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also the only parts available are people who get killed, everybody else will be played by Ned Raggett.

Can do.

Trading margin for volume doesn't always work out well, they're probably smart to leech as much as they can from non-pirates with whiny children begging to see it.

(Haven't all these live action remakes been hot garbage anyway?)

Yeah but that's because they haven't starred me, as established.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYS6ifV9IN0

i've heard Pete's Dragon is pretty good. the Lion King is the only one i've seen and it was godawful. but Mulan has the angle of being a more radical reinvention of the material - seemingly no songs, no sidekick dragon, trailer playing up "historical epic adventure" vibes. like potentially it could actually be its own movie.

And again, like Pete's Dragon, a real director.

Yeah I was surprised by how much I liked that Pete's Dragon, it was surprisingly good.

Josh, who/what distinction are you making about not a "real director? Favreau? He's made some clunkers and I get why people don't like him, but I'd consider him a real direction. I never saw his Jungle Book remake and while, yes, the new Lion King was awful, I think that's less his fault than Disney's for insisting on a near shot-for-shot remake that was so faithful to the original cartoon.

guys just get a VPN and torrent this shit. that's 30 bucks in your kids' college funds, or your booze budget, up to you. disney does not deserve your money.

do I need to remind you about disney world

Yeah, Favreau. He's just a nothing. I would never see a movie because he directed it, but I would see a movie by Caro, Coogler, Taika, etc. Even Shane Black (and that Predator movie suuuuuuucked).

Xpost bruh i live a half hour from it, i regularly go there to whizz

fwiw the Predator movie was apparently taken away from Black & Dekker

I like Shane Black's other films, so I can believe it. At the same time, I recall just about everything about it being bad, from the acting to the directing to the script. It didn't seem like the usual 20 minutes missing or whatever.

Yikes - I'd just read rumblings of editors being stuck on it for months, recutting and recutting to studio demands, but there were many months of Black and the cast being sent back to reshoot half the movie, in new scenes that don't connect with the original film.

Wow. Still, I made it halfway through that and don't believe any version of that movie would have been any good.

A lot of the things in it sound like bad ideas when written down third-hand as examples of stuff that a studio wanted removed, but so would almost everything in Monster Squad or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Since our household doesn’t subscribe to Simon’s paradigm-obliterating views on criminal enterprise, we finally got Disney+. Mainly for The Cat From Outer Space and The Three Caballeros, of course.

Jumping into the Mulan debate, I doubt we’ll be especially interested in the new Mulan but $30 for a brand new movie isn’t going to kill my wallet any more than going to a theater with wife + kid and getting popcorn, candy and a beer or two. Plus at home we can refill our empty calories at any time without missing stuff and avoid deadly viruses. If they do the same thing for Black Widow I can almost certainly guarantee we’ll pony up and make a big movie night out of it.

Thinking about signing up for a Shudder account and getting really into horror movies.

shudder rules

The Howard Ashman documentary on Disney+ is, obviously, not as full-on as could be, but it's still a moving testimonial about a creative life cut way too short.

yeah, i watched it last night with my partner. very much sugar coated and managed a fair amount of innocent revisionism to the AIDS era but he comes through as somewhat overdriven.

I figure it's just about what a 'family' channel as such could get away with. It's not Paris is Burning or How to Survive a Plague (say) but even showing one clip of Larry Kramer in the early 80s -- mentioned by name! -- is kinda surprising.

i suppose? one gets the impression of disney as being allies through the ACT UP era and i don't really buy that...

Ha, quite. Cryptosupport at best.

https://hyperallergic.com/581091/howard-ashman-documentary-disney

The approach to queerness (more specifically, gayness) that Hahn takes is about as surface-level as the likes of Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman. It’s open about Ashman’s sexuality without ever interrogating how it influenced his art. It doesn’t give the viewer much of a chance to get to know him as a human being outside of his career, in particular neglecting Lauch’s point of view. As pleasant as it is to see a mainstream film premiering on Disney+ not shy away from highlighting a gay man, it isn’t surprising that it would not be interested in diving deeper. After all, Disney has a penchant for whitewashing its history, from its longtime denial of Song of the South to its self-congratulatory depiction of Walt Disney and author P.L. Travers’s toxic work relationship in Saving Mr. Banks. If the documentary felt more focused, I might even accuse it of being outright revisionist; as it is, it simply haphazardly depoliticizes Ashman’s work.

(though tbh the comments on that piece are also illuminating)

Some specific HBO Max numbers in this story about huge layoffs at Warner: they hoped to convert many of HBO's 30 million cable subscribers, but only brought over 1.1 million, and 3 million new customers.

People are still watching TV, it seems.

they hoped to convert many of HBO's 30 million cable subscribers, but only brought over 1.1 million, and 3 million new customers

As the story points out, fucking up the Amazon connect has a lot to do with this. I had HBO through Amazon starting in January of this year and would have 100% flipped over to HBO Max had it been available.

Yes, as also discussed passim. My household has a native Roku TV and the non-Max HBO app.

i need to remember to unsubscribe

Roku household here, same issue. Would probably gladly have switched if they had negotiated such a possibility for us.

It's pretty insane that Comcast gives me a free sub to HBO Max with my cable sub, but I cannot access HBO Max on their DVR (or my Roku or FireTV devices).

Imagine back in the day of three channels if some corporation had gone all-in on a fourth channel that you couldn't watch on the tv you use to watch all of the other channels on. Maybe you could build your own special set, though? From a kit or something?

Shitty analogy, I know, but...just imagine it.

It would be more like RCA demanding a cut from the new channel in order to send a code to your TV to receive it, though?

God knows! These cross-payment deals suck, and reek of customer data sharing.

Yeah, can't think of anyone as the good guy in this morass. Sad thing is normally I would support Roku as the most open device, but they'll put the knives in when it suits them.

Still seems like a straight-up Android TV device might be the best option. Wonder if there is some off-brand thing that works fine.

Yes it's called your imagination

Given the world we live in, I support Roku’s right to stick the knives in in this situation. The Roku does like seventy things we really need during lockdown and HBO does maybe one. Eliminating HBO GO on our Roku was a dumb move and I’m still confused about why it was necessary.

I think it's that Roku was extorting them for more subscription revenue (as is Amazon) but it's hard to know without leaks

It gets even more convoluted because I think get HBO Max through Hulu and Amazon Prime, and it'll work through those apps. But in those cases the cut has been distributed

Imagine back in the day of three channels if some corporation had gone all-in on a fourth channel that you couldn't watch on the tv you use to watch all of the other channels on.

In the UK that actually happened with the launch of our 5th terrestrial channel (imaginatively titled Channel 5) where it used a frequency already occupied by most of the country's VCRs. We ended up with around 5000 people employed around the country retuning videos so we could get the new channel, which was shit.

This new Ridley Scott series on HBO Max looks promising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZMeRoGw6uo

Wait wrong trailer. Meant to post this:

https://youtu.be/0hBFGTCjK3g

i could be into that! also appreciate the lack of superfluous IP for the punters.

I tried a chinese Android tv device with a pretty vanilla interface and it was terrible. Couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a set top box or a phone without a touch screen and you had to keep using the incredibly slow joystick as a mouse.

Makes the Apple TV trackpad on the remote seem like a welcome relief.

Raised by Wolves def looks interesting

One of the things we’re really enjoying about Disney+ is having easy access to a lot of the extras with every movie.

I'm super psyched about starting Lovecraft Country on HBO. Oh, and the Action Park doc starts next week! My wife has been watching the I'll Be Gone in the Dark doc, too, so (free-ish) HBO Max has been doing well for us.

Raised by Wolves def looks interesting

Thought you were referring to the Caitlin Moran thing so was somewhat confused but have seen the trailer now and agree