The sycophantic entertainment media will blame anything and everything on Hollywood’s ongoing box office collapse. These liars have all kinds of excuses: Streaming! Unruly crowds! Too much dew on windshields! Hell, to this day, some still blame the COVID pandemic.
What no one dares suggest is… quality.
In any other industry — automobile, restaurant, pizza, toothpaste, plastic surgeon, landscaping, you name it — when fewer and fewer customers show up, the first thing — the very first thing — sane people look at is the quality of the product.
Oh, but not in Hollywood. Having the moral courage to question the quality of the naked emperor’s clothes is to invite a terrible backlash. No longer will studios advertise on your sycophantic website. No longer will the studios give you — the sycophant — access to the stars, the free screenings, and all that sweet, sweet swag.
So, no—no way did Indiana Jones 5tank because it sucked; because emasculating our hero and having him shamed by a sexless girl-boss turned people off. No, it couldn’t be that. No, it flopped because the franchise is old and, tired and worn out. So please do forget that plenty of old franchises continue to make money — like, say, Top Gun: Maverick, which didn’t have our hero emasculated by a sexless girl-boss.
