Hollywood What If

Self-Published

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Description

Kazir Grey returned to 1994 and decided to pursue his dreams of making movies. With his knowledge, he would take the path of becoming the best director of Hollywood.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: Pujimaki

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(9)

Samson ChuiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Fantastic book. Seriously exactly what is promised. A Hollywood What If story. Frankly it’s a sugar high of awesomeness. Does this story involve being transported to new world with goblins? No.
that’s what I’ve found are the majority of stories on Royal Road and after a while you want a good story set in the modern world. This book HWI does it! There are 2 good stories that I’ve found on RR about movies and Hollywood and this is one of them. I didn’t have any problems with the grammar, or the sentence structure, it was a fun quick read, chapters are fast and bursty. They don’t get bogged down in descriptions, the narrative just flows. Looking forward to more of this awesome book.
TK_TrooperRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Fair warning: I tend to be on the more lenient side of reviewers, so take everything I saw with a grain of salt.
Overview:
The novel is an excellent addition to the Hollywood OC/SI genre, outstripping the rest of the stories by a significantly large margin. The characters, plots and themes are well-fleshed out and enjoyable. Writing quality itself is excellent without any major errors or disruption in flow. The chapters are also released regularly.
Style:
I honestly don't have much to say in this category, besides that the authorial tone is clear and easy to understand. The story itself is quite straightforward with few plot-twists. There is a decent addition of POVs from other characters to bring the world to life a bit more and for more interesting relationship dynamics.
Story:
The antogonists are actual threats, with some plans succeeding, and others failing, making quite realistic villains. Character interactions are quite life-like with the dialogue being decently realistic. Tension is done well, and success does release dopamine hits.
Grammer:
The work is very much readable, with no major errors. There is not much to say in this category.
Character:
The MC is likeable and doesn't grate on one's nerves. The side-cast is small but has decent "screentime" so to speak.
I would like to thank the author for bring this fiction to us, the audience, and hope that the good work will continue.
DialhformeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Every Hollywood story has different beginnings. There are characters, movies, ideas, until now they have maintained their version without contamination I'm thank you for that.
The story itself sounds good and there are some minimal story gaps, you will have purists who demand rigor There's not as much of that here, but it's entertaining and worth it.
CruxioRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Typical Hollywood wish fulfillment that you can read in your spare time.
Too bad the author is just going through the motions, the mc is dull. There's not much energy when there is conflict.
The romance is tepid, both sides just do it for release, lack of drama or exploit.
For a guy in Hollywood he acts more like a 9 to 5 kind of guy.
Edit: now he's interacting with some minors, interesting.
He might go for it or not but the premise deserves another star.
ChaosRuneSmithRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
I believe that this is writing that must be put into context.
the author is from the Philippines and judging by the language, grammar, and sentence structure doesn’t have a great understanding of English. I think he is absolutely doing his best but many times he probably uses Philippino sentence structures.
but that is part of the charm.
this is a story by a Philippino man who is making an Asian style corporate drama story set in Hollywood. This isn’t a story written through the western lense or even trying to emulate the western experience. It’s like if you wrote a K-drama with all the K-drama beats and tropes but set in a Viking kingdom. At least that is how I see it.
and from that perspective, I think it is a very interesting read. A bit like a Metal Gear game. You get to see how an outsider from another culture sees and tries to interpret a culture you are used to seeing through your perspective.
so when you read “the Jews have a lot of control over Hollywood and protect their own” don’t think “this is obviously anti-semitic!” Because he doesn’t say it like that, he is saying it like “the Samsung family have a lot of control of Korea”
wkrws12Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
Based on what I've read up to chapter 10, the story is about a pathetic, overweight man in his 50s who failed three movies, went back to the past, and now complains that he only failed because of bad luck while stealing other people's successful works in advance.
Should I keep reading this novel?
DruniicornRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Clunky dialog but otherwise a fun read, you get thrown out a bit with all the jew stuff, should probably atleast change it to Jewish (especially when they are talking to eachother) but otherwise it's a entertaining read with no other major problems. The pacing is solid and the ex-wifes name is an unexpected chuckle
bmikahRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
I really tried to give this story a chance. I read the other reviews and thought they were exaggerating about how much the author loves bringing up “Jews” but no, this is actually insane. After the first time the MC succeeds in improving his life, the author keeps bringing up Jews all the time.
And the political opinions don’t stop there! The author makes sure you know just how they feel about everything, and exactly what the “correct opinions,” in this universe are.
To quote the book, “Hell, they can make Snow White Latina, the seven dwarfs would be normal people too. They can cast a black woman as the Little Mermaid and call it "innovation". Disney got too much Woked. Like, bro, I just want to watch movies and have some fun. Don't shove your ideologies down my throat.”
Please take your own advice and stop trying to shove your right wing ideology down our throats. I am not on the right but I am willing to read and review the novels of people with different ideologies.
If this story was better written, I could’ve gotten over the political differences. But it reads like chat gpt wrote it, a lot of the statements are framed in the “it’s not just this, it’s that” way that ChatGPT loves. The author denied using ChatGPT at the points where I noticed it, and they were honest about using ChatGPT for the movie summaries, so I am giving them the benefit of the doubt that it wasn’t ai generated.
That means that this author just isn’t good at writing a compelling story. I understand that the writer is from the Philippines and that this is a more Asian version of storytelling, but I did not enjoy it. There’s 600 chapters and after like ~75 they all started to blend together, with occasional moments that felt like good storybeats. I’m dropping it now because the writing isn’t good enough for me to put up with the writer bringing up Jews so much.
Djtiger901Royal Road
★ 0.5
The grammar could use some improvement, but the basic premise was alright. It was an interesting story, however beginning in chapters 33 and 34 the author starts promoting several harmful antisemitic comments relating to "How Jews are in charge of everything". The introduction of it comes off as the MC joined two people's favorite club or political party.
Even if the author was right, it doesn't make sense in the story as the MC is Jewish and died a struggling director. Even if there was some super secret "Jewish Cabal" that rules Hollywood, why wouldn't the MC have gotten a leg up before his second life?
If it was the MC introducing some beliefs that were going to be changed, that would be much better and maybe actually make sense. This isn't the case.