I’ll take poor production quality and early show cancelations over right wing billionaire propaganda any day of the week. I don’t understand why you would downplay the significance of the Ellisons taking over WB and TikTok simultaneously. It’s clear what the intentions are.
My thoughts exactly. If I had to choose between these two evils, I would consider Netflix to be the lesser one.
And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care about cinemas and Hollywood at all. I go to cinema like once per 3 or 4 years, and I watch like 5 movies per week at home.
Pre-COVID I went several times a week. COVID broke theater etiquette and now I dont go because I dont want to have toget an usher again because someobe feels the need to play on their phone during the movie.
The Ellisons will eventually fail at Paramount because the culture is largely against their brand of politics, and WB, HBO, etc. could have survived long enough to have be sold off once that happens.
Netflix is going to destroy a load-bearing structure of Hollywood for the sake of streaming slop.
But it’s all speculation anyways, and none of it matters, since they opted for your choice of poison, not mine.
My choice would be a functional regulatory system that entirely prohibits harmful media consolidation and monopolistic behavior but that’s not on the table. The next best choice is keeping neo-Nazis from controlling the airwaves as much as possible.
I’ll take poor production quality and early show cancelations over right wing billionaire propaganda any day of the week. I don’t understand why you would downplay the significance of the Ellisons taking over WB and TikTok simultaneously. It’s clear what the intentions are.
My thoughts exactly. If I had to choose between these two evils, I would consider Netflix to be the lesser one.
And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care about cinemas and Hollywood at all. I go to cinema like once per 3 or 4 years, and I watch like 5 movies per week at home.
Haven’t gone to a cinema since COVid. Got a nice home theatre and see no reason to ever go back.
The reality is home cinema is cheap now. You get a better quality of picture and sound without being surrounded by corn grazing morons.
I tried shouting, “stop the film! I need to take a shit!” but they ignored me.
I used to love going to the cinemas but I’m just a working slob and eventually the cost became too much for me to go regularly.
Pre-COVID I went several times a week. COVID broke theater etiquette and now I dont go because I dont want to have toget an usher again because someobe feels the need to play on their phone during the movie.
Landman is on Paramount+ and the whole script is full of oil and gas bullshit.
Pick your poison.
The Ellisons will eventually fail at Paramount because the culture is largely against their brand of politics, and WB, HBO, etc. could have survived long enough to have be sold off once that happens.
Netflix is going to destroy a load-bearing structure of Hollywood for the sake of streaming slop.
But it’s all speculation anyways, and none of it matters, since they opted for your choice of poison, not mine.
Hollywood destroyed itself, from decades of short-term thinking, riskless projects, trendchasing, and curbstomping creativity wherever it may hide.
+1
And now they’re mad their little club is being undermined.
I’m not a Netflix apologist, but Hollywood brought this upon themselves.
My choice would be a functional regulatory system that entirely prohibits harmful media consolidation and monopolistic behavior but that’s not on the table. The next best choice is keeping neo-Nazis from controlling the airwaves as much as possible.