What is the point? What was the point?

"If a movie is made independently and only sells to a streamer, then fine. But I don’t want to make something where [streaming is] the end-all. I think it’s important for people to gather as a community, to see other humans, be together in a space. That’s why I like sports. I think it’s really powerful for people to come together for something that they’re excited about. We don’t even audition in person anymore.”

-Ashley Olsen (sister of the Olsen Twins from Full Hice)

The article was titled: Elizabeth Olsen Won’t Act in Studio Movies if There’s No Theatrical Release: ‘I Don’t Want to Make’ Movies Where Streaming Is the ‘End-All’

People tend to only worry about these appeals when their jobs are in jeopardy. We've made films, albums, wrestled, gatherings, for damn near free or at a high cost out of love.

It is about live events, etc.

It is about the relationship and this is disappearing.

It was hard work to make Wizard of Oz and although Dorothy would reflect on the filmmaking process as difficult but fondly recalled, it wasn't until afterwards you get the re-imagining of how tough it was and tough is subjective.

There was a time when military basic training was tougher than now.

Some may try and make a case for which branch has a tougher go, but are you comparing the process across the board in 2026 or are you comparing 2025 to 1996 or 86?

Now in the USMC they have co-ed training and phones, the Air Force in 1986 was not co-ed, there was no phone. Sometimes the process needs to have some grit to be worth it. 20 years in the service behind a desk for a full pension. Sounds heroic, and you did serve, but that doesn't equal Normandy or holding your own in a bar fight.

A lot of times people can knock something until they try it. The AI music sounds awesome but it doesn't match the human writing in the end because it wasn't truly made to match. The old films like say, Robinson Crusoe (1954 film)

This film has an orchestra that plays as well as Daniel O'Herlihy plays Robinson.

CGI and AI are now making the actor an island unto themselves and with streaming there is now a lonely audience watching a lonely actor. Why not add themselves or an AI and complete the hat-trick.

Eventually an AI audience to watch the AI film, privately. No shared experiences. No corporate connections on a deeper level. No group. Entertainment is going the way of the service industry and laziness.

You make a few bucks in a service industry, then you spend a few bucks to door dash or use an app, because it is convenient and saves you time, but now do you realize you waste others time to.

Trying to help them, serve them, then you get off and get to be served. Go ahead an leave some Yelps and reviews in your spare time. Someone might read them in their spare time. You have both given free time to the internet in exchange for an opinion.

I write this while waiting to serve. While thinking. Wondering how the next project turns out. I wonder why kids would dedicate time to the guitar if they can be the lead singer and use a program to add the guitar, and even fix their voice.

As long as they have a day job to afford the phone or data.

Will this eliminate the need for friendships started over music, or filmmaking?

No need for Weird Al or remixes Ai can tune it specifically. So what else can you do other than entertain. What is your dirty job?

We all want to be the movie gods, and rock stars, or porn stars, but that isn't happening. Just because we record something and package it as a product doesn't make it a movie or a song.

An AI fight is no fight. A film is an expression of human emotion not the result of a program re-organizing the input. Piper and Keith David still needed to get down on the ground for their fight scene in They Live.

Mr. T's daughter can make up a story based on input she has gathered and filtered through as a comedian but that doesn't make the story true or carries the same weight as if Mr. T described it. Plus, it is tough to think Hogan could have actually kicked Piper's ass. This isn't Brock and Punk.

Being in person is important and it is slipping because at some point everyone gets lazy and has just one items and hits the self check out.

Instead of typing a script and hammering out each joke with friends and on the grind like Chuck Palinuik....better analogy

Instead of hammering out your own Samurai blade like a sword smith versus pushing a button on a 3D printing.

You aren't finding iron ore, you aren't making fires, you aren't hammering.

You worked a job that sucks and bought a printer. You can't push button everything. Everything can't be touch screen.

The other things about Olsen, is you can not revolt against the government, religious groups, baby killers, science liars, kid fuckers, if you forget how to gather.

In Egypt the people no longer gathered for anything other than work. Where is the corporate (not meaning business but meaning large group) acknowledgement of right and wrong, of reverence for the LIFE process, and not for niche groups that do not move the ball down the field.

This seems to split ideas for moving the ball down the field, because two people can both say, "Yeah!!! It's 2026 and we still can't..."

That isn't the rally cry to bend the knee to do whatever you want based on personal will or freedom. "Yeah, it is 2026 and stealing is still wrong."

You can do it but it will upset the balance if it goes on unchecked or where everyone gets a loop-hole or pass. Like when someone rips off food-stamps..."Why do you care?"

Because we call can't do it and we get taxed so it rips us off too. We just don't have an itemized bill to cover how much of your life is subsidized by the government. Because without the government, you would die. You are not interested in taking care of your kids or yourself, or your community.

It is worse to eat processed foods and food products over real food.

You can eat beans, eggs and apples and not need to go out for fast food.

Notice all the synthetic ingredients in your food but it's normalized or made to imitate the taste of something in nature but with a chemical you like too.

This is why the straight-edge guy seems like an idiot. If he doesn't drink beer or smoke a joint he is considered clean, whereas Brock Lesnar farms and hunts and eats clean and has a home-grown joint and barley and water beverage. You, the Punk, chugged a diet coke, ate a vegan hotdog with thrice the fats, it costs the lives of several ground nesting species to farm the soy for the hotdog, and you haven't been in the forest or farm for years, and you're the healthy one?

The one who refuses to be around others because of your anxieties. The same ones we're all coded with. You're an animal and you only get one run through this life and if you are off hiding in a tree stump and eating the fungus that grows inside of it than you're going to be in bad shape and it isn't going to get better.

You need to chance it. Consider some other perspectives. You don't have to co-sign to listen. Listen to the other groups and decide which one is a fucking idiot and who would make it if Darwin and Jesus are right.

It is a two-faced stance, and reminds me of the way a horoscope plays it safe and how I used to read horoscopes for people than once they agreed reveal that I read the wrong date or listing.

If you are so open then why are you afraid to step out. It's because we are capable of a wide-range of emotions, but more importantly skills. When Charlie Kirk says something you don't like the best thing to ask yourself is why don't you like it?

Is it because it is facts and you have no immediate rejoinder?

You should be able to explain what he is wrong about or why? But to just diss someone usually means you had a slogan or feel good point that covers your public image but does nothing to address the private individuals who need a deeper scan of the topic.

You can tell a Jewish person they are wrong and not be anti-Semitic. Jews runs red-lights and it isn't anti-Semitic to point it out or ticket them. Asking a neighbor to turn down the bass at 1AM isn't a cultural thing, it is a decency issue.