“Not to mention the tidal wave of projects going in and out of the few visual effects houses not being pilloried by Marvel’s pixel-obsessed requests.”

It’s pretty different, considering that you typically see a movie again because you want to see it, not because you think you’re making a difference in the world. These sold out showings are empty.

This is more like when conservative foundations or groups do bulk purchases of new book releases by conservative authors/celebrities/etc, so that the author can scheme their way on to the NYT bestseller list. 

I actually don’t care about yet another dick pretend to give a shit about one kind of working person in order to shit on another kind of working person. It’s common and fucking boring.

Nobody cares.

That looks really good, actually. Man, intrigued by this movie a lot.

The third was where they actually started getting good, and have only accelerated in that direction since.

And people still bitch that she was fridged even though that word has no meaning.

it’ll just be the naming rights Citibank’s Superman: Legacy

This certainly doesn’t make me feel bad about cancelling my subscription and finding, um, other means of watching.

To me the second piece is the more important one. Having a deep library that justifies paying a monthly subscription cost instead of getting it for a couple series. I remember getting Netflix when it was the only game in town and thinking I could watch for months and not repeat myself. Or when HBOMax finally levelled…

Geez Phil, nice of you to drop by! 

AI isn’t actually AI, it’s just an advanced predictive text algorithm that regurgitates sentences based on popular sentence formulations.

I regret that I have but one star to give for this masterpiece.

It’d be rare for the membership to reject the tentative agreement, and the DGA is typically the Hollywood guild with the greatest affinity for management. However, we can hope that maybe something like this galvanizes their membership to realize that AI stands to threaten their jobs, too, and that the platitudes on AI …

These dweebs can’t tell the difference. They live in a world where the only cultural capital that matters to them is objectified cultural capital - because they can’t get any other kind. So, to them, to take, buy, borrow, or otherwise obtain cultural capital through no effort on their part is the only thing that counts…

Man, this is sad. My father had TCM on nonstop in the hospital a few months ago as he withered and died slowly. My last memories are riffing on movies with him and telling Orson Welles jokes. It was so great to hear his laugh a few final times. He sure loved his TCM!

You’re literally on a website that posts movie and TV reviews. Me informing you that you’re a brain dead idiot for your bad taste doesn’t take away your free will, you brain dead idiot.

Your unwillingness to recognize hyperbole is helping the other person’s argument.