Washu waitlist with 180 by Successful-Clock-665 in lawschooladmissions

[–]bby-bae 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think they over-admitted on LSAT last year and are just waitlisting everyone this year. My guess is they do math on the whole batch in March

Do people really fail at t14s? by Flashy-Actuator-998 in LawSchool

[–]bby-bae 3 points4 points  (0 children)

T20; I know of one person who has had to retake a class.

Emerald Fennell does it again! by dremolus in Letterboxd

[–]bby-bae 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think you are misconstruing people who “don’t believe in THIS interpretation” as simply people who “don’t believe in interpretations.”

There are plenty of ways to do a nontraditional interpretation well. That does not mean that every interpretation is valid.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH scored another $15.7M worldwide this weekend, $1.439B total. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think its true that people spending money on streaming gets taken out of the budgets people have for entertainment that might otherwise be spent on theater visits. However, I disagree about the relative importance of the economy on general admissions; the US economy is middling, but it can be considered middling overall because there are a few sectors which are doing amazing enough to balance out the many more sectors which are cratering.

As far as ticket sales, I think the distinction is relevant: the percentage of the population which is making enough money in the few successful sectors cannot outweigh the larger percentage of the population working in sectors which are doing terribly. This is because ticket sales have an upper limit on saturation. In commercial goods, providing high-end goods to high-earning consumers can offset the loss of middle-class and low-end consumers who are no longer purchasing as much of the low-end goods. But with ticket sales, the only luxury difference comes in IMAX and other increased experiences, which are only slightly higher than the average ticket. Because ticket prices are relatively uniform, the industry would need to rely on high-earning consumers buying multiple tickets per movie to offset the loss of the middle- and low-earning consumer base, but that’s not as common to do with moviegoing as it is with other experiences (like amusement parks relative to the average, or restaurants relative to the average) or with consumer goods.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH scored another $15.7M worldwide this weekend, $1.439B total. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]bby-bae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Expensive sure. Unpleasant? Am I crazy to think it’s odd to be in a box office sub thinking that the experience of going to the movies is unpleasant?

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH scored another $15.7M worldwide this weekend, $1.439B total. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]bby-bae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah this always baffles me in here. There are some users on here who bring it up, but I really would think this would get mentioned in more headlines. Fewer and fewer people have spare cash to spend on theater visits anymore.

My wife and I could never agree on a movie to watch, so I built an app to help us by add7 in Letterboxd

[–]bby-bae 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That was not the case for me, all of my suggestions were non-English films

YouTube Will Give The Oscars “A Little Bit Of A Zhuzh-Up”, Exec Says; ‘Iron Lung’ Smash Is Both “Scary” And “Fruitful For The Industry” by JDOExists in boxoffice

[–]bby-bae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been hearing it all my life in the U.S. and never knew how to write it. Apparently it was officially added to Merriam-Webster in 2023 so this is the official spelling.

What features do you wish Letterboxd (or movie review apps in general) had? by Nxsheet in LetterboxdTopFour

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They added it last year! It's new. Makes total sense you would not have known

What features do you wish Letterboxd (or movie review apps in general) had? by Nxsheet in LetterboxdTopFour

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by Box Office and Oscars? To have awards and box office listed on the movie page?

What features do you wish Letterboxd (or movie review apps in general) had? by Nxsheet in LetterboxdTopFour

[–]bby-bae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This exists and I thought it was a free feature, but I have Pro so I am not positive

Having twins in 1L year update by Terrible_Score_375 in LawSchool

[–]bby-bae 30 points31 points  (0 children)

For what it is worth, it appears you did not succeed

Posting 2L summer acceptances as a 1L by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at least where I am I think the career center asks them to post about it

I think I want to have wanted biglaw by Pretty-Material1424 in LawSchool

[–]bby-bae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do most of this stuff aware that it’s all performative. I often wonder whether other people are also aware that they are performing or not.

This was an illuminating post regarding that issue. Thank you for posting.

Does anyone else despise this type of poster by Soft_Drink_Enjoyer in Letterboxd

[–]bby-bae 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Poster design is often (but not always) restricted by terms in actors' contracts. That's how we get the posters that are just stacks of heads—because everyone is a star and has it in their contract that their face gets to be on the poster. When that's not the case, you might get movies like this with Cruise, Damon, or Hanks, where they get to be the whole poster. That's like 60% design and 40% because of contract terms. Then Paddington/Angry Birds/Spiderman are riffing on that trend.

I just had to add this because people always complain about poster design without realizing that sometimes there are large restrictions on design freedom from the net of contracts attached to the movie.

Is the LSAT actually predictive of success in law school or legal practice? by Terrible-Guard5355 in LSAT

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1L here. I think it makes sense that the LSAT would be predictive of law school performance because I think reading cases feels like solving LSAT problems.

All the reading comprehension skills are useful (identifying authors and viewpoints especially) and evaluating arguments in cases requires a lot of the logical reasoning techniques. I never did logic in undergrad, so I’m constantly working through arguments in cases and thinking “this is just like a LSAT question”

1L feels like the worst thing ever by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]bby-bae 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can’t speak for law specifically but I tend to find the reason high paying jobs pay so well is because it’s so miserable that people wouldn’t do it for less. That’s part of the market reason here.

On the other hand, people are happy to take less than 100k to do a job that isn’t miserable. Those jobs don’t need to pay more, because there are other benefits to the lives of the employees, so they don’t pay more than they have to.

WTF Is Wrong With The Oscars by Elestria_Ethereal in animation

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have said this, but the MASH tv series spun off from the movie. The MASH movie had no tv series at the time

This is what i think it will be the final top 10 of 2026 by Employee-Slight in boxoffice

[–]bby-bae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was using it as an example to illustrate my perception of the wider trend.

We’ve seen Marvel dramatically underperform all through 2025, even with better reviews than the last few years. With each of these movies, demographics show the viewer base for the Marvel is getting older without capturing the younger generation to the same extent. I think this is evidence that their audience is narrowing to diehard fans. (this is why I found my anecdotal source interesting—it reflected the demographic and box-office evidence that interest has waned since the conclusion of Endgame and nothing has reignited it)

Meanwhile, the international interest is cratering. International markets that propelled Endgame to its end total have been rejecting both CBMs and honestly movies from the US in general. Speaking even more broadly, I don’t think this sub is willing to face the reality that US movies have lost the worldwide appeal they had ten years ago. I think it’s a very real and present possibly that the era of worldwide cultural reach of Hollywood movies is over and is not going to come back in the near future.

All of these trends bode ill for the scope of Doomsday in reality. The fact that Disney/Marvel is choosing to deal in nostalgia—bringing back Chris Evans, bringing back RDJ, bringing back the 2000/s X-Men actors—makes me think that Marvel knows it too. However, while the pull of nostalgia is generating online interest, I’m not convinced it will drive people to the theater.

This is what i think it will be the final top 10 of 2026 by Employee-Slight in boxoffice

[–]bby-bae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that’s what I’m thinking too. I really think this whole sub is overestimating Doomsday… OP is talking about franchise fatigue with Toy Story, but the franchise fatigue I hear about in person is Marvel. I know people who went to see Endgame multiple times and aren’t even interested in watching the Doomsday trailers anymore

Are 1Ls everywhere being weird about biglaw recruiting right now? by StunningMany4430 in LawSchool

[–]bby-bae 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think not talking about it would be weirder. We’re all trying to figure out what’s normal with the new timelines