Posted on 10/22/2022 3:10:26 AM PDT by dynachrome
Economic experts are sounding the alarm: if the most important product of the world's most important company fails, it could trigger a major economic meltdown. Amazon Studio's $1 billion Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power bet is universally praised by critics as a sprawling ode to diversity. Yet BusinessInsider reports that the TV series that could determine the future of streaming is "falling flat with initial audiences, posing risks for Amazon and the company's Prime membership program."
And now economic experts are sounding the alarm. They're warning that if Rings proves a flop, it risks slamming the brakes on a record-setting global economic expansion. The argument goes that if the most important product of the world's most important company fails, in this current climate that could be the trigger for a major economic meltdown with far reaching consequences.
Hundreds of millions would starve. Millions more would perish of otherwise preventable or avoidable disease. World War III and even nuclear war could finally be here as nations desperate for resources renege on the traditional rules-based world order.
And indeed, the hopes and dreams of women and People of Color who wanted a place in European folkloral history will be dashed against the rocks forever.
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(satire)
Is the an article from The Bee?
From the reviews I’ve seen on tube the Rings is fan written Woke crap.
Could have been great but the show runners are minor Hollywood stooges hoping to please their liberal master.
As a devot Tolkien fan I hope it continues it’s Hindenburg crash and burn.
I can’t figure our whether this article is satire or left wing lunacy. But I think it’s satire intended to fool some people.
There’s a ton of highly polished junk cinema these days. Looks great and has lots of stuff happening every second but the soul of it is empty and there’s just no “there” there.
Going through the movie libraries of some of the free streaming outlets, it seems like there is a ton of money wasted on movies that just never “made it.”
I do not know the movie business, but there are few of these offerings that I have even ever heard of.
jmo
As a TUBI user I know exactly what you mean.
POC’s “ who wanted a place in European folkloral history”
Who?
And how exactly would they have earned it?
They have their own histories.
As a LOTR fan, I won’t watch this degradation of a tremendous work. If that crashes the world, TFB.
“People of Color who wanted a place in European folkloral history”
But wait! Europe had no “people of color”. So isn’t “People of Color” trying to horn in on EUROPEAN folkloral history just - wait for it - CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?????
Why don’t they stick to their own people’s folkloral history, hmmmm?????
That’s been true for a long time. I call it the Jerry Bruckheimer school of cinematography.
“Yeah we have no story, no plot, no character development and the dialogue is crap too, but let’s have a bunch of car chases, a bunch of big gas explosions and a really thumpin’ soundtrack! Nobody will notice!”
That’s how they did it back in the 90s. At least they didn’t try to push a bunch of woke crap onto us on top of all of the above.
I should have added (satire) to the title.
“if it flops. It’s a nightmare scenario that could make even Donald Trump’s attempted murder of democracy on January 6 seem like a walk in the park by comparison.”
I don’t know either.
Well....in order to help save the planet maybe i’ll put it on to use as a sleep aid.
Occam’s Razor: It’s a crapy show.
I’m a lifelong Tolkien fan and I hope this fails miserably as well.
“The Rings of Power bet is universally praised by critics as a sprawling ode to diversity“
It’s SUPPOSED to be frikin’ ENTERTAINMENT! Fail!
So it’s going to be the failure of “Rings” (whatever the hell that is) that will trigger the global financial meltdown. Not the profligate spending over the past 4 decades, or the war on fossil fuels-green new deal, or having China being the manufacturer to the world, or any of the myriad of neo-con/neo-lib fantasy ideas that will destroy the worlds economy. It will be some woke rip off of a once good story book that does it.
These people need to place the bong on the table and just back away.
“Watch our crap, or the world economy dies!!!” Like losing a billion dollars will destroy a trillion-dollar company.
OK, the article is sarcastic. I should read the whole article first.
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