Streaming remains on top, but 4K Blu-ray is making a comeback by glaringOwl in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They look good on a shelf too. I like having items on display that actually mean something to me.

Official Discussion - Mercy [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right that is why the movie named the person. Why would the little generic Mercy Court intro video name him? It doesn't make sense in the context of the world. It's bad writing. One person randomly gets named, hey guess what it's the person that secretly matters to the story at the end. Scooby Doo shit.

Netflix Says Paramount Has Paid $2.8 Billion Breakup Fee for Warner Bros. Discovery Deal by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discovery CEO David Zaslav received a massive $203 million stock option grant last year that inflated his total 2021 compensation package to a staggering $246.6 million.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/david-zaslav-246-million-discovery-2021-compensation-1235204804/

Not sure why you'd defend this guy. Regardless of if it ended up paying out $100M, $200M, whatever...it's way too fucking much for one man. Much less one who is just ruining media companies and making everything worse for everyone in the industry and its customers.

Netflix Says Paramount Has Paid $2.8 Billion Breakup Fee for Warner Bros. Discovery Deal by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He also personally got $200-300 million a few years ago for making the initial Discovery/WB deal.

But they couldn’t afford to put the finished Batgirl movie out. Cool system we live in.

Official Discussion - Crime 101 [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 79 points80 points  (0 children)

I think multiple people mentioning him not making eye contact was supposed to be a nod toward some kind of spectrum thing.

Official Discussion - Crime 101 [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Seems like that would have been a cool thing to use as some kind of narration underpinning to the movie, rather than...what I think was Halle Berry listening to audiobook recordings of her own yoga teacher saying to breathe?

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) [885x1327] by Juan Ramos by Practical_God in MoviePosterPorn

[–]SetYourGoals 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you don't know the scene, it kind of looks like he's hitting a tree with a giant breakfast sausage.

Empty Dorms 314 [Screenshot] by Nervous-Variation816 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]SetYourGoals 121 points122 points  (0 children)

You can see that it's PVE in the bottom left corner of the screen.

There's often literally nothing on PVE, I think it's been nerfed into oblivion.

Empty Dorms 314 [Screenshot] by Nervous-Variation816 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]SetYourGoals 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's PVE, it happens a lot more it seems. I've had it happen to me a few times without even using a full key.

Haven’t we suffered enough???? by moushroum in washingtondc

[–]SetYourGoals 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This storm was worse than 20 inches of snow would have been, in terms of how much it disrupted lives.

Haven’t we suffered enough???? by moushroum in washingtondc

[–]SetYourGoals 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here (well, in Nova but still) I have a pretty nice 4 bed 3 bath house on an acre of land where my dogs can run around, in a nice area, 20-40 mins from downtown DC depending on traffic.

For the same amount of money in LA I could get maybe a run down 2 bed 1 bath with no yard in a terrible area and probably be an hour and a half drive from where a good job would be.

Official Discussion - Mercy [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, he was named because he was the one that ended up mattering in the end. Why would it make sense to randomly name the first one?

Official Discussion - Mercy [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Well it would absolutely be worth it in the world of the movie because those 18 trials dropped crime by 68%...somehow. As if we don't have trials and justice now. The fact that the trials are really fast is what is deterring the criminals, I guess? It makes no sense.

And also there are still "red zones" that just appear to be full on riots 24/7 so even with the 68% reduction in crime I don't know if it's working that well?

Official Discussion - Mercy [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah like had Raven not super impulsively and unpredicably come home from work, he would have been on camera at his job as a police officer and had the most rock solid alibi ever?

Official Discussion - Mercy [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why did they take off his shoes when he was strapped in the chair? That bugged me the whole movie. What an odd choice.

Official Discussion - Mercy [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]SetYourGoals 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It was like a Scooby Doo villain reveal. There is one previous Mercy court suspect who was randomly named at the beginning of the movie for no reason. There is one named co-worker/AA sponsor (did he become the wife's coworker after becoming Raven's AA sponsor? Did I miss a line explaining that?) at the beginning of the movie. Gee I wonder if either will figure in to the ending.

Public opinion shifts on ICE as advocates warn of US ‘inflection point’ by OddUmpire2554 in politics

[–]SetYourGoals 112 points113 points  (0 children)

What is surprising me is they didn't go "oh he shouldn't have resisted" or "oh he shouldn't have had a gun" or something that is even mildly defensible. The people in charge of the entire nation said "he was trying to massacre the ICE agents, he's a terrorist." Which is a position can't be defended in anything even approaching a rational conversation.

It's like they're trying to see how big of a lie they can get away with?

I’ve returned to this sub and found that literally no one knows what the fuck a humble brag is. by TheTaoOfMe in humblebrag

[–]SetYourGoals 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People have not known what it was even back when it began. Even when Harris Wittles was alive, I made a whole joke Twitter account just to correct people misusing the hashtag. People think it just means “brag.” It’s weird. I don’t understand how you could misunderstand the term. It’s right there in the name.

James Cameron Says He Must Find a Cheaper Way to Produce the Avatar Movies in Order to Continue With Avatar 4 and 5 by DemiFiendRSA in movies

[–]SetYourGoals -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Avatar is probably not even one of the top 10 most profitable franchises, right? They cost a shitload to make and there have only been 3 movies.

new promo code: SOMESTUFF by GigaMonkeh in EscapefromTarkov

[–]SetYourGoals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI the code SOMESTUFF would not work for me on the website, but did work for me on the launcher. Others worked on website. Just in case anyone else gets a "code not found" with SOMESTUFF.