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Watched Onward last night (which is maybe up for streaming or rent? dunno because I obtained it some other way) and it's fine but it's really B grade Pixar. Wonder how well it would have done if this current situation hadn't happened. Like the Dinosaur movie, it feels fairly unnecessary and minor. Some great animation though.

i thought it was pretty bad and painfully predictable. the first pixar i ever turned off.

It seemed like they couldn't decide between doubling down on the insane photorealism of Toy Story 4, or doing something more cartoonish. They ended up in this odd place that didn't work for me.

yeah I didn't like the actual character designs much. the backgrounds and lighting were excellent as usual.

This show has one of the craziest backstories (based on the paintings of Simon Stålenhag), but it actually looks pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htuNZp82Ck

if anyone's been looking for a good time to try out Shudder, they just added Friday the 13th pts 1 thru 8.

Oof, rare family agreement that "Onward" was really subpar. Pretty precitable, not exciting, not funny (one or two gags aside), looked good but given the scenario still pretty uninspired, and really didn't earn its wannabe heartwarming conclusion. Bummer.

so, Future Man on hulu is ridiculous and cliched, but somehow their pivot for season three is a point in time: December 31, 1999 at Iowa State University with a guy using a lot of internet bandwidth

I have it on good authority the person in real life using the most dorm bandwidth was in fact my roommate. Or at least he was the only person cited in a meeting about that with a group of network administrators I was in

lol

this has probably been covered before,
but what’s happening with all the movies that were supposed to come out now? are they all on hold indefinitely? are some of them going straight to Netflix?

Some delayed, some already available to rent for around 20 bucks on streaming services (eg The Invisible Man)

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

Yeah, I think their thinking is there'll be more than one person watching.

Of course, once they're up for streaming they're almost instantly available on all the torrent sites too

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/here-are-all-the-movies-and-tv-shows-affected-by-coronavirus.html

You can get The Invisible Man for free on the torrents and it was not up to much. Lol 20 bucks for that. No way!

Oops sorry for repeating you groovy panda, I'm on the phone and missed your comments!

The question I had (and this isn't really a good fit for this thread but it is as much as any, I guess) is does that mean when things get back to closer to normal there will be a bunch of movies/shows all running behind? There have to be far more movies and shows that didn't even have release dates, that had to shut down pre-, mid- or post-production. And then, following through, will there be, at least for a while, a relative dearth of conventional new releases? Will opening weekend consist of one or two new films vs. the usual five or whatever? Will TV seasons be totally off? I have a friend who is a show runner on a popular network series, and he said they lucked into wrapping their upcoming season on March 6, right before everything everywhere shut down, so maybe I'll ask him what comes next.

from everything i've read/heard, the answer to most or all of your questions is "yes"

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