The American film & entertainment industry



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

- John Ratzenberger. Yes, really.

"Hollywood is unoriginal, and they love money."

- ralphthemoviemaker

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

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 2001 onwards, the industry's habits grew worse and worse, as later adopted even worse habits along the way, like pandering to certain groups rather than audiences and running certain franchises into the ground, though these habits got even worse beginning with the late-2010s where these are shown to be much more obvious to audiences than ever before.

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

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. In fact, many films have become overly preachy about their political themes to the point where they may even become SJW or political propaganda.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 4) * Most of Hollywood trends from 2010 onwards, were based on already existing media instead of being freshly original, some of them were: Adaptations of romantic/dystopian teen novels (Twilight, The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, Maze Runner, Divergent, The Host, The Mortal Instruments, The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You, The Kissing Booth, After, etc), superhero films (The MCU and DCEU), famous musicians biopics (Get on Up, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Stardust, Respect, Love & Mercy, Nina, Miles Ahead, Nowhere Boy, Jersey Boys, Elvis), and cinematic universes which only purpose was to cash in the MCU (Universal's Dark Universe which was canceled after The Mummy, the DCEU, the Monsterverse, the Transformers franchise, The Conjuring Universe, the Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe, Sony's Spider-Man Universe, and the failed Amazing Spider-Man saga which never saw anything other than one sequel, a bad one).
 * 5) Two words: Executive meddling. 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:
 * 6) *Many of the DCEU films failing.
 * 7) *Spider-Man 3 including Venom only to please the fans.
 * 8) *The entire backgrounds of Alien 3 and 2015's Fantastic Four.
 * 9) *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).
 * 10) *Scooby-Doo going from an R rating to a PG-13 rating to a PG rating.
 * 11) * Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker resurrecting Emperor Palpatine, which many people agree it's what essentially ruined the film.
 * 12) *The Cat in the Hat having a lot of cringe-worthy humor.
 * 13) *Chicken Little turning into a fractured fairy tale to ca sh in Shrek's formula and success.
 * 14) *Slender Man became a generic shockfest.
 * 15) *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.
 * 16) *Shrek the Third being inferior to the first two Shrek films.
 * 17) *Phil Lord and Chris Miller got fired from Solo: A Star Wars Story four months into shooting.
 * 18) Some movies have become hated for being too discriminatory (racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, etc.), which, for the SJWs case, contradicts any claims of justice:
 * 19) * Scarlett Johansson played a whitewashed version of the main character from Ghost in the Shell, this ultimately gave her a bad reputation.
 * 20) * 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.
 * 21) * 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.
 * 22) *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.
 * 23) *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 for both.
 * 24) *While those films have become infamous for correct and justifiable reasons, others have become hated for pathetic reasons:
 * 25) **Good movies like Green Book, Amistad, The Help, Glory, Freedom Writers, Hairspray, The Blind Side, The Last Samurai are now infamous films for featuring the "white savior" complex (which is when a POC has a problem and a white person helps them) which is not actually racist but SJWs hate it, in fact, the term was made up by SJWs, 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. In fact, when you think about it, the idea of the complex is not really 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 SJW's come 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.
 * 26) **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.
 * 27) Many actors/actresses/directors/producers etc. in the industry have become hated because they have been known to be overly preachy about their political/religious/general worldviews, to being 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 their social media. While they are human like us and, as such, share many of the same flaws, many of them were sadly affected by this, some unfortunate examples being Seth Rogen, Armie Hammer, Amber Tamblyn, Elizabeth Banks, Sophia Bush, John Cusack, Rose McGowan, Amber Heard, Cara Delevingne, Michael Rapaport, Chevy Chase, and even Will Smith, among others.
 * 28) *They're hypocrites:
 * 29) **They condemn sexual abuse and harassment but they ignore the fact that they covered Harvey Weinstein and collaborated with Woody Allen.
 * 30) **They condemn racism yet some of them made racist remarks/jokes early in their careers and have been easily forgiven.
 * 31) ***Speaking of racism, some of them will complain and protest about how racism exists but will completely support racism in China, 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 removes black characters from Chinese posters of their movies.
 * 32) **Plenty of them have participated in several political PSA's in which they promote the "every vote matters" message; however, on their 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.
 * 33) **They're easily offended by dark humor but love "woke progressive" humor. In fact, comedians like Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, and Bill Burr (who are known for their dark comedy) have been criticized and tagged as unfunny and out of touch, while progressive comedians like Billy Eichner, Sarah Silverman, W Kamau Bell, Hannah Gadsby, and Lilly Singh are constantly praised by them no matter what.
 * 34) **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.
 * 35) **They're against abuse but almost all of them supported Amber Heard after she abused and framed Johnny Depp.
 * 36) **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 that it's different.
 * 37) *Some of them don't really respect their fans; in fact, sometimes they treat them as their personal army.
 * 38) *They treat social activists like the Obamas, Yashar Ali, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsourourur, Gloria Steinem, Cecile Richards, Shannon Watts, or Greta Thunberg like literal gods, thus ignoring their flaws.
 * 39) *In plenty of situations they've proved that they can't take criticism.
 * 40) *Many of them tend to side with SJWs and woke bloggers mainly to hide their controversy.
 * 41) Speaking about China, due to the Communist Party's rule about what is allowed or not allowed in the film many film companies tried to pander to them by cutting out or adding pointless scenes just for money for Chinese box offices. More info shown here.
 * 42) 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:
 * 43) *Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Kevin Spacey, R. Kelly, Brett Ratner, James Toback, Steven Seagal, Jeffrey Jones, Kyle Massey, Ansel Elgort, and John Kricfalusi were revealed to be rapists, pedophiles, perverts, and sex predators.
 * 44) *Drake Bell, who attempted to endanger a 15-year old girl with sexually explicit text messages; which is ironic given what character he played on his hit debut with Josh Peck on Nickelodeon (However, he doesn't count as either a pedophile or a sex predator, since he wasn't charged with any sex crimes; but he did plead guilty, so that counts). Even his former co-star, Josh Peck, was absolutely disgusted by this, and because of his actions, the planned Drake & Josh reboot was canceled, thus ruining the show's legacy for good.
 * 45) *Amber Heard, who physically and mentally abused Johnny Depp while playing victim and accused him of being the abuser; yet, Depp got punished for being abused by being removed him 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 woke 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).
 * 46) **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.
 * 47) *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 blames on him have since been revoked).
 * 48) *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. Much like Amber Heard, Whedon also used to be a self-proclaimed feminist who constantly preached on social media, also making him a hypocrite.
 * 49) *Mathieu Brunet, who has been exposed for supporting far-left extremists on the Internet, attacks anyone who is against his views and even goes as far as compare anyone who supports Trump or conservativism to fascism. What's worse he is hired as a film critic on Rotten Tomatoes. Much like Whedon and Heard, Mathieu is a self-proclaimed activist that constantly preached on social media that he supports free speech, making him a huge hypocrite.
 * 50) *Sia who has a very poor relationship with Maddie Ziegler, who at one point, was an underaged child at the time, and a complete 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.
 * 51) *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 brag about it as if it was the right thing to do?
 * 52) *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. Basically, think 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.
 * 53) *As if Chevy Chase wasn't surprising enough, 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.
 * 54) *Liu Yifei revealed on social media that she was a communist who supported the police in the Hong Kong protests, and even has the nerve to say "what a shame for them".
 * 55) *Rachel Zegler who's racist against white people, despite being half Polish, saying things such as they're all "conservative white supremacists", and in response to the criticism of Snow White, 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.
 * 56) *Daniella Pineda mocks fans of the original Cowboy Bebop 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 her 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 actually respectful, where he shared his opinion but didn't mock fans for disliking changes because unlike people like Daniella and the producers, he actually gets it.
 * 57) *Keira Knightley, a radical feminist who hates Disney princesses for the same dumb reasons (Cinderella waited 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 actually 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.
 * 58) * Ever since The Emoji Movie was about to be released, T.J. Miller trashed his former co-workers from "Silicon Valley" thinking they didn't do anything to stop Trump. When he joined The Emoji Movie, he thinks that the film will help fight Trump for some reason.
 * 59) *Then there's Ezra Miller who did a lot of bad things including choking and assaulting women, attacking couples in Hawaii, grooming a teenage girl, supplying an underaged girl with LSD and marijuana, and deleting their Instagram account after taunting authorities via memes. Heck, even DC fans want Ezra to be replaced in the upcoming The Flash film.
 * 60) *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.
 * 61) Each Oscars ceremony ever since has got arguably worse and dull since 1989 (although they still have their moments, such as Robin Williams performing "Blame Canada" at the 2000 Oscars, Eminem performing "Lose Yourself" at the 2020 Oscars, LOTR: Return of the King winning Best Picture, Troy Kotsur's win, Leonardo DiCaprio's win, Spirited Away and Spider-Verse winning Best Animation, Adam Lambert and Queen opening the 2019 ceremony, Heath Ledger's posthumous win, and Parasite's big victory).
 * 62) Speaking of the Oscars, the Academy has become an extremely idiotic and obnoxious association. There are so many reasons:
 * 63) * The fact that about 75% of the films nominated in the main categories are usually dramas and rarely nominate comedies, horror, science fiction, or other genres.
 * 64) * 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 don't give motion capture CGI films a chance to be nominated such as The Adventures of Tintin or Disney's A Christmas Carol.
 * 65) **As for voice acting, it's really 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 as Maui from Moana, Mike Myers as the titular ogre from Shrek, Shameik Moore as Miles Morales from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ben Schwartz as the titular blue blur from Sonic the Hedgehog, Robin Williams as The Genie from the 1992 version of Aladdin, Tom Hanks as Woody from Toy Story and The Conductor from The Polar Express, Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde from Zootopia, John C. Reilly as the titular "bad guy" from Wreck-It Ralph, Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc., Amy Poehler as Joy from Inside Out, Craig T. Nelson as Mr. Incredible from The Incredibles, Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen from Cars, Ed Asner as Carl Fredrickson from Up, Steve Carrell as Gru from Despicable Me, Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson from The Simpsons Movie, George Clooney as Mr. Fox from Fantastic Mr. Fox, the list goes on.
 * 66) * 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.
 * 67) **The Academy also has a problem when it comes to nominating black people that go even as 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 N'yongo 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 N'yongo 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.
 * 68) ***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.
 * 69) * 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:
 * 70) **The King's Speech for BP over The Social Network, Toy Story 3 and Inception
 * 71) **Green Book for BP and Best Screenplay over The Favourite and Roma
 * 72) **Driving Miss Daisy for BP over Do the Right Thing and Born on the 4th of July
 * 73) **Shakespeare in Love for BP over Saving Private Ryan
 * 74) **Crash for BP over Brokeback Mountain
 * 75) **Out of Africa for BP over The Color Purple
 * 76) **Ordinary People for BP over Raging Bull
 * 77) **Chariots of Fire for BP over Raiders of the Lost Ark
 * 78) **Dances with Wolves for BP over GoodFellas
 * 79) **How Green Was My Valley for BP over Citizen Kane
 * 80) **The Greatest Show on Earth for BP over Singin' in the Rain and High Noon
 * 81) **Around the World in 80 Days for BP over The Ten Commandments
 * 82) **Big Hero 6 for Best Animated Feature over The LEGO Movie, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and Tale of the Princess Kaguya
 * 83) **Brave for Best Animated Feature over Paranorman, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and Wreck-It Ralph
 * 84) **Suicide Squad winning Best Makeup and Hairstyling
 * 85) **Bohemian Rhapsody for Best Editing
 * 86) **Tom Hooper for Best Director over Christopher Nolan and David Fincher
 * 87) **Alejandro G. Iñarritu winning Best Director over George Miller
 * 88) **Michael Caine for Supporting Actor over Tom Cruise, Michael Clarke Duncan and Haley Joel Osment
 * 89) **Gary Oldman for Best Actor
 * 90) **Marisa Tomei for Supporting Actress
 * 91) **Roman Polanski for Best Director (in this case, while his direction was phenomenal, he didn't deserve an award as he had been revealed to be a rapist prior to winning)
 * 92) *The infamous La La Land/Moonlight mix-up. Enough said.
 * 93) *The winners 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.
 * 94) *Sometimes they come up with ridiculous ideas like the infamous "Best Popular Film" award or having presenters for presenters in the 2020 ceremony.
 * 95) *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 that wanted films like The Lego Batman Movie, Captain Underpants, Your Name, and A Silent Voice to get a nomination.
 * 96) *It's really common for Disney and Pixar to win an Oscar for the best-animated film thus being predictable as if it's almost like 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.
 * 97) *Ever since the Kevin Hart's tweets controversy back in 2018, the Oscars when onto 3 ceremonies without a host.
 * 98) *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; now in 2022, they seem to have learned nothing as they didn't presented several craft awards live during the telecast.
 * 99) *Due to their choices of presenters, there are often quite awkward and cringey 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, basically any time the winner's speech gets interrupted by the music, every time the winner goes politic during it's 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 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, Amy Schumer calling Kirsten Dunst a "seat filler", the infuriating moment where Halle Bailey, Lily James & 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, etc.
 * 100) *Since we mentioned Halle, Lily, and Naomi demoting animation being just a stupid kids thing, it goes to show how hypocritical the Oscars are as they nominated Triplets of Belleville, Isle of Dogs, Persepolis, The Illusionist, My Life As A Zucchini, The Breadwinner, Loving Vincent, The Wind Rises, and Flee 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 also Anomalisa which was rated R.
 * 101) * Another infuriating reason about the academy is the infamous "Oscars Club" theory, similar to the "secret committees" theory that ran in the Grammy Awards until 2021: It's the fact that various popular actors like Meryl Streep (the most notorious example), Julianne Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Octavia Spencer, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, Charlize Theron, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Laura Dern, Gary Oldman, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Lawrence are nominated out of favoritism instead of actually deserving it; in other words, they get nominations simply because they're the academy's "favorites".
 * 102) *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 decent job with the material that they were given. Let's say this person is a remarkable name in the film industry but has never won an Oscar and all of his 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 it's 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 really award veteran actors for their nominated work but their trajectories overall. Some examples are:
 * 103) **Leonardo DiCaprio: While his performance in The Revenant is pretty good, it's nothing compared to the one of The Wolf of Wall Street which is truly outstanding.
 * 104) **Gary Oldman: Won for Darkest Hour, should've won for Léon: The Professional or Tinker Taylor: Soldier Spy
 * 105) **Al Pacino: Won for Scent of a Woman, should've won for The Godfather trilogy, Scarface or Dog Day Afternoon
 * 106) **Morgan Freeman: Won for Million Dollar Baby, should've won for The Shawshank Redemption
 * 107) **Kate Winslet: Won for The Reader, should've won for Titanic
 * 108) **Denzel Washington: Won for Training Day, should've won for Malcolm X
 * 109) **Jeff Bridges: Won for Crazy Heart, should've won for The Big Lebowski
 * 110) **Paul Newman: Won for The Color of Money, should've won for Cool Hand Luke
 * 111) **Jack Nicholson: Won for As Good as It Gets, should've won for Chinatown or The Shining
 * 112) **Whoopi Goldberg: Won for Ghost, should've won for The Color Purple
 * 113) **Henry Fonda: Won for On Golden Pond, should've won for Grapes of Wrath or 12 Angry Men
 * 114) **Reese Witherspoon: Won for Walk the Line, should've won for Election
 * 115) **Nicole Kidman: Won for The Hours, should've won for Eyes Wide Shut
 * 116) **Julianne Moore: Won for Still Alice, should've won for Far from Heaven
 * 117) **Jessica Chastain: Won for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, should've won for Zero Dark Thirty
 * 118) **Christian Bale: Won for The Fighter, should've won for American Psycho
 * 119) **Cuba Gooding Jr.: Won for Jerry Maguire, should've won for Boyz N' the Hood
 * 120) **Will Smith: Won for King Richard, should've won for The Pursuit of Happyness
 * 121) **Spike Lee: Won for BlackKklansman, should've won for Do the Right Thing
 * 122) **Guillermo del Toro: Won for The Shape of Water, should've won for Pan's Labyrinth
 * 123) **Martin Scorsese: Won for The Departed, should've won for Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, The Color of Money or Raging Bull
 * 124) * Their undeserved and infamous snubs, which has been a problem since the Golden Age of Hollywood. Here are some notorious examples:
 * 125) ** Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler
 * 126) **Toni Colette for Hereditary
 * 127) **David Oyelowo for Selma
 * 128) **Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
 * 129) **Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse
 * 130) **Lupita N'yongo for Us
 * 131) **Awkwafina for The Farewell
 * 132) **Andrew Garfield for The Social Network and Silence
 * 133) **Malcolm McDowell for A Clockwork Orange
 * 134) **Cuba Gooding Jr. for Boyz N the Hood
 * 135) **Christian Bale for American Psycho
 * 136) **Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers
 * 137) **Uma Thurman for Kill Bill
 * 138) **Emily Blunt for Sicario
 * 139) **Charlize Theron for Mad Max: Fury Road and Young Adult
 * 140) **Alan Rickman for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Die Hard
 * 141) **Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love
 * 142) **Robin Williams for One Hour Photo and Bicentennial Man
 * 143) **Benicio Del Toro for Sin City and Sicario
 * 144) **Clive Owen for Children of Men
 * 145) **Carla Gugino for Gerald's Game
 * 146) **Eminem for 8 Mile
 * 147) **Emma Stone for Easy A
 * 148) **Delroy Lindo for Da 5 Bloods
 * 149) **Samuel L. Jackson for The Hateful 8
 * 150) **Jim Carrey for The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * 151) **Steve Carell for Little Miss Sunshine and The 40-Year-Old Virgin
 * 152) **Will Ferrell for Elf and Stranger than Fiction
 * 153) **Zach Galifianakis for The Hangover
 * 154) **James McAvoy for Split
 * 155) **Miles Teller for Whiplash
 * 156) **Trevante Rhodes for Moonlight
 * 157) **James Franco for The Disaster Artist
 * 158) **John Cusack for Being John Malkovich
 * 159) **Mads Mikkelsen for Casino Royale, Another Round and The Hunt
 * 160) **Shia LaBeouf for Honey Boy
 * 161) **Tobey Maguire for Brothers
 * 162) **Jude Law for The Holiday
 * 163) **Zach Braff for Garden State
 * 164) **Megan Fox for Jennifer's Body
 * 165) **Jodie Comer for The Last Duel
 * 166) **Rachel McAdams for Mean Girls
 * 167) **Taraji P. Henson for Hidden Figures
 * 168) **Amy Adams for Arrival and Enchanted
 * 169) **Rachel Zegler for Spielberg's West Side Story
 * 170) **Sienna Miller for American Woman and Factory Girl
 * 171) **Michael Fassbender for Shame and Hunger
 * 172) **Steve Zahn for Rescue Dawn
 * 173) **Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool
 * 174) **Jack Black for High Fidelity
 * 175) **Robert De Niro for The Irishman
 * 176) **Robert Pattinson for The Lighthouse and Good Time
 * 177) **Kirsten Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria and Adventureland
 * 178) **Val Kilmer for Tombstone, The Doors and Wonderland
 * 179) **Tom Cruise for M:I - Fallout and Collateral
 * 180) **Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips
 * 181) **Simon Rex for Red Rocket
 * 182) **Guy Pearce for Memento
 * 183) **Rainn Wilson for Super!
 * 184) **Joaquin Phoenix for Her
 * 185) **Josh Brolin for Avengers: Infinity War
 * 186) **Ben Affleck for Chasing Amy and Gone Girl
 * 187) **Robert Downey Jr. for Avengers: Endgame and Iron Man
 * 188) **Nicolas Cage for Face/Off, Pig, Lord of War, and Mandy
 * 189) **Michael B. Jordan for Creed, Black Panther and Fruitvale Station
 * 190) **Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans and Jennifer Connelly for Requiem for a Dream
 * 191) **Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode and Malin Akerman for Watchmen
 * 192) **Hugh Jackman for Prisoners, The Fountain, The Prestige, and Logan
 * 193) **Andy Serkis for the modern Planet of the Apes movies
 * 194) **Song Kang Ho and Park So-Dam for Parasite
 * 195) **Eddie Murphy for Dolemite is my Name
 * 196) **Taron Egerton for Rocketman
 * 197) **Patrick Stewart for Logan
 * 198) **Bill Murray for Rushmore and Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
 * 199) **Robert Eggers for Best Director (The VVitch, The Lighthouse)
 * 200) **Denis Villeneuve for Best Director (Blade Runner 2049, Dune)
 * 201) **Christopher Nolan for Best Director (Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, etc.)
 * 202) **Spike Lee for Best Director (Do the Right Thing, 25th Hour, Inside Man, and Malcolm X)
 * 203) **Hoop Dreams, Grizzly Man, Life Itself, Fahrenheit 9/11, Won't You Be My Neighbor? and Val for Best Documentary
 * 204) **Mary and Max, Tangled, Megamind, Despicable Me, Shrek Forever After, The Peanuts Movie, Rio, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Meet the Robinsons, Flushed Away, Over the Hedge, The Polar Express, Arthur Christmas, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, The Adventures of Tintin, The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Simpsons Movie, The Cat Returns, Ponyo, From Up On Poppy Hill, Your Name, A Silent Voice, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, The Boy and the Beast, and Weathering With You for Best Animated Feature. Heck, a lot of anime films get snubs with Belle and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train being the biggest offenders.
 * 205) **"See You Again" from Furious 7 for Best Original Song. Very hypocritical from them considering that this was the most popular song of 2015.
 * 206) **"Love Me Like You Do" from 50 Shades of Grey for Best Original Song. Sure, "Earned It" was good, but this one was a worldwide hit.
 * 207) **"Please Mr. Kennedy" from Inside Llewyn Davis for Best Original Song
 * 208) **"Drive It Like You Stole It" from Sing Street for Best Original Song
 * 209) **"You Know My Name" from Casino Royale for Best Original Song
 * 210) **"God Bless Us Everyone" from Disney's A Christmas Carol for Best Original Song
 * 211) **"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto for Best Original Song. As with "Love Me Like You Do" as mentioned earlier, this was also a worldwide hit and deserved the nomination more than "Dos Oruguitas".
 * 212) **"Kiss Me" from She's All That for Best Original Song
 * 213) **"Keep Holding On" from Eragon for Best Original Song
 * 214) **"Men in Black" from Men in Black for Best Original Song
 * 215) **"Alice" from Alice in Wonderland for Best Original Song
 * 216) **"Scream" from High School Musical 3 for Best Original Song
 * 217) **“Scotty Doesn’t Know” from EuroTrip for Best Original Song
 * 218) **"Lady Marmalade" from Moulin Rouge! for Best Original Song
 * 219) **"Darling I Do" from Shrek Forever After for Best Original Song
 * 220) **"Gangsta's Paradise" from Dangerous Minds for Best Original Song
 * 221) **"I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" from Crossroads for Best Original Song
 * 222) **"Up There" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut for Best Original Song
 * 223) **"Don't You (Forget About Me)" from The Breakfast Club for Best Original Song
 * 224) **"What I've Done", "New Divide" and "Iridescent" from the Transformers films for Best Original Song
 * 225) **"Decode", "Eclipse (All Yours)" and "A Thousand Years" from the Twilight films for Best Original Song
 * 226) **"Hero", "Ordinary", "Vindicated" and "Signal Fire" from the original Spider-Man trilogy for Best Original Song
 * 227) **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.
 * 228) ** Plenty of female directors, for example: Mary Harron - American Psycho, Greta Gerwig - Little Women, Celine Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ava DuVernay - Selma, Claire Denis - Beau Travail, Lulu Wang - The Farewell, Mati Diop - Atlantics, Regina King - One Night in Miami. Ironic that they promote feminism but don't nominate these people.
 * 229) **Plenty of iconic and amazing films, both classic and modern, like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Singin' in the Rain, Rear Window, Blow Out, The Shining, Boogie Nights, Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Almost Famous, Memento, Blade Runner 2049, Uncut Gems, The Royal Tenenbaums, Clerks, Chasing Amy, The Princess Bride, Requiem for a Dream, Knives Out, The Lighthouse, The VVitch, Sing Street, Heat, Scarface, Do the Right Thing, Logan, The Wrestler, The Searchers, Psycho, Spencer, Red Rocket, Skyfall, Being John Malkovich, Casino Royale, Boyz N the Hood, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Dark Knight, Back to the Future, Some Like it Hot, North By Northwest, Silence, Sin City, Spider-Man 2, The Master, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Cool Hand Luke, Caché, Manhattan, King Kong, Magnolia, Vertigo or The Third Man never received Best Picture nominations despite being considered some of the best films of their years, as well as nominations in other, deserved categories.
 * 230) ***Also, speaking of the above, the Academy almost never usually considers comedies as Best Picture nominees with rare exceptions, which is pretty ironic and hypocritical considering the fact that 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, there are many comedy films over the years that were loved by both critics and audiences that could've been easily been Best Picture nominees but were sadly snubbed: Some good examples being The 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, Spaceballs, The Naked Gun, A Fish Called Wanda, Three Amigos, Withnail & I, Beetlejuice, Planes Trains & Automobiles, When Harry Met Sally, Christmas Vacation, Hot Shots: Part Deux, 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, Happy Gilmore, The Cable Guy, The Nutty Professor, Grosse Point Blank, The Big Lebowski, Liar Liar, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, The Wedding Singer, Baseketball, Rushmore, Bowfinger, Galaxy Quest, Office Space, 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, Talladega Nights, Grandma's Boy, Borat, Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Step Brothers, Tropic Thunder, Role Models, Be Kind Rewind, In Bruges, The Hangover, Zombieland, Four Lions, Crazy Stupid Love, Bridesmaids, Goon, Seven Psychopaths, This is the End, The World's End, 22 Jump Street, Deadpool, The Death of Stalin, The Disaster Artist, The Big Sick, Paddington 2, Booksmart, Dolemite is my Name, etc.
 * 231) ***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, John Wick, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Taken, The Dark Knight, 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?
 * 232) ***Animated movies have been terribly mistreated by the Academy and almost all the time snubbed for a Best Picture nomination at the Academy. The only Animated Films that managed to get nominated are Beauty & 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, My Neighbor Totoro, Akira, Grave of The Fireflies, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King (the most infamous example), Toy Story, Princess Mononoke, The Prince of Egypt, Mulan, Toy Story 2, The Iron Giant, The Emperor's New Groove, Shrek, Monsters Inc, Ice Age, Spirited Away, Lilo & Stitch, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Shrek 2, Ratatouille, Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E (another infamous example), Fantastic Mr. Fox, How to Train Your Dragon, The LEGO Movie, Song of the Sea, Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Inside Out, Zootopia, Kubo & The Two Strings, Moana, Coco, A Silent Voice, Your Name, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train, Soul, Encanto, The Mitchells vs the Machines, and Belle.
 * 233) ***And with horror movies; that's a case that's worthy of an entire page. The Academy has been shamelessly ignoring horror movies ever since its beginning despite the fact that 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 are The Exorcist, Jaws, The Sixth Sense and Get Out while Silence of the Lambs is 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, Twilight Zone: The Movie, 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, 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, Midsommar and The Lighthouse.
 * 234) *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 gets 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.
 * 235) 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'll tend to overuse shock content. Some examples being: The Hostel franchise, the Saw franchise, the Human Centipede trilogy or Piranha 3DD.
 * 236) * Here's a video explaining the problem. (See the videos section below)
 * 237) 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.
 * 238) Movie adaptations don't often do their source material justice or are being 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).
 * 239) Following dark, problematic and controversial events like Trump winning the 2016 election, the Charlottesville riots, the tragic killing 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 downfall of Weinstein and its aftermath; this led to an intensified movements like #MeToo, Time's Up, Black Lives Matter and the "Woke" movement in general which made progressive propaganda even more prominent in media and entertainment.
 * 240) *In fact, many of these events are the main reasons many celebrities in the industry became incredibly toxic, out of control, or downright terrible people in general.
 * 241) Hypocrisy: They are promoting diversity as shown above yet fine of 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.
 * 242) * There is also another case of hypocrisy through the French movie industry for the movie Cuties, where it tries to promote anti-pedophilia messages, although the movie fully contradicts itself and fully participates in pedophilia with underaged women (11-year-old children) participating in sexual activities in which the director, parents of these children, or anyone else on production, possibly forced them to do so.
 * 243) One of the problems of the industry is the fact that 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. While promoting this is good, the problem is that being movies with a politically correct 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, SJW users, 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:
 * 244) *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, corrupt critics, some of the people involved with these projects, and definitely some of its audience may call you racist. While not all of them are bad, some of them are really good, these acts essentially give these films a bad name.
 * 245) * 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, but 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 the 2017 Wonder Woman film.
 * 246) * 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.
 * 247) * Another infamous example is the background of the 2019 movie adaptation of Charlie's Angels, director Elizabeth Banks (known for being a radical 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.
 * 248) *When Santa Inc. got tons of criticism online for being Anti-white and Anti-Christian propaganda, Seth Rogen labeled the haters of the show "white supremacists", even if the criticism is constructive, or the haters are not white. This shows Seth Rogen is not only incapable of handling criticism, it also makes him a rabid SJW.
 * 249) * One of the recent examples in shows is High Guardian Spice which despite being promoted as a diversity show ended up having many females, one trans male, and two males, which does not make it diverse let alone does not make any sense as the world is around 105 boys per 100 girls (51% Man, 49 Woman). Like the examples above they also blamed the reviewers by calling them Anti-LGBT despite the fact even some LGBT users are not happy with the show.
 * 250) *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 in a disturbing and tragic way 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.
 * 251) Quantity over Quality: Many modern-day films and tv shows only cared 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.
 * 252) *The live-action remakes of Disney's classic animated films are the best example.
 * 253) **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 evidently 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.
 * 254) *Star Wars, Fast and Furious, The Hangover, Terminator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Despicable Me, The Santa Clause, Die Hard, Dumb and Dumber, Ted, Happy Feet, Men in Black, Space Jam, Home Alone, Hotel Transylvania, and Ice Age are franchises that declined in quality because of their forced sequels.
 * 255) *Not even the rest of the entertainment industry is safe as shows like Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Loud House, Sesame Street, SpongeBob SquarePants and Fairly OddParents went downhill due to milking.
 * 256) *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.
 * 257) *The leaked script for CW's infamous Powerpuff Girls live-action reboot is outright irredeemably awful in every possible way, to the point that Blossom's soon-to-be actress, left the project. It's so unfaithful to the source material it makes every other reboot, remake, or adaptation not made by CW look tolerable in comparison, even Dragonball: Evolution, the Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993, and the Shyamalan Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. It also contains as much propaganda as the level of 2016's Ghostbusters remake.
 * 258) **Judge it for yourself.
 * 259) Since the COVID-19 pandemic era in 2020, Hollywood has charged absurd prices for movie rentals of 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.
 * 260) * 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.
 * 261) *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.
 * 262) * 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.
 * 263) *The breaking point for this practice as of January of 2022 was 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.
 * 264) *Because of this system, piracy has increased massively as a result.
 * 265) * 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.
 * 266) In previous decades and even in recent years as well, Hollywood made pretty terrible and mediocre average movies; However, many of them earned a cult following for being films "so bad that they are good", or having also become Internet memes, cult favorites and/or even guilty pleasures for some in the process. Simply because a viewer could see them due to the affection that had to them in a nostalgic or appealing way, or maybe these helped them overcome personal struggles such as depression, anxiety, abuse, illnesses etc; or maybe these films had at least an already mixed-to-negative reception but were, to some extent, enjoyable in their own ways and/or had their merits such as good acting from a certain actor or two or more, decent action scenes, crazy musical numbers etc., or perhaps some of these "bad" movies are really good/decent/underrated movies which audiences saw as being unfairly hated by critics and even some other audiences. Movies like White Chicks, Bad Boys 2, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the Star Wars prequels, Sky High, the Police Academy franchise, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Here Comes the Boom, Zookeeper, Dude, Where's My Car?, Little Nicky, Chicken Little, Van Wilder, Sucker Punch, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the four original Scary Movie's, the original Transporter trilogy, Love Actually, Hulk, Rugrats Go Wild, The Holiday, Nacho Libre, Aquamarine, Crossroads, Click, Battleship, She's All That, 27 Dresses, Killers, Bride Wars, Sleepover, the High School Musical films, No Strings Attached, Friends with Benefits, Eurotrip, Road Trip, 17 Again, The Interview, Just Go With It, You Me and Dupree, Maid in Manhattan, Failure to Launch, The Ugly Truth, Sweet Home Alabama, Hancock, the Night at the Museum trilogy, the 2000s Fantastic Four movies, the Fast and Furious films, the Johnny English trilogy, Get Rich or Die Tryin, Parking 2, Escape From L.A., Last Action Hero, Kindergarten Cop, Jingle All the Way, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, the Big Momma trilogy, Bubble Boy, Snakes on a Plane, Joe Dirt, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Animal, The Hot Chick, the Austin Powers sequels, the Expendables trilogy, The Benchwarmers or surprisingly even films such as The Room, Troll 2, Son of the Mask, The Tuxedo, Little Man, The Cat in the Hat, The Dukes of Hazzard, Freddy Got Fingered, the Ghost Rider duology, Batman and Robin, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Norbit, Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, Jack and Jill, That's My Boy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Pixels, Drillbit Taylor, xXx, The Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Gulliver's Travels, All About Steve, the live action Garfield movies, The Pacifier, The Game Plan, Race to Witch Mountain, Highlander II: The Quickening, Die Another Day, Lake Placid, Christmas with the Kranks, The Three Stooges, the Beverly Hills Cop sequels, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Space Between Us, the Cheaper by the Dozen films, Wild Wild West, Rock of Ages, I Robot, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, the Blade trilogy, Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the Friday sequels, the Are We There Yet? duology, The Hangover sequels, the 2nd and 3rd Men in Black movies, the Twilight films, the Friday the 13th sequels, and the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, etc. While we can admit that these movies are pretty terrible and forgettable, or at least had potential but ended up somewhat flawed, they still tend to be more entertaining and enjoyable, when compared to this next lot of films that are about be mentioned, even if the above films were still genuinely hated by some people. Today, and sometimes albeit very rarely in the past too, many bad films are just there and they're just really bad and that's it, there's almost nothing memorable about them and almost everybody seems to hate them, even if they do have their merits here and there. They're just movies that come and go, such as Disaster Movie, Movie 43, Annie, Vacation, A Good Day to Die Hard, Fifty Shades of Grey, Strange Magic, Kim Possible, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Jem and the Holograms, The Emoji Movie, Spy Kids 4D, Home Sweet Home Alone, Dragonball: Evolution, Dirty Grandpa, Project X, After Earth, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, CHIPs, The Circle, A Million Ways to Die in the West, the Madea movies, Holmes and Watson, Scary Movie V, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star, The Kitchen, Night School, The Last Airbender, Collateral Beauty, the 2016's Ghostbusters, 2015's Fantastic Four, Men in Black: International, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Music, 2019s Hellboy, Ice Age: Collision Course, Mars Needs Moms, Artemis Fowl, Monster Hunter, Dolittle, Gods of Egypt, 2022's Marmaduke, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Morbius, Fun Size, Unfriended, Mulan, Slender Man, Cats, or the 2019 Charlie's Angels reboot; hell, there are even some movies with the infamous 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes that are better than these, so you can tell Hollywood stopped trying a long time ago.
 * 267) 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.
 * 268) Several movies these days (such as mh:greatestmovies:Ralph Breaks the Internet (despite being decent albeit decisive), The Emoji Movie, Space Jam: A New Legacy and most Happy Madison films) have 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 own respective studios that made them. While there are great films are 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.
 * 269) 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 2010, where this problem would worsen, although the mid-2010s defined this worsening even more than it already has.
 * 270) * Because of this, tons of talented actors of past decades have passed into oblivion with their careers almost finished while some of them only get supporting/minor roles in series or movies. All simply because of either a career-killing movie, a controversial act they did that negatively destroyed their reputation, maybe because they had a notorious reputation of being difficult to work with or even be in their presence due to them being nothing short of arrogant jerks, or simply because the industry decided to "throw them out of the bus" forgetting them just like that, or in a similar manner, maybe the actor was already well known and frequently cast until a certain point where they eventually became rejected by the industry to cast more relevant or popular actors or actresses thus leading to them being completely forgotten about by the industry and audiences and eventually fade away, getting less attention, and start to appear less often as a result or, consider this: maybe because they were often typecast in the same genre (action, comedy, drama, etc.) and became rejected by the industry and filmmakers due to not being taken seriously as performers who could appear in other genres outside of their usual one. But take note that those big-name actors aren't to blame for appearing more frequently, as it's the fault of the film industry for employing them repeatedly. This has become a major problem since at least the mid-2010s since certain already popular big-name actors, who frequently appeared up until then were starting to fade away from the industry and were replaced by the more popular ones such as Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Gal Gadot, etc. leaving the fading ones to be more ignored by the industry, get (slightly) less recognition, and fade away as a result, as at least before then, when an actor or actress was fading away, at least the industry would still employ them frequently whilst focusing on whoever was more popular/relevant at the time; but now, not anymore, as of 2015, they only really focus on who is more popular/relevant. There are two red flags where you can tell that this is already happening (or starting to happen) to a certain actor: one of which is where the actor doesn't appear in a new film for a long period years, as such in the cases of Will Smith (2008-2012), Denzel Washington (2018-2021), and Ryan Gosling (2018-Now) and the other is where the actor or actress still appears in movies but only mainly in indie movies (which DO NOT count as a part of the industry) but with the occasional big budget film (which does count) in between after appearing in several big-budget films that most of which weren't as well-received and only got the actor or actress mostly blacklisted by the industry, thus leading to them fading away, as such in Natalie Portman's case.
 * 271) **As of 2022, these actors and actresses sadly yet considerably began to fade away or perhaps have even already faded away from the industry despite being popular or beloved at one point are the following: Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Edward Norton, Glenn Close, Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Rick Moranis, Matthew Broderick, Meg Ryan, Richard Gere, Val Kilmer, Tim Roth, Jesse Eisenberg, Billy Bob Thornton, Christopher Walken, Louis C.K., Jamie Foxx, Bill Pullman, Sam Neill, John Malkovich, Kurt Russell, Hugo Weaving, John Turturro, Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Jane Fonda, Sigourney Weaver, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Tea Leoni, Jean Reno, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Keaton, Laurence Fishburne, Julia Roberts, Jeff Daniels, Joe Pantoliano, Danny Glover, Al Pacino, Mel Gibson, Jackie Chan, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Antonio Banderas, Ralph Fiennes, Eric Bana, Adrien Brody, Hugh Grant, Jesse Eisenberg, Halle Berry, Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Ethan Hawke, Kate Winslet, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp (who got it worse after Amber Heard defamed him), Ryan Gosling who despite being a huge star in the 2010s hasn’t been in a movie since 2018, Kim Basinger, Drew Barrymore, Natalie Portman, Uma Thurman, Catherine Keener, Winona Ryder, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Geena Davis, Diane Keaton, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Connelly, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Hugh Laurie, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Heather Graham, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Catherine O'Hara, Neve Campbell, Alicia Silverstone, Matt Dillon, Skeet Ulrich, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Breckin Meyer, Brendan Fraser, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jaime Pressly, Jon Heder, Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba, Carla Gugino, Juliette Lewis, Lacey Chabert, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alexis Bledel, Amanda Bynes, Rachel Nichols, Sara Paxton, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hayden Christensen, Hayden Panettiere, Elisha Cuthbert, Megan Fox, Lindsay Lohan, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Chad Michael Murray, Sophia Bush, Eva Longoria, Eric Christian Olsen, Macaulay Culkin, Daniel Radcliffe, Melissa Joan Hart, Taylor Lautner, Elijah Wood, Sally Field, Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler, Taylor Kitsch, Amanda Peet, Kate Bosworth, Malin Akerman, Emile Hirsch, Tom Green, Steve Zahn, Justin Long, Jason Lee, Dane Cook, Denis Leary, Elizabeth Perkins, Kate Walsh, Jason Schwartzman, Clark Duke, Zach Galifianakis, John C. Reilly, Nicole Ari Parker, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Mo’Nique, Gabourey Sidibe, Omar Epps, Michael Ealy, Vanessa Williams, Loretta Devine, Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Katt Williams, Eddie Griffin, Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Kel Mitchell, Tracy Morgan, Tim Meadows, Cedric the Entertainer, Wanda Sykes, Queen Latifah, Ricky Gervais, Russell Brand, Steve Coogan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rowan Atkinson, Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Chris Kattan, Jamie Kennedy, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, David Krumholtz, James Franco, Andy Richter, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Jon Lovitz, David Spade, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Nick Swardson, Allen Covert, Cheri Oteri, Jane Lynch, Dan Aykroyd, Tim Allen, Eugene Levy, Pauly Shore, George Lopez, Paul Reubens, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley, Ashton Kutcher, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Anna Faris, John Cho, Kal Penn, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Shia LaBeouf, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, BJ Novak, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Yvonne Strahovski, Zooey Deschanel, Katie Holmes, Kate Beckinsale, Milla Jovovich, James Van Der Beek, Jason Biggs, Cole Hauser, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Worthington, Patrick Dempsey, Chris O’Donell, Alfonso Ribeiro, Brandon T. Jackson, Josh Harnett, Jeremy Piven, Charlie Sheen, Tom Welling, Jerry Trainor, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Berkley, Teri Hatcher, Renee Zellweger, Ali Larter, Mandy Moore, Teri Polo, Jaden Smith, Frankie Muniz, Haley Joel Osment, Nathan Fillon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, AnnaSophia Robb, Jim Caviezel, Zach Braff, Mira Sorvino, Mario Van Peebles, Dennis Quaid, Alex Winter, Kevin Costner, Alan Cumming, Timothy Olyphant, Tim Curry, Felicity Huffman, Robert Patrick, Harvey Keitel, Gene Hackman, Thomas Haden Church, and many, many more. All of these actors were sadly affected in varying ways, hence Hollywood eventually rejecting them in the first place, which is a shame, since audiences loved these actors back then and quite a lot of them were popular or at least had potential, but sadly were overshadowed by other popular actors and were forgotten about as a result.
 * 272) **The most infamous case of this would be three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson, the legendary actor seen in The Shining who hasn't been in a movie since 2010! The reason why this happened? Well, it ended up unconfirmed for nine years until when director Mike Flanagan confirmed Nicholson's retirement when asked if Nicholson was offered to appear in Doctor Sleep. He even was invited to make a cameo appearance as another character like Danny Lloyd, but turned down the offer.
 * 273) **Another infamous case of this would be Taylor Lautner, the once famous teen heartthrob and sensation infamously known for his role as Jacob Black in the Twilight films. While not quite to the same extent as Jack Nicholson (who had a bigger career and is much older in age), Lautner didn't get to appear in many films as many of the films in his filmography were underachievers amongst critics and the box office. While, if Rotten Tomatoes is to be believed, audiences were nicer to the Twilight films, critics felt that those films were abysmal, but both critics and audiences weren't as fond of his other films. This sadly worsened for Lautner, as he had made the unfortunate decision to appear in two infamously hated Adam Sandler-led comedies as he was fresh from the Twilight films: 2013's Grown Ups 2 and 2015's The Ridiculous 6. What makes it even sadder for Lautner is that his last known appearance in a film - up until 2022's Home Team - was back in 2016, where he appeared in the obscure drama Run the Tide, and even that got negative reviews. After that, he started appearing more in TV series, but even in the TV industry he's overlooked. It's sad when you realize this is someone who perhaps had potential to become a big movie star, but threw it all away by wasting his talents in otherwise terrible movies.
 * 274) **Back in 2013, WILL SMITH made this infamously terrible sci-fi film called After Earth. Not only did it kill his son Jaden's career, but it also started to give Smith a bad reputation in the industry, and many audiences started to believe that he had already passed his peak since he was more popular in the 1990s and 2000s, and that the industry is just giving him big parts just so he can stay "relevant" despite it being clear that, due to After Earth being a flop, he is not anymore. He had since faded from the industry, mostly appearing in films that were huge flops, and audiences then started to become more interested in rising actors like Margot Robbie, Kevin Hart, Ryan Reynolds etc. despite the industry still giving Smith big parts and audiences still ironically going to see his movies as a result, mainly as a result of his likeable charms. And it doesn't even end there: in 2017 he started a YouTube channel possibly for the sole purpose of trying to stay "hip" to his younger fans, and while his channel is pretty impressive for the most part, it still isn't good enough for him to even try to stay popular. And then came the infamous incident that finally killed his career and even ultimately gave him a bad reputation in audiences' hearts, in which he had slapped Chris Rock in the face at the 2022 Oscars onstage as the entire world was watching after Rock had made an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith's hair loss, also ordering Rock to "keep his wife's name out of his f--king mouth". This incident made him retire as a member of the Academy and got him banned from attending any future Oscars ceremonies for a whole decade, and was what led to Emancipation being delayed from 2022 to 2023 (amongst other reasons), Netflix cancelling Bright 2 and Fast and Loose, and Sony temporarily suspending production on Bad Boys 4. Thankfully, he did apologize for his actions, but only time will tell if he will redeem himself and restore his reputation in Hollywood (if at all).
 * 275) **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 in so many levels because the film industry needs to understand that being in a bad movie, doesn't make someone a bad actor. A clear example would be the case of Taylor Kitsch: He is a great actor and was a promising star at the beginning of the 2010s; however, after the releases of John Carter and Battleship, two of the biggest box office flops of 2012, the industry forgot about him and has not given him major roles in large-scale movies ever since, and despite having proven his talent in movies like Lone Survivor, Only the Brave or the 2nd season of True Detective, he's still an undervalued actor. Other examples of versatile actors whose careers sadly ended or at the very least were significantly affected by a newfound lack of potential in the industry because of bad or even average movies are: Mike Myers (The Love Guru), Dana Carvey (The Master of Disguise), Eddie Murphy (A Thousand Words), Brendan Fraser (Furry Vengeance), Alicia Silverstone (Batman and Robin), Pauly Shore (Bio-Dome), Ben Stiller (Zoolander No. 2), Owen Wilson (Marmaduke), Jack Black (Gulliver's Travels), Will Ferrell (Holmes and Watson), Vince Vaughn (Unfinished Business), Luke Wilson (the 2010 remake of Death at a Funeral), Jamie Foxx (a double whammy case in 2014: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Annie), Jackie Chan (The Spy Next Door), Ice Cube (Ride Along), Jon Lovitz (The Benchwarmers), Hayden Christensen (Star Wars Episodes II and III), Adam Sandler (Jack and Jill), Carla Gugino (Sucker Punch), Freddie Prinze Jr. (Scooby-Doo), Jaden Smith (After Earth), Katie Holmes (Mad Money), Elizabeth Berkley (Showgirls), Taylor Lautner (Abduction), Jamie Kennedy (Son of the Mask), Malin Akerman (Rock of Ages), Kevin Costner (Waterworld), etc.
 * 276) **Not only that, but the industry also, alongside the "career-killing movie" stuff, has the tendency to give parts to rising actors only within a certain period of time because they are popular or have potential, only to throw them under the bus shortly afterwards. This is strictly particularly bad with teen sensations or undervalued actors, but made even worse with child actors. One such example would be AnnaSophia Robb, who had a promising career after starring in the 2007 film Bridge to Terabithia with films such as Race to Witch Mountain, Soul Surfer and The Way, Way Back. However, after appearing in the aforementioned The Way, Way Back, which was released back in 2013, the industry suddenly forgot about her and now she only appears in direct-to-video or independent films, thus diminishing her potential for having a much bigger career and thus ending her "fifteen minutes of fame". This would lead one to ask: "If the industry wants to employ some child actors well into adulthood, then why not others?"
 * 277) *This also causes talented but sadly overlooked actors of both the past and present and regardless of the genre or no matter how famous they are like Ben Foster, Lakeith Stanfield, Cillian Murphy, Dan Stevens, Andrew Garfield, Paul Dano, Joel McHale, Jesse Eisenberg, Ethan Hawke, Jonathan Majors, James Spader, Alfred Molina, Antonio Banderas, Chris O'Dowd, Adam Scott, Harvey Keitel, Vincent Cassel, Casey Affleck, Dave Franco, Simon Rex, Kevin James, John C. Reilly, Jude Law, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, BJ Novak, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Jon Hamm, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Brendan Fraser, Miles Teller, Robert Pattinson, Steve Zahn, Tim Roth, Willem Dafoe, Peter Dinklage, Zachary Levi, Jonathan Groff, Jason Momoa, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Walton Goggins, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Stephan James, Andres Wiese, Stephanie Cayo, Vanessa Kirby, Marion Cotillard, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Anna Kendrick, Alexis Bledel, Gabourey Sidibe, Jodie Comer, Hunter Schafer, Katie Holmes, Megan Fox, Maggie Grace, Tilda Swinton, Salma Hayek, Kristen Stewart, Kate and Rooney Mara, Jamie Bell, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matt Lanter, Paul Walter Hauser, Milo Ventimiglia, Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Tyree Henry, Mark Hamill, William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, Bryan Cranston, John Turturro, Lena Headey, Felicity Jones, Constance Wu, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Michelle Yeoh, Elizabeth Olsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Greta Gerwig, Amanda Seyfried, Kate Hudson, Shailene Woodley, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Schaal, Eva Green, Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington, Carla Gugino, Toni Collette, Samara Weaving, Olga Kurylenko, Ana De Armas, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jenna Fischer, Emily Blunt, Angela Bassett, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Naomie Harris, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kathy Bates, Karen Gillan, Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Aubrey Plaza, Jennifer Hudson, Teresa Palmer, Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Emilia Clarke, Carrie-Anne Moss, Rachel McAdams or Carey Mulligan to be ignored and sidelined by the industry; in fact, due to this, it could just as well send them back to obscurity if they are unlucky enough.
 * 278) **Comedic actors like Keegan-Michael Key, John Cena, Bill Hader, Awkwafina, Anna Faris, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Tiffany Haddish, Seth Rogen, Adam Sandler, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Pete Davidson, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Kathryn Hahn, Zac Efron, Kate McKinnon and Melissa McCarthy as dramatic actors.
 * 279) **Dwayne Johnson, Chris Pratt, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Vin Diesel, Matt Damon, Tom Cruise, Jason Statham, Will Smith (if the industry still wants to give him a chance considering what happened at the 2022 Oscars), Charlize Theron, Gal Gadot, Samuel L. Jackson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone when they don't appear in action movies, and to a lesser extent, outside of action franchises they may be involved in such as the Fast and Furious franchise, the Mission: Impossible franchise, the Marvel Cinematic Universe etc.
 * 280) **Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan outside of the MCU.
 * 281) **Paul Rudd outside of both comedies and the MCU.
 * 282) **Daniel Craig outside of the James Bond films.
 * 283) **And perhaps even Tom Holland, Zendaya, Hugh Jackman, Keanu Reeves, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anya Taylor-Joy and Ryan Reynolds aren't immune to this!
 * 284) ***Most of the time this is due to being typecast too often in the same role/genre, or maybe simply due to having limited screentime in the films that they appeared in and not being able to realize their full potential, or maybe even due to the fact that the industry never gives them better offers and the only offers that they are almost always given are usually supporting roles. Or even, in some cases, being cast more due to popularity rather than talent.
 * 285) *Most of the time, different groups of popular A-list actors can often always be cast in films of the same genre, the worst offenders being the action and comedy genres, and while it can happen in the drama genre too, it still isn't as bad by comparison (because, unlike action and comedy films, dramas will often oscillate between different actors). While this is somewhat okay, and it has still led to some amazing/decent performances from actors and actresses in films of these genres and most of these actors and actresses are still great regardless of the genre that they appear in, it should be noted that seeing the same actors and actresses in the same genre all the time can lead to them being typecast and/or being ignored by Hollywood for roles outside of the genre they usually appear in, and it can get repetitively annoying for some audiences also, even more so to the point where some audiences will refuse to watch any movie with a certain actor/actress because by seeing their name on the poster, and automatically assuming it's a film from that genre 'even when this is not the case, or it may even cause them to fade back into obscurity and therefore become rejected by the industry. Here are some examples of this happening from around 2013 or 2014, and more specifically from 2015-2016, where it worsened, even causing certain big-name actors and/or actresses who were very popular up until the mid-2010s such as Denzel Washington, Natalie Portman, Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, and even Leonardo DiCaprio to fade away and even be ignored by the industry to frequently employ other big-name actors and actresses in movies. But this practice actually started in the mid-1990s too, so there are also some examples of this happening from 1995 to 2010 as well (though they are not as bad as today):
 * 286) **In the comedy genre (except for indie films/sequels/spin-offs/bit parts/cameos/animated films), expect these actors to appear quite often (or at least sometimes, but usually), usually frequently appearing together in small chunks:
 * 287) ***From 1995 to 2010 (at various points): Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Luke Wilson, Paul Rudd, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Tim Allen, Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Jennifer Aniston, Katherine Heigl, Heather Graham, Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Tina Fey, Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Cedric the Entertainer, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Eddie Griffin, and David Koechner.
 * 288) ***From 2013 to 2021: Kevin Hart, Melissa McCarthy, Seth Rogen, Keegan-Michael Key, Kumail Nanjiani, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Kristen Bell, Tiffany Haddish, Kate McKinnon, John Cena, Zac Efron, Adam DeVine, Randall Park, Alexandra Daddario, Kathryn Hahn, Jason Sudeikis, Jillian Bell, Jason Mantzoukas, Hannibal Buress, Maya Rudolph, Awkwafina, James Corden, and Bill Hader.
 * 289) **In the action genre (except for indie films/sequels/bit parts/cameos/animated films), expect these actors to appear quite often (or at least sometimes, but usually), usually frequently appearing together in small chunks:
 * 290) ***From 1995 to 2010 (at various points): Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Ice Cube, Will Smith, Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Mel Gibson, Jackie Chan, Jason Statham, and John Travolta.
 * 291) ***From 2013 to 2021: Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Gal Gadot, and Chris Pratt.
 * 292) **Other actors like Tom Holland, Awkwafina, James Corden, Timothee Chalamet, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart etc. have starred in too many movies within a short time frame just because they became popular unexpectedly. Not only is this bad for these particular actors since they appear too often, it could just as badly cause them to eventually fade into oblivion within the next decade or so or even within a few years depending on when they became popular, because audiences will get sick of seeing them in the long run or they will suffer from burnout, or they will eventually do a film that flops to an irredeemable extent thus causing them to be shunned by both the industry and/or audiences and therefore forgotten about for that reason, now only sometimes appearing in supporting or minor roles if not rarely or not at all.
 * 293) *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). For Space Jam: A New Legacy, Kath Soucie was initially going to reprise her role as Lola Bunny from the original Space Jam, but the day the trailer was released, it was announced instead that Zendaya will be voicing Lola instead in the finished film, despite that Soucie has been voicing the character since her debut. Another example would be SCOOB!, where the entire cast from the TV shows (except Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo himself), are replaced with popular celebrities for no reason other than to get people to watch it. The most recent infamous example would be when Chris Pratt, out of all people, got chosen to play as the lead roles in both the animated Mario and Garfield movies respectively in a span of fewer than 2 months, likely out of star power from playing Star-Lord in the MCU rather than talent, not to mention his role in the Mario movie was so laughable it caused a lot of controversy on the internet, and don't forget that Charles Martinet voiced Mario in nearly every role for over 25 years, so replacing him would make zero sense.
 * 294) *The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe caused many of its cast members to appear in many films more frequently, due to their prominent roles in the MCU movies. A few examples include Tom Holland, Zendaya, Awakwafina, and Chris Pratt.
 * 295) 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.
 * 296) *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 kids films before 2016 were guilty of shoehorning and forced references to popular culture, take Doogal (The US version of the 2005 Magic Roundabout movie), Chicken Little, and The Thief And The Cobbler (Miramax version) for example.
 * 297) *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.
 * 298) *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.
 * 299) **Speaking of humor, even some jokes that do not relate to gross-out humor tend to fall flat.
 * 300) *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.
 * 301) *In fact, 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.
 * 302) * Heck, even Netflix appears to treat animation terribly nowadays. Recently they canceled some of their anticipated animated shows like Bone and The Twits to get canceled. 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.
 * 303) Sometimes, some films tend to have a production that is rushed 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.
 * 304) 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 with Leaving Neverland which ruins the legacy of Michael Jackson or Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party being used as a weapon against the Democratic Party.
 * 305) Some films have a tendency 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, or Liev Schreiber billed, but none of the actual voice cast are.
 * 306) * 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).
 * 307) * 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 really 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 important in the movie. This can also happen to ads that depict a certain character as the main character or said to be the main character when the actual film says otherwise.
 * 308) Several movies have mainly plagiarized scenes and/or entire plots of different pre-existing media, such as movies. For example:
 * 309) *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rips-off the entire story of The Amazing Spider-Man.
 * 310) *Star Wars: The Last Jedi blatantly copied the plot of Crimson Tide and the ending of Escape from L.A.
 * 311) * Taken 3 rips off the plot of The Fugitive.
 * 312) * R.I.P.D. copies the plot of mh:greatestmovies:Men in Black and steals elements from Supernatural.
 * 313) * Scoob! plagiarizes scenes of mh:greatestmovies:The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
 * 314) * Life of the Party copies the plot of mh:greatestmovies:An Extremely Goofy Movie.
 * 315) * The Legend of Hercules is a rip-off of both Gladiator and mh:greatestmovies:300.
 * 316) * Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker mimicking Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and the final act of mh:greatestmovies:Avengers: Endgame.
 * 317) * Rio 2 plagiarized Meet the Parents and mh:greatestmovies:Avatar.
 * 318) * Tom and Jerry: The Movie rip-off the huge entire plot of Disney's mh:greatestmovies:The Rescuers and Don Bluth's mh:greatestmovies:All Dogs Go to Heaven.
 * 319) * Ice Age: Collision Course plagiarized mh:greatestmovies:Deep Impact and Armageddon.
 * 320) * Mars Needs Moms copied the plot of mh:greatestmovies:Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
 * 321) * Skyscraper rip offs mh:greatestmovies:The Towering Inferno and mh:greatestmovies:Die Hard.
 * 322) * Sabotage copied the plot of Training Day, Dark Blue, and Street Kings.
 * 323) *Who's Your Caddy? is a painfully obvious ripoff of Caddyshack that actually plagiarizes the entire plot of Caddyshack II. Seriously, if you need any proof, then see for yourself.
 * 324) *The Spy Next Door which feels like a poorly inspired rip-off combo wannabe of both Spy Kids and The Pacifier.
 * 325) 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 apparently disturbed many viewers, and even made some pass out), and Joker (there were concerns that this film would promote violence), many Disney movies (such as Tangled, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, among others, for the SJW concepts of "Jewish coding" and "queer coding" of villains (Gothel gets hated for being a greedy, having a "hooked nose" even though she has a normal nose, kidnapping and using the power from a blonde, Rapunzel, to stay young, which people thing MUST be "antisemitism", even though Rapunzel and Flynn are "Jewish coded" by that logic simply from having Jewish voice actors and the fact that Gothel was based physically on Cher, and Cassandra in the series is never accused of being "antisemitic", similarly the old disguise of the Evil Queen is hated because of the big, hooked nose. Scar, Ursula, Jafar, etc. are accused of "queer coding" because they're flamboyant even though everyone is somewhat flamboyant as they are musicals, the villains are just supposed to be memorable, fun, and dramatic, or Maleficent occasionaly gets this because her horns look "phallic" to some, even though they're clearly dragon horns, not genitalia) Even foreign movies and TV shows that got popular in America have been targeted with the "queer coding" claims, such as Pokemon (simply because James is a villain and often crossdresses), and Naruto (because Orochimaru can shapeshift into a woman, has long hair, and in Japanese is voiced by Kujira (a woman) in Japanese, ignoring the fact that Naruto himself is voiced by Junko Takeuchi, who is also a woman, in Japanese, and the fact that he has the "sexy-jutsu" maneuver where he can shapeshift into a woman, just because Naruto isn't a villain). One YouTuber said Tangled was offensive because there weren't enough POC in 18th century Germany (except one of the bar guys, who she said was racist because he had small, squinty eyes even though he's not Asian), and when people called her out and pointed out the setting, she also said that "Italians aren't white" which is blatant misinformation, and that it was "appropriating Indian and Thai culture" because the floating laterns are popular traditions in India and Thailand during their traditional holidays. Cinderella has been targeted by another YouTuber because they though Jaq and Gus were "black coded' just because they were brown and "sounded too black".
 * 326) Considering how many voice actors (even in Canadian TV shows) are being replaced at the wishes of SJWs and producers who obey them, it's hard to know when any POC character gets a POC voice actor after a white person is because of pandering.
 * 327) On the subject of 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.)
 * 328) Sometimes the people behind some of their movies seem to not accept criticism on certain movies that went bad or at least mediocre. You got those that would do things like put a lawsuit or outright insult on social media.
 * 329) 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.
 * 330) 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 some outlandish reviews while others are being 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 literally 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?
 * 331) *Then you got the reverse part of this problem. You also got 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 what fans of Ghostbusters have to say about this movie?
 * 332) As a result of their actions, certain dreadful movies being made, and exposures, several audiences 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 nostalgiatards.
 * 333) *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 Anti-SJWs and nostalgiatards for example).

Good Qualities

 * 1) Despite the industry going downhill during the 2000s (or around 2016, depending on your opinion), there are obviously 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 released in the past and present, especially in the 2010s. Movies like:
 * 2) *All the films made by Pixar (with the exception of Cars 2)
 * 3) *Most of the MCU movies (except Iron Man 2, Thor: Dark World, Captain Marvel and Eternals)
 * 4) *Zack Snyder's Justice League
 * 5) *Portrait of a Lady on Fire
 * 6) *La La Land
 * 7) *The Batman
 * 8) *The Mitchells vs. The Machines
 * 9) *Top Gun Maverick
 * 10) *Everything Everywhere All at Once
 * 11) *Raya and the Last Dragon
 * 12) *Encanto
 * 13) *Joker
 * 14) *Isle of Dogs
 * 15) *Zootopia
 * 16) *Nomadland
 * 17) *Bad Times at the El Royale
 * 18) *Shutter Island
 * 19) *Baby Driver
 * 20) *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
 * 21) *A Quiet Place
 * 22) *The Shape of Water
 * 23) *Logan
 * 24) *The Nice Guys
 * 25) *Paddington 2
 * 26) *Minari
 * 27) *Skyfall
 * 28) *Her
 * 29) *Hacksaw Ridge
 * 30) *Tropic Thunder
 * 31) *Superbad
 * 32) *Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
 * 33) *Black Swan
 * 34) *The Town
 * 35) *127 Hours
 * 36) *The How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy
 * 37) *Midnight in Paris
 * 38) *50/50
 * 39) *The Descendants
 * 40) *Shame
 * 41) *Crazy, Stupid Love
 * 42) *Edge of Tomorrow
 * 43) *The modern Planet of the Apes trilogy
 * 44) *Warrior
 * 45) *Beginners
 * 46) *Moneyball
 * 47) *Hugo
 * 48) *Super 8
 * 49) *Argo
 * 50) *Moonrise Kingdom
 * 51) *Zero Dark Thirty
 * 52) *Looper
 * 53) *Django Unchained
 * 54) *Life of Pi
 * 55) *Les Miserables
 * 56) *The Cabin in the Woods
 * 57) *The Dark Knight
 * 58) *The Grey
 * 59) *The Place Beyond the Pines
 * 60) *Before Midnight
 * 61) *Jagten (The Hunt)
 * 62) *12 Years a Slave
 * 63) *The World's End
 * 64) *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
 * 65) *Prisoners
 * 66) *Nebraska
 * 67) *The Wolf of Wall Street
 * 68) *The Handmaiden
 * 69) *Da 5 Bloods
 * 70) *Knives Out
 * 71) *Jojo Rabbit
 * 72) *The Irishman
 * 73) *A Star is Born
 * 74) *1917
 * 75) *The Disaster Artist
 * 76) *Arrival
 * 77) *Moonlight
 * 78) *If Beale St. Could Talk
 * 79) *Blade Runner 2049
 * 80) *Hunt for the Wilderpeople
 * 81) *Mission: Impossible – Fallout
 * 82) *Promising Young Woman
 * 83) *The Social Network
 * 84) *Inception
 * 85) *Drive
 * 86) *The Master
 * 87) *The Father
 * 88) *Hereditary
 * 89) *Nightcrawler
 * 90) *Snowpiercer
 * 91) *Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and it's sequel
 * 92) *Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
 * 93) *Everything Everywhere All at Once
 * 94) *Bill & Ted Face the Music
 * 95) *Dog (2022)
 * 96) *X-Men: Days of Future Past
 * 97) *Frances Ha
 * 98) *Fruitvale Station
 * 99) *John Wick
 * 100) *Interstellar
 * 101) *Foxcatcher
 * 102) *The Guest
 * 103) *Selma
 * 104) *Creed
 * 105) *The Martian
 * 106) *Carol
 * 107) *Sicario
 * 108) *Ex-Machina
 * 109) *The Revenant
 * 110) *Kingsman: Secret Service
 * 111) *Me, Earl & the Dying Girl
 * 112) *Manchester by the Sea
 * 113) *The Nice Guys
 * 114) *Sing Street
 * 115) *The Lobster
 * 116) *Fences
 * 117) *Hacksaw Ridge
 * 118) *BlackKklansman
 * 119) *8TH Grade
 * 120) *First Reformed
 * 121) *Mandy
 * 122) *Upgrade
 * 123) *The Farewell
 * 124) *Phantom Thread
 * 125) *Gerald's Game
 * 126) *Toni Erdmann
 * 127) *Get Out
 * 128) *Brigsby Bear
 * 129) *Uncut Gems
 * 130) *The VVitch
 * 131) *3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
 * 132) *Lady Bird
 * 133) *The Lego Movie
 * 134) *Moana
 * 135) *Dune (2021)
 * 136) *Roma
 * 137) *Marriage Story
 * 138) *Widows
 * 139) *Red Rocket
 * 140) *Spencer
 * 141) *Licorice Pizza
 * 142) *Judas and the Black Messiah
 * 143) *The Last Duel
 * 144) *Free Guy
 * 145) *The Suicide Squad
 * 146) *tick...tick...BOOM!
 * 147) *Coda
 * 148) *The Green Knight
 * 149) *No Time to Die
 * 150) *West Side Story (2021)
 * 151) *Annihilation
 * 152) *The Lighthouse
 * 153) *Booksmart
 * 154) *Parasite
 * 155) *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
 * 156) *Whiplash
 * 157) *The Favourite
 * 158) *Birdman, and the list goes on.
 * 159) *And even shows too such as
 * 160) **Breaking Bad
 * 161) **Game of Thrones (seasons 1-7)
 * 162) **The Office (US)
 * 163) **Euphoria
 * 164) **Stranger Things
 * 165) **Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * 166) **BoJack Horseman
 * 167) **Mr. Robot
 * 168) **Fleabag
 * 169) **Daredevil
 * 170) **Heroes
 * 171) **Mad Men
 * 172) **Six Feet Under
 * 173) **Gilmore Girls
 * 174) **Arrow
 * 175) **The Americans
 * 176) **Total Drama (Island, Action, World Tour and Revenge of the Island)
 * 177) **Watchmen
 * 178) **Ted Lasso
 * 179) **Scrubs
 * 180) **Fargo
 * 181) **Hannibal
 * 182) **Rick and Morty
 * 183) **Mindhunter
 * 184) **Barry
 * 185) **Schitt's Creek
 * 186) **24
 * 187) **True Detective
 * 188) **Sons of Anarchy
 * 189) **SpongeBob Squarepants (except certain seasons)
 * 190) **Arrested Development
 * 191) **It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
 * 192) **Chernobyl
 * 193) **When They See Us
 * 194) **Twin Peaks: The Return
 * 195) **Cobra Kai
 * 196) **Better Call Saul
 * 197) **Succession
 * 198) **Steven Universe
 * 199) **Prison Break
 * 200) **Lost
 * 201) **The Wire
 * 202) **The Handmaid's Tale
 * 203) **The Leftovers
 * 204) **The Underground Railroad
 * 205) **Adventure Time
 * 206) **Steven Universe
 * 207) **Gravity Falls
 * 208) **Regular Show
 * 209) **The Mandalorian
 * 210) **The rest of the MCU Disney+ series.
 * 211) 2001, 2004, 2007 to 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2021 were pretty good years for the American film industry.
 * 212) 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), 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.
 * 213) At times, the remake can be decent like Little Shop of Horrors, The Ring, Dawn of the Dead and Cape Fear.
 * 214) 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.
 * 215) 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!
 * 216) 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.
 * 217) Although SJWs have given these acts a bad name in recent years even in the film industry, especially with films such as Men in Black: International, the 2019 Charlie's Angels reboot, the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, 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, 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 apart of their communities over the years.
 * 218) Some animated movies don't even need to rely so much on big-name Hollywood actors and instead just retain the original actors. Take a look at The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie as it still uses the same voice actors from the show it's based on like Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. Lawrence, Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki etc.
 * 219) 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. This is heard in a trailer for Free Guy, where the announcer references the industry's era of reboots, remakes, and sequels.
 * 220) While the same actors are cast over and over again in the same film genre to the point where it becomes obsessive (see the "Bad Qualities" above), it can be justified by the fact that it's their job, they have good acting range, and/or people enjoy seeing films with a specific actor and/or actress.
 * 221) * 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 Bradley Cooper may be on their way out and may start to fade away, just like how actors and actresses like Halle Berry, Ryan Gosling, James Franco, Sandra Bullock, and Denzel Washington are already on their way out and are fading away.
 * 222) ** It's also possible that only certain actors and actresses are cast in movies and are overlooked/fading away due to a large number of actors and actresses there are in Hollywood. It's not like you can cast everyone at once!
 * 223) *** 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 1990s 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, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Jack Black who appeared in the highest-grossing comedies in the 2000s. It is possible that the industry would not be the same today without these trends (though to be fair, popular demand for the comedy genre faded out in the 2010s, and all of the above-mentioned actors have become washed up or have gotten less parts recently).
 * 224) * To be fair, there is also one other good enough reason as to why some actors and actresses don't get cast anymore or 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 SJWs (the really 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.
 * 225) Thanks to this, Production films companies all over the world have a chance to shine like animated films to represent their countries like Boy and the World, 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, Wolfwalkers, Where Is Anne Frank, My Father's Secret, Long Way North, Wolfwalkers, Hayop Ka, Calamity, Lupin III, The Legend of Hei, Your Name, Weathering With You, Nahuel and the Magic Book, The Mole Agent, The Second Mother, Retablo, Parasite, Train to Busan, Call Me By Your Name, Warsaw 44, Roma, A Fantastic Woman, Les Misérables, Werk Ohne Autor, Silence, The Lady, Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, K.G.F. Chapters 1 and 2, RRR, and so on.
 * 226) Some actors are doing good deeds like when Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man) giving the Iron Man's New Arm Prosthetic to the 7-year-old boy without an arm,  Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) calls the child a Jedi before he passed away, Jason Momoa (Aquaman) surprises the fan Danny Sheehan and calls him beautiful boy, Johnny Depp (Captain Sparrow) who also surprises a fan in Vancouver Hospital.
 * 227) 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, Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Trek: Beyond, Scream 4, 22 Jump Street, Fast Five, Logan, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Toy Story 4, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, John Wick: Chapter 2, War for the Planet of the Apes, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Ragnarok and most of the MCU related sequels, Creed II, Kung Fu Panda 3, etc.
 * 228) * 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 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?
 * 229) There are still directors and producers such as Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, James Cameron, Barry Jenkins, Chloe Zhao, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Raimi, Clint Eastwood, James Gunn, Zack Snyder, the Russo Bros, Denis Villeneuve, The Safdies, Noah Baumbach, Rian Johnson, and Martin Scorsese who really value and seem to care about cinema.
 * 230) There are still many completely original films out there made by Hollywood even today, This is especially true in the animation department. mh:greatestmovies:Pixar is the biggest prime example as well as companies like Annapurna, Laika, Walt Disney Animation Studios, A24, and Paramount.
 * 231) 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.
 * 232) Some people in the industry do listen to criticism. Take the crew of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2020 movie for example due to them listening to the fans of Sonic the Hedgehog thus fixing Sonic's ugly old design.
 * 233) Sometimes they give canceled movies another chance to shine. It's not always everyday 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 late Blue Sky Studios intended to work on the film, but now Netflix acquired it.
 * 234) While this also applies to other industries as well, many nostalgiatards 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.
 * 235) The movies and shows we watched, many filmmakers, and even other countries' film industries won'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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