BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN: Hollywood's Budget Blowout and the Diversity Dilemma

Ever wondered why the Hollywood bigwigs spend so much on movies that seem to lack quality? Could there be a possibility of money laundering, or are we just witnessing a deluge of incompetence? We'll unpack these perplexing questions in a fiery discussion that scrutinizes Hollywood’s extravagant budgets, and their questionable impact on production quality. We also highlight a low-budget Japanese film with impressive special effects, throwing into sharp relief Hollywood's puzzling resource allocation.

Placing diversity above qualifications - a noble goal or a recipe for disaster? We delve into the heart of this controversial issue, discussing the potential fallout of prioritizing hires based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. It’s a candid chat on how this could be detrimental to the quality of movies and TV shows, and the backlash faced by those who express dissent. Amidst the serious talk, we share some laughs discussing the genesis of our podcast and share some entertaining personal anecdotes. Strap in for a roller-coaster ride of thought-provoking discussion and lighthearted banter!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

Dude. Hollywood is a scam and it's just failing. It's either Hollywood is laundering money or their failure is a result of diversity hires, and it's a perfect example of why you should not hire on your sexual orientation or your ethnic background. What's going on? This is the Objective, jerk. And I said Jerk, I hope everyone is doing well. I got a new tattoo recently, a pretty simple one actually. My past tattooing experiences have been there for eight hours. I'll sit there forever because I just want to get it done. That's just my attitude towards everything. When I start something, I want to go until I'm done.

Speaker 1: 1:34

I did an amateur, lightweight remodeling of a kitchen in a reception area, I guess of my dad's house in Utah. I took up the carpet, put new flooring, took down an island, put new countertops and redid the cabinets. I think I painted them because they were wood. We did an old barn style wood or white kind of thing. If I remember I can't remember now when I was doing that I was nonstop going almost to the point where I'm just going to end up collapsing. I just want to get it done. I just want to get it done. I don't know. That's just this weird thing about me. Whenever I get my tattoos. It's like I just want to get it done. I'd sit there for eight hours. Both of my arms were two different sessions actually, I guess it's not completely eight hours. The one I just got is just a simple one on my knee which hurts. Knees and elbows hurt, but it's on my Facebook if you want to see it. I think, actually I think the guy that does it, he tagged me Check it out. I'm not going to talk about it because I want you to go check it out.

Speaker 1: 3:22

Anyway, about the other day, about a week, maybe, even two weeks ago or something, my son was talking to me about Godzilla. He loves Godzilla. He was saying, oh, godzilla minus one. I'm like what is that? He's like oh, it's this new Godzilla movie. Sometimes it's really hard to get out what he's trying to say. I'm like what was it? Like a film, like a movie? He's like, yeah, it's coming out this. And that I'm like okay, no, I mean, is it animated? Is it American? What is it? Finally, he says it's from Japan and stuff.

Speaker 1: 4:10

This Japanese movie called Godzilla minus one came out and everything that I've heard is that it's awesome, like the effects are awesome, it's just a well made movie. Yeah, it's subtitled but it's doing really well here in the States. The thing is, the movie was made for 15 million, 15 million, and it looks awesome. And then you look at films like the Marvels or the Thor, the last Thor movie and some of the other ones that have come out in the last few years. The special effects look like trash, straight up trash, and these movies are like 200 million, 250 million, you know what I mean. It's like. Where is this money going? How is it? It costs this much money to make and it's just trash. And then you have this other movie coming over here from Japan for 15 million and it looks awesome.

Speaker 1: 5:20

Now you know dollars and and and I don't know whatever rubies. No, what does Japan? What, sir? What is their currency hall? Look that up, you know, and I guess they don't have like big actor, like I mean, you know a big part of a budget, I guess is the actors and they're in their paychecks, which is ridiculous too, I guess. But it just shows you that the Hollywood is trash Like.

Speaker 1: 5:57

I just think Either they are kind of laundering money somehow, because why, why, you know, 200 million for a stupid, crappy-looking film. What? What is this Japan, or a gold Koban Ryo, what I don't know. Okay, I clicked on something wrong, but, um, okay, never mind, let's just mess me up. So it just, you know, it just makes you kind of wonder, okay, either it's either one of two things one, they're laundering money or, two, the people they hire completely suck, because you, you know for the last what, five, four years or whatever, there's been all this diversity, hires. I mean, look at the Biden administration. I remember when he picked his administration, there was a friend of mine on Facebook that said, oh my gosh, look at, look at this wonderful. I mean, they're appraising it, you know, because there was, you know, black women, asian women, gay men, whatever, all this stuff, you know. And it's like, okay, that's a great and all, but can they do the job? And here it is 2024, wait, no, 2023, almost 2024, and no, they can't do the job. The country is crumbling, the administration sucks Like it's garbage, it's complete trash. And, holy, what's the same thing.

Speaker 1: 7:39

They were sitting there just hiring, like you know, women because they're women or lesbians or gay guys or trans, or you know black dude or an Asian dude. If they can do the job, great, but that's not why they hired them. They hired them because of their color, their skin or what kind of sexual position they like. You know what I mean. It's like not because they actually got experience and know how to do the job, and this is proof. Look at the country, look at Hollywood it's completely crumbling, it's falling apart.

Speaker 1: 8:17

I'm not saying that women can't be successful, or gay people or trans or whatever, but when they're hired based on just those facts you're going to have, it's going to be what it is. You know, if the person is qualified and they're gay, that's you know they're going to do a good job and whatever. But it's like the thing is, it's like you get these individuals and all you want to do is push this agenda. So like they work really hard to make women look great and make men look stupid and incompetent, like it's that's all they care about. It's making the characters. Okay, we're going to make them now, gay or lesbian, we're going to make them.

Speaker 1: 9:08

The women are all powerful and the men the white men, are evil and stupid and all this stuff, and then they lose sight of the actual story. Oh, no matter what the story is, as long as we can, we can have representation and we can have, you know, a gay person, be in charge of straight people or whatever. You know what I mean. It's like it's it's, it's. It's gotten to the point where it's just insane. I don't know you, you just lose kind of sight of, I think, what's what's important and for Hollywood and for you know, that kind of whatever it's it's, it's the story People go. I mean movies and comic books and a lot of times, even songs.

Speaker 1: 10:09

The root of it is a story. You know, you got to have a good story. If you have a good story, then everything else just kind of falls into place. You know, and it's like there are awesome, there are awesome women directors out there. Catherine Bigelow, she directed the original point break. She directed that movie About the bomb squad guy In iraq a camera was hurt, locker, and she's directed some other ones, you know, and they're awesome.

Speaker 1: 10:45

Um, there have been gay directors forever, you know. I mean Joel Schumacher. I'm pretty sure he's gay. Batman and robin sucked, but he's made a lot of other movies that were awesome.

Speaker 1: 10:56

Um, you know, and to have people In films that are trans or gay or whatever is fine, because those people exist, but you can't really make A huge movie and have the main person be Trans or whatever, because the the percentage of trans Is so minimal, you're only gonna have, even if you have, every trans person go and watch it. It's not gonna make money. It's like hello, you know, like I saw something, went doctor who the new show. They just totally ruined it. I mean, they ruined it before already, but they just they're all just trying to push this agenda of this message.

Speaker 1: 11:42

It doesn't work. It doesn't work, it doesn't. That's why the calm books are in the trash. That's why movies are, you know, like this this year Disney. This is the first year that Disney didn't have a movie that made a billion dollars. Now, that's kind of ridiculous. A billion dollars, that's a lot. But they almost have to make that Because their budgets are so huge, plus the marketing, plus they don't.

Speaker 1: 12:12

You know, when a movie makes a certain amount of money in the theaters, all that money doesn't go back to the movie studios. The movie theaters are gonna make money too. Yes, they make a lot of money off concession stands and they're ridiculously overpriced soda and candy and everything like that, but they make money from the tickets as well. I don't think it's. People say it's half. I don't think it is, but it's just it's Not working. It is, it is not working and it's come, it's. It's obvious that it's not working.

Speaker 1: 12:48

Like I said, the calm books, the, our country, the biden administration, the movies, everything it just doesn't work. Man, there's nothing wrong with having some, you know, lower budget kind of movies that that have trans or gay or whatever they want to, that's fine, you know, low budget, maybe it'll make money, maybe it won't. But to try and push these huge movies that are supposed to appeal to everybody and then they don't, because the majority of the population is our straight, cis people that you know go to church and maybe not go to church, but you know that are just normal. And then so when we don't go see these movies, you're like oh, you're transphobe, you're this phobe, you're this phobe, every phobe, and it's just like no man, because it's just like we're not going to go watch. That doesn't appeal to us, you know, and it's like and actually a lot of gay people and straight people don't really want to see that either, you know, they just want to see a movie that's just about people doing whatever. They don't want to know that. Oh, superman, now gay and getting raped in the butt by Batman or what. You know what I mean. It's like who cared what? No, huh, no, no, Like it's just, it's retarded, it's stupid.

Speaker 1: 14:25

Everything is failing, it's all crashing and burning and it's either money laundering actually, I said two things that they're money laundering or the diversity hire, or it's like almost like there is some person that's trying to ruin everything. That is America. You know what I mean. Like everything, it's like they're really trying to destroy our country from the inside. They're making us fight over the dumbest things. What are we fighting over? What are we hating over? You know what I mean. And then now it's like Hollywood is failing and crumbling and losing money. We're just throwing money at other countries while our country is in shambles. You know the comic book, I mean. It's just like we don't make anything here in the States anymore. It's like the country I say here, like I live there, but it's just America is completely collapsing.

Speaker 1: 15:37

And the thing is it's little by little, slowly, and nobody's noticing it, and then all of a sudden, bam, america's going to be screwed. You know they're trying to like get rid of. You have Chinese people buying up property like crazy. Why, why are Chinese citizens, how can they own property in the States? I can't buy property here in the Philippines that I'm married to a Filipino. I can't buy property here. That's how it should be. So you got all these other countries owning property in our country and you want the and they're all trying to get rid of like our crops, get rid of our livestock, eat bugs and be a vegetarian.

Speaker 1: 16:24

That's just another part of it and it's just like the country is just gonna collapse and be. We're gonna, you know, have bread lines and everything, just like, just like Russia, and see it slowly, slowly happening. But nobody notices it. Because it's like that saying, if you put a frog in boiling water, a pot of boiling water is gonna jump out. So if you, you know, things are going crazy and things are failing, people are gonna notice, but you put a frog in tepid water, cold water, and turn up the heat, it'll just slowly cook and die. And that's how people are. They don't notice it. There's slowly dying because the country is slowly dying. That's what's happening, man. Look at everything. Just look at everything. Everything is failing, like even like music, like what is?

Speaker 1: 17:18

I mean, taylor Swift is popular now. She's a bumbling idiot, but she is talented. You know I always gave her credit for writing her own music and she can play instruments and stuff like that. But have you ever seen her talk? She acts like a teenager and she's like in her mid 30s but she acts like a little bumbling idiot teenager and it's annoying and I don't know. You got everything going on like what are the music today is just somebody making up stupid digital sounds with somebody oh yeah, go up in the ha ha. So I don't know, I don't get it.

Speaker 1: 18:14

Like Drake, like what. I've heard two of his. I've probably heard more. I just don't know it's him, but I've heard like two of his songs and I'm like this is the stupidest thing. It's like a five-year-old made the song and he's like the biggest selling guy or whatever right now. Like like he's not talented. He's not. He could put on a show, but he's not talented. Probably somebody else is making the music, like Millie Vanilli. Did you see the documentary on Millie Vanilli? That German guy who makes the music, writes the music, tells him what to do and Millie Vanilli just were good dancers and they just put on the show and then, when it all came crumbling down, who did they blame? They blame the two, the two guys, the Millie Vanilli that you know, the two, the two talents, supposedly talents. The producer, who was the brain, the brains behind everything, created everything. Yeah, he's alright, it's fine, and he just goes and does it again. He just keeps doing it. It made tons of money.

Speaker 1: 19:17

You don't think there are other people up there like this Drake dude or whatever, even like other bands. There's so much stuff that's like track, click tracks and all this crap. It's all processed, just like the fast food, the fake fast food that kills you. The movies are being processed they're crap. The music is processed they're crap. And now our government is processed and crap.

Speaker 1: 19:46

You think Biden is in charge of anything? That dude doesn't know what fucking day it is. He has no clue. And you think he's president? You think he's running anything? No, no, he is a legitimate puppet. It's insane, like I don't know, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1: 20:16

Man, this podcast, when I was totally just going to talk about Godzilla and then I just kind of went off on our tangent again. I want to say hi to Pinky Up podcast. Crap Is that. It Is that how you say it. There's this dude that I was in the army with. I didn't know him real well At all. Obviously it's more like we had common friends or whatever. But I knew you know, I'll tell you, I'm going to talk to him and stuff like that. But Pinky Up, yeah, I think it's Pinky Up podcast. But he's a veteran. I was in Iraq with him and he has a podcast Well, vinny no Filter and I think he quit doing it for a little bit but then I noticed that he's been back.

Speaker 1: 21:05

So I've been listening to them again and his stuff. I think, if I remember right, he kind of inspired me to kind of do the podcast. You can go in there, go in the room Sorry, my kid's showing up, but he's a lot more. I don't know if he kind of writes stuff out or anything. I don't think he does, but he's a little more articulate, better articulate, more eloquent than I am. But if you like my idiocracy, then check him out. Pinky Up podcast Dang, it Is that it? I think that's it. I wish I had my phone on me. I don't want to Pinky Up because it's like he's toasting the glass and Pinky, I think that's where it is. But Vinny no Filter, pretty funny, but anyway. So, yeah, so I think that's it. But other than everything I just talked about, life's pretty good Again. I hope everybody's doing well and you guys have a wonderful day and or week. All right, I will talk to you later, all right, bye.