movies

[Jocephus]

[go birds]

lol what the hell

[JoeMcKim]

I don't think there is any version of a Star Wars episode 9 where everyone wouldn't complain about. People hold the recent SW movies to some ridiculous high standard. Where if it was a sequel in any other franchise and people wouldn't complain about the recent movies anywhere near as much.

[Jocephus]

[Jocephus]

[thrill]

They've also started rolling their "previews" directly into the show if you don't back out, which is, conveniently enough, about 2 minutes.

[ghostrunner]

I don't understand why they got into reporting their ratings. I guess there's innate curiosity from the press and certain fans, but their bottom line is subscribers not advertisers. Seems like they just need to attract a broad enough audience consistently enough that people don't drop their subscriptions and they pick up a decent amount of new ones. I don't know that a hit show would necessarily help them in the way it does a traditional network. You can subscribe for a month and watch every episode. Maybe if they went to releasing a week at a time it would matter more?

I suppose shareholders probably want to have some sense of what's going on, and that info has to be public.

[Jocephus]

to pivot a bit, it seems like they should release episodic content weekly. you look at the mandalorian, all the buzz over baby yoda week after week growing, building anticipation. i guess i'm mainly thinking of stranger things but i don't think they'd lose interest compared to dumping them all out at once...unless they get the metrics they prefer by releasing them all at once. thinking of myself and stranger things, i would get thru it in probably 2 days, maybe think about it for a couple days then it's out of my mind. if i had to wait, i'd be "thinking" about it over the course of 6-8 weeks or whatever.

[stlouie_lipp]

Saw 1917 today and thought it was great. It's not really a movie about WWI, but it definitely shows the horrors of WWI.

I had heard it was single shot, which I assumed meant each scene was single shot. Not the whole movie. Wow.

[ghostrunner]

From what i've read it's not really a single shot, just made to look that way. Lots of camera/editing/vfx trickery.