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Post by minx on Jun 5, 2023 8:38:51 GMT -5
Beetlejuice 2
Mind you, I loved the original - thought it was different and funny.
But we do not need a sequel! Why do people insist on doing this crap?
Same with Disney deciding to re-make all of it's animated movies into live action/CGI ones. Nope.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jun 5, 2023 12:06:51 GMT -5
I think that at some point, not exactly recently, we just reached the point where it had pretty much all been done. So what we have gotten more recently has been pitiful efforts to build off of, mainly by way of sequels, "reimagine", "modernize", or just straight up plagiarize other works.
It's why I watch sparingly little television. I would rather not have one if all there was to watch was talent/survival/game shows, reality shows, or the 100000s of Lawyers, Doctors, EMTs. Cops, Firefighters, FBI, CSI, etcetcetcetc all are the same fucking shows with different actors and completely void of real world details in their show. Like when you see the doctors waiting for the patients as the EMS brings them into the ER. And then there's the wife, son, fishing buddy, whoever, standing in the exam room telling them about how they were baking a cake and used ammonium nitrate instead of baking powder.
I do much better with the sci fi stuff because that's when it's far easier for me to go into what my old business partner and friend used to call "suspension of disbelief". Can't wait for the new Guardians of The Galaxy.
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Post by minx on Jun 5, 2023 12:16:13 GMT -5
Guardians is on my list as well.
Sadly, a lot of the original stuff is not on streaming services. More profitable for NBC to do new stuff on Peacock and get people to pay a monthly fee - same with Hulu (ABC) and Paramount Plus (CBS).
Would be nice if they released stuff on streaming and then put it on free TV. So you're always a season behind if you want it for free, and you have to put up with ads, but you get to see it.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jun 5, 2023 12:37:21 GMT -5
Remember that not all that long ago we were all pretty insistent about wanting our cable companies to offer an al la carte option instead of all these bundles, you know like Basic, Pemium, Premium Plus, Premium Plus Plus, where you went from getting Nicnelodeon and HGTV, to all the channels out there plus what we called "pay channels" back in the day, like HBO, Skinemax, and PPV.
It's funny to me that it never became an option back then and streaming has taken that baton and running with it.
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