He’s no young Tim Kaine.

Three songs (Vacation, We Got The Beat and Our Lips Are Sealed), but yes agreed.

Honestly as much as I’d like to blame Trump, I I don’t actually think the rally was a significant spreader event. The city has had a spike in cases, but no more so than a lot of other red state cities that didn’t have Trump rallies. Tulsa and Oklahoma City (where I live) are almost dead even in terms of the number of…

Yeah but what if those rich Hamptonians (Hamptonicans? Hamptonites?) go on to infect the help?  You know people who pay $25k to go to a concert aren’t doing their own dishes and laundry.  Or minding their own kids.

Are you going to the old school stadium style theaters or one of the nicer converted ones? Because that might be the difference as I always pay the premium to go into the theaters with recliner seating unless the movie I want to see isn’t playing in one, and the rows are spaced in a way that it’s less obvious what…

Yup. Honestly, I’m not even sure if there will be an Oscars in 2021. Even with opening things up to streaming, so many movies are waiting until they can get their theatrical run or at least participate in one of the prestige film festivals.  If the theaters are open by October maybe there’a a chance, but if not I…

The press is not preventing him from getting help. If they stopped writing about him tomorrow, he’s unlikely to see the light and go talk to a qualified mental help professional. They’re amplifying the reach of his madness to be sure and that’s a reason to stop, but Kanye is refusing treatment for the same reasons…

It’s always interesting to me reading comments like this because I very rarely have issues with people being disruptive at the theater. I’m not sure if I’m less sensitive to it than others and just don’t notice or the people who visit the two theaters (both of which are attached to malls, so there’s plenty of…

I signed up to see Onward also, but it took 2-3 months of subscribing to match what I would have paid if I had seen it in the theaters. Plus, I only had to pay for one subscription for multiple people to watch it. The revenue difference between say a family of four going the theater to see Onward vs getting a Disney…

“ I think the Netflix/HBO streaming model for movies would probably push the industry towards lower budgets in general.”

From what I know of New Mutants, I have a hard time seeing it go up on Disney +. Content wise (it’s supposed to be a horror movie right?), it seems like a poor fit for the service as Disney has kept the less family friendly titles that it bought from Fox off of the service. Like I doubt that Deadpool not being on…

For sure. My point bringing up Onward wasn’t to suggest they regret releasing it on VOD so fast. They didn’t really have another choice.  I’m just saying that such a release likely didn’t produce anywhere close to the revenue of a regular theatrical release, because if it had been a money maker for them, we likely…

I don’t think there’s been a quantum leap, but I think it’d be wrong to pretend that there hasn’t been any movement forward. You said in your previous comment that Jimmy Carter couldn’t get elected today. That’s might be true. But we’ve still only 8 years past when Obama last won a national election, something he did…

No it wasn’t, but I think people born in 1990 as opposed to 1950 benefited from growing up in a less segregated society and with an age cohort that was less white than the one before it. That obviously didn’t exterminate racism from white millennials, but I do think it made the racial attitudes and its expressions of…

I didn’t say it wasn’t. I was responding to a comment wondering how someone who witnessed the Civil Rights era wouldn’t be more enlightened than someone even older. My response about how Lee Atwater was unmoved by it isn’t all that different than what I’d say about the tiki torch bearers in Charlottesville. Not…

Disagree. Mulan has an enormous $200+ budget that needs to be recouped. That’s be hard to do through a Disney+ release. I mean Eurovision may have a lot of buzz, but how much money is the movie actually generating for Netflix? The Trolls World Tour release strategy could work, but with a much more modest budget, it…

They’ve already killed that mandate, at least temporarily.  Now anything that was intended for theatrical release before corona hit is eligible even if it never gets shown in a theater at all.

Same!  The taboo the pull out your phone is strong and that’s as helpful for me as a viewer who gets directed watching staff at home as it is for the people in the theater who don’t watch to be distracted by other people’s phones.

I’ve legit been worried about this. I still love seeing movies in the theaters. It’s the only place a movie is likely to get my undivided attention, and I have a comfy and pretty quiet theater within 10 minutes of my house that I went to often as I could manage. That theater is an AMC so I got spooked when there…

Sure he lived through it, but the fights of the Civil Rights era wouldn’t have been so hard fought if there weren’t plenty of people siding with the people with the dogs, firehoses and batons. The youth were more sympathetic to black activists than their parents were because there were more people loudly protesting…