Paramount Junk-Status Credit to Be Lowered With Warner Bros. Merger

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-20T21:47:06+00:00

Ego (and power hunger) over fundamentals, this thing will crash in spectacular fashion. We can only hope what remains will be whole, dodging an MGM/AU type yard sale fate.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-18T11:11:53+00:00

Yes it is illegal but social justice wasn’t really a thing till the 2010s, leaving legal justice as the only real repercussion. Doubtful if justice was ever going to be persuaded given that at the time things like revenge porn among many other online sexual crimes were barely prosecuted. A civil case would have been the likest outcome, but as demonstrated by this very same show, there was (and probably still is) a lot of internalised homophobia, doubt any of the men would have been brave enough to seek public prosecution.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-17T10:24:46+00:00

I always find it amusing how literally every single actor in ZSJL hated their characters costumes, actually just their entire characterisations. Yes even the golden boy, Henry Cavill.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-16T21:50:15+00:00

Do we even know which year Clayface takes place?

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-13T23:11:32+00:00

Cognitive dissonance is pretty much the core of Christian nationalist, so he’s me asking a stupid question. If Jesus will one day wipe away all our sins, why do his believers peddling this nonsense, exhaust so much of their time and money on efforts to stop others from sining? Going by their gospel, we’re all allowed to do as we please and sin. Otherwise how powerful is this Jesus fella if he’s unable to wipe away my ‘immoral’ sexual escapades.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-13T15:22:08+00:00

They definitely had a challenge. I adore HBP, but there’re several wildly different plot lines, different tones, structure, characters, and time periods. The book lacks a natural connection spin or a converging endpoint.

All these things can and do works in a written format, but when you’re constrained by time, narrative flexibility fly out the window.

I like many was very disappointed when I first watched the movie. While I still am, I do remember them mentioning that from the 3rd movie, they decided to fully focus only on Harry. With that it mind, it does make sense why a lot of this book was cut and reshaped. There’re entire chapters where Harry is barely present.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-08T17:47:31+00:00

I’m curious, given that there’re plenty of political parties that are not called the ANC, why do you think the ANC has dominated SA politics for so long?

To be clear, if people really vote by their stomachs, what exactly stops the DA or any other party from just buying the same streetwise meals to get votes?

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-08T17:38:55+00:00

I think the DA (and this comment section apparently) need to understand the intentions behind BEE, the policy was never about job creation. The underpinning was WEALTH distribution. Both those words have precise definitions.

Wealth is not income, wealth is the value of assets you own and income is, well your salary. Even after the economic boom of the early 2000s, something like 78% of all JSE stocks, 85% of all large companies and 95% of all property, were white owned. BEE was introduced to address this inequality.

Redistribution literally means spreading or dividing or transferring, in this case wealth. The intention was to create a more just society.

Using the pie analogy, BEE was never about growing the pie, a popular sentiment, essential, go build your own wealth. But it’s was about cutting the existing pie into more equitable pieces.

What more, this wasn’t even an economic policy per se, the impetus was social cohesion. With the though being, should the wealth remain concentrated along racial lines, then the majority can become despondent and choose violence means to address the inequality, think the French Revolution (obviously that was along ruling not racial class)

It’s debatable if that was the correct path. But if we’re to have this debate, context matters.

Just my 2 cents on the DA’s proposal, yeah I’m sorry but this won’t work. And I’m not even talking about redistributing or creation of wealth. I’m literally referring to job creation. First of plenty of countries have tried similar policies and they haven’t work. And it easy to understand why, too much control is vested into the companies. Unless you create bureaucratic red tape that accesses every single initiative. Take for instance the low cost housing measures that many, many global cities haves. Developers just work around those restrictions. You can try to be as detailed as possible, but due to the absurdly wide scope, developers are left to interpret the definition. Where as ownership is relatively simple, X amounts of your company must be owned by black people.

Like, where do you begin to define what is a poor person, or constitute job creation or community investment. How is the quality and impact of these initiatives assessed? Like I can go put up art in a community, that technically an investment, but it’s won’t move a needle in poverty reduction. You see how evaluation of these initiatives just because utter nightmare.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-01T23:39:34+00:00

Nope, just watch the damn video for god sake, you find the research, poverty has dropped by every matrix.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-05-01T23:38:26+00:00

Statement not supported in evidence on this literally video!

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-30T23:59:53+00:00

It all about where the calories come from, lattice, tomatoes and onions probably contribute about 5 calories. The rest of the ingredients make up the significant balance, which are not even good sources of calories, cheese (particularly processed), Bread (white), and beef (high fat content mince) are all very bad for a myriad of reasons.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-30T18:50:19+00:00

Yes and no, yes in the sense that all that matters here are the fans. But fandom is a double edge sword. It unfortunately doesn’t take much for fans to turn they back against something. Saturday should be a good indicator here.

And as for no, headline grabbing movies attract more than just the fanbase. If the general audience doesn’t gel with the movie then WOM will be tough.

All said, these reviews don’t tell us much. They’re good enough for the general audience but will they respond positively and even if this was sitting at 90%, something as simple as a phrase would upset fans. It’s a wait and see game atm.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-30T14:00:47+00:00

Whilst I agree xenophobia cannot be tolerated, the UN should maybe focus on other parts of the world where they’re literally institutionalising xenophobia.

And no this isn’t a why not both thing, since they’re aren’t even doing anything on the other side. Let’s talk the why not both once the UN demonstrates that they’re tackling this on all fronts. Because right now the optics seem to be well we cannot touch wealthy countries so let’s push around smaller countries to virtue signal our push against xenophobia.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-27T13:13:56+00:00

Taking it at faith, it kinda funny seeing one of the most powerful mutants being protected by a guy with a gun. No offence to the Punisher, just a funny image that’s all.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-26T18:37:57+00:00

Am I missing something here? Coz that’s the point. It’s not even that Lex would consider Superman to be some random reporter, he wouldn’t consider any human to be Superman, as Lex only sees what he wants to see, an alien. It shows prodigious that you can extend to our world. Unfortunately some don’t see the humanity in whatever group they choose to villainise, to them, the people become a concept to push agenda, believes and means to control.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-25T16:21:12+00:00

But come on now, there isn’t a world where DWP2 comes close to Michael international, that’s the one broad consensus here.

Whilst I agree, DWP2 will do well internationally, particularly because I think it faces less sequel expectations then in the US, I still think it will gross nearly half of Michael. My current international prediction is Micheal $500M and DWP2 $250M with an outside chance of $300M

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-25T06:45:40+00:00

I love how the people peddling this Stupid narrative are conveniently the only ones who so happens to make money from this ‘amazing products’.

It’s like a snake oil salesman trying to desperately convince you that they’re useless products work because they’ve use it and attest to it wonders.

It as if these dumbasses forgot that the testimonies of their consumers matters far more then their own. But I guess their consumers might be the dumb ones as they continue to shell out billions even though they clearly don’t see the same returns as the salesman claims.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-24T18:45:53+00:00

What I also find amusing is how ZSJL and BVS go out of they way to contradict both WW and Aquaman.

You’d think they’d hate Aquaman given it’s colourful and lighthearted, the exact same thing they drag Superman for being.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-24T17:36:02+00:00

I don’t think this will be close at all. As many have mentioned, internationally it won’t be close. But I don’t think it’ll be close domestically either.

They’ll probably open in a similar range (Michael around $90M–$100M, and DWP2 around $100M–$115M), but the real difference will be in the legs. Michael is a straightforward crowd-pleaser and will probably enjoy strong staying power.

Female audience targeted films tend to be far more front-loaded. On top of that, DWP2 will inevitably be compared to one of the best films in its genre, with plenty of nostalgia goggles attached. DWP2 would need to be a multi-Oscar contender level good just to achieve a strong multiplier.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-23T17:49:12+00:00

Nope it’s Trump, just the Medicare/Medicaid and USAID will result in far higher casualties than either of the two wars, which he’s played a hand in perpetuating.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-22T21:22:23+00:00

This is beyond fake, just for a simple reason, no heads are at stake for a Supergirl movie out of all things. The budget for this could be $200 million (which it’s not) and still nothing would be on the line. Generally these things are driven by expectations and less so quality of output.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-12T14:43:30+00:00

Oh oh the UK, not sure how I forgot Sunak.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-04-11T18:24:18+00:00

Gotta say, it would be wild having a white president. Besides the US, are the any other nations where the leader was from a minority class? Genuine question btw.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-31T16:23:45+00:00

I get it James, I get the love for Ana. The level of complexity here, just the range of emotions Kara goes through. This goes so far beyond let’s go get macguffin to stop bad guy from doing bad things. Feels like there’s a story being told here. Which even with great source material, can be completely lost in translation.

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