I feel like the streaming platforms that still do weekly episode releases are the ones doing it right. Make each drop appointment television that people (and social media) will spend the next week talking about, creating anticipation for the next episode. The availability of previous eps is the obvious advantage over…

Middle aged doesn’t mean halfway through your life, the middle age is the bit when you’re well into adulthood but not yet classed as old

My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullsh*t. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to f*cking want to see those.”

I don’t know what Thompson is supposed to do or say here, and what he has said has been pretty fair in threading a difficult needle. Sometimes crazy shit happens and you just don’t see it. Maybe you aren’t the target of it, maybe you didn’t notice, whatever. So when people speak to their experience, the best you can…

I try to go into his films expecting the characters to be terrible, but to at least enjoy the dumb disaster action. Lately though, he can’t even deliver on that. He made a movie about the moon smashing into Earth and had to stuff it with megastructures, terrible CGI smoke monsters and Sam from Game of Thrones saying…

Ah, Roland Emmerich: the unthinking man’s Michael Bay.

Not only has it been told in Gladiator, but even when you consider the “behind the scenes machinations” I feel like that was a big part of Spartacus, which ran for a bunch of seasons.

“To embrace what you’re ridiculing, you have to also embrace it.”

What does this mean?

I seem to remember a cool little network of blogs that was struggling for years to find a devoted userbase and dozens of talented writers until a kindly old group of billionaires stepped in to help them out. And that little network of blogs, whom nobody liked, grew up to be... sold off piece by piece until maybe one …

The thing is, a company only gets sold to a PE firm if it’s already fucked up. So you’re kinda looking a sample set that’s already headed for failure.

Alamo Drafthouse was already circling the drain when they were bought, IIRC.  

I work in finance, and our firm sells companies to PE groups all the time. A PE-backed company is actually less likely to go under than a privately-owned one, because if it’s struggling then the investors can put more money in to support it (and have more resources for troubleshooting). Granted some of these groups…

Have you ever considered maybe the stuff you mentioned might be connected to what she went through as a teen in the spotlight?

Again, Anyone wanting their underage kid to be a child star is guilty of child abuse. 

I don’t know her very well, but if those two incidents are how you’re judging a person, then you know her even less than I do.

1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle

This doesn’t just happen to celebrities. It’s pretty rampant in places like schools too. I was a mandated reporter, and reported a pretty blatant case of abuse. The powers that be did their damnedest to somehow turn it around so that I was doing the abuse. I’ve also seen a baby who was shaken to the point of brain…

For decades, industry insiders expressed serious doubts that recycling plastic would ever be profitable...

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