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Disney+ added The Straight Story yesterday.

lol 20 bucks?? that’s somewhat more than a ticket at the movies

It’s two dollars more than a single ticket at the movies, but this way all four of you can watch, and you aren’t spending any money on parking / petrol / the bus / popcorn / beer / twizzlers / sugar water.

movies cost $18??? fuck

my local Vue (walkable) is £7.50 for any movie, any time, has fantastic screens, and their concessions are so atrocious, and so poorly run, that i never spend any money on them

movies are not $18 for a non-3d showing in most of the US, no. They're more like $13.

Invisible Man was fun

I wanna see The Invisible Man, but I'm good to wait four or five months until it shows up on one of my many streaming services. Can't think of a single movie that'd be worth paying an $18 rental fee for.

that 18$ rental fee is the normal fee for "now in theaters" kinds of rentals. Eventually it comes down to 4 bucks or whatever. Should they change that now that theaters are only for bed bugs? Sure.

my local Vue (walkable) is £7.50 for any movie, any time, has fantastic screens, and their concessions are so atrocious, and so poorly run, that i never spend any money on them

The Cineworld near me is £11 a pop for non 3D films whereas the Vue a couple of miles further away is only £5

I can get a ticket, beer, and small popcorn for about $18 at the locally-owned theater here!

why did no one tell me that ridiculous Stallone/Schwarzenegger vehicle Escape Plan has not one, but two sequels?

and both apparently feature not just Stallone, but also Dave Bautista and 50 Cent?!

minor hangover today... so I'm going in

Invisible Man was playing in multiplexes here, so you could see it for $5 on a Tuesday afternoon at AMC, or for $17 at Regal on the night of the week that it was released for home rental

Yeah, still kicking myself a little for now going to see it in early February before the panic set in. But eh, I can also wait until it's on a streaming service or rentable for a decent price.

Gonna mention ilplex on 77 again

shrug emoji?

Yknow who is consistently terrible is this fellow JIM STURGESS, constantly turning up in stuff and spoiling my viewing experience. Like I am quite enjoying this Apple+ series Home Before Dark but Holy Fucken Shit this man makes my teeth hurt (also Precocious Brat content, but otherwise decent)

Jim Sturgess has a knack for starring in some of the dumbest movies I've ever seen (Across the Universe, Heartless, Upside Down)

Also that cheffery drama with David Schwimmer, I forget the name but it was terrible, oh wait I just looked it up and it was called FEED THE BEAST, fucking red flags all over the shop, why did I watch that?

Actually Simon H. do a podcast about the tv show Feed The Beast starring David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess, it is Lynch levels of inscrutability

Sturgess managed not to ruin Cloud Atlas, but he was also mot much good in it.

it's also not a very good movie so its not like he could ruin it on his own

what was the pitch for Quibi? "It's Youtube Red from 2014, but !"

but ____________________!

whatever the pitch for quibi was, it did not take into account a world in which the vast majority of urban people are stuck indoors for months

otoh, i probably am glued to my cell phone even more usual these days

the pitch for quibi was "we don't have to pay union minimums if the episodes are under 15 minutes"

Holy shit, Quibi is *exclusively* for your phone?! That is, you can't watch it on your TV or computer even if you want to? Well, fuck that. That's like publishing a novel that can only be read on Facebook.

https://www.tor.com/2020/04/10/apple-tv-plus-original-shows-free-limited-time-for-all-mankind-snoopy-servant-watch/

Apple Makes Some of its Original Shows Available to Watch For Free

Holding off until they actually pay me

*highly* recommend For All Mankind esp if you are a space/Apollo nerd

Is it related to the doc of the same name?

Holy shit, Quibi is *exclusively* for your phone?! That is, you can't watch it on your TV or computer even if you want to? Well, fuck that. That's like publishing a novel that can only be read on Facebook.

If you have a Chromecast or similar device it's pretty easy to cast from your phone to your tv.

If they put up a 10 foot wall, I'm going to get an 11 foot ladder and climb somewhere else.

this Apple TV+ free period is great! so far we’ve given up on for all mankind and servant

Lol

Mythic Quest was in my top ten of the year but I don’t think apple is giving that one away? Super-funny right out of the gate.

was is

For All Mankind had an interesting concept and first episode then went to shit faster than anything I can remember.

I saw the first Mythic Quest, was ok.

Little America is very much worth your time.

i like Servant, it's absurd

I don't really need another service full of stuff I think I should watch but don't actually watch

Well guess what? It's full of stuff you'll have no impulse to watch!

I think you might enjoy Mythic Quest, given the subject matter. Or find it infuriating.

it's... not very good? I mean, i finished it but imagine if sunny and silicon valley had a very boring baby and ubisoft did interstitials

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/media/disney-splash-edited/index.html

They covered up Daryl Hannah's butt in Splash, erasing one of my formative pre-pubescent sexual memories.

xp good description imo

the Plot Against America is v v good

waiting to hear if it improves on the book's ending

quibi doesn’t have tv casting support yet. it also doesn’t let you take screenshots.

Peacock launches today, goes wide in July
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/peacock-streaming-lineup-free-tv-shows-movies-1234580315/

i could absolutely not get into that book at the time, maybe I will try the series.

Tales from the Loop is pretty good btw, in a twilight zone, black mirror lite sort of way. It's kind of nice to not have something relentlessly grim and dark.

I love Cate Blancett dearly, but I gotta say, not terribly eager to watch this new Hulu series where she plays Phyllis Schlafly. the woman was a fucking ghoul, plain and simple, case closed.