In this edition of cinema issues we are discussing the broader progressive movement in films and tv and checking it’s pulse.

So before we get into it a quick highlight reel, the Acolyte was canned after one season, Starfleet Academy was cancelled, Doctor Who had series worst views, lost its deal with Disney and now is in limbo beyond a Christmas special, the Rings of Power has been a huge failure and has lost millions of viewers season on season, the Wheel of Time was cancelled, the Witcher was aborted.

It is pretty safe to say being an overly progressive show or film isn’t safe anymore, there is a question to be made that it never was, but now it is definitely for the chopping block. Audiences across the board have rejected things like Snow White and Tron 3, and are sick and tired of media preaching progressive views at people.

The thing is they did this to themselves they suffered from what we called California Syndrome wherein they believe they are modern day saints or apostles preaching the progressive bible and must stick it into everything. This is what happens when an echo chamber forms and any other form of thought is labelled toxic and removed. Even once safe brands like Marvel have started flopping, last year marvel made 3 films each flopped. One side stepped the natural successor to Cap and had Falcon take his place so they could go look we have a black Captain America, the next was a team up focusing on mental health, the final was a Sue Storm origin film that showed that strong women are the real heroes. All of them lost money.

The question this piece asks is it over? No is the answer. The fact remains that the people in the industry still ascribe to the Californian Creed and will still try to push for it, the only difference will be that the money people will tell them no, and they’ll be forced to either do their own stuff or scale it back. So whilst the tide is reversing the battles are not done. The fact is you can still see vestiges of it in new releases, remember these projects often take years to make and so are not reflective of the current alignment. Look at two big releases this summer, Masters of the Universe wherein they are making a Barbie Doll for a masculine franchise and the lead is saying he is borrowing from traditional masculinity and femininity. This shows you it’s still there. Additionally look at Supergirl wherein the lead has already 3 months before release gone on the war path to scream that anyone who doesn’t like the film is a sexist and that men think they own women’s bodies. As you can see the sickness is still there, the idea of entitlement that they are deserving of having people watch, the idea of attacking fans, the idea of wrong think and punishing people for it, is still very much alive in Hollywood.

It appears there is a growing split between studio heads, the people with the money and the talent. In many ways this is going to get worse and will lead to the wider use of AI to remove the creatives.  The studio heads can see the writing on the wall and want a pull back from progressive nonsense, Bob Iger said this ages ago, but the talent still wants to virtue signal. The only way to reach them is to make sure their offers of work dry up by not watching their projects.

It’s a shame now we live in an era wherein you have to look up an actors politics before you watch a film with them in, to go oh do they hate white people, straight people or the Jews, as these are the only groups Hollywood is allowed to go after now. Sadly actors and creatives moved away from the idea of not wanting them as a person to interfere with the project and felt the need to seek praise online by agreeing with every progressive cause they could , they openly hate you.

The issue truly is that they didn’t realise it was us that cut their checks.

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In this edition of Cinema Issues we are talking about the backlash from parts of the LGBTQ community to the new Harry Potter tv series trailer.

Did your protests make book shops stop selling Harry Potter? No.

Did your protests kill Hogwarts Legacy? No.

Is J.K Rowling personally killing trans people? No.

Is J.K Rowling creating laws you don’t like? No.

Will your protest stop this show from being popular? No.

So before we get into it, we just wanted to say that we didn’t want to watch this Harry Potter show because of the modern audience slop it’s doing with Snape, but we have now been put in a weird catch 22. We can not watch it and let the militant trans people sending death threats to Rowling win, or we can watch it and deal with the modern dayisms. It’s a rock and a hard place.

In the online conversation around the new Harry Potter trailer amongst people saying there is no need for this or that visually it didn’t look as good, both valid points. There were people sending death threats to J.K Rowling calling her names saying she had blood on her hands, and trying to spoil the book for new audiences. This doesn’t make your cause, the trans movement, look good nor does it make you look like people who people want to protect or side with. When you behave in such a manner it actively helps people who don’t like you as they can point to your behaviour of sending death threats of proof of what they say about you. That’s not winning hearts and minds.

On top of that you have the fact they think they can shame people into doing what they want attacking people who mention Harry Potter as bigots or as being transphobes. Again you cannot shame people into doing what you want them to do it doesn’t work and makes them go the other way. The fact that the trailer has been massively viewed isn’t surprising considering there is a group of people out there demanding others don’t watch it. It very much is like when you’re a kid and your parents may say don’t do something it often makes you want to do it more.

Ultimately there is a crisis of entitlement going on across the world, wherein these small pressure groups think they can dictate how the rest of the world behaves. You need to understand you’re a tiny group and that most people don’t care, and with your behaviour you’re turning people from don’t care into active dislike. You don’t have a right to not be offended or to be catered to, as you would like to say to people you disagree with if you don’t like it don’t watch it and be quiet. You are making things worse for yourself not better.