You’re telling me the woman whose tragedy was sensationalized as she was weirdly sexualized and demonized and judged in the court of public opinion doesn’t like the true crime industry? Weird.
“It’s the entitlement that really gets me. The feeling that someone else’s life, their mistakes, their trauma, their STORY is just free for the taking because it was in the news,”
This. So. Much.
Entitlement is the perfect word for it. In all the sensationalism of modern news reporting, we are guilty of conflating news and entertainment. We forget that there are actual human beings at the center of these stories, people who deserve to be able to decide whether or not their stories get exploited to further enrich someone else.
Can we please fucking not? Unless everyone in charge of discovery gets fired… That might be a good thing. Not holding my breath for that though. Hopefully some regulators can stop this
What lesson? The only merge I know about that was ruled ilegal was comcast (or At&t) trying to buy t-mobile. Everything else is auto approved without problem.
They also did strike down a merger between pharmacy chains Walgreens and Rite Aid, but that is unrelated to tech and media, making it easier for old farts in congress to understand.
Can we just stop with the megacorp bullshit? Can regulators just please take a step back and look at how much has been ruined by all of these merges and buyouts?
The Warner-Discovery merger never even should have happened in the first place. It was a disaster that ended up making things worse for customers and creators alike. And now they want more?
Fuck off with this noise. What will it take for us to resurrect Teddy Roosevelt so he can go to town with the ol’ trust busting stick?
I would actually like it better if they kept their social media functions separate from the lists (yes, I know private list is a thing). “Smart, funny” are not what I would use to describe it, since most people on Letterboxd think their one-liner reviews are way funnier than they actually are, and the signal-to-noise ratio is way worse compared to here.
I started to use it recently so I am not speaking for myself, but I have a friend who is a hardcore user that says that the key is that you must follow users who actually review content, and that it is specially interesting if these people have similar tastes to you. You can, for example, follow Martin Scorsese’s user and you’ll see his reviews.
Fyi for people curious, digital cinema tends to max out at 4k resolution (digital IMAX is probably higher though). Yeah, you’re going to the theater to see a movie at a resolution you could watch it in at home. Now there is a catch, the movie and audio is lossless 4k, which you can’t get anywhere else currently, and therefore higher quality than what you can see at home.
…unless you happen to have unencrypted DCPs, and some are, in which case the quality will be very similar. Though have fun storing your movie collection when they normally weigh in at 200-300gb.
Now, will you see the difference between 35mm and 4k DCP, or 70mm and digital IMAX? Maybe? Part of the question comes down to how the movie was mastered (was it fully analog mastered to digital or digital mastered to analog), the quality of the cameras, the quality of the projectors, the quality of the projectionist, and how familiar you are with the movie. If it’s digital to analog, almost certainly not. If you’ve never seen the movie before then you may not notice the difference either. However, if you’ve seen the movie in a different format, if the movie was mastered in analog, and the projectionist has good, properly calibrated projectors, you probably could.
See, you say that but, like ice cream, that’s another flavor. Whether you consciously notice these things or not, there is a distinct difference between digital and analog.
I agree though that first and foremost is the story, then the writing, acting, cinematography, usually but not necessarily in that order.
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