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Post by aaplsauce on Dec 20, 2021 22:15:33 GMT -8
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chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Dec 21, 2021 6:05:43 GMT -8
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Post by bud777 on Dec 21, 2021 10:29:44 GMT -8
How about mandatory air tags on creeps? Seems only fair
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Post by JDSoCal on Dec 21, 2021 11:03:39 GMT -8
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Post by duckpins on Dec 21, 2021 11:36:58 GMT -8
The damage that goose does to human kind is a subject for philosophy class students to write essays on. How many times can you watch the same movie with a different title? Innovation takes a holiday?
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Post by coma on Dec 21, 2021 12:39:49 GMT -8
Thing about kids (and those like myself with early onset senility), they watch the same movies over and over. Raises hand . . . But I have a great excuse.
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Post by duckpins on Dec 21, 2021 13:09:43 GMT -8
two and half trillion has been "invested" in bitcoin. This is the greatest threat to the world economy IMHO.
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Post by JDSoCal on Dec 21, 2021 17:13:01 GMT -8
two and half trillion has been "invested" in bitcoin. This is the greatest threat to the world economy IMHO. Even greater than Disney? I'm confused. 😵 But happy to see green days again!
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Post by Dave on Dec 21, 2021 17:28:57 GMT -8
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Post by mark on Dec 21, 2021 18:45:13 GMT -8
As an uninterested party (I don't own any Disney, and never have owned any, despite it having been a superb company), I believe that the Disney quality (of their films) has been dropping recently. I think it is primarily due to two phenomena, one, because there are such good computer-based tools for animation (or augmenting non-animated material), the producers have gotten "lazy" and lean on the computer way too much, instead of leaning on the imagination which was their great strength over all the years. And two, they've allowed external factors (some political ones) change what, and how, they produce films.
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Post by mark on Dec 21, 2021 18:49:13 GMT -8
two and half trillion has been "invested" in bitcoin. This is the greatest threat to the world economy IMHO. I don't see how this is possible. ALL the bitcoin that exists is worth just under $1 trillion right now. And a large percentage of the total has never traded and was purchased, or created, when it was worth $0.10 to $1000.00 each.
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Post by 4aapl on Dec 21, 2021 20:08:29 GMT -8
Thing about kids (and those like myself with early onset senility), they watch the same movies over and over. That's what makes Disney's catalog such a golden goose. Our kids, luckily, never got into watching the same movie again and again. Maybe we’ve seen greatest showman 4 times, but it’s rare for us to have watched a movie twice. We’ve had a Disney+ subscription for 2 years now, and we’ve averaged at least 2 movies a month, but possibly close to 4. while we run out of things we are interested in on Amazon, there keeps being ones on Disney. Now it’s the Marvel set of films, where there are something like 30. Disney does seem like a good fit for apple, if they are continuing on the production front.
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Post by JDSoCal on Dec 21, 2021 21:17:56 GMT -8
My concern is, Apple has committed to providing content, and I would rather they buy a (profitable) studio than throw money into that insatiable pit of diminishing returns known as streaming content. And not that Netflix financial disaster before anyone suggests that.
I'm not a good judge of Disney's content because I really don't watch movies these days. Those comic book movies are just a sad commentary on our society. But I like Disney's financials and love their P/E.
I do know my friends' kids like to watch the same movie more than once. They were all staying with me and wanted me to see that silly Knives Out, which they of course had seen before. Lionsgate is going to make two more of those. Sadly, without the late Christopher Plummer.
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