Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "The End of Celebrities" video.

  1. Robocop is another PROPER movie with FINE acting, that also released in 1987.
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  2. Gloria had a point because she actually witnessed the change from silent to talking pictures. That’s not her character in the movie, that’s Gloria Swanson’s show business career. She was one of a select few who successfully made the transition. Most silent film stars had their careers end with talkies. Some of them fell into depression, committed suicide, while a good number fell into obscurity.
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  3.  @bad-girlbex3791  Sunset Boulevard is an all time classic because it really brings out the dark side of Hollywood. Buster Keaton made a cameo appearance, who himself was one of the great silent film comedians along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. Charlie Chaplin himself ended up under scrutiny in the 1940s and he was labeled a Communist. The rest of his life story was tragic, and was ousted out of Hollywood and the United States, as well as the UK. Hedda Hopper played herself in Sunset Boulevard, and her track record as a gossip columnist was stepping on plenty of peoples toes. She loved controversy and stirring up trouble with the Hollywood stars. Louella Parsons was her bitter rival who had her own tricks up her sleeve. Hollywood was always a dirty, scummy, despicable place behind the scenes. I love the film The Wizard of Oz as much as anyone else, but I can't get past the horrible treatment Judy Garland got by the makers and her abuse by the studio system. Living in a mansion as a recluse pretty much makes you disconnected from society. Doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that Hollywood has a long track record of tragedy, lies, despair and suffering. Norma tried to make a comeback sure, but like so many others, didn't quite make it. By the time Sunset Boulevard released in 1950, Hollywood already had 20 - 30 years of scandals, tragedies and despair behind it.
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  4. The Golden Age ended back in the 1950’s - 1960’s. I think you’re referring to the Hollywood Renaissance which started in the mid - late 1970’s and ended in the late 1990’s - early 2000’s. The Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, John Wayne era ended decades before Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise were even movie stars.
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  5.  @neat3468  Everything went downhill after September 11th, 2001. Even before that, Florida utterly messed up the voting count for the 2000 US Presidential Elections. So things from an administrative and political standpoint were quickly going downhill before 9/11. This was all planned and manipulated. There’s a reason why young people are far more radicalized and hateful compared to the young people you saw back in the 80’s and 90’s. Every celebrity I admired back then I have ended up cutting out their social media and walking away.
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  6.  @ues929  He was the best on SNL. Died much too soon.
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  7. Shatter is part of the Silent Generation, who were largely influenced by the Greatest Generation, given by name because of their involvement in World War 2. I think of someone like Muhammad Ali to have had far more political presence than someone like John Wayne. But that was the late 60’s, when the Hippies came of age and the curtain of illusion that Hollywood kept was starting to rot. Muhammad Ali of course got criticized by mobs of people for his opinions on the Vietnam War as well as his political views. John Wayne for a time was targeted by young activists in the 60’s - 70’s for his conservative politics. However that doesn’t come anywhere close to the extremist attitudes you see today, especially on mainstream media and social media. This is something that Millennials and Zoomers are bad at. They stand on their soapboxes and become extreme political activists, while being completely ignorant of the struggles previous generations went through. It angers me to no end and I don’t regard any Millennial or Zoomer to be a real celebrity. That ship sailed a long time ago.
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  8.  @Thomasmemoryscentral  The black cop would then be a star of Family Matters, that 90’s era sitcom with Steve Uriel, played by Jaleel White.
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  9.  @zakofrx  Same here. Watched Predator (1987) for the first time recently and I was greatly entertained.
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  10.  @wojak-sensei6424  Glad to see you know the old classic stars.
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  11.  @johnlewis9158  Those days are long over. You can add Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart and several others. I could even add Frank Sinatra despite his supposed Mafia connections (some feel he actually did) and Jerry Lewis despite his personality being less than good. All those I listed did much to contribute to America besides their screen personas. Now we have vapid Hollywood celebrities like Kylie Jenner and worthless Instagram models who contribute nothing.
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  12. Because nobody under 40 is a real movie star anymore. The Harry Potter cast including Emma Watson aren’t real movie stars. They just got lucky being cast in a series of films inspired by a woman (JK Rowling) who is now politically activated. Now those 30 something year olds are wondering how to react to her on social media. It’s sickening.
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  13.  @user-gu9yq5sj7c  Just look at OJ Simpson.
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  14. The John Wayne era of celebrities will always reign supreme. The presence of watching Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd was worth the price of admission, because they couldn’t rely on sound in their prime because the tech wasn’t there yet. They were all masters of physical comedy, Buster Keaton in particular was a master of props. Now we get Kylie Jenner and company who glamorize themselves on social media. They are useless socialites who take pride in making other people miserable.
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  15. It was a 90’s sitcom. Family Matters and Fresh Prince of Bel-air were just as stupid and nonsensical.
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  16. The good old days.
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  17. She’s over 50 years old. She’s too old to have proper children unless she wants to adopt them.
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  18. The modern music industry has no value.
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  19. 90’s was still modern. It was without the utter nonsense we have today.
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  20.  @user-gu9yq5sj7c  You’re a broken record spewing the same monologue.
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  21.  @neat3468  Well said.
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  22. Ignore Hollywood for a minute here. Are you saying that even theater and Broadway in regards to the actors shouldn’t be regarded as art?
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  23.  @williamarbaugh6704  Oh yes. The only Hollywood I respect is the one that John Wayne, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Stewart resided in. I loved Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Sylvester Stallone and company, but I would never set foot in Hollywood because it was crap behind the scenes from the get go.
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  24. I was watching Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music and I had this exact same thought. You basically knew the actors before you even saw the films. Today everything is disingenuous and nothing is authentic. People can call Hollywood fake and demoralizing all they want, but there was a certain allure and appeal in old films that has long since been lost. I’d pay to watch an Orson Welles level presentation and performance than to watch some reject like Ezra Miller play a superhero role in a film that’s been done a thousand times.
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  25.  @sergeantkozi  Yep. Seth Rogan turned out to be a crybaby, so I decided I won't support him anymore. Sadly, he is one of many that I no longer support.
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  26.  @ARStudios2000  I don't waste my time with people who are that sensitive about their work, regardless if it's genuinely good or bad. DeviantArt had a lot of of overly sensitive idiots before I decided to cut it out for good. Imgur is turning out the same way.
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  27. That’s the point. Why else do you think sexually minded men pinned photos of Betty Grable (Million Dollar Legs), Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe in their bedrooms and elsewhere? Hollywood crafted them. They were nothing without Hollywood, especially when studio people made Rita Hayworth to be more attractive and glamorous, when her initial looks beforehand didn’t give off such allure. The studio head that controlled Rita, Harry Cohn, was a known tyrant and evil man who wanted his actresses to have sexual relations with him.
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  28. How old are you?
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  29. I hate VTubers.
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  30.  @belstar1128  When did the woke age start?
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  31.  @belstar1128  Sounds about right, although I argue the signs of woke were starting to reveal themselves a few years before 2014.
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