Barbara Streisand once sued to stop website publication of an image of the California coastline, taken to document coastal erosion, because Streisand didn’t like that the image showed her house. The suit failed, and the surrounding publicity led to way more people seeing the image of Streisand’s house than would have…

It’s not just the AV Club either. The Washington Post has an article about this today, and I’m sure a lot of news sites do too. That inevitably means a lot of people now know that there are realistic-looking nude images of Swift online. Even if the vast majority of people respond with revulsion to that news, the…

Gaear Grimsrud deleted my comment for daring to note that he knows as much about the Bill of Rights as about a generating a feeling in a woman other than contempt.

I have no idea what argument you think you’re making about the Bill of Rights.

There seems to be a big Streisand Effect problem here. The group of Swifties is very large, and their efforts have now informed an awful lot of people who may not know much about AI pornographic images that there are realistic-looking nude images of Taylor Swift online. At least some of those people are then going to…

The Idol is trash, but I can’t see what’s wrong with a character on a TV show expressing hostility to intimacy coordinators.  TV characters are not designed only to spout our own views back us.

One thing that stands out from that 2022 Netflix preview is how unmemorable these Netflix movies are, even the ones that area actually released.

I could certainly see HBO being hesitant about a plot that takes Pascal out of the show. He’s its most famous actor, and the interplay between him and Ramsay is what made season one work so well. It tough to blow that up in just the show’s second season, when you potentially can have a longterm hit just by staying…

I think the twist in The Last of Us, Part II is brilliant. After the first game, there really isn’t that much new we can learn about Joel — he thinks of Ellie as a daughter, and will do anything to protect her. What do we get from more Joel other than more of that?

TigerNightmare can dismiss my comment from the thread, apparently, but that does change the fact that he has no fucking idea what a “captive market” is.  Also, he’s a big fucking baby.

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

I also think people are struggling with the reality that there isn’t a model where you both (a) only pay for the things you want; and (b) the price you pay for each of those things is really cheap. There is not going to be a streamer that totally meets all your TV needs, provides you with endless new content, keeps…

I also can’t get a Big Mac anywhere outside McDonalds, or a Tahoe if I don’t buy it from Chevy. That doesn’t mean the markets for fast food or cars are captive markets. The relevant market is not defined by a specific product, but by the general category of product. You can get TV content from lots and lots of other…

It’s not kicking the can down the road if Stewart is considering continuing to hold the job after November. And I think the jury’s still out as to whether that’s what is actually happening here.

You keep asserting that it’s a captive market and that there are “no comparable alternatives,” with no explanation. But I listed a bunch of alternatives, and you don’t bother to respond to them.

It is not, in any sense, a captive market. You have Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon Prime, a bunch of other streaming services, regular broadcast TV, cable, and on Demand purchasing.

It’s perfectly reasonably for you to decide the price of Netflix isn’t worth it for you. We’re all making choices about what to buy or not to buy.

Is Netflix “expensive as hell?”

I think it’s a mistake to make Barbie’s nominations the yardstick by which we decide how feminist the year in film is. Gosling didn’t take Robbie’s spot. Robbie’s spot was taken by another women. Is it more feminist if Robbie were nominated but, say, Annette Benning was not? How?

It’s a-me, Sitting Bull!