Hollywood's Oscar Bait Movies Flatline At Theaters & Report Reveals INSANE US Bombing Statistics

Oscar-caliber movies are flatlining at the box office, making us wonder why American citizens are no longer interested in thought-provoking films. And, the United States has dropped an average of 46 bombs per day around the globe in the last 20 years. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Oscar caliber movies are flatlining in the box office, making us wonder why American citizens are no longer really interested in thought-provoking films. You know, you found this, I mean, this story to me, I, I don't, I didn't know with, whether we were gonna do this story. I, I like this story because it, it, it’s raising some real issues. Okay. One is, the biggest issue that I, as I'm reading all this and there's several stories about this, but the, the issue that surfaces again and again is the Amer, the American public is tired of being preached to. They want to go to a movie. They want to be entertained. I don't want to know what your social and

cultural issues are. I'm coming here to be entertained. Don't put 'em on me. If you do, I'm gonna leave. They're leaving now. Pick it up.

Yeah. I, I think a lot of this, because this I actually from New York Times magazine.

Yeah.

So this is very, I know it's a little off the beaten path for us, but it is interesting because yeah, you do have all of these, I guess what they would call the Oscar bait movies. The very artistic ones. They're well-written, you know, they're well produced.

Good stuff, frankly. They're, it's good stuff.

Good budgets, but nobody cares anymore. Nobody wants to go to the movies or, or rent it at home and.

Yeah.

Have to actually think about anything. They don't want to have to follow a story. They want to see, okay, is this gonna explode? You know, I, if not, I'm, I'm tuning out of it. My attention span can't handle it.

Yeah.

Anymore.

What, gimme your take. You, you and I talked about something similar. What is your take on what's happening out there, culturally?

I, I do have a theory and I think it's all psychological and I think it goes in cycles here. You know, right now everything is kind of bad in this country. You know, the economy's bad. The job market is bad. Wages are bad. Politics is terrible. So what do people want? They want a hero.

Mm-hmm.

They want a larger than life figure that they can root for, the good guy, good girl, whoever it is, to come out on screen and show them that by God, we can overcome anything.

Mm-hmm.

Because that's what's popular right now.

That's all we're getting is superhero shows where the, you know, the impossible takes place right in front of your eyes.

It gives people hope. You know, you look at that and you say, look, this is somebody I can stand up with. So.

How, how many of 'em can you watch? How, how many times? It's the same, it's the same script. How, how many can you watch?

It, it is very formulated.

Yeah.

But, so it goes a little further back too. During the Iraq war time, everybody was terrified. Right. We're told terrorists are right around every

single corner.

Right.

So people were afraid. The world was a scary place. And that was a time when you did have these huge cinematic, thought-provoking films that people got immersed in.

Mm.

And and it's because we wanted to see something beautiful. In a world that scared us.

Mm.

We wanted that beauty. And then you go back even further, the nineties. Nineties were a good time. The economy was doing great. You know, everything seemed fine. People were happy. So what was super popular at that time? That's when you had your Jim Carreys, your Adam Sandlers and Chris Farley.

Yeah, everybody's laughing.

Yeah. The goofball comedies were so popular.

Yeah.

And it does kind of resonate with the atmosphere in the country at that time. So I think where we're at right now is people don't wanna think. We think all the time, we think about how bad our finances are, how bad the political atmosphere is, how bad the environment is.

And so they don't want to go in and watch Nightmare Alley, that I thought was a pretty good movie, you know. And, but here's the numbers.