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"Missing" in that they are high-profile WB properties that I would expect to be on HBO Max.

I don't think there's any reason to assume that any given feature film theatrically distributed by Warner Bros Pictures is a) currently not licensed to any other home video or broadcast entities and b) would be on HBO Max if it weren't, tbh

As pointed out upthread, there are several titles that were featured in the lead up fanfare that aren't available as part of the launch, which at the very least we can agree is shitty on the part of WB.

I understand that not everything can be available, but Unforgiven, for example, stars one of the most high-profile frequent Warner Brothers actors ever, in a movie that cleaned up at the Academy Awards. I'm not even sure it's on any streaming service right now.

quality of the movie aside, is anyone clamoring for Clint Eastwood material in 2020

who's got two thumbs and is called josh in chicago

Not his recent stuff, no. But stuff from his past several decades? Hell yes. I've never seen Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, been meaning to see that. Been meaning to rewatch Unforgiven. Just watched Good, Bad, Ugly for the umpteenth time. May watch A Perfect World with my kids.

Skimming this list of 'the best 100 films on HBO Max,' the only last-thirty-years film that leaps out as being a Warner Brothers joint is Magic Mike. Has there been any promotion that it was ever going to be a source for recent feature films with a Warner logo at the start?

we've watched the first few episodes of Space Force and while it has some weird aspects, it's funny enough that the weirdness doesn't make it worth watching. it's got a heavy-handed "ripped from the headlines" quality, with an unseen president who is clearly modeled on trump and a fake alexandria ocasio-cortez in one episode. carrell is doing a fake deep gravelly voice (sometimes) and his character is a militaristic moron who we're still supposed to root for. the cast is so overloaded that sometimes they have really talented actors pop up and say one line and then disappear. but as long as it makes me laugh, that's what matters to me. fred willard plays carrell's senile, alarmingly scrawny dad, which doesn't seem like it would play well after his recent death, but he still cracked me up in two very short scenes so far.

should be "doesn't make it NOT worth watching" in the first line

it's got a heavy-handed "ripped from the headlines" quality

and I'm out

Only watched the first episode so far, didn't really grab me just yet. Was scrolling through the IMDB cast list and saw the other unnamed female member of congress present for the episode launch had a character name of "Rep. Pitosi", so they def seem to be leaning heavily into that.

i couldn't make it past the first fifteen minutes of Space Force
or the first ten minutes of Central Park

ended up watching Ślepnąc od świateł (or as it's listed in English, "Blinded by the Lights") a HBO Europe show about a cocaine dealer in Poland

overall, I really liked it, even if it leans into exploitation. don't watch if you don't like hearing a lot of aggressive homophobia, rape threats, etc. from the criminals in the show

the entire series takes place over a seven day window and has some surreal dream sequences

we've watched the first few episodes of Space Force and while it has some weird aspects, it's funny enough that the weirdness doesn't make it worth watching. it's got a heavy-handed "ripped from the headlines" quality, with an unseen president who is clearly modeled on trump and a fake alexandria ocasio-cortez in one episode. carrell is doing a fake deep gravelly voice (sometimes) and his character is a militaristic moron who we're still supposed to root for. the cast is so overloaded that sometimes they have really talented actors pop up and say one line and then disappear. but as long as it makes me laugh, that's what matters to me. fred willard plays carrell's senile, alarmingly scrawny dad, which doesn't seem like it would play well after his recent death, but he still cracked me up in two very short scenes so far.

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imo the chimpstronaut episode was the only really good one of the four I watched so far. i don't mind Trump being an off-camera presence but it's really bizarre to have such obvious stand-ins for Pelosi and AOC, especially the latter bc I'm not really sure what tone the show is taking towards her in the appropriations hearings. they allow her stand-in to make a number of objectively good points and yet Carell's character is still sort of putting her in her place with his idiotic defense of $10,000 oranges. that is, we're clearly supposed to be on his side afterwards.

What a bummer that it and Upload are both apparently stiffs.

I don't know if I expected or expect HBO Max to be a repository for all things WB, recent or no, but that's kinda the gist, isn't it? Certainly the top-billed stuff on the home page is DC, Looney Tunes, TCM, Friends, etc. Especially for the relatively high price they are charging, you'd think the only way they could get attention is to grab back all the in-house WB properties for themselves, the same way Disney/Hulu is doing, NBC is doing, CBS is doing, and so on. Hence my surprise at seemingly high profile MIA WB titles. Why wouldn't they be here, you know? I assume they will be soon enough. Like I said, I was sad that "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" was not up, but apparently it will be in a couple of weeks. Must be lingering rights issues and contracts that have to run out/be worked out before all the WB stuff reverts back.

Too busy negotiating with Roku and Amazon to finish uploading the catalog.

"Wait, did you remember to upload the catalog?"

"No, wait, I thought you were going to do it!"

"No, I'm busy with Netxlix, you were supposed to do it."

"But I'm slammed with Hulu and Amazon, this was your deal."

"Eh, no one will notice, they're watching 'Friends,' which people apparently really like."

"I know, right? My daughter loves that show, and she doesn't even *have* friends."

"Yeah, so weird. Anyway, get on the catalog when you have the change."

I expect them to have the content available wherever it makes them the most profit

If that means a delay before streaming rights revert from another company, they’ll wait it out

Of course, but it seems like not a great idea to heavily promote big name content in the months leading up to your launch that isn't actually available at launch.

Space Force was bang average, the Carrell/Malkovich was by far the best thing about it and the ep where Carrell goes to the trial run of the moon base with Michael Hitchcock was my favourite. Don Lake was great in all his scenes but very much a one joke character.

Last couple of episodes were dire though, especially the finale.

Didn't make it all the way through the first episode

First ep sucks. How can such a great cast be so ... off? Wasn't Carrell funny at some point? Then he decided he wanted to be dramatic, but wasn't good at that. So now he wants to be funny again, but ... he's not? He's trying too hard and not hard enough. Was that Avenue whatever space comedy funnier than this?

Avenue 5 was better than Space Force but it also sucked.

Avenue 5 had one of the darkest and funniest segments I have ever seen. I was screaming/laughing/scream-laughing for 5 minutes straight. Episode 8.

tbh i didn't get past episode three. i'm bailing earlier these days if it seems unmanageable or pointless.

Too bad these shows are longer than 5-minutes, that would seemingly be a step in the right direction. Where is Quibi when we need them the most?

I only got a few episodes in too but I was sort of liking it. It was a weird fit with Curb.

Mythic Quest should have been about Cristina Miliotti and Jake Johnson’s characters.

That episode was great, but it was like an episode from a different show.

will try ave5s01e08

i was so excited for Central Park but i barely made it through the 1st episode. I can’t handle so much EXTRA

Avenue 5 got better as it went along, but should either have an audience track, or be paced like TTOI.

What a bummer that it and Upload are both apparently stiffs.

Everything good about King Of The Hill corresponds to things that are good about Mike Judge's work, and Daniels was originally brought on as a writer, not co-creator. The US Office doesn't become its own, good thing until Mike Schur takes over from Daniels as head writer. What's good about Parks & Rec, when it gets away from the pilot that Daniels co-wrote, is recognisable in co-creator and head writer Schur's other work.

He apparently used to be a good comedy writer, and is clearly a good boss / producer, not least for letting his staff take the work in their own directions, but Daniels has never actively created anything that you like. And in the case of Upload, seems to be trying to beatjack his former protege six years after the fact (and with Space Force, though the timing is less blatantly suspicious, to jack one of the most consistently excellent and varied comedy creator / producers of the last 29 years).

Daisy May Cooper was great in A5, much of the rest was a bit forced. A handful of great scenes though (ShitPope for one).

Daisy May Cooper was one of the best things about the entire show. Shame she had such a small role

anyone watching 'the great' on hulu? it's excellent.

i dug what i saw in the first ep but my girl tapped out after like fifteen minutes so i'll have to sneak back

Ioving it.

yes, it's an astounding series. love it.

holding out for "the greatest"

in which Nicholas Hoult plays Cat Power

huzzah!

Rich, rich.

OK, there is so much stuff buried in HBO Max, but like every streaming service the search function, or at least how the movies are organized, is pretty much worthless by design. They want you to get lost in this morass of movies that runs that gamut from a huge chunk of the Criterion collection to the entire run of "Police Academy" movies. Last night I spent half an hour just going through the browse section by genre, adding things to my queue, and there is almost no rhyme or reason to what gets placed where. Often times these services will have, say, a "classics' section, and it'll be, like, "The Godfather," "Casablanca" and then ... Ang Lee's "Hulk" or something like that, and you think, man, that famed algorithm is just trolling. In the case of HBO Max, there's a similar scrambled up sensibility to pretty much every genre. (I'll have to go back and see where they put, for example, "Tanner '88.") There's also a "leaving soon" section, or the equivalent, and, curious, I clicked and there were essentially seven or eight seemingly random movies listed, with no indication when or why they were leaving, or whether they would even be expected back. Just ... useless and confusing. But like I said, some good stuff buried in there! For example, I forgot that "Three Kings" existed and how much I loved it at the time, so I look forward to revisiting,

otm, all the services are absolute garbage if you actually want to survey what they have and build a watchlist. most obviously, none of them to my knowledge have a button to say "take this movie out of the list and don't show it to me again," which would be an enormous convenience to browsers but also rapidly reveal the only shit they have that you ever want to see is the shit that's already in your watchlist.

but the easiest thing to do is just say "today is Day Zero and i don't care what they've got loaded up in the past," then keep a recurring/cookie-saved search at justwatch.com with only your services selected. then obsessively check it daily or weekly to see what's been added, add that stuff, and never go browsing again.

so they removed the guns from Looney Tunes on HBO Max? I hate guns but that's fucking stupid.

How is that even possible unless they got rid of Yosemite Sam entirely, and if they did that, how is *that* even possible.

What about canons? Bombs? Rockets!?! Elmer Fudd wabbit hunting?!

I'll check in a bit.

Just looked and there are still plenty of guns/rayguns/explosions to the face, and so on. There do appear to be some missing episodes, but I don't why they're not there.

Oh, wait, I just looked into it and it's the *new* cartoons that don't have guns, not the old ones. Talk about fake news, they only "removed" them in the abstract from the original iconic conception of, say, Fudd, who in the new cartoons apparently does not have a gun. Eh, who cares about that, I'm not going to watch those anyway.