s near impossible to deny: Hollywood is drowning in an effluent slop of big money reboots, remakes, sequels, prequels, and those absurd live-action re-renderings that make you feel like you have travel sickness. However, while basically everyone agrees with the diagnosis, no one can seem to come up with a cure. Enter Vice debutante Rafael Holmberg, armed with an intriguing new idea: What if Hollywood were seized by the U.S. government and forced to abide by a set of strict state regulations? What if Hollywood was essentially nationalized? The only reason many of these bloated franchise films exist is because of money. If you slashed budgets and took away the profit motive, maybe you’d get less awful art? It’s an intriguing theory. Read Rafael’s Argument in Full, Here (https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-time-for-the-us-state-to-intervene-in-hollywood/) See you in the next world, **Kevin Lee Kharas** Editor, Vice magazine _To get past the paywall, _[_sign up for Vice membership_](https://www.vice.com/en/section/membership/)_. A Digital Only subscription is $2 a month, while $70 a year gets you the full digital package plus 4 issues of Vice magazine delivered straight to your door._ -------------------- ### Send Us Your Letters We want to publish your fantasies and anxieties—your love letters, complaints, tributes, and crackpot theories—in our magazine. Send any letters you have for us to [membersupport@vice.com](mailto:membersupport@vice.co), with LETTERS PAGE in the subject line. ---------- ——— You are reading a plain text version of this post. For the best experience, copy and paste this link in your browser to view the post online: https://vicemagazine.beehiiv.com/p/contrarian-summerContrarian SummerVICE undefined"hi@josie.lol" undefined—F‚ÚI