I don’t like here where someone is found innocent in a court of law and everyone bitches about miscarriage of justice, then when someone the crowd wants guilt is found quilty, it’s how justice is supposed to be. the crowd isn’t the justice system. people can’t have it both ways

There’s people (myself included) that have been not watching this and just reading the recaps and honestly this finale review sorta cemented that I made the correct choice. But I do agree with you that I think it’s Barsanti’s emotional investment in this/his shortsightedness, that resulted in him not even considering…

This strikes me as one of the least likely things to ever have happened, although of course I don’t really know much about astrophysics or orbital dynamics. I wonder what the odds were.

So when are we going to cancel that Melloncamp  guy? He’s been on about small towns for ages.

There are actual problems with this show. There are actual things that a skilled critic could address. There are actual plot issues, pace issues, dialogue issues, theme issues.
Which makes it all the more infuriating when Barsanti ignores them to make complaints that demonstrate his complete lack of media literacy:

Wait a second.   If this rock has spent ‘around 10,000 years in space’ and originated from our planet, wouldn’t evidence of that eruption or collision be abundantly clear?    Google tells me Arizona’s meteor crater is about 50k years old so if something were energetic enough to fling this rock into space for 1/5 that…

So he is at least admitting that you can peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances in a small town.

If it were the case that I have a vast ignorance [citation needed], what in your opinion was the purpose of me asking for someone to fill me in on a situation that I had professed to not fully understand?

(1) Has the death of the midbudget movie been lamented for that long? IIRC, that narrative has only been around since the mid-2010s.

It’s just weird that you’re able to type so much, and yet say nothing that actually conflicts with what I said. It even sounds an awful lot like you agree with me!

As much as I love A24, and as profitable as its films on a relative basis, they’re not going to sustain the production ecosystem with those profits. They’re also incredibly niche. Shit on superhero movies as much as you want, those films (and those like them) are the ones that return hundreds of millions in profit.

If you’d followed the Labour party for 20 years, you’d know they’ve been out of power for the last 13 years. That gives them exactly ZERO INFLUENCE. Literally none. Interesting that you seem to be completely unaware of that.

I don’t know, A24 seems to not spend a gazillion dollars on the films they produce, and many of them were pretty successful. Maybe people just want to see movies that actually say something than the-same-plot-as-the-last-500 superhero movies or whatever derivative bullshit we’ve seen a million times before that the…

And just how exactly does one storm a billionaire camp and rob them? How do you walk away with all their stock options and ETFs and stock portfolios? It’s not like they’re walking around with the deeds/certificates  or anything. You might walk away with some expensive watches and a some custom tailored shirts that…

One thing that has undoubtedly raised the cost of movies is the increased use of CGI (even if a lot of it is bad) and marketing/advertising cost.

The CGI point is simple. For a movie like Amsterdam, a period piece, it’s easier on the studio to pay a bunch of money to offload the creation of CGI locales than it would be…

The only way out of this is for all the major streamers to stop streaming films. They will live on pay SVOD sites largely, but there needs to be exclusivity to drive people back to the theaters. These streaming services will need to function like their own networks with all original programming.

I love how the term tent pole very accurately describes what they were meant to do, i.e. create an environment for many other smaller things to thrive in. And then the executives, in all their creative wisdom thought, “What if we had a tent that was just all tent poles? Imagine how tall we could make our tent!”

This makes sense. If you’re under contract you need to abide by your contracts. I get po’d at NFL players that hold out. Honor your contracts everyone!

Chicken or the egg. There have probably been a ton of $20-40m productions in the last few years, but those are released on streaming. There used to be a market for those midbudget films at the cinema because of a lack of alternatives; these days, most people are content to wait for streaming unless it’s an “event”…

Barbenheimer made over 500 million in one weekend, so is the industry facing challenges or is Disney just spending way too much money on films that aren’t that good?