{"id":14171,"date":"2026-04-09T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:02:55","slug":"no-more-comfy-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/09\/no-more-comfy-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No more comfy consensus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/where-are-the-movies-that-will-change-america-1236785884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Bart: Finding Movies That Will Galvanize America Has Become A Tough Bet<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/peter-bart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Bart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 20 Most Popular Movies of All Time\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeL8ld3UNtQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even as Ryan Gosling launched his \u201cHail Mary\u201d and Super Mario re-discovered his \u201cGalaxy,\u201d the bets were piling up on Kalshi: Which movie would win the summer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or would there be a winner at all? The mega-hits of seasons past reflected a comfy consensus in our pop culture, but today\u2019s audience is splintered by genre and mood. The various Gens, whether in their teens or dotage, seem huddled in their Minecraft or chilling alone at Freddy\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/where-are-the-movies-that-will-change-america-1236785884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Peter Bart: Finding Movies That Will Galvanize America Has Become A Tough Bet By\u00a0Peter Bart Even as Ryan Gosling launched his \u201cHail Mary\u201d and Super Mario re-discovered his \u201cGalaxy,\u201d the bets were piling up on Kalshi: Which movie would win the summer? Or would there be a winner at all? The mega-hits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14172,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}