indigi posted:

yall know you can just steal these movies and not deal with the apps, right

Zvahl posted:

ah but you see stealing on the internet requires friends

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I will continue to pay for all my streaming services.

Poors can get hosed.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Even Peacock?!?!

projecthalaxy posted:

Yeah its all just libs getting owned at their own significant expense by their spouses, regardless of genders

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I don't think it's intentional but it's extremely funny how the make the American always look so bad. In the first season one of the couples was this mormon dude and some lady from Brazil. He talked about meeting her underage, and then talked about how he was civilizing her.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

indigi posted:

African dudes are getting mail order American brides? drat the times they are a changing


e: oh I thought 90 day fiancé was a show about mail order brides lol

Tankbuster posted:

got around to watching the Last Emperor. Is good.

projecthalaxy posted:

Some of them arranged through marriage services yeah but I think this one was a mission trip romance? At least the African dude episode I remember was.

indigi posted:

yall know you can just steal these movies and not deal with the apps, right

Bro Dad posted:

hits kinda different now that we know what a hosed up little freak puyi truly was

Mr Hootington posted:

I'm not a demonic computer toucher so I don't know how.

projecthalaxy posted:

Some of them arranged through marriage services yeah but I think this one was a mission trip romance? At least the African dude episode I remember was.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I don't remember off the top of my head but most of them meet through online dating services. … In the first season one of the guys is a divorced dad, who met a lady from the Philippines around his age.

i say swears online posted:

i probably have a version of utorrent i haven't updated in ten years because i'm scared the gummint will break it. i just click the lil red magnet and i get my treats

Mr Hootington posted:

2. They are destroying a revenue stream. Disney is keeping Hulu instead of expanding disneyplus to include hulu stuff because that is 2 revenue streams.

Mr Hootington posted:

discovery folding hbo into discovery+ and shutdown hbomax is stupid for 2 reasons.

1. The discovery ap is not available on Sony consoles.

2. They are destroying a revenue stream. Disney is keeping Hulu instead of expanding disneyplus to include hulu stuff because that is 2 revenue streams.

indigi posted:

this seems even more sinister than mail order tbh. how does this work, our new Christian mission needs to import some Christian rear end to be fruitful

indigi posted:

I think this mainly works if both services have poo poo people want to see. wtf is on Discovery+ (and why on earth would they keep that branding over HBO I think the new execs are full Simple Jack)

PostNouveau posted:

They're folding HBO Max into Discovery+ not the other way around?!?!?

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At that moment, barely five minutes into the first episode, I wanted to throw my laptop across the room or just to throw Nathan Fielder out of it. Not only is the gas-crew deception itself a reckless betrayal, but the gaze of superiority and dominance that he casts upon Kor struck me as arrogant, cruel, and, above all, indifferent. What I hoped for, more than anything, was for Kor to tell Nathan to get out of his apartment and his life—to cut his losses. What I craved was, at least, to hear Nathan ask Kor what that place-filler “Wow” means—to ask him for emotional specifics—and to hear Kor speak of his own feelings about being tricked. No such luck: Kor continues to play along, and Nathan shows no interest in what Kor thinks of being deceived by the man to whom (as Nathan says in voice-over) he has entrusted his life.

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As a filmmaker, Fielder displays interest not in any physical process unfolding over time but in his own intellectual process—in the authentic ingenuity of the working out of his conceit, which the onscreen events merely exemplify, like data points rather than experiences. He revels in his own thoughts as he tailors the conditions of his subjects’ lives to fit his storytelling, largely through his own voice-over. Fielder’s main real-life stake is the one onscreen: making the show a success. The vanity and the ambition of “The Rehearsal” are its driving forces. Fielder can’t relinquish control; his obsession with details, with predicted outcomes, suggests his very failure as a filmmaker—the failure to find a dramatic form for the full range of the series’s implications and experiences. If the series is meant to be comedy, so much the worse, for making light of problems that matter to the participants—and for making even lighter of the deceptions to which he subjects them. And, if “The Rehearsal” were revealed to be not documentary at all but a mockumentary—a throughgoing fiction, pranking us all, in which no real-life subjects have volunteered—it would be only a wet squib of disingenuous self-deprecation that exhausts itself in the first minutes of the first episode. Fielder goes in to confirm results, the prime one being his own powers of mastery, of anticipation, and, above all, of entertainment. As the series goes on (tiny spoiler), Fielder amps up the complexity of his rehearsals, creating an ever-deeper spiral of preparations and impersonations. His cleverness masks the hollowness of his schemes. No digression, no incidentals, no loose ends can intrude on Fielder’s taut, compact, self-contained sketches. He looks the Look at the people he films, but doesn’t seem to see them.

brugroffil posted:

just watched ep 1 of The Rehearsal, lol

found this review, lmao

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

as long as all of these properties end up as playable characters in MultiVersus it's ok

brugroffil posted:

just watched ep 1 of The Rehearsal, lol

found this review, lmao