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Why Hollywood Will Never Get Its Soul Back

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Brian Niemeier
Aug 01, 2025
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The Critical Drinker recently dropped a solid video dissecting the cultural stagnation of modern movies. His core point: films stopped being culturally relevant around the early 2000s. The last true household name characters: Rocky Balboa, Luke Skywalker, and Indiana Jones, all hail from pre-millennium Hollywood. Since then, the big studios have churned…

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