'Who Is The Last Movie Star?' - Jordan Peterson On The Decline Of Movie Stars

Jordan Peterson discusses with Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid the decline of Hollywood and the position of a movie star.
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[AVmind]

What is your favorite Dennis Quaid Movie?

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[NameWomanAddressShoe]

I love the movie Frequency with Dennis Quaid. It's one of my favourites.

[vic]

That's why Daniel Day Lewis is one if not the greatest actor ever. He did his work, flawlessly, and then retired, making shoes.

[dextercarrie]

Dennis Quaid is based, candid and always seemed like a real man in the era of cinema as a respected actor. I think Hollywood self sabotaged the medium and everything is on social media or on demand at the click of an app and got rid of the urge to plan to go to a movie theatre. I think we have convenience, but lost passion. It’s the same thing with online dating vs meeting someone in real life and vibing off of them. I am old school like Quaid and face to face is as real as it gets even talking to someone.

[PR-gczu]

When i clicked on this i was hoping I'd get to hear Quaid say "you're looking at him" 😂

[rs]

I USE TO BE AN ACTOR IN L.A:

I moved here back 11 years ago and I was always engaged with movies: directors, casts, script, etc. I studied the craft since that is what I wanted to do for fun while I was in my late 20s-at the time. Overall, I watched every movie in the theater along with keeping up with some TV shows.

I think after 2016 I started to see the shift when they were starting to make movies that went to the direction of wokeness. At first, I did not notice because it didn’t happen all at once, but the more you know about content – as I do – you start to decipher certain films, differently. I think it was around 2019 that I had my breaking point – while being on sets – as I would see more of this wokeness creeping up.

When 2020 came around – that’s when everything was revealed of what was going on. I knew I was onto something, but I couldn’t make it out until all productions stopped during Covid. I’m not only heartbroken of what I use to love about films, but my life definitely changed due to the fact of how everything is now different: constant superheroes, social media, new TV shows, identity, politics, etc.

There are no more movie stars nor any civilian stories. As I said before, I came to LA due to what I knew back then which was mainly the 90s and early 2000s of filmmaking. Now that I am much older- I thought it might be just me maturing, but, honestly, it has nothing to do with that but everything with the world changing – especially in COMMIE FORNIA.

Hollywood either needs a rebirth or fall into the abyss. Personally, other states need to make their own productions and produce their independent films. Now, with iPhones, and among other technologies, you can make movies on your own. There are no more excuses, but – yes – it will be difficult and different at the same time.

LASTLY, if you have noticed, they have been bringing more old movies back to theaters and that is only because they’re losing business in TICKET SALES. Movies like top gun brought theaters back- after pandemic- and gave it another shot but it’s only a matter of time for theaters to go downhill – just like video stores went downhill back in 2010. If you have not noticed the elites – as I call them – are doing what they can to keep things in control by keeping you at home rather than being out and about in public. You don’t even have to go to restaurants when you can order in, stream content, etc. As a matter fact – the towns I used to walk around here in L.A. are not as crowded as they once were before 2020.… If that doesn’t wake anybody up, then I don’t know what will.

[CSUnger]

“In order for there to be good poets, there must first be good audiences” Henry Favid Thoreau.

It’s a complex problem but reflective of the overall decline in our culture. Actors with no genuine character, writers with no real life experiences, producers simply interested in profit or pushing an ideology, an audience whose attention span has been attenuated and whose level of interest reduced to the search for entertainment instead of value.

It’s a mess all the way around.

[evillink]

Holy shit! Now we have celebrities talking to Peterson?

[justincrow]

The only 2 actors left that I will go to the movies for regardless of if I’ve seen a trailer would be Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio.

[pamlovell]

Before COVID my grandson and I went to see a movie every weekend. We've only been to 1 movie since.

[jackblog-km]

I agree, I will still go out of my way to see a DiCaprio film and if Tarentino puts another movie out. That’s it. Entertainment avenues change.

[nicksona]

That's so true...seeing a movie star everywhere on social media can't make you settle while watching their movie as you can't stop seeing their social media life in the movie.

[mikebaxter]

Breaking Away is the definition of an underrated classic! I encourage everyone to give it a watch. Such a nice little film.

[videomonster]

Tom Cruise is the only person to ever top the box office for 40 years.

[jamesmccool]

All they have to do is make good movies without all the propaganda.

[TheGodfather]

To me, the decline was when everything started switching from film to digital. Film looks like movies and cinema. Digital looks like television and your home computer. Today, a 16 year old kid can go to Best Buy and purchase a cheap digital camera and put about 10-12 hours of footage on one little memory card. The market is now saturated with millions of people making shorts and features in film festivals. And now there are hundreds of TV channels. Movies are no longer a novelty. Most people couldn't tell you what won Oscars the last 10-15 years. Those days are gone.

[sophiamichael]

Dennis said Tom Cruise is going too far back? The last blockbuster type movie where you wanted to see it on a big movie theater screen was Top Gun Maverick. I can't think of what Leonardo DiCaprio has done lately that was like that. Is still wouldn't go to a theater for really anyone though.

[steliosc.]

When i think of a movie star i think of Tom Cruise. When i think of a great actor i think of Daniel Day Lewis or Gene Hackman.

[djknox]

Today a good movie might surface once every few years vs several per year before.

[crismotionproduction]

Sinxe the 90's you dont have actors with the same "aura" and those days, Actors these days are fruitcakes, even the ones who make superhero roles in other roles looks lame AF in my opiniom