What Are You Watching Now
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
I also read somewhere that Netflix original movies are not allowed to compete at the Cannes film festival... which is bullshit, because Okja would have won last year.
That really just means that Cannes is a distribution business festival and not an art and film festival. Nothing to be taken seriously, it's a business to sell film, not a place where artists compete.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
I also read somewhere that Netflix original movies are not allowed to compete at the Cannes film festival... which is bullshit, because Okja would have won last year.
That really just means that Cannes is a distribution business festival and not an art and film festival. Nothing to be taken seriously, it's a business to sell film, not a place where artists compete.
Exactly. The French film council or whatever says that any entries must run in theatres for at least a week or two. And that rule manages to exclude lots of amazing films that didn't run in theatres, whether independent or streaming.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
I also read somewhere that Netflix original movies are not allowed to compete at the Cannes film festival... which is bullshit, because Okja would have won last year.
That really just means that Cannes is a distribution business festival and not an art and film festival. Nothing to be taken seriously, it's a business to sell film, not a place where artists compete.
Exactly. The French film council or whatever says that any entries must run in theatres for at least a week or two. And that rule manages to exclude lots of amazing films that didn't run in theatres, whether independent or streaming.
Right, theatres aren't even where serious film goes any longer. In distribution terms, that's like being direct to VHS in the old days.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
I also read somewhere that Netflix original movies are not allowed to compete at the Cannes film festival... which is bullshit, because Okja would have won last year.
That really just means that Cannes is a distribution business festival and not an art and film festival. Nothing to be taken seriously, it's a business to sell film, not a place where artists compete.
Exactly. The French film council or whatever says that any entries must run in theatres for at least a week or two. And that rule manages to exclude lots of amazing films that didn't run in theatres, whether independent or streaming.
Right, theatres aren't even where serious film goes any longer. In distribution terms, that's like being direct to VHS in the old days.
Well, Steve Spielberg and the Cannes people would beg to differ...
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
I also read somewhere that Netflix original movies are not allowed to compete at the Cannes film festival... which is bullshit, because Okja would have won last year.
That really just means that Cannes is a distribution business festival and not an art and film festival. Nothing to be taken seriously, it's a business to sell film, not a place where artists compete.
Exactly. The French film council or whatever says that any entries must run in theatres for at least a week or two. And that rule manages to exclude lots of amazing films that didn't run in theatres, whether independent or streaming.
Right, theatres aren't even where serious film goes any longer. In distribution terms, that's like being direct to VHS in the old days.
Well, Steve Spielberg and the Cannes people would beg to differ...
But he's a terrible movie maker and they are a joke. So who cares?
Sounds like they are contriving a way to keep bad artists in the news by limiting access of serious film makers from legacy festivals.
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If Cannes isn't a serious festival, who cares what they think about anything?
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
I also read somewhere that Netflix original movies are not allowed to compete at the Cannes film festival... which is bullshit, because Okja would have won last year.
Except Okja competed at Cannes 2017 for their highest award...
So your misunderstanding set @scottalanmiller off on yet another wild rant.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
Netflix original
Netflix Original does not mean it is a Netflix anything other than exclusive distribution.
I wish someone could poke at some legal truth in advertising laws and find something to make them stop using the fucking term.
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Who is going to check out the return of Roseanne?
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@mlnews said in What Are You Watching Now:
Who is going to check out the return of Roseanne?
Mmmm....Nahhh!!
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I’ll give it a try. I was the right age for the original to have been really major in my childhood.
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I've been watching several youtube videos from Lawrence Systems / PC Pickup.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
I’ll give it a try. I was the right age for the original to have been really major in my childhood.
Ditto. We haven't gotten to see it yet, but it's on the hit list.
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The Titan on Netflix
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Showing the kids ALF
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Watching Now:
Showing the kids ALF
This is the last step before you drive them somewhere remote and kick them out of the car? What evil have they perpetrated to deserve this torture?
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@scottalanmiller wife's idea. I never watched it as didn't have sky as a kid. She lived it lol.
Now watching lair lair
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Watched an old John Pinette special.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Watching Now:
Showing the kids ALF
This is the last step before you drive them somewhere remote and kick them out of the car? What evil have they perpetrated to deserve this torture?
While not to my taste, the episodes I watched were generally comedic and decently written for a run of the mill 80's sitcom.
