Hollywood Makes Movies for Themselves

Most people, when examining why Hollywood makes so many liberal films filled with sex, gore, drugs and other unwholesome things, simply say, "it's what people want" and "it's all about money."

Well, a new study from the publishers of Movieguide (20-years in the making!) reveals what most of us already knew... Hollywood makes message movies for their own sake and the real money is to be found in family-oriented movies where good is good and bad is bad. Moral equivalency need not apply.

According to the study, for 2007, "seven films with a G or PG rating earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office, and three PG-rated films ("Shrek the Third," $322 million; "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," $216 million; and "Alvin and the Chipmunks," $213 million) were among the year's top 10 earners."

In fact, only one R-rated film was in the top 10 grossing films. It was Frank Miller's 300. No moral equivalency in that movie, to be sure.

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There is a promo photo going around. It's of a new movie called Tropic Thunder.

Check out the three leading men:

Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.

Yes. The black guy is Robert Downey Jr. (!?)

Tell me this movie doesn't look ridiculously funny.

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Lonely Liberals

"Dr Wilson and Dr Storm found several unexpected differences between the groups. Liberal teenagers always felt more stress than conservatives, but were particularly stressed if they could not decide for themselves whom they spent time with. Such choice, or the lack of it, did not change conservative stress levels. Liberals were also loners, spending a quarter of their time on their own. Conservatives were alone for a sixth of the time. That may have been related to the fact that liberals were equally bored by their own company and that of others. Conservatives were far less bored when with other people. They also preferred the company of relatives to non-relatives. Liberals were indifferent. Perhaps most intriguingly, the more religious a liberal teenager claimed to be, the more he was willing to confront his parents with dissenting beliefs. The opposite was true for conservatives."

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This study is trying to determine where morality evolved from - a precept I fundamentally disagree with - but the pragmatics of how liberals and conservatives spend their time is pretty amusing.

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