It’s just never not going to be hilarious to me the vast fortunes and years of effort that will have been spent just to invent cable television on the internet. I guess shell-games like these were really the only way to subvert the power of contemporary service monopolies like Comcast and AT&T. They could’ve just done…

They’re pretty clearly just spending too much money on the streaming content. There’s a reason TV shows never used to have huge CGI battles and lavish sets and crowd scenes with hundreds of extras. The network TV business model didn’t allow for that. The network suits knew how much money the ad revenue was bringing…

Fame, the film and the soundtrack, and Irene Cara were huge back in 1980. When I’ve thought of Irene Cara over the years (for one reason or the other), I always pictured her as she looked back then. I am really saddened to learn of her passing. It’s almost as if I’ve lost a small but significant piece of my 20's.

Oh I have worked for CEOs that do that, actually working for another one now. It’s one of the basic responses they do when they need rapid cost lowering with little effort. It’s also annoying as fuck when you suddenly lose all your resources because they now fall under another division. 

I keep thinking about the exclusive shows and how unnecessary they are for any streaming service run by a major network/studio. They already have a draw with their extensive back catalogs, immediate access to first-run broadcast shows, and exclusive rights to streaming premiers of their big movies. They don’t really…

It actually has a lot of world-building but could also be interpreted as the story of an over-imaginative kid dealing with sibling rivalry when the new baby comes home. The Netflix show and sequel get rid of that ambiguity, of course, but the original movie is mildly thoughtful. Good god, I can’t believe I’ve become…

I guess Mickey Mouse accounting is now a literal term.

I think the pitch is always that “we pay for this show once, but bring in subscriptions for it for the next 50 years”. It’s a decent pitch if you make good content. I grew up watching Disney films that were like 40+ years old at the time, that my parents still had to pay full price for. Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, and…

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The same way they’d be profitable with ads: You spend less than you’re bringing in.

Ads aren’t required for this, although they expand the amount of money in the pot.

But costs are going to come down soon, once streaming channels start folding and there’s no longer an insane amount of content being produced, driving up…

I thought that was The Good Dinosaur. Nobody seems to remember that, even though it got mostly positive reviews. A Bug’s Life is memorable if for nothing else that it was such an early Pixar movie from the days when every Pixar movie was a big deal as they were the animation studio that could do no wrong (probably Cars…

They’re there. Just hard to see. 

It’s weird how the Twitter take seems to be LOOK HOW MARVEL RUINED PRODUCTION HOUSE LOGOS!!! wtf

I literally just finished re-watching Megamind for the first time probably since it came out - I remember liking it then as a more adult-oriented CGI flick (not necessarily just a kids flick with secret boner jokes laced throughout), and I think it still holds up in that regard. I get why it didn’t maybe leave a…

I suppose I do consider... how do we or anybody expect streaming services to be profitable without ads? Putting money into original content, paying fees for big shows. For just the one sub fee. I’m not saying it all should (or will) go back to the full old model, but it is curious. 

Or Penguins of Madagascar, which is their best movie aside from How to Train Your Dragon.

If people don’t watch, it will go away. Same with all the other garbage tv (the Bachelor, the Masked Singer, etc.). People are stupid. This is why when given a choice between democracy and fascism, 46% of the country is solidly pro-fascist (although they get mad at the word).

Really? They never should have had one in the first place. Vacuous nothings. 

I mean, I don’t really know how many different directions you can go with the character. He’s a big lunk who wails on CGI monsters with a hammer/axe and I guess is kind of sad his mom/dad/brother/girlfriend died. You can either play that straight or comedically, and they've already done both. I still happen to think…