To be fair, I have seen gate agent just glance at boarding passes (especially for delayed flights with a lot of passengers) instead of actually scanning them. Perhaps this person had a legit AA boarding pass from a prior flight, the agent merely glanced at it, and the dates and times were reasonably close, so they…

I can imagine someone using an old ticket for the same airline, having it rejected, but the gate agent doesn’t want to make a stink and assumes it’s a glitch in their system and lets the person on. It’s even more imaginable if the flight is already delayed and they’re hurrying people onto the plane.

That being said,…

See I very much believe we have fully hit the point of diminishing returns already. And frankly that’s fine. We are at a point where game install sizes have become MASSIVE, it’s to the point you can fit what 4 maybe 5 AAA games on the standard hard drive in either console. Is there room to go in graphics, sure, do we…

It’s believable, if you take a look at hardware we’ve seen some of the largest generation on generation jumps recently (significantly due to the application of AI to various parts of the R&D process),

Hopefully they both deliver. It would be nice to push a bit beyond the diminishing returns we’ve been seeing.

1984 was the first year of the 3.8 turbo V6. It had 200hp, which was bumped up to 235hp in 1986, and 245hp in 1987.

The GNX was underrated at 276hp, but likely had closer to 300-320hp. Killer Mike’s isn’t a GNX, and I’d doubt these guys would replace the GNX engine (which is legendary) with a rather easy-to-get LT4.

As someone who lives in Florida, if a cop is skittish over those minor noises to the point that he and his partner decide to mag dump into their own vehicle, with a person in custody sitting in it, they don’t need to be cops. End of fucking story.

The officer served (2) tours overseas. Seeing the lasting affects a tour in Afghanistan has had on a relative, I believe this officer has undiagnosed PTSD which impacted his reaction here.

Les Mis has a much larger target audience than The Color Purple. Not only that, the people who are going to see Les Mis already know it’s a musical, and they’re probably going because they like both Les Mis and musicals in general. Not to mention that the 2012 adaptation had a budget $40m less than The Color Purple.

So…

Wonka did surprisingly well, but The Color Purple was never going to be a major box office hit regardless of whether they advertised it openly as a musical or not. Even among black audiences (who tend to not engage in a massive way with musicals), it wasn’t a remake (musical or not) that was really in demand, and…

The movie is a frame story. Oliver is recounting the story to someone, then we see what happened in the story he’s recounting, similar to The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, and Forrest Gump.

My misunderstanding then. Lord knows Kinja’s formatting can lead to that haha

To be fair, Don Johnson has seen a rather significant career resurgence in the last 10-15 years.

He was absolutely hilarious in Django Unchained, was good in Knives Out, and I personally liked him a lot in Dragged Across Concrete.

He’s working a hell of a lot more than he did in the early post-Miami Vice and Nash…

To be fair, Don Johnson has seen a rather significant career resurgence in the last 10-15 years.

He was absolutely hilarious in Django Unchained, was good in Knives Out, and I personally liked him a lot in Dragged Across Concrete.

He’s working a hell of a lot more than he did in the early post-Miami Vice and Nash…

I don’t believe anywhere in my responses did I imply or advocate for a 1:1 adaptation of novels. The main novel I referred to, American Psycho, had a brilliant movie that decidedly wasn’t a 1:1 adaptation. The crux of my argument is to push back on the notion that novels, due to word count, need TV adaptations, or…

How you derived any of that from what I said is confounding, but I’ll bite.

But to get a good sized novel into a 2 hour movie you have to cut out a lot, like 75%.

As someone else replied, it really depends on the book.

To add, length is less of a factor than most people think. For some genres, much of the fluff is merely visual worldbuilding that is more easily condensed in a visual medium such as a movie than a book. Dozens and dozens of pages describing visual details can…

That’s one of my main points.

People are acting as though this is a new phenomenon necessitating a new, pithy name. Neither one of those things are true, and just because technology has made it easier to disseminate perceived examples doesn’t mean it’s objectively worse. In fact, I’d argue it was worse in the past…

Thank you for the kind and well-reasoned responses thus far, and I’ll do my best to hit the points you made and hopefully provide some clarification if I’ve been unclear.