Gerard P Donelan
I love the notes saying this femme knows exactly what she's doing and it's all part of her flirting technique. You get it.
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My absolute favorite of his work
Gerard P Donelan
I love the notes saying this femme knows exactly what she's doing and it's all part of her flirting technique. You get it.
More of his stuff and about him
My absolute favorite of his work
movies used to be rated R and make so much fucking money man what happened
like. look at this. we used to consistently get multiple R rated movies in the top ten highest grossing films of the year. the last year that had more than one R rated movie in the ten highest grossing films of the year was 2004.
i don’t have definitive proof but i think it’s safe to place the blame for this development at disney’s feet. disney’s rewriting of copyright laws in the 90s coupled with their intentional acquisition of independent film studios (like miramax) and then choking out their fellow established studios and forcing mergers which allowed them to saturate the market with IP that would choke the competition and allow them to gobble up more and more and more of the market share. and then there’s touchstone.
under the walt disney studios umbrella they used to have their distribution under a separate brand name called buena vista. this allowed for some cognitive dissonance with the public which let disney distribute films that did not necessarily match their family friendly branding. touchstone pictures was a subsidiary of buena vista that specifically handled films targeted for adults. which is why there are R rated movies listed above, like pretty woman and cocktail, that were distributed by buena vista and are technically disney movies. but as disney became more and more of a monopoly they began to phase out the use of touchstone and buena vista altogether (both are now defunct). there is no separation of church and state. there is only disney. and disney has an image to maintain. they cannot be distributing films that feature sex work and promiscuity and suicide and foul language and war and addiction and hot people who are possibly bisexual. and since disney now controls the lion’s share of the industry they set the tone. and the tone is a sensitized version of humanity where any grittiness, any real flaws and fuck ups, don’t make it in front of enough eyeballs for it to matter all that much.
in the last decade, only in 2014 and 2020 was the highest grossing movie of that year from a studio that wasn’t disney. in 2019, seven of the top ten were disney movies. that kind of market monopoly only hurts creative diversity. hollywood, like all industries, is only concerned with whether or not something can make money — whether something worth the financial risk of production, ad campaigns, a wide theatrical release, and a home video campaign. it’s always been a short list of people and ideas that they considered worth that risk. and while more people are getting the opportunity to have their chance to succeed in hollywood, the list of people and ideas that are considered worth the risks of a full ad campaign and wide theatrical release has shrunk significantly. we aren’t making and advertising R rated movies like we used to because studios don’t think there’s a market for them. disney created a market that choked out anything that would once have done well in a theater. now they go straight to streaming. we have so few stars because disney has created a culture where intellectual property is the star. not the actor. if need be an actor can be replaced. an actor can be deepfaked, cgi’ed, in. they know you’re not there to see an actor. you’re there to see the IP. you know people aren’t stars anymore because their names aren’t going on a card in the middle of the trailer advertising the movie. you don’t need to know that so-and-so is playing x superhero because the actor doesn’t matter. disney has made sure of it.
The guy who makes these posts in the hvac subreddit a lot and I love his memes
Some of my favorite by him