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henrygandorf

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  1. i don't feel attacked, i think this is a fair question. first off, i pay my fair share and then some. i subscribe to everything, including a live/cable option (directv stream) which i know a lot of people have gone away from. i go to movies in the theater, and have paid a premium for nice, la theaters since back when assigned seats were a new feature. i also won't see a movie without popcorn and snacks, which i always purchase from concessions. movies fuel the entire industry, and concessions fuel theaters, so $16 popcorn buckets don't bother me. over the years, i have used torrents when it is necessary. i don't download anything available on a mainstream platform like prime, netflix, hulu, peacock, apple, disney, and so forth. i use it when a movie is unavailable and i'm trying to show it to someone who hasn't seen it (usually my wife). keep in mind this is a film that i not only likely paid to see in a theater, but in many cases, have also previously purchased the dvd. but like i said, we no longer own a dvd player and i have no idea where my old movies even are. i also used to use torrents when i needed movies for travel before the days of being able to use a streaming platform on my laptop. much easier to have a file than tote around a bunch of dvds, especially when you live on a bus. though we did buy plenty of seasons of tv in their old school boxed sets, like the office, lost, 30 rock, etc. but the biggest factor is whether i even have a choice with something i'm looking to watch. in many cases, there are no other options. i downloaded max dugan returns a couple months ago, which is available pretty much nowhere. same with the color of money, and many other 70's/80's movies. if they existed somewhere, i wouldn't need torrents. in the case of my nephew, he's not going to buy amc+, so this is a way to introduce him to "prestige" tv and what i believe is the greatest drama of all time. with this experience, he will (hopefully) seek out other high-end productions, both tv and film, and that will affect his life, just as mine was affected as a teenager when i watched butch cassidy, jaws, the sting, the godfather, and all the president's men with my dad. in turn, he will spend his money on things actually available to him and not relegated to a fringe (at best) streaming platform. this is a situation where if not for me and wetransfer, he would simply go without. i cannot allow that. but here's the sad truth of it all. when you pay $3.79 on amazon prime for an old movie, that money is not ever getting to the writers or actors, or even the producers. it just isn't. that money will go onto the amazon ledger and pay for storage, servers, attorneys, executives, until they turn to 3rd party sourcing companies that purchased libraries from obsolete production companies like vestron or orion and say, sorry, here's your three cents. i also will download british shows that aren't available yet on us tv or britbox/acorn, like catastrophe. but once i like something, i'll make sure everyone in my life knows to watch it on whatever platform carries it, which i believe was prime. *i don't use torrents to download first-run movies or pirated home video shit, in case that part was unclear. it's not even about the money, it's about the quality. fuck all that.
  2. i didn’t write the tweet, just thought it was funny.
  3. maybe if they didn't spend so much money on handguns and accessories they could afford to shop at a non-flea market.
  4. so you're saying it's better now than in the mid 90's? well i would hope so. i think the bigger complaint here is that while some movies are hard to locate, others just aren't available anywhere for free. and many of these were available weeks/months ago on a platform they pay for. this is not a personal problem for me, because i've been using torrents for 20 years. my nephew wanted to watch mad men, which went from netflix to prime to freevee to amc+ which i'm pretty sure is fake because nobody i know has it. so i downloaded the entire series and wetransfer'd it to him, which he then downloaded and dumped onto a usb drive and put in the back of his tv. the whole process took an hour. i had hundreds of dvds, and most of which i did not pay $20-$30 for, but we no longer own a dvd player and i don't really miss those days. i think the point is that when you pay for (or have access to) multiple streaming services, you expect to have everything at your fingertips. at certain points this was the case, now, not so much. oh fuck yeah.
  5. elsbeth was one of the better recurring characters on the good wife. bunk was a paramedic in "the money pit" and a beat cop in "it could happen to you", before becoming a murder police in the wire, and then whatever this ^^ is. i'm a big fan of people getting promoted across different projects. john amos ran a burger franchise before getting into the military in die hard 2 and eventually became chairman of the joint chiefs in the west wing. real success story.
  6. here's part of it, but not the part i mentioned:
  7. on the circus finale last night, bannon said that trump was a moderate, and the maga movement is way way to the right of him, and it won't be long until people are wishing for leaders who were as moderate as trump. not joking.
  8. forks is tremendous, but it isn't truly standalone. you really have to understand richie to appreciate the payoff. and to understand richie, you need to see his journey and also see him stabbed in the asscheek.
  9. yeah, i settled on the simpsons gif but considered this one as well: which is probably what anyone on the right is thinking today.
  10. wtf does this mean? anyway, here is the best i could do, there are a lot of useful stats on here - https://www.theviolenceproject.org/key-findings/ i haven't glossed through other than a cursory glance, but 97% are men, and school shootings are huge majority white. since the demographic breakdown means literally nothing to me, meaning i'm not on anyone's "side" in this, everyone go crazy. i do know from other searches that "modern mass shootings" (since the assault weapon ban) skew the numbers, and a lot of these charts go back 60+ years, so you have to put some perspective on things regarding race breakdown, gun access, etc, through the decades of living (or trying to live) in america. one example: so to get the demographics right, you have to concentrate on the last decade, since they've been happening at a much higher rate lately.
  11. that's like a third of the total amount of years, according to people that don't read books.
  12. i'm not super familiar with your arguments with another person. are you looking for demographics on the shooters or the victims?
  13. you mean like age, race, religion, that type of thing? urban vs rural maybe? i don't know about the injured, but i can tell you about the dead. before they got shot they were breathing, and after they got shot they stopped. i can also tell you the number killed under the age of 10 would make your stomach churn.
  14. swifty cult >>>>>>>>>>> maga cult shit is not close.
  15. there was a post on twitter several months back. and it was basically like, "if aliens landed on earth, and we had to choose one person to greet them, one person who represented us the best, who would it be?" and after several random attempts at guesses, someone was like dolly parton. and the comment after that was like, yeah, you can close this poll now.
  16. fincher's masterpiece will always be: the wife was watching the supermodels doc series on apple+ and they started going into this video, which she was too young to remember but i was at the exact right age to fully appreciate it whenever it came on. then (in the doc) they start talking to people involved in the decision to use the models lip-syncing the song, and they had a quick interview with fincher about it, and he was like, "hell yes, i love this idea, let's go." watching the video, you can totally tell it's fincher, as it has all the same spatial elements, lighting, shadows, creative angles and forced perspective from the best of his movies. the scant cavernous rooms where you can sense and feel and even smell all the corners just takes me right back to fight club, panic room, even gone girl. never forget that the movies of the 90's are so fucking cool because that's when music video directors got their shot. 70's are dark. 80's are funny. 90's are cool.
  17. well i poured a stiff 4r oesk around 9:30pm and followed it up with a stagg jr nightcap right before deciding to post this. but it did some numbers, so let me take this opportunity to promote the bear and dave on fx, the offer on par+ and episode 3 of the last of us.
  18. these dumb motherfuckers are the dumbest motherfuckers.
  19. you mean the american martin maldonado? i'm down.
  20. then i hope 3-4 of them are really serious about it.
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