Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat October 16, 2021 1:07 am
I absolutely love Will Patton's voice. You know the guy:
I could listen to him all day maybe
I could listen to him all day maybe
Is there anyway to know how much they're making on streaming?Jorge wrote:This day-of-release simultaneous HBO Max streaming thing has been a bad plan so far for Warners, right?
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Disney owns more valuable stufftragabigzanda wrote:I disagree, but would be interested to hear your caseThe Argonaut wrote:That line-up of HBO and a bunch of crappy cable channels can't really go head to head against Disney
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Moneytragabigzanda wrote:How are you defining value?
I think a more expedited theatrical-to-streaming window is the happy medium here, where home streaming is the replacement not of the theatrical distribution model, but of home media (sorry LV if you're reading this). I don't see any benefit for the day-of streaming model except set up theaters (and franchises) for failuretragabigzanda wrote:I think that bemoaning the loss of the traditional theatrical release window is a bit like bemoaning the loss of the CD to the mp3. People want to graze on their content these days, sampling whatever they want when they want. Box office losses for Dune or whatever are pretty meaningless in the grand corporate scheme of things.
Yeah I don't really see it, WB is certainly big but it can't measure up to the mouse in terms of valuable IPThe Argonaut wrote:That line-up of HBO and a bunch of crappy cable channels can't really go head to head against Disney
Steve Albini wrote: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.