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Disney+ coming November 12th
November 12th 2019
@adamhlavac: #DisneyPlus launches November 12 and will cost $6.99/month or $69.99/year. https://twitter.com/adamhlavac/statu...883136/photo/1 Full Details in link. This will be awesome. May want to get Disney stock I'm guessing. https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com...-investor-day/ |
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11-22-2019, 08:34 AM | #151 | |
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11-22-2019, 08:47 AM | #152 | |
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All of the consolidation of big companies into a huge conglomeration is really bad for consumers. In tech, Facebook shouldn't have been allowed to buy Instagram and Google allowed to buy Youtube. It's stifled innovation. Made it 10X harder for a start up to get a foot hold. We, the consumers, got the shit end of both of those deals. Just look around, whats happened since we allowed those mergers? They haven't done or launched any big original content or ideas. Same with the entertainment industry, Allowing all these compaines to merge has only got us super hero movies, serial action movies and any other mass appeal movie. The bigger the corporation get, the less risk they take. Inovation is out the window. On the surface you'd think that the consumers having more streaming options would benefit the consumer, But, as usual, these huge conglomerations do whats best for them and don't do any invocation. They want all the money from their content exclusively for themselves. In this case, more streaming choices is really bad for the consumer's entertainment dollar due to the exclusivity of the content to specific platforms. |
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11-22-2019, 03:30 PM | #153 | |
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I will add that there is a shot at some improvement coming if all the guilds back each other on new media renegotiations which will begin next year for the first time since we've seen what a monster has evolved. Some of our artists in the new media arenas are getting severely cheated, but they do it to grab the experience and get good lead credits and then try to parlay that into a lateral move to the traditional arenas. Problem for them is, the list of people waiting for lead opportunities on features is decades long at this point because the volume of production in that space was replaced by new media. Something has to give. |
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11-23-2019, 03:40 PM | #154 | |
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11-23-2019, 03:59 PM | #155 |
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12-01-2019, 12:29 PM | #156 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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Well, I've definitely got my money's worth out of my $7. In addition to The Mandalorian, I finally bit the bullet and over the course of the last three days (while I've been getting over a nasty cold) watched Captain America Civil War and the last three Avenger movies, none of which I'd previously seen. They were better than I thought they'd be.
I may or may not watch some of the others to fill in some of the blanks. Never saw Dr. Strange, Black Panther or any of the Thor movies. |
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12-01-2019, 12:37 PM | #157 | |
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12-01-2019, 12:59 PM | #158 | |
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12-01-2019, 01:16 PM | #159 |
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Yeah, I might. At least Dr. Strange. He seems like the most interesting supporting character.
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12-01-2019, 01:27 PM | #160 | |
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If you're looking for interesting character arcs, I can't recommend the Thor trilogy enough. The second one is a piece of shit, but the first will likely exceed your expectations and the third is possibly a top 5 MCU movie. |
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12-01-2019, 01:34 PM | #161 | |
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12-01-2019, 01:37 PM | #162 |
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12-01-2019, 01:40 PM | #163 |
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12-01-2019, 01:40 PM | #164 |
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Shit, I even enjoyed Captain Marvel, despite being completely prepared not to.
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12-01-2019, 11:06 PM | #165 |
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For anyone interested in the history and design of the parks the Imagineering documentary series is really good.
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