Four, I think. So a mooch can also be known as a quartruss.

You mean will it last longer than Liz Truss?

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

David Foster Wallace (although he may have been quoting someone else)

I guess, but for your average consumer that’s not going to be an attractive option.

Yeah, agree with all that, and something like this does have a feeling of inevitability about it.

I just feel concerned by the hero worship of this guy, it’s kind of disturbing to me.

Yeah, I know, but I feel like execs are more likely to want to go it alone and have exclusive artists than have to work out a way to share with each other.

Maybe he needs to watch this: https://youtu.be/sSIiqn2v7wE

Why don’t the Big 3 (Universal, Warner & Sony) just come together and make their own streaming service with all their music,

Careful what you wish for. It’s long been a concern of mine that we’ll see a fragmentation of the music streaming market, with the same results as in TV.

You know how one show you like is on Disney+ and one is on Netflix and two are on Amazon, and one is on Paramount and so on…? Result is you either miss shows or pay a fortune.

Imagine that with your favourite bands, except you need a Warner subscription to listen to one band, a Sony one to listen to another, etc.

It’s bad enough with some things not being on one music service while they are on another one, or with songs being there and then gone and then back again for utterly opaque reasons. If the labels get the idea that they can cut out the middle man and gate off their artists from any service but their own, it’ll be awful.

if you think political violence is bad, why are you cool with the insurance ghoul committing social murder?

Those aren’t exclusive positions though.

What the American healthcare system does to people is awful and should be changed. No question at all.

That doesn’t make it ok IMO for someone to just go out and murder someone else.

The more people normalise and even praise this sort of thing, the worse, and more dangerous, society is going to get IMO.

I realise that’s not the popular view, but there it is.

Yeah, Scotland did me a favour by not qualifying, making it much easier to resist watching.

Presumably they had similar moral objections to the hosts of 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018… That must be it, right? 😞

I heard a similar theory, except instead of alternate universes, it’s just that the less grounded movies are ones people go to see in the more grounded ones.

Like even the grounded ones are crazy at times compared to our world, so the movies in that world are even crazier.

They might not be found guilty. Hell, depending on the specifics of the case and the wording of the rules, they might not even BE guilty (at least technically).

And if they are found guilty, we don’t know what the punishment will be. It could be any of the things you say won’t happen.

Although clearly for a lot of people nothing will be viewed as enough of a punishment.

Is this that footage that Disney faked by throwing lemmings off the cliff from a concealed position?

EDIT - it is! At 1:30 here: https://youtu.be/xMZlr5Gf9yY

WTF?

Agreed. I’d love to see more like that from him.

Just because the hearing has finished does not mean that there’s a conclusion yet. Having heard all evidence it’ll now need to be considered in its entirety and written up into a final decision, plus any potential penalties.

You don’t say that a jury trial is dodgy if there’s not a guilty verdict and sentencing within 5 minutes of closing arguments.

Yeah, possibly 👍

That’s fair, it’s not going to be for everyone, and it’s just a personal preference, of course.

I’ve just posted some thoughts on ‘why’ in response to OP, hopefully they make sense :-)

I think it’s his strongest film in terms of characters, probably in part because it’s an adaptation of a novel. They feel like real (or at least more real) people to me than those in any of his other movies, who are often a bit more cartoonish.

The stuff about Jackie and Max getting older and looking at what they have made of their lives so far is excellent, and I think really helps up the tension when they are in danger later.

It also feels like a more mature film, more thoughtful and less flashy than most of his work. Which of course is ironic since it was only his 3rd movie and he’s made many more crash-bang-wallop movies since then!

Guess I’ll be not watching my second World Cup in the space of 12 years. Fuck off FIFA.

Haven’t seen Death Proof, so that apart…

1. Jackie Brown
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Kill Bill Pt 1
4. Kill Bill Pt 2
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Hateful 8
7. Django Unchained
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Although, in terms of how much I enjoy them there are really 3 closely grouped bands:

1 Jackie Brown
2 Pulp Fiction
3 Kill Bill Pt 1
4 Kill Bill Pt 2
5 Reservoir Dogs

6 Hateful 8
7 Django Unchained
8 Inglourious Basterds

9 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Really hated OUATIH.