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tenet related maybe? in any case, it's unsurprising, if deluded, that studios desperate to start their $30 rentals are deciding to attack piracy.

urge to pirate tenet rising

fwiw, it has not leaked afaik

Federal prosecutors have busted an international movie-pirating operation that caused “tens of millions of dollars in losses” for film production studios over the course of nine years, court filings reveal.

George Bridi, Umar Ahmad and Jonatan Correa belonged to a copyright-infringement crew called “The Sparks Group” that posted “nearly every movie released by major production studios” online, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday.

The trio allegedly duped distributors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey and Canada into mailing them advance Blu-Ray and DVD copies of movies and television shows. The group then cracked copyright protections on the discs and posted the movies and TV shows online ahead of official release dates, prosecutors say."

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-movie-pirates-bust-20200825-p6hiwexxxbd47faukjgvftfqyq-story.html

aren't there like at least 20 or so major torrenting crews for DVD/Blu-ray releases? of which this would be... 1?

bay of pirates is still up for me, but I have some proxy bookmarked.

If you go to the legit site it just says "no."

'the legit site'

well, for sure there are a degrees of illegitimacy.

i don't think i've actually used the OG pirate bay website in.... years? there are like a bazillion mirrors depending on what country you live in and whether your ISP's blocked it

TPB looks up to me

Looks like it is back up now. It definitely wasn't blocked for me though, it had been hacked or altered. Just said the word no, and wouldn't load.

Starting September 4, with Premier Access, you can watch Mulan before it's available to all Disney+ subscribers or anywhere else. Disney+ will offer Premier Access to Mulan for $29.99 on disneyplus.com and in the Disney+ app on select platforms, including Apple, Google, and Roku. The Premier Access offer will be available until November 2, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once you have Premier Access to Mulan, you can watch as many times as you want on any platform where Disney+ is available. Your access to Mulan will continue as long as you are an active Disney+ subscriber. Mulan will be available to all Disney+ subscribers on December 4, 2020 for no additional cost.

Thirty bucks is ~two burritos on grubhub. We'll probably pay for this and we'll probably pay a little more for Black Widow, if we have to.

I'm also perfectly happy to wait to a) wait 3 months and b) not support that price point, so I guess it's a decent compromise?

Yeah I’m not really defending the business model as much as I’m just stating a fact about my household to counter “this is not a great plan.”

I think it's going to do pretty well at that price point.

I gotta say, $30 for two burritos? That's not right.

what's the problem? I could have bought Mulan three times over with the $100 bill I just lit on fire because a poor touched it

you gotta tip the driver, Josh.

so anyone watch raised by wolves yet?

xpost I guess I don't get delivery that often/ever.

if you were planning on cancelling disney+ after you watched mulan, and you are currently paying for it, i guess they're getting your 30 bucks either way lol

anyway did anyone talk about ted lasso itt? i can't remember (maybe even i did)

this show is a fucking delight. maybe my fave new show of 2020. sudeikis rules and the new character in episode 6 is wonderful and also in ep6 sudeikis paraphrases the greatest monologue in sports history dont at me

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dangit i forgot that was a separate thread!!

So Raised By Wolves, based on first episode, is full-on late Ridley Scott sci fi: very pretty to look at, terrible acting from people capable of better, and terribly, terribly written. And even the pretty visuals seem to be a compulation of self-plagiarism. Plus it has some incredibly shit costume design.

But in other news, we just started "Lovecraft Country" on HBO last night and the first episode is excellent. I'm looking forward to watching the new season of "The Boys," too.

Lovecraft Country has been great so far

Latest Lovecraft Country was basically a filmed LARP Call of Cthulhu, which made it great.

Ted Lasso is a treat

YES.

Latest discoveries about the work in progress that is HBO Max: adding insult to injury, the PS4 app (which is the only way I have to watch the service on my TV) only offers stereo, so it's hard to find the right volume for all these movies and shows mixed for 5.1. Explosions too loud, dialogue too quiet, etc. Other discovery is that currently there is no way to stream the extended versions of Lord of the Rings on HBO, just the theatrical versions.

you need to disable the anti-nerd filter

Peacock is pretty decent and the ads are much less obtrusive than Hulu? Color me shocked.

Watching BSG and then there's a SyFy show I missed called Ascension that I've wanted to see for a couple of years.

Ok all the Ted Lasso recs are otm, this show is a treat

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tv show with so much heart.

I know he’s Kansas, but man Ted reminds me so much of a friend from Indiana, something about that mid-western affability that really gets me in my feels

" it's hard to find the right volume for all these movies and shows mixed for 5.1. Explosions too loud, dialogue too quiet, etc. " this is almost every show now. I almost went deaf trying to watch Woke last night. The music does not need to be that loud in a 30 minute situational comedy.

I've got a fairly cheap Sony soundbar which works out well for me. Night mode + Voice mode on at the same time keeps explosions & music a bit low and boosts the dialogue just the right amount, plus the separate sub-bass can be lowered.

So we've been working our way through The Flash with our 9 year-old, which he loves but we're starting to get to the point where they are referencing crossovers with Arrow (and, presumably to come for other Arrowverse shows) and he wants to watch that too. I've read a couple things about that show being much darker than Flash and noticed it is TV-14 versus TV-PG. Is it significantly darker? Too dark for a 9 year-old?

FWIW he's seen all of the MCU movies, if that is any helpful indication of our comfort level with what he watches.

CBS All Access is becoming Paramount+ and has a limited series on the making of The Godfather lined up

https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2020/09/the-godfather-taylor-sheridan-the-game-behind-the-music-paramount-1234576771/amp/

I did the Flash for a few years and we dipped in and out of Arrow; I would say it's slightly darker but it's not any darker than the Marvel films. It's maybe a little more 'adult' in the sense that a kid may not be very interested in some of the soapy storylines.

we quit watching the Flash after season 3 or 4 when it became clear that it was just going to redo the same thing over and over and over.

Speaking as someone who still grinds through all of the CW DC shows (usually with divided attention): get out now. Because, yes, they all cross over with one another and there's going to be, what, six of those fuckers airing when network TV starts up again? Luckily, they're all dumb as a rock, so you could probably get away with just watching what you want to watch but your son might have other ideas.

Get out.

Thanks for the feedback!

Haha I just saw a promo for that big crossover event show too. There is a LOT of these shows for sure. I wouldn't chose to watch them, but we really struggle to find something to watch with him that isn't a mindless Disney show or an animated flick he's already seen 42 times. We get stuck in these cycles of spending 30-45 minutes scrolling through various streaming platforms before we find something to watch, so it's been a godsend to just say, "hey, let's watch a Flash!".

That's basically what we do, too. I probably would've bailed a while ago but every so often my gf will be like 'is there a DC to watch?' and, because we just keep DVR-ing everything and because there are literally 100+ episodes/year, of course there always is (although we're somehow caught up with all but a dozen or so eps across all of the series) and we throw one on while making or eating dinner and I basically forget everything about it within five minutes of it ending.

there first few seasons of supergirl are pretty great (stopped watching that also), mainly because Melissa Benoist is really good.

Legends is the one that gets really great from middle age onwards (as long as you're happy with LGBT storylines not raising questions you don't want to answer - see also Supergirl beyond S2 and all of Batwoman, which is probably too adult anyway).

Watching week by week became an absolute slog and I got beyond sick of the soapiness they all became, but as a plaguewatch if other options have gone then it's not that bad an idea.

I quit legends right into season 2 which was maybe too early; it was entertaining but mainly because you could watch it and kind of pretend that Rory was the new Doctor, I found it pretty cheesy overall.

No, you definitely went too soon. It gets great after he leaves and S4 in particular is immense.

Did you watch avatar, the last airbender with your 9 year old?