Napoleon (Ridley Scott) - 11/22/23

[Anders]

I think it’s way too early to gauge whether or not the streaming release model is a failure, particularly for the industry agnostic behemoths like Apple or Amazon. With their complicated bookkeeping, all that matters from a financial standpoint is stock price and retained earnings. I’d give it a few more years.

Agreed.

[Jorge]

Every report from every harried insider who's taken a look at these books has said they're hemorrhaging money with no path to sustainability... except for the future introduction of non-skippable third-party ads. By that point the studios will have re-invented traditional television, but worse!

[bart]

Yeah it has been surprising to see the pace at which we are returning to the old models of entertainment, but way worse.

[tommy]

I've always felt like Amazon had the best chance of thriving, since their service is basically just a perk of having prime shipping. They've put out some absolute dogshit though, and have hired all the wrong people.

Their app is somehow still complete dogshit

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Monkey_Driven]

I have two major issues with the direct to streaming model:

- The video quality is all over the place and often inconsistent across devices (not TVs)

- They come and go so quickly there is little to no buzz once they fade from the splash pages. At least with the theater model you get two opportunities to market or build hype around a title.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

I've always felt like Amazon had the best chance of thriving, since their service is basically just a perk of having prime shipping. They've put out some absolute dogshit though, and have hired all the wrong people.

Their app is somehow still complete dogshit

yes it is

[spike]

I've always felt like Amazon had the best chance of thriving, since their service is basically just a perk of having prime shipping. They've put out some absolute dogshit though, and have hired all the wrong people.

Their app is somehow still complete dogshit

yes it is

What does this even mean? They’re all the same.

[BurtReynolds]

I've always felt like Amazon had the best chance of thriving, since their service is basically just a perk of having prime shipping. They've put out some absolute dogshit though, and have hired all the wrong people.

Their app is somehow still complete dogshit

yes it is

What does this even mean? They’re all the same.

They're all bad, but this one has a weird thing where you hover over some of the tiles and the window expands and pushes the others around in a very clunky way, so you have to scroll really fast before it starts expanding. Very cumbersome.

[Mecca]

Amazon prime app looks like it runs on windows xp

[Anders]

It’s on digital here now. Look forward to seeing it.

[spike]

It’s on digital here now. Look forward to seeing it.

theatrical cut or rumored director's cut?

[Anders]

It’s on digital here now. Look forward to seeing it.

theatrical cut or rumored director's cut?

Almost 100% certain that it’s the theatrical cut.