Takeaway message — if you want your work shown in theaters, don’t sell your production to Warner-Discovery.

Is this one of the leftover rides from Action Park?

But are you wise?

I nominate “Until The End Of The World”. The movie is quite a mess, but it gives a good peek into what people thought the near future would be like at the time.

I especially enjoy its use of “computer agents” which were supposed to be the next big thing. Basically you would send your query or task to run overnight, or to a more powerful computer in the cloud, and it would return the results later that day. Home computers and PDAs weren’t fast enough to return instant results for large jobs, and Google didn’t exist yet (but WAIS did).

Strange Days is like an alternate universe where the miniDisc became the dominant format.

Rocketeer was so good. I’m amazed Disney hasn’t rebooted it as a TV series.

There was a time when movie studios couldn’t own the theaters. We have learned nothing.

Reminded of how awesome Judy Davis was at playing Nancy after previously knocking it out of the park as Judy Garland.

Her speech is probably titled “I never thought Leopards would eat my face.”

I’ve watched Snowpiercer. I know how this ends.

How do they keep birds and other pests from shitting on them or eating them?

Hey Ladybird — get off Xitter and use something else like Mastadon.

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The walls of the microwave don’t contain water. The bacteria do. Microwave ovens work by vibrating water molecules, creating friction and heat. If bacteria are on the oven walls, they should be exploding from the microwaves.

How does bacteria live through being microwaved? I would think they’d boil from the inside out.

I wish more devs would concentrate on their older bugs.

You should know the Electoral College is ridiculous and should be abolished.

Reminds me of the “low fat” diet craze. “We replaced all that fat with salt and sugar. Enjoy!”

No one really knows other than Netflix execs. A lot has to do with the cost of the show per viewer. It’s why HBO/Discovery is filling up with reality programming (cheap to produce). You can have a great show and it can end up in the top ten, but if it costs too much to make then the network has to figure out if production costs can be cut. Or if costs can be offset by product placement.

Streamers shifting to ad-based plans also changes things. You can now have a premium program that’s a “loss leader” if it brings in enough subscriptions that also watch the cheap programming and existing back catalog. The additional eyeballs on ads means more cash intake for the network which balances out the more expensive shows.

MASH had a laugh track that the creators hated, but the network insisted on. As a compromise, they agreed not to use the track during surgical scenes.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56777/why-did-mash-have-laugh-track