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She actually said the exact opposite.

If you read the above article you'll find what made everyone freak out is she said that having 63% of film critics being white males seems a bit high to her. Given that they're about 36% of the population she might not be too far off.

I'm not saying it's time for quotas (Troop Leader says ve have to meet our qoota) but it probably wouldn't hurt to make sure we haven't left some systemic discrimination in place. While I don't believe in "where there's smoke there's fire" I do think that if I see smoke I damn well check and if I find dry ice maybe I clean it up...

Critics at least try to look at the movie for what it is

LOL. No they don't. They are the most obvious shills on the internet and the old business model of independent critics is coming to an end. Critics now have to compete with regular viewers which is apparently a problem. Can't have people disagree with critics/narrative or else they be racist sexist trolls!

The Orville Season 1 hated by critics. What changed in season 2? How can you go from creatively, morally, and ethically bankrupt to it's all characters stories in the space adventure return and that's a good thing. When it's the same show/formula nothing major different? I am all for people changing their mind but there are plenty of these kind of examples and that kind of 180 is a little ridiculous. Media producers are buying up critic sites so in many cases there is a conflict of interest to say something bad.

Online trolls do not explain why box office numbers are down . It doesn't explain Oscar viewership at the 2nd lowest record. And it certainly doesn't explain the garbage that is being produced and hailed as the 2nd coming of sliced bread. Do not disagree lest ye be troll!

Critics at least try to look at the movie for what it is

LOL. No they don't. They are the most obvious shills on the internet and the old business model of independent critics is coming to an end. Critics now have to compete with regular viewers which is apparently a problem. Can't have people disagree with critics/narrative or else they be racist sexist trolls!

The Orville Season 1 hated by critics. What changed in season 2? How can you go from creatively, morally, and ethically bankrupt to it's all characters stories in the space adventure return and that's a good thing. When it's the same show/formula nothing major different? I am all for people changing their mind but there are plenty of these kind of examples and that kind of 180 is a little ridiculous. Media producers are buying up critic sites so in many cases there is a conflict of interest to say something bad.

Online trolls do not explain why box office numbers are down . It doesn't explain Oscar viewership at the 2nd lowest record. And it certainly doesn't explain the garbage that is being produced and hailed as the 2nd coming of sliced bread. Do not disagree lest ye be troll!

“And the thing about so much of what this movie is, I think white men, critics would enjoy it, would enjoy my work, but often I think there is a critic who will damn it in a way because they don’t understand it, because they come at it at a different point of view, and they’re so powerful, Rotten Tomatoes.”

Brie Larson adds:

“What I am saying is if you make a movie that is a love letter to women of color, there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie, and review your movie.”

Larson informs us that more than 63 percent of reviewers are white and male. (Almost the same percentage of women to men in university), and only 18 percent are both white and female

Only 4.1 percent are female and from underrepresented groups

“I don’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work about ‘A Wrinkle in Time,'” Larson added. “It wasn’t made for him. I want to know what it meant to women of color, biracial women, to teen women of color.”

Now to my thoughts There are the reasons that quasi-official sites like Netflix are removing reviews. This is a pretty big problem, and the movie industry needs positive reviews, and the trend in movies is proving a to be a little problem. The people who make such blatantly sexist movies must hear that they are good, and if people do notlike them, they must have a a target of blame. To them, The all female Ghostbusters did not fail because it wasn't funny and because it was sexist in nature, It failed because of thos fucking teenage boys. As Kaling decrees. https://www.indiewire.com/2016...!

What is amazing is that ability to scream about racism and sexism, and simultaneous replace it with sexism and racism so blatant and in your face that you can proclaim people pointing out the problem with your work is somehow racist and sexist. The worm ouroboros as it were.

But anyhow, there is the problem - White males.

Why thank you. I think kids do have a natural advantage in this area because the world is new to them and they're still learning what's possible and what's not. But we also tend to get old and bitter, and I think a lot of that is simply losing our sense of wonder and possibility.

You might enjoy this:

I watched the Honest Trailers review of Kong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saTFPCuQfvw).

The director is part of the episode, and seems like the best kind of director: a big kid who thinks movies are awesome (and also knows a lot about them). There was a comment about the "Kong drama," so I went and looked it up, and found this article:

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/...

Yup. Right there is the difference. The Honest Trailers people love movies and their criticism is hilarious. I watched most of the CinemaSins rant about Kong. Don't. It was terrible.

Netflix streaming used to crop movies using Pan and Scan to match the 16:9 ratio of most TV sets. I'm not sure if they still do this; but I prefer seeing the full width, even if it means a few black bars.

This sounds like the plot of Snowpiercer :

The film posits that in the near future, the governments of the world, keen to curb global warming, release a substance called CW7 into the atmosphere, designed to lower temperatures. It works, but too well, reducing the planet to a frozen, uninhabitable wasteland. The only survivors are those on board a train built by eccentric, reclusive transport magnate Wilford. The higher-ups live in luxury, while those with second-class tickets languish in squalor at the back, in fear of Wilford’s soldiers, living off daily rations of grim, gelatinous protein bars of questionable origin.

So you have no ethical issues pirating content? Please no BS about sticking it to the media corporations--that is just rationalizing the fact you are just a cheap jerk with no morals.

Is it ethical to give your money to an organization that will do this sort of skullduggery with it?

I'm being serious.

It's theft if you download content and view it for free, sure, but you're not exactly morally in the clear if you do pay. Your money is lining the pockets of famously and spectacularly corrupt middle men, with only pennies on the dollar going to the artists you love.

The correct thing to do isn't as clear as you might suppose. Morally, it may be more correct to pirate their content then buy a t-shirt or something from them, because they'll see most of that money. Most notably George Lucas is wealthy because of merchandise, not movies.

I'm not saying what to do, what not to do, or what I do - I just want you to think about it a bit before tossing out moral absolutes.

At the beginning of the article, you ask:

"Why do Netflix and a few other companies keep the DVD format alive, when streaming is more convenient for almost all users?

At the End of the article you then say:

I'd be interested in hearing other theories, as long as people understand the question: Why movie studios don't allow movies to be streamed in a manner that mimics, as closely as possible, the experience of checking out DVDs by mail from Netflix (including, say, a mandatory delay between the time you select the movie and the time that you can watch it).

"as long as people understand the question:"?
Which question? The second question clearly answers the first question by asking "Why movie studios don't allow movies to be streamed...". The question itself is saying that movie studios don't allow streaming in a manner to match DVD by mail, so that's why Netflix doesn't do it.

Netflix already explained why they don't license everything for streaming.
https://help.netflix.com/en/no...
http://blogs.indiewire.com/sha...

I used a almost secret hacker tool (used by the CIA, FBI, and NSA!) to get this information.
Try it: http://google.com/

We know the formula for a blockbuster movie, it's been published in a book called Save the Cat (and reviewed here).

The great thing about books, especially now, is that there is very low cost to publishing them compared with movies so you can be more experimental. Hopefully, no one will figure out the complete secret to their success in the same way movies are known.

And yes, Bob's Burgers is good, though not in the way most people think. Especially with the same actor playing Bob and Archer.

Or both at the same time. See Season 4, Episode 1, "Fugue and Riffs" - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Archer_episodes :

Archer has amnesia, brought about by the trauma of watching his mother get married, and believes he is now a fry cook at a burger joint. When he inexplicably stops a KGB attempt on his life, he flees to a spa, where ISIS tries to bring back his memories.

Note: This episode features a crossover with FOX's animated show, Bob's Burgers, which also features H. Jon Benjamin. The setting and characters of Bob's Burgers were portrayed using the animation style from Archer.

Interview with Benjamin about that episode is here:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/television/h-jon-benjamin-on-archers-crossover-with-bobs-burgers

It's not so much that the product is different or better, although oftentimes it is.

Plus, of course, you have more chance of the product improving if you deliver feedback.

If you send a letter to Kraft telling them that their new salad dressing tastes like Frenchman's Crotch instead of French, they'll probably just mail you back a money-off coupon for "Franch", and go back to concocting ways to make a product that is almost, but not entirely, unlike food, as cheaply as possible.

If you politely mention this to your local deli owner, he'll probably apologize. He might even suggest something else, gift you with a sample of it, and if enough people mention it, he'll change his recipe.

I see this problem with software projects as well ; when the developers are sufficiently removed from the users, insulated from them, the software turns out terrible. It might do exactly what the users said they wanted, but the problem is that users are no good at articulating exactly what they want - because that's a programming skill (whether you do it in English, Python, or C++). The most successful projects I've worked on have been the ones where the developers have to interact with the customers on a daily basis, and preferably sit amongst them.

I believe it's the same person.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/who-gets-to-tell-our-stories-great-conversation-on-the-business-of-black-cinema-w-tanya-steele

http://blogs.indiewire.com/jamesisrael/archives/spock-kirk-bath.jpg

They ARE among us:

The Vidiians, Malon, Talosians, Kazon/Ferengi hybrids occupying the white house. Maybe we need to SAVE this green planet

(a reference to Save the Green Planet:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354668/

http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/horror/savethegreenplanet/savethegreenplanet.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Green_Planet!

http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050419save.html

http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm03.html

It's funny, serious, nutty, and more. One reviewer said this is one film that packs virtually every known film genre into one sitting.

But, I better stay low, and to borrow a phrase from Janeway, "... Steer us a course clear of that... I'm in NO MOOD to donate organs today..."

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... a long war without the nation's support. If soldiers' blogs show us what's really going on in the war zone, most of us won't support the war effort and the military will lose. The military knows exactly what they are doing when it comes to controlling the flow of information from the "theater" of operation to the home front.

Here's another example...Bagdhad ER...
http://blogs.indiewire.com/gabe/archive/010138.htm l

Maybe you missed something... Miramax Films, property of Disney, has made many anti-catholic movies, or movies that go against catholic morals. http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_990623_briefs.htm l

Search for "Miramax catholic" on google to get an idea. Of course, this only shows more of disney's hidden agenda.

Then I guess Che would have been even prouder of Robert Redford if he'd projected it on a wall.

I don't know that they're really going to sue. One of the Blair Witch people did a daily diary for IndieWire and sat in front of some of the The Last Broadcast people on the plane over. He didn't mention any weirdness about it.