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  1. This focus on sports name reminds me an issue back in high school about a focus on gestures vs the big picture. In grade 11 there been a long push for a course on personal finances offered by the school to give students a basic understanding of finances so they make better financial decisions. However instead we got a class about racism that really was talking about racism to people who already know all about it (class was all indians and black people). Now my issue is that a class about racism is good but considering how there is a such a huge issue with young people especially minorities in financial literacy. What would have served a greater purpose is something I wonder.
  2. That is why I become very suspect of corporations acting 'ethical'. Always see if there gesture they are doing actually changes their business model and hurts their bottom line for a greater good or is just virtue signaling for PR.
  3. So they can get all this effort to change a team name but not pressure a company to stop using child labour in third world countries or stealing water from local water tables. Odd how the corporate world works with its 'ethics'
  4. I am pretty sure the type of audience who watches Mad Men has some level of intelligence to figure that out. Everyone is just deathly scared of a twitter mob these days.
  5. Looks like China main export is going to be our future pandemics.
  6. That's the most blandest part of the tv show though
  7. I actually think its the end of smaller films in theaters. Like personally the only thing getting most people to a theater anytime soon would be IW/Endgame level film. Meaning a film you must watch right away and not jsut wait 2-3 months to get at home.
  8. The issue is though the MCU connected so strongly with audiences across the globe and becoming the defining franchise of the 2010s. Like you may not feel there is a coherent voice but anyone who watched Iron Man 1 in 2008 to Endgame saw the character go on a crazy arc which in the middle seemed confused and odd but it all came full circle and as a result his death really hit hard to people. So yeah you could say the MCU sort of got lost sometimes trying to tell a coherent voice (would say Ultron phase when the MCU was really confused). However unlike so many finales that failed so badly this decade, star wars, game of thrones and many more... IW and Endgame told a pretty coherent story that really resonated and solidified the MCU with an epic conclusion putting everything together. So you guys can keep calling the MCU films tv shows, but that is what people want in film and TV now.
  9. Using that logic aren't most movies something you can just watch on tv at home. Oop Lol
  10. No but you guys are saying that Blockbuster on their own don't allow filmmakers to do what they want. Which is true. However having a narrative that stretches over many other films and having a huge budget and a great host of characters can allow you to do something even more grand. So what I'm saying is Blockbuster filmmaking isnt always a negative to making a good film.
  11. Infinity War is just crazy... You have a alien army fighting the army of Wakanda and Captain America and Company under a shield/ Then you have Raccoon and a Tree and Norse God taking a neutron star to his chest to forge a new epic weapon. Then you have Iron and Spidey and Strange and the Guardians doing all out Naruto anime style battle with Thanos. Like imo the epicness of Infinity War blew audiences and a lot of casual non fanbase audience. Like I know many films who grew tired of some of the MCU films but watched Infinity War and were like "holy shit that was some epic stuff" and thats why Endgame smashed all records. Like I know people grow tired of such films but there is talent and a lot of effort to make such films too and especially to make them work.
  12. I like blockbusters if they are actually epic. How else would you get IW and Endgame super epicness. Likely the most epic films I seen in a while.
  13. A movie that is rather dated but it is also a westerns in a nuanced way ahead of its time as well. Well shot film but unsure why it is so well regarded. B+
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