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DoctaMario Level 17

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1 minute ago, DangerousJ said:

RIP Whistler.....

 

 

 

 

 

Beat me to it. 😭 We lost a real here. In addition to being one of the great songwriters of all time (he wrote 'Me & Bobby McGee' that put Janis Joplin on the map, plus tons of others) he was a Rhodes scholar, had a master's in English from Oxford, an accomplished actor, a football player, a Golden Gloves boxer, a helicopter pilot in the Army, and actually turned down an appointment to teach at West Point. Amazing life this guy lived.

 

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VirginDefiler Level 15

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seeing the new travis scott jordans with the reverse nike logo makes me wanna punch travis + the guy at nike that said ok to its launch in the face.

its not ugly sneaks mind you. but seeing such lazy design then daring to ask 500 for it....pisses me off.

i wish clothing companies stop giving people. with no visual talent...designer jobs.

first it was jessica alba, then yeezy.

then rihanna, now travis. just...stop pls. stop profiting off of famous peeps. n letting em design shit. at least jordan stuck to just..playing golf n letting others design his bs.

lol. tbh i have no idea if travis scott designed it or not. still tho.

 

nah. reverse nike logo just makes me think some old dude in china woke up with a hangover and put the logo on backward by accident.

or mock fake nikes made in thailand. mini rant over.

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AriesWarlock Level 18

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It would also provide some financial armor for the struggling Dish Network. The company’s in debt to the tune of billions of dollars because, well, satellite TV isn’t exactly a growth industry anymore. Stream, baby, stream. All told, Dish has $2 billion in debt that’s due in November and only $500 million in available cash. That math don’t add up to anything but bankruptcy.

 

The specifics of the deal are pretty dang convoluted. It’s a multi-step transaction with a few players. First, the private equity firm TPG will acquire a majority stake in DirectTV from AT&T for $7.6 billion. Next, DirecTV will buy Dish Network for just a single dollar. However, it’ll also take on that $2 billion in debt. EchoStar, the parent company of Dish, will hold onto some parts of the business as part of the transaction, including over $30 billion in wireless spectrum investments. DirecTV will get the Sling TV video service as part of the deal.

The acquisition would create a massive pay-TV provider, with a combined total of around 19 million subscribers. As a counterpoint, cable TV leader Comcast has 13.2 million subscribers. Netflix is creeping up on 300 million subscribers, to show the stark contrast between pay-TV and streaming.

 

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Sonichuman Level 19

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Deeper thoughts/impressions on Transformers One

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Went to go see Transformers One with X last saturday and to make this as simple as possible starting out. It's good. Really good. I'm not sure if I would put this better or under Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts at the moment but I can confidently say that it's definitely up there and should be in the same conversation as those movies. It's pretty criminal that this movie is not making the money that it deserves in the box office. Like TF? Kids like TF? Easy recommend
 
OK so now for the more deeper stuff on it, gonna try to keep this spoiler free. I'm not going to pretend I know everything about general TF lore because I honestly don't but I am vaguely aware of original origins pertaining Orion Pax's turn into Optimus and D16's turn into Megatron and this movie definitely...takes a different take on that. It's not bad imo...the only thing I wish they had kept was D16's warrior background before his turn into Megatron which they don't do at all. They instead tried to focus more on Orion and D16's friendship and I'm pretty sure they did this to try to make the later part of the movie more impactful.
 
Chris Hemsworth, Bryan Henry, and Scarlett Johansson all did Great jobs as their characters. I'd say just most of the actors did a great job in their rolls. They try to do their own thing with the characters which is probably for the best because much like Kevin Conroy is Batman, it's gonna be really hard for anybody to replace Peter Cullen as Optimus. The only character that I have mixed feelings on was Bumblebee since they made him the designated comedy relief when that role was already being shared pretty evenly between D16 and Orion's antics. There's a joke that Bumblebee attempts to do earlier on in the movie that I feels falls flat at but they end up turning it into a brick joke later that did make me crack a smile. I don't think any nitpicks I have with Bumblebee are Keegan's fault though and more so the script than anything.
 
Animation for this movie was really clean and seeing the world of Cybertron realized in this manner was extremely pretty. Action sequences were well framed and I don't think there was ever a time in the movie where I didn't understand what was going on where the scene was heading.
 
Story was also pretty interesting in how they did it with some themes involving distrust of the government. It's really hard to watch this movie and not think that someone somewhere is thinking of some real life parallels/comparisons in real life.
 
Again just a really good film and I really hope that Paramount doesn't get discouraged to do a sequel for this because people have wanted a Transformers film that focused just on the bots and this is it! This has amazing potential to be something truly great with the way this movie ended. I'm hoping that it gets a chance to realize it.
 
 
 
 

 

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Daemos Level 16

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4 hours ago, MillionX said:

It's been a while since I've had this level of hope and excitement for an upcoming movie...new trailer as of yesterday:

Proud Of You Yes GIF



Willem Dafoe could take a dump on screen and I will buy tickets to it.

First Beetlejuice and now this. This year has been excellent for film.

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axeman61 Level 14

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As someone who wanted to see Joker 2, it is NOT good to see random critics I trust confirm every fear I had about it. That the musical stuff wasn't needed. That it feels slapped together because making a billion forces a sequel. I'm still going to see it just in case I think different, but just... ugh.

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DangerousJ Level 17

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Paramount's marketing team seems to be asleep at the wheel.

 

Even Sonic 3 took a while for the first trailer to drop and has a somewhat muted campaign despite being their "golden goose"

 

Lots of people online are clamoring for Bay to return. I think that would be a wrong move personally. While he brought TF into the mainstream consciousness and made it profitable, his take did too much damage long term by making it just cacophony without any attachments to the robots. The MCU for good or I'll made you care about Tony and Steve so that you were compelled to keep watching even if the movies were not all great.

 

think another element which is worrisome is the disjointed approach to TF after Bumblebee (2018).

 

Instead of doing a sequel to that, we had ROTB which was Diet Bay then TF1 .

It feels of throwing things at a dartboard and seeing what sticks.

 

I think they should cancel the GIJOE crossover because that franchise is in even worse shape than TF and will probably tank with a 200 M budget. 

 

I would do another TF1 sequel for close to this budget ($75M) after 4-5 years and hype the hell out of it due to the critical acclaim of this movie.

 

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Daemos Level 16

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The Tennessee national guard among thousands of American troops are arriving in the Middle East (Instead of doing ANYTHING about Helene in NC and TN). Iran just launched a counter attack against Israel. We are very likely entering a new world war if we are not already in one.

It both fascinates and terrifies how the US government puts Israel's needs first before its citizens. Over 250 billion dollars in aid, and now more American blood - and still those Zionist criminals are not satiated. 

Where is Netanyahu's son? Why is he not on the frontlines? Oh yeah, he's doing lines of coke in Miami and refused the draft.

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axeman61 Level 14

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Yeah, if that shit is true, Satan's going to make hell a little hotter in Diddy's section.

 

On to lighter topics:

VP debate is in 10m; this is the first one I will have cared to see ever. I'd say "I'm getting old", but I just want to see if JD Vance fucks things up even more than he's been fucking things up before.

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intimigator Level 6

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@DoctaMariore: shutting down Telegram effectively.

 

I imagine a lot of people are going to move to SimpleX. I will not be, because I'm sure that that's where the pedos are going now, but it does seem to have some pretty good privacy features... for now. Unfortunately, that means that people will commit the worst crimes possible there, but I thought I'd share it for the sake of completing the news loop there.

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DoctaMario Level 17

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8 hours ago, Daemos said:

The Tennessee national guard among thousands of American troops are arriving in the Middle East (Instead of doing ANYTHING about Helene in NC and TN). Iran just launched a counter attack against Israel. We are very likely entering a new world war if we are not already in one.

It both fascinates and terrifies how the US government puts Israel's needs first before its citizens. Over 250 billion dollars in aid, and now more American blood - and still those Zionist criminals are not satiated. 

Where is Netanyahu's son? Why is he not on the frontlines? Oh yeah, he's doing lines of coke in Miami and refused the draft.

Apparently FEMA has dispatched about 3600 agents and are looking at getting some volunteers from other agencies since it's been running at 60% capacity due to how many other disasters have been happening.

 

But there are also US armed services personnel that have been dispatched to help Israel only with "defense," although I doubt Iran will see it that way.

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