I think its because the rest of the GOP, conservative pundits and would be supporters no sell (to use a pro wrestling term) any kind of Trump scandal. The way the media works now is something will happen and they have to have people on to talk about it. They bring someone on and go “What about this? Isn’t this bad?”,…

Does someone want to parse this headline for me?

Netflix wasn’t the only streaming service even then. It was just the best one.

The dumbest thing they did was not re-widen the theatrical exclusivity window when pandemic restrictions loosened.

What kind of idiot doesn’t understand that when you change your entire delivery model that your entire delivery model will change?

“When we dammed the river, we weren’t expecting this lake to form!”

I mourn that people today won’t know the sheer anxiety of movie-going in the pre-digital age, when you had to show up early enough to 1) ensure tickets were available and 2) ensure there were enough good seats that you and your family/friends could all sit together.

The wealthiest people my age I personally know were second-generation family business owners who were cut into the equity by their parents before the companies sold. So the commentary was “person X sold their company for a ton of money!” followed by “no, person X’s dad sold his company that he built for 30 years for a…

It’s weird that the nepo baby critique is always about people in the arts and not people in business, where the outcome is more substantive (and funnier) when someone just fucking sucks

I would add that CEOs are all about maximizing short term profit (I may not be here in 5 years!) and if that means killing the goose that lays the golden eggs for goose meat now, they’ll do it.

Look, the industry’s led by idiot middle managers who don’t know anything about movies and barely face any consequence for being wrong. They chased short-term profits, some got it and execs cashed out, and they gave up long-term sustainability. That’s it. They pretended the pandemic era would last forever, so they…

At some point they’re going to have to raise the price of streaming subscriptions to show a profit. So the result will be paying $30-40 each for multiple services, and it’ll basically be a wash compared to visiting the theaters a few times per month.

Pretty much at the same speed as movie theaters got worse, too. Like as they cut staff, the audiences just get more brazen about talking and having their phones out, the pre-show commercials keep increasing, and the seats fall further into disrepair. Plus the few attempts at theater innovation have all just been…

yes but everyone was on the same equal footing. it used to be that a group of people could say ‘hey maybe let’s see a movie’ on friday night, and go do that. hey, the screening they were nearest might be sold out, but they could settle for bad seats or get tickets to the next show.

You need a drink, this was an aggressively over the top response to the other dude’s reasonable opinion. Calm down, man!

and i think you got so horned up to dunk on me you stopped reading what i was actually saying.

The last time I tried to go to a regular theater that wasn’t the small one close to me that’s now closed, I was with 2 friends.  We showed up half an hour before showtime and they did not have 3 seats together for us.  So we walked out and went to a showing of Spaceballs for like $5 each at a small local theater. …

wait for the ‘gen alpha is killing streaming by not subscribing’ articles in a few years, that’ll be a real hoot.

i prefer it, too, but (and i’m not basing this on any real data) but i have to imagine that showing up and seeing all the best seats already taken for the last 10 years has effected spontaneous movie-going, and that’s had a ripple effect.

The Netflix model was not the problem.

She kinda looks like she’s dressed for an SNL sketch about Immortan Joe’s wives.