The Bud Light-ification of Hollywood

Federalist: "Snow White Bombing Was The Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us."

I don't want to see Disney fail.  I like Disney.  But Snow White represents a larger ideological drift in Hollywood where Americans who just want to be entertained with a story are cudgeled with modern posturing.  Thus the downward spiral of movie viewership. 

You can blame the failure of Snow White on its main star dumping on 1) the original story, 2) Disney fans and 3) half the country.  But I think people would have still gone to see the classic story if it had remained the classic story instead of the "girlboss" trope so popular and ubiquitous in contemporary movies.

Recently there was a story in the paper that the art house cinema in the middle of Amherst, Massachusetts was facing financial pressure due to waning attendance.  For those of you who don't know much about Western Massachusetts, this is the perfectly ideal place for a boutique cinema, smack-dab in the middle of the Five College system.  My wife and I used to be regulars but we've gone less and less over the years; the last movie we saw there was "The Holdovers" (which was great!).  Now you need to look no further than Conclave and Emilia Perez to understand why we - and many others - have skipped the movie house.  Like Snow White, it's just a non-stop diminution of traditional values dressed up as entertainment and people aren't buying it anymore.