guest
   • Selma
   • Creed
   • The Martian
   • Carol
   • Sicario
   • Ex-Machina
   • The Revenant
   • Kingsman: Secret Service
   • Me, Earl & the Dying Girl
   • Manchester by the Sea
   • The Nice Guys
   • Sing Street
   • The Lobster
   • Fences
   • Hacksaw Ridge
   • BlackKklansman
   • Eighth Grade
   • First Reformed
   • Mandy
   • Upgrade
   • The Farewell
   • Phantom Thread
   • Gerald's Game
   • Get Out
   • Brigsby Bear
   • Uncut Gems
   • The VVitch
   • 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
   • Lady Bird
   • The Lego Movie, and The Second Part.
   • Moana
   • Dune (2021), and its sequel, Part Two
   • Marriage Story
   • Widows
   • Red Rocket
   • Spencer
   • Licorice Pizza
   • Judas and the Black Messiah
   • The Last Duel
   • Free Guy
   • tick...tick...BOOM!
   • Coda
   • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
   • The Green Knight
   • No Time to Die
   • West Side Story (2021)
   • Annihilation
   • The Lighthouse
   • Booksmart
   • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
   • Whiplash
   • The Favourite
   • Blue Beetle
   • Talk to Me
   • Birdman
   • The Super Mario Bros. Movie
   • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
   • Thanksgiving
   • Freaky (2020), and the list goes on
   • And even shows too such as
     • Breaking Bad
     • The Walking Dead (except seasons 7 & 8)
     • Game of Thrones (seasons 1-7)
     • The Office (US)
     • Euphoria
     • Stranger Things
     • Avatar: The Last Airbender
     • BoJack Horseman
     • Mr. Robot
     • Fleabag
     • Daredevil
     • Heroes
     • Mad Men
     • Six Feet Under
     • Gilmore Girls
     • The Americans
     • Total Drama (Island, Action, World Tour Revenge of the Island, and the 2023 reboot.)
     • Watchmen
     • Ted Lasso
     • Malcolm in the Middle
     • Scrubs
     • Fargo
     • Hannibal
     • Rick and Morty (seasons 1-3)
     • Mindhunter
     • Barry
     • Schitt's Creek
     • 24
     • True Detective (except season 2)
     • Sons of Anarchy
     • The Ren & Stimpy Show
     • Arrested Development
     • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
     • Chernobyl
     • When They See Us
     • Twin Peaks: The Return
     • Cobra Kai
     • Better Call Saul
     • Succession
     • Prison Break
     • Lost
     • The Wire
     • The Handmaid's Tale
     • The Leftovers
     • The Underground Railroad
     • Adventure Time
     • Steven Universe
     • Gravity Falls
     • Regular Show
     • The Owl House
     • Infinity Train
     • Amphibia
     • The Mandalorian
     • Loki
     • The Simpsons (seasons 1-10, and 32 onwards, although season 32 onwards still isn't exceptionally great, they are decent seasons for a long-running adult animated series)
     • Futurama
     • Family Guy (the first seven seasons)
     • American Dad!
     • South Park (except season 20)
     • King of the Hill
     • Hazbin Hotel
     • Wednesday
     • And much more.
2. 2000-2010, 2014, 2017, 2019, and 2021 were pretty good years for the American film industry.
3. The film industry still did a good job handling the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with many studios delaying most of their movies (e.g. Black Widow, F9, A Quiet Place Part II) from the original 2020 release slate to 2021 (or even 2022, as was the case for Top Gun: Maverick since studios were still doubting audience attendance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic during 2021 even as many people got vaccinated against the virus), and theaters shutting down for the safety of the public, as well as movies and the like halting production, or sending them to streaming services and/or the digital marketplace either earlier than expected or directly. Even those involved in the film industry encouraged their fanbases to stay at home, wash their hands, etc. That also included even controversial celebrities, showing that celebrities do have standards (even if they at least tried to be well-meaning as far as their controversial behavior went), and care deeply about the interests of those who idolize them.
   • While studios still risking released some movies in 2020, these were most likely films that studios believed didn't gain enough of the audience hype for there to be many people wanting to watch them, or even if the film suffered so many numerous delays in the past that it would be impossible and unreasonable to delay them any further than the 2020 release date that the studio settled on (a good example of the latter scenario being The New Mutants).
4. At times, the remake can be decent like Scarface, Little Shop of Horrors, The Ring, A Star is Born, Dawn of the Dead and Cape Fear.
5. Many films, as always, are still only disliked for more general reasons than political (e.g. plot holes, lazy writing, bad acting, overdosed and clichéd tropes that are badly handled, etc.) just like many of those that came out before 2016.
6. As a result of the above qualifications, the only ongoing film franchise (mainly so far) that started before 2016 that still has some excellence added to it is Marvel Studios' own shared universe: none other than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's even a multimedia franchise now!
   • Sadly, however, it has recently started to take a nosedive in popularity and to a lesser extent in quality as well, probably in the combined reasoning that audiences are claiming it's getting too politically progressive and that it has been making too much content in little time, the fact that it is starting to run out of ideas, and also because audiences believe that the MCU should've ended after Avengers: Endgame, with them pointing out it would have been a fitting finale for the MCU, and that the franchise is now being milked to death. It's being made more obvious as of 2022 as superhero movies themselves are (somewhat considerably) having a downfall in popularity.
7. Although the industry is not as good as it used to be now, those involved in it (e.g. actors, actresses, screenwriters, directors, etc.) still try and put much effort into the work they make for film buffs alike (even if it lacks quality for political or general reasons like many movies that were released before 2016), thus showing that the film industry is still loved, still makes plenty of money, and still has many loyal fans as well as supporters (also, many audiences still have faith in the industry and many still go to theaters) and film buffs despite its downfall (more so for political reasons, unoriginality, etc.), thus proving that there's still a lot of hope for this faltering business. This may surprisingly even be the case from 2022 onwards as the film and entertainment industry are starting to improve on their many flaws.
8. Although POC and political vloggers have given these acts a bad name in recent years even in the film industry (especially with films such as MIB: International, the Charlie's Angels reboot, 2016s Ghostbusters, and certain others), the idea of diversity and representation in films and television shows isn't really bad, and is actually well-meaning and still is a good cause, seeing as the minorities presented such as people of African/Latin/Polynesian/Arab, etc. descent, the LGBTQ+ community, the mentally and physically disabled, Muslims, Jews, women, etc. were, and still are, oppressed by other people who are not a part of their communities over the years.
9. Some animated movies don't even need to rely so much on big-name Hollywood actors and instead just retain the original actors. Just take a look at the SpongeBob or VeggieTales movies.
10. There is a part of the film industry that mocks most of its problems, proving that Hollywood can poke fun at itself once in a while; as in movies like Free Guy, Seven Psychopaths, Adaptation, Tropic Thunder, This is the End, or Team America: World Police.
11. While the same actors are cast over and over again in the same film genre to the point where it becomes obsessive, it can be justified by the fact that it's their job, they have a good acting range, and people simply enjoy seeing films from a specific actor and/or actress.
    • It's also very possible that Hollywood only casts certain big-name actors in a certain time frame because they are popular or relevant at the time. This means that in a decade or so from now, or even sooner, actors and actresses like Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Kevin Hart, and Chris Hemsworth may be on their way out and will start to fade away, just like how actors and actresses like Halle Berry, Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, Tobey Maguire, and Denzel Washington are already on their way out and are fading away.
      • It's also possible that only certain actors and actresses are cast in movies and are overlooked/fading away due to the large number of actors and actresses there are in Hollywood. It's not like you can cast everyone at once!
        • In fact, certain actors and actresses being cast frequently or in a certain genre also even created some trends in the past defining a certain actor or actress' popularity at the time. In the late '90s to the entirety of the 2000s to the early 2010s, there was the "Frat Pack": A term defining certain comedy actors such as Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Jack Black who appeared in the highest-grossing comedies in the 2000s. It's possible that the industry would not be the same today without these trends.
    • To be fair, there is also one other good enough reason as to why some actors and actresses don't get cast anymore or are not even cast at all: Some actors and actresses have a range of having made controversial statements or having done controversial career-killing mistakes, to being arrogant and egotistical jerks who have been called difficult to work with (though that's still nothing compared to the other two), to even being outright crooks, rapists, racists, abusers, murderers, sociopathic bullies, ultra-obsessive POC (the menacing ones), and the like, which has made the industry/individual filmmakers rightfully decide to blacklist them (though sometimes also for the wrong reasons, but sometimes mainly for the right reasons too) and not cast them anymore. Actors and actresses accused of these include Rose McGowan, Mel Gibson, Letitia Wright, Kevin Spacey, Steven Seagal, and Chevy Chase. Also, it's possible that once Amber Heard is exposed and Johnny Depp is declared innocent, then she may join this list too.
12. Because of the positive impact that the American film industry had in the world, production film companies all over the world have a chance to shine with outstanding films to represent their countries like Boy and the World, Studio Ghibli films, Song of the Sea, Klaus, the CGI Doraemon films, A Silent Voice, Demon Slayer Mugen Train, Belle, the My Hero Academia movies, A Costume for Nicolas, Shame, Amour, Where Is Anne Frank, My Father's Secret, Long Way North, Wolfwalkers, Hayop Ka, Calamity, Lupin III, The Hunt (Jagten), The Legend of Hei, Your Name, Weathering With You, Paddington 2, Nahuel and the Magic Book, The Mole Agent, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Toni Erdmann, Loving Vincent, The Second Mother, Retablo, The Milk of Sorrow, Days of Santiago, The City and the Dogs, Wild Tales, The Secret in Their Eyes, A Prophet, Cell 211, Parasite, Train to Busan, Shoplifters, Call Me By Your Name, Life is Beautiful, In the Mood for Love, The Father, Cinema Paradiso, Todo Sobre mi Madre, Volver, Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros, Roma, A Fantastic Woman, Flee, Les Misérables, Silence, The Lady, K.G.F. Chapters 1 and 2, RRR, and so on.
13. Some sequels that are based on already existing movies can still be great or at least decent for 2010 and above. Take a look at Blade Runner 2049, The Empire Strikes Back, Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Trek: Beyond, Scream (2022), 22 Jump Street, Fast Five, Logan, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Toy Story 3, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, John Wick: Chapter 2, War for the Planet of the Apes, Top Gun: Maverick, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: Ragnarok and most of the MCU related sequels, Creed II, Kung Fu Panda 2, etc.
    • Speaking of sequels, some can be big improvements towards the predecessors of certain sequels. Take a look at Justice League 2017 and Zack Snyder's Justice League as well as Minions 2015 and Minions: The Rise of Gru for example. Heck, why don't you compare Cars 2 to Cars 3 as another example since Pixar appears to treat Cars 2 as a non-canon film?
14. There are still heaps of great actors of the past and present who are both amazing on the screen as in real life, such as Chadwick Boseman, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, Christopher Reeve, Alan Rickman, Olivia Newton-John, Irene Cara, Carl Weathers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Matthew Perry, River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy, Sharon Tate, Anton Yelchin, Cameron Boyce, Dick Van Dyke, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Danny Devito, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Mike Epps, Katt Williams, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Burr, Pete Davidson, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Malin Akerman, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Joel McHale, Luke Wilson, Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Elizabeth Olsen, Florence Pugh, Zendaya, Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman, Tracee Ellis Ross, Blake Lively, Angelina Jolie, Alia Shawkat, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Chris Pratt, James McAvoy, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Kevin James, David Spade, Macaulay Culkin, Zac Efron, Zooey Deschanel, Karen Gillan, Jaime Pressly, Jamie Kennedy, Tom Green, Neve Campbell, Linda Cardellini, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland, Paul Walter Hauser, Regina King, Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes, Queen Latifah, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Bill Hader, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Leblanc, Ed O'Neill, Sofia Vergara, Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Connie Britton, Carla Gugino, Emma Thompson, Gillian Anderson, Daniel Kaluuuya, Michael B. Jordan, Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Michael J. Fox, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Yara Shahidi, Marcus Scribner, Jack Whitehall, Bo Burnham, Mo Amer, Guz Khan, Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Root, Toby Huss, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bette Midler, Steve Buscemi, John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Ron Livingston, Maya Hawke, Seann William Scott, Steve Zahn, Olivia Colman, and many more to name.
15. Likewise, there are still fantastic directors and producers; such as Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Edgar Wright, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, James Cameron, Barry Jenkins, Chloe Zhao, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Bong Joon Ho, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Sam Raimi, Clint Eastwood, Robert Eggers, James Gunn, Zack Snyder, The Russo Bros., Denis Villeneuve, The Safdies, Christopher Nolan, Noah Baumbach, Rian Johnson, Brad Bird, Jordan Peele, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, and Martin Scorsese who value and seem to care about cinema.
16. There are still many completely original films out there made by Hollywood even today, this is especially true in the animation department. Pixar is the biggest prime example as well as companies like Annapurna, Laika, Walt Disney Animation Studios, A24, and Paramount.
17. There are still plenty of aspiring actors and filmmakers out there who want to join to industry to actually make quality cinema and get the industry back to what it used to be.
18. Some people in the industry do listen to criticism. Take the crew of the 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog movie for example due to them listening to the fans of Sonic the Hedgehog thus fixing Sonic's ugly old design.
19. Sometimes they give canceled movies another chance to shine. It's not always every day that this happens, but you can tell some people in the industry do want to give shelved movies a second chance. Take Nimona as an example because the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios intended to work on the film, but now Netflix acquired it.
20. While this also applies to other industries as well, many nostalgia freaks do have a point about many movies in the industry from 2000-2015 being better by comparison when compared to the ones from 2016 onwards if they believe that the industry has become too politically biased, as at least the industry wasn't showing off any political bias during 2000-2015. Though it sometimes can be for the wrong reasons too, as they might selfishly say today's movies suck when they overlook the fact that there are movies from past decades that sucked too (though many have gained a cult following with some very rare exceptions) which can make them sound hypocritical.
    • Speaking of movies released between 2000 to 2015, as some nostalgia freaks again do have a point about movies from this period being comparatively better compared to many movies made from 2016 onwards, there are many movies released between 2000-2015 that were badly or poorly received or at least had an average or mixed reception that even became cult classics (a lot of it having to do with nostalgic value or the film having its notorious merits such as good acting, a decent storyline, some heartwarming or funny scenes, etc.) though that isn't to say that bad or average movies released in 2016 onwards weren't affected by this either.
21. The movies and shows we watched, many filmmakers, and even other countries' film industries wouldn't exist without Hollywood. Also, our very lives would not be the same without said movies and shows, since both movies and TV can help influence someone's life, outlook, and attitudes.

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