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If Warren is against this deal, I’m for it.
I recollect seeing a figure of $83 billion.
That seems to be a great deal of money to me.
Surely Poca can be right as often as a broken clock.
Exactly the same here. I miss making trips to the movies, but just as with shopping malls, our trash culture has trashed the experience. (Same with professional sports, now that I think of it.)
I would think the making of bad movies that audiences hate was the real threat to the movie business. But what do I know?
That was my first thought too.
At least Netflix occasionally makes something that is entertaining, which is more than I can say about the regular studios.
The last film I enjoyed in a theater was LOTR; "Return of the King".
I went to a couple more theater movies after that, but both were miserable experiences, so I haven't been back in a theater for about 22 years.... this, from a guy who during the 1980s and 1990s went 2-3 times a week on average.
Are the Obamas still involved with Netflix? I canceled my subscription back when they got mixed up in it - and the content apparently kept getting gayer after that.
Then I read that Netflix made a big donation to the Kamala campaign last year and I wished I had a subscription so I could cancel it again.
And NetFlix's Reed Hastings has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump for years, describing his actions as "so un-American it pains us all".
No brainer, if Trump has any say in the matter.
What is a “theater”?
“ What is a “theater”?”
Never mind, I just remembered. Its where you paid to sit behind people wearing big hats and talking on their brightly shinning cellphones who laughed at everything even when it was not something funny and acted as though they had never been in public before. I don’t miss that!
I think the last movie I went to was the Midway remake in 2019. Totally awesome movie. Woody Harrelson as Admiral Nimitz made me want to call a Navy recruiter.
Midway is currently free on youtube right now....i watched it last night.
Pretty entertaining movie....CGI coulda been a bit better but i still liked it.
Like these?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3893719/posts
Appearing at Monday’s virtual Mipcom marketing event, Netflix Chief Executive Ted Sarandos defended the child pornography film “Cuties” his company recently released, to massive backlash.
The film has been charged with exploiting 11-year old girls, who are featured in highly sexual and suggestive scenes that include twerking, inappropriate clothing, and even nudity. State and federal officials have labeled the hyper-sexualization of young girls in the film criminal.
It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling,” ... Sarandos claimed the film is simply “misunderstood” and if you just watch it, the movie “speaks for itself.” It is just a “coming-of-age” story, he added.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3883465/posts
Child-Sexualizing ‘Cuties’ Movie On Netflix Is Even Worse Than We Thought
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4344553/posts
Elon Musk Wages All-Out Netflix Cancellation War Over Streamer’s Alleged Woke Bias and Kids Shows With LGBTQ+ Characters
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4239017/posts
Oh look, Netflix snuck a lesbian kissing scene into a kids’ show about dinosaurs
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3883281/posts
Netflix has had a problem with pedophiliac programming for years. Back in 2018, Netflix premiered an Argentinian film called Desire that included a scene of child pornography involving girls under the age of 10. At the time, the news site PJ Media reported the film to the FBI and Department of Justice. The film included a depiction of a child masturbating.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3883418/posts
New Adult Netflix Cartoon ‘Hoops’ Sexualizes Minors With Porn and Prostitutes
Netflix’s Hoops, a raunchy cartoon released on August 21, is definitely for adults. Just as this series isn’t for kids, neither is its main character, Ben Hopkins (Jake Johnson, New Girl), who coaches the Lenwood High School basketball team.
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Beyond enticing minors with pornography, Ben tries to better his team by scouting 16-year-old Matty (A.D. Miles). Ben is so desperate to have an unenthusiastic Matty play that he makes him an offer. “Look, if you penetrate a woman before Saturday, will you play in the game?” Ben asks, taking Matty’s non answer as a yes.
Ultimately, Ben decides to seek out the services of Connie (Mary Holland), a friend of his who is a washed out prostitute. As Connie explains her price point, Ben vocally disagrees:
I learned a lot about the carrier battles in general and the specific ones that the Enterprise was in. One thing in particular that I knew about (Battle of Saipan being the Pacific D-Day) but didn't put together the timeline on until that show really impressed me. Think about the US 5th Army Liberating Rome on June 4, 1944, then the Normandy Invasion (D-Day) beginning a couple of days later on June 6, then the Pacific D-Day (Saipan) beginning 9 days later on June 15. Those 3 key battles, all of which the U.S. was either a main player or the main player in, happened practically simultaneously but were in 3 different parts of the world. (Rome to Normandy is about 1,000 miles apart, then Saipan all the way in the Pacific Ocean). I don't know if any other major power in history accomplished something like that.
| Yes, Midway 2019 was clearly a standout movie for me as well, though I also liked the very long movie about Elvis Presley. Looking back at the intelligence problem Admiral Nimitz and his signal intelligence team solved: accurately predicting the time and location where the Japanese fleet of aircraft carriers would be, setting up the greatest Naval victory of the War... it was an amazing success. Incredibly, the American fleet sent the 4 best Japanese flat tops (carriers) and all their highly-trained pilots to Davy Jones' Locker in exchange for the U.S. Yorktown begin badly hit (and sinking the next day) but not before most of the sailors and air crews jumped overboard and were rescued. The Japanese Navy never recovered from this tremendous defeat at the Battle of Midway, Of course, reading/analyzing the Japanese codes would be far easier today, even if Nimitz only had one Windows PC. But back then, they needed to throw scores of people at number-crunching to identify commonly used Japanese words to read the messages. Back then it was sheer magic to pull it all together. But today it amounts to merely solving one of those cryptograms posted every night on FR. |
Yea....Divine intervention?
My first reaction to this news was sadness.
No. I have never seen anything Netflix has done for the U.S. audience. I have watched many of it’s Korean drama shows, which have never reflected the kind of things you describe, and often quite the opposite.
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