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  1. Win this series and the Rangers put a chokehold on the division IMO. Running through the hardest part of the second half of the schedule (CLE, TB, LAD) and going 7-2 and only giving up one game while the Astros meandered their way through cupcakes (COL, OAK, etc.) was helpful.
  2. Barbienheimer seems to be doing really well as some weird organic mashup that’s turned into the vibe. I read a tweet today saying last week and this weekend felt like the closest thing adults had to spirit week in terms of fun and excitement. Now studios will try to manufacture mash up weekends like this and it will be cringe and bad, but for now enjoy it. That said and a question more for Queen who is a writer— does the energy and success and fun of this take away from the movement? I feel like at a minimum it’s distracting and surely you don’t wish for failure, and while these successes aren’t possible without actors and writers, nobody is thinking about what could be lost in the future wearing pink tutus and drinking manhattans. But lagging indicators and all….
  3. Drove up and stayed at the Gaylord Texan— nothing but LAD fans everywhere. Had no idea they traveled so well, especially regular season.
  4. With all due respect, but…what? For the most part, this is the ideal. Parents have brought the blessing of life into the world and it’s their duty and obligation to develop and train them up in the right ways as they see fit. I personally think it’s so weird when people outsource their children’s development and training to the government via public schools, but wouldn’t disparage anyone for it, but getting political and societal views from social media is weird to me. Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought it was everyone’s responsibility to raise their own children, not society at large.
  5. Well I'll be: Netflix flexed its muscle in the second quarter, reporting nearly 6 million new paid subscribers and further cementing it as the pacesetter in streaming video. The addition of 5.9 million paid users beat Wall Street estimates and shows that Netflix's password-sharing crackdown didn't sour new users on signing up. It reported $8.2 billion in Q2 revenue and a better-than-expected $1.8 billion in operating income. The strong showing comes hours after Netflix cut its "Basic" $9.99 subscription for new or returning members, nudging them to a cheaper $6.99 ad-supported tier or ad-free options priced at $15.49 for "Standard" and $19.99 for "Premium."
  6. I've checked out a few of the episodes mentioned on Paramount+, thanks for the tips. I've always really enjoyed short form SciFi (Short stories, these 20 min vignettes like TZ, etc.), even more so than long form (Ray Bradbury, etc.) These stories are super creative and really able to illustrate a deeper human-centric problem, ironically enough given that they involve a lot of supernatural and non-human beings. I think having the ability to get outside of the human form (and reality as we know it form) gives us the power to investigate the really deep human condition issues, and issues around morality and philosophy and psychology. One of my favorite of these short forms is a very little known series that was on HBO and was a spin-off of Tales from the Crypt (another great series, using horror as the Trojan Horse to interesting, human-centric storytelling) and a modern spin, slight knock off of Twilight Zone, called Perversions of Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perversions_of_Science I remember watching it as a teen and enjoying it, this episode stuck out. Edit to add, it might be a little racier/NSFW (nipple) than I remembered, as it was on HBO, so I will spoiler it.
  7. It's real. And it's one of the biggest competitors (phone/social) to traditional entertainment in that we live in an attention based economy now. But yea, I am fighting the good fight against those evil short forms (Shorts/TikTok/Reels), but losing. I mean, I mentioned it earlier. YouTubers like Mr. Beast has triple the subscribers of Hulu, mainly from the youth (and the future). That's a lot of impressions.
  8. Lucky. I can't get my family to even watch The Last Crusade with me. They'd rather watch Youtube Shorts and Memes on the 70 inch as a family then watch anything on Disney+
  9. I think it speaks to the @mdmostand others points about Hollywood simply being in the business of pumping out IP, sequels, and derivatives as well as the appetite for nostalgia that GenX/Millennials seem to crave (there was a good post on TLJ thread about that). This fits in a few of those camps and probably looked like a winner on spreadsheets and data models, but reality said "hold my beer".
  10. Growing up f*g/f****t were the insults and anything/everything that mildly annoyed you was "gay". Queer wasn't even a thing, which is why as an adult I used the word in writing and speaking, as I read the word in literature. To mean, weird and quirky and outside of the norm. Same thing for gay. I like to sing Streets of Laredo and talk about "once in the saddle, used to go gay" loud and watch my teens cringe. To me, it means a carefree happiness these days. So I guess I've reclaimed the reclaimation of the words that once were denigrated?
  11. I wonder how the success (or failure) of the Summer popcorn movie season will influence studios to budge. The jury is out on Barbieheimmer, but it looks like MI was a mild disappointment and Indiana Jones is a huge fail: Disney’s Indiana Jones 5 took in $300 million at the box office so far—a disaster for CEO Bob Iger and Lucasfilm Lucasfilm’s fifth Indiana Jones installment is shaping up to be a disaster of epic proportions for parent company Disney and its veteran CEO, Bob Iger. Released on June 30, Dial of Destiny earned a disappointing $60 million in its opening weekend in the domestic theaters, and interest dropped off sharply ever since. Just one week later, it surrendered the top spot at the box office, despite being one of the most expensive movies ever made, and now it has sunk to a distant fourth in the table. The new entrycould no longer rely on the goodwill built up by the first three films after the critical disappointment of its predecessor, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Poor reviews and dreadful word of mouth look to now sink Lucasfilm’s first theatrical release since 2019. Its $302 million global take has only matched roughly the reported costs of its production budget, which suffered from expensive reshoots after test screenings indicated audiences were less than thrilled with the initial ending. Marketing and promotion are expected to have added easily another $100 million to that bill and Disney still has to pay the theaters their share of the receipts. “It looks certain to fall short of the global total for 2008’s Crystal Skull: $786.6 million,” wrote Box Office Pro on Sunday. The situation is far more dire, according to The Hollywood Handle. Dial Of Destiny is not expected to even cross the $400 million mark in global box office receipts—half of what the fourth installment made 15 years ago when a dollar went a lot further than today. This seems a safe bet given the stiff competition it now faces in the form of spy thriller Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer. In reality, the Indy sequel needed to haul in around $800 million just to break even.
  12. Elon's Cybertruck finally getting to the road in limited numbers is actually good for the broader market consumer who wants a Ford, it seems:
  13. But then you lose TV sitcoms as training ground and dojos for star making (to your point about stars). You arguably wouldn't have huge Film stars that drive huge revenues without TV. You wouldn't have a George Clooney without an ER or a Jennifer Aniston without a Friends or a Woody Harrelson without Cheers, Will Ferrell without SNL, etc. But maybe that's the old way of thinking.
  14. Not to derail this, but I think our state looked at Louisiana and said "we want that" because free, unadulterated and lightning fast access to every form of pornography, from the basic vanilla to the most perverse, being available at the fingertip of every 5-17 year olds (or wherever the legal consent/age is) is not only passively unhealthy, but extremely and actively detrimental to the development of the brain (and emotional and mental health) of still-developing children. It's a problem, whether you want to acknowledge the studies or not. Especially our young men. And since when, anyways, did we as a society come to expect and feel entitled to free pornography carte blanche? I mean, up until the mid 2000's you had to pay for it and ostensibly verify ID, or worse yet, go to a seedy sex store and buy a physical copy. But Russia and Eastern Europe starts pumping out free porn and we get used to it and now it's as sacrosanct as a constitutional right for some people, it seems. If you make it harder to view online free porn and make it harder to buy guns, I think you can probably wipe out about 80% of the incel community overnight.
  15. I would read this survey and find it interesting, if you had a link.
  16. Also, what is in the water in Mass.? That's the bubble to be in, if you have money and want safety I guess?
  17. Did you see this ^^ That said, I know nothing about Fulshear. I guess the perception it's a small town. But that 25k population minimum is probably why the majority of the great plains/midwest is missing from the map.
  18. No offense to those who reside there, but I'd hardly call Keller, Colleyville and Little Elm (especially) a wealthy suburb in the grand scheme of the DFW metroplex. Maybe it's their distance from anything culturally relevant that makes them secluded from crime, though? I'd wager a guess the multifamily homes aren't many, as well?
  19. For every one of these OP about the worst, there is one for the best. Case in point:https://www.visualcapitalist.com/safest-cities-in-the-us/
  20. Anyways, back to spamming my vapid Summer Anthem
  21. I think our tastes in this kind of music must be complementary in that the song I like from an artist you don't like and the song you like from the same artist is one I do not like. e.g. YoungBoy Further complementary takes, the gunna music to me is the worst. I hate the sing-songy kind of "rap". It's why, try as I might, I don't much like Post Malone tbh.
  22. From the NYT (Link:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/business/media/hollywood-actors-writers-strikes.html) Some good news for the creatives as studios seem to realize a prolonged strike will be a bad deal for everyone, themselves included: -- Studios insist that they can ride out the work stoppage that has largely shut American movie and TV productions. But there’s growing fear that if it stretches beyond a little more than a month, their business could suffer badly. A countdown to Labor Day looms. Three studio chairs told The Times that Hollywood could sit idle until early September with no major long-term business damage. TV studios are continuing to introduce contingency plans for the fall: CBS became the latest yesterday, announcing a lineup composed of reruns of “Yellowstone” and reality and game shows. But a strike that goes on longer would most likely mean big delays for projects set for next year, threatening to make 2024 a ghost town for content. And TV giants can survive on lineups built largely on the likes of “Survivor” and “The Golden Bachelor” for only so long. The costs of a lengthy strike are becoming clearer. While media executives suggested that they could use the work stoppage to cut costs, including by ending some expensive production deals, those benefits will be short-lived. The media mogul Barry Diller recently outlined to “Face the Nation” the knock-on effects of an extended strike: And the analyst Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson noted that American studios could suffer if platforms like Netflix turn to overseas content producers for new movies and shows. “It’s like if the United Auto Workers go on strike, and all of a sudden you see more cars from Japan and Germany on the road,” he told The Times. Diller has already proposed a solution. “As a good-faith measure, both the executives and the most-paid actors should take a 25 percent pay cut to try and narrow the difference between those who get highly paid and those that don’t,” he told “Face the Nation.” Yesterday, a group representing studios in the labor talks said that before the strike, its members had offered over $1 billion worth of concessions on pay and benefits, as well as limits on their use of artificial intelligence. It’s unclear whether that would be enough, however, with all sides acknowledging that battle lines are hardened.
  23. After decades of not caring about Star Wars my son has challenged me (or asked me politely) to watch the entire 9 episodes with him, as time permits. I just finished TLJ and came to see if there was a thread talking about how it was horrible, and you guys did not disappoint. Even my kid said it was bad and mentioned he barely finished IX because TLJ just ruined the whole thing for him.
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