...But don't let that stop you. Written by Michael Medved, of course.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050726/cm_usatoday/hollywoodsdisconnect

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

What is "dumb" about laying out the facts? :confused:

It is strange that Hollywood's intense political correctness has avoided any movies about Muslim Terrorists and it is not surprising the one they decided to do will be directed by the insane Oliver Stone.

To combat threats to the family from out-of-wedlock births, for instance, the left offers birth control and abortion - though illegitimacy soared as "reproductive choice" became widely available. On crime, liberals stress gun control - despite statistics showing states with widespread gun ownership producing less criminal violence. To fight poverty, progressives want more funding for welfare and public housing - ignoring the destructive impact of a culture of dependency and the failure of government projects in every big city. On the core question of terrorism, liberals blame economic deprivation, suggesting foreign aid to dry up anti-Americanism - downplaying the depravity at the heart of Muslim militancy that draws its murderous leadership from the Middle East's most privileged classes.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. Paramount Pictures recently announced that the first major thriller dramatizing 9/11, with Nicholas Cage as a rescuer attempting to escape the wreckage, will be directed by notorious conspiracist Oliver Stone. Aside from his recent drug busts and box office bombs (the gay-themed Alexander and his documentary paean to
Fidel Castro, Commandante), Stone has compiled a vast collection of anti-American statements, including his 1987 declaration: "I think America has to bleed. I think the corpses have to pile up. ... Let the mothers weep and mourn."

Meanwhile, Tinseltown will continue to weep and mourn as long as its bosses depend on the likes of Stone to portray the worst terrorist attacks in our history. Americans aren't stupid, and we're not all apolitical; many (at least a third) are even self-consciously conservative in both politics and values.

In Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign, his staff kept focused with the help of a sign: "It's the economy, stupid." In their campaign to bring back disillusioned moviegoers, Hollywood's honchos ought to consider similar signs, reminding themselves, "It's the values, stupid."

Medved is a rightwing retard ... he did all but blame a decline of ticket sale receipts on a global conspiracy of Hillary Clinton and the ACLU

Box office receipts are down because of PPV ... blockbuster ... video games ... cheap DVDs and home theatre ... broadband internet and $5 popcorn .... filling the theatres up with G rated fare would not reverse this trend

I love the opportunism involved in seizing the current ticket sales slump for their ideological agenda.

If the business suddenly experiences an volume sales boom this New Years, will they still think it's America speaking about Hollywood progressivism???

funny ... they blame this on michael moore and oliver stone ... I don't recall seeing any movies from them this summer

can you say conservative claptrap ?