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14 hours ago, pied06 said:

Surprised this didn't get more attention and wonder if the title had anything to do with it.

I got an Android TV and it pops up a lot of stuff on the Home Screen that I recently but haven't finished, and it's bad enough to see Game of Thrones on there, but Sex Lives of College Girls?  Don't need the wife or kids seeing that one (need to turn off the setting that shows recent viewings of stuff).

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Just now binging “The Vow”… I remember seeing headlines, but I didn’t know the details of the NXIVM cult going in. YIKES. Those people are bat shit.

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Warner Bros. Discovery executives ... haven't finalized a decision and the name could still be changed, but Max is the likely choice, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private. Some senior executives are still debating a final name, said two of the people. Internally, Warner Bros. Discovery has given the new service a code name of "BEAM" while a final name is being debated, said the people. Lawyers are vetting other names, as well.

The app itself will share similarities with Disney+'s platform, with Warner Bros. Discovery's brands as individual tiles, the people said. HBO, Discovery, DC Comics and Warner Bros. will be among the landing hubs on the platform, the people added.
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Chief Executive David Zaslav has cut back on HBO Max original series spending, which has helped reform HBO's branding. Still, HBO has a limited audience that's largely U.S.-based, and the streaming service will offer much more than HBO — including reality TV from Discovery, news documentaries from CNN, movies from Warner Bros., kids programming, and possibly, eventually, live sports. Zaslav and his team see the value in making HBO a sub-brand within the larger streaming offering, said people familiar with their thinking.

Warner Bros. Discovery management pushed up the launch date for the combined service to spring 2023, the company announced in its most recent earnings call in November. ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/warner-bros-discovery-max-streaming-service-name.html

Quite possibly the worst written news report I've read in some time.  After reading it, I'm left wondering, are they still discussing a name for the service?

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Southside is back for s3.  If you haven't paid attention it's a great show.  I think it started on Comedy Central got cancelled and HBO liked it so much they bought it 

Very under the radar but I think it's really funny.

 

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Doom Patrol season 4 has started.  

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Southside is back for s3.  If you haven't paid attention it's a great show.  I think it started on Comedy Central got cancelled and HBO liked it so much they bought it 
Very under the radar but I think it's really funny.
 

Funny as hell. We’re on S1. Had never seen it.

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Call Me Miss Cleo is an interesting doc about the 900 line psycjc of the 90’s.

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On 12/8/2022 at 12:39 PM, Post Oak said:

Southside is back for s3.  If you haven't paid attention it's a great show.  I think it started on Comedy Central got cancelled and HBO liked it so much they bought it 

Very under the radar but I think it's really funny.

 

I'd never heard of it either, but I saw both guys on Seth Meyers the other night and it sounds great. Almost all the people are Chicago locals and not actors. Bashir became friends with Tom Cruise and wound up in Top Gun: Maverick.

 

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Give it a few episodes. Knowing that the two cops are married in real life makes it extra funny to me.  Sandy Goodnight is a treasure.

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17 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

Funny as hell. We’re on S1. Had never seen it.

Glad you like it.  S3 us good so far too.

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Amsterdam. Christian Bale and a really good cast. It was too long a movie but would have been better stretched a bit into miniseries.

It’s about an obscure bit of interwar American history that was buried by the powerful and obscured by the Roaring 20’s and the Great Depression. It combines several stories of the Great Bonus Army that was driven out of Washington, the Businessman’s Plot, and the German-American Bund, the Vril Society. Some I knew about, some I didn’t. The reality is the country could have fallen in this period either to fascism or communism.

I won’t bring politics into it but let you make your own analogies to current events. Maybe Russsll will do the same treatment to the realities of Operation Paperclip.

[LonghornSean 3911]

Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farell and Brendan Gleeson, now on HBO Max.

Big awards contender this year. Very funny movie, but sad as well. Great performances all around. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, as it's slower and character driven, but if you have any Irish heritage, you gotta check it out.

 

There's an early scene with Farrell's character, a dimwit named Dominic and his sleeping father -- hilarious. The Dominic character brings a lot of laughs actually, but you'll probably need subtitles.

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Dominic and the sister were great. Agree it won't be for everyone but I really liked it.  Three days after we watched it my wife still couldn't form an opinion on it.  Ha.

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Velma is finally getting her own show, with Mindy Kalig as Velma, streaming tomorrow.  I kind of prefer Daphne to have rounder features and a softer attitude, but whatever, this looks like they are trying to take the piss out of a lot of the tropes (and the recent Scooby Do specials on HBOMax were making fun of the human in a monster mask thing).

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Wife was in the room when I started watching and *BAM* a lockerroom full of cartoon high school girl ass in the first two minutes with strategic soap suds covering everything that wasn't ass. 

I'm all

 If your little ones see what they think is a new Scooby Doo show, point them elsewhere.

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Class Action Park is a doc about Action Park in New Jersey back in the 70’s and 80’s that was just fucking insane.

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Last of Us is excellent.  Looks like they are following the story from the game closely.  Casting choices looking good too.  

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On 5/31/2022 at 1:17 PM, Chopper said:

Someone already mentioned Julia. +1. Very charming and enjoyable.

Finally got around to this.  Enjoyed watching Julia make dick jokes while preparing Coq au Vin.  

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Just watched the first episode of Rain Dogs. I think it will be pretty good.

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On 3/7/2023 at 11:34 AM, 4th&Five said:

Just watched the first episode of Rain Dogs. I think it will be pretty good.

Trailer looks good. Soundtrack is high quality.

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HBOMax, in their merger with Discovery+, is changing the name to just Max...because "HBO" is a turnoff to some people, even though many subscribe specificaly for HBO content.

Warner Bros. Discovery Worried That ‘HBO’ Name Turns Off New Subscribers (thewrap.com)

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The fuck?  I can't imagine running from the hbo name.

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The fuck?  I can't imagine running from the hbo name.

Seriously. They’ve built an incredible brand over 20+ years that is synonymous with high quality television, and they’re going to scrap that brand for something very few people recognize?

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Warner Bros. could and will fuck up a wet dream.

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1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

Seriously. They’ve built an incredible brand over 20+ years that is synonymous with high quality television, and they’re going to scrap that brand for something very few people recognize?

Because Skinemax has such a better brand.  

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10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

because "HBO" is a turnoff to some people

Those are Honey Boo Boo and Sharknado people.

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I didn't even know that the Max in HBO Max was because of the merger with Cinemax! hahaha Fucking regards if they drop the HBO. 

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I guess they no longer use "It's not TV, it's HBO". 

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Who the hell attaches a negative connotation to HBO? Good Christian types who drive by a motel with a sign outside that says, "Free HBO in every room" and assume that people are in there beating it to softcore porn?

Because I have news for them about every hotel room they've ever stayed in...

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I didn't even know that the Max in HBO Max was because of the merger with Cinemax! hahaha Fucking regards if they drop the HBO. 

It’s not. They just called it HBO Max but didn’t include any of the Cinemax content.

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Can we just fast forward to 10 years from now when it's called HBO GO MAX Plus?

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Just now, aggie08 said:

Can we just fast forward to 10 years from now when it's called HBO GO MAX Plus?

HBO GO MAx Plus + 

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1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

Can we just fast forward to 10 years from now when it's called HBO GO MAX Plus?

You mean Discovery Max+ with optional HBO add-on for just $30 a month.

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On 3/10/2023 at 7:21 PM, Brothahorn said:

Warner Bros. could and will fuck up a wet dream.

To be fair, WB ceased to be its own entity way back when they merged with Time and became Time Warner, and following that were purchased by the shitheads at AT&T. Last year they were merged with Discovery Network and the folks from Discovery are now running the show. This guy, David Zaslav, is the CEO. Previously he ran Discovery's channels, making reality tv and cheap science shows.  Dropping HBO from the name of the marquee tv brand would be the dumbest opening move Zaslav could possibly make. He's way out of his depth.

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Watched the Linda Ronstadt doc the other day, a CNN production from a couple years ago. She was a stunner in multiple ways and I strongly recommend the documentary.

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Maria Full of Grace is a spanish language film about a spunky, young Colombian woman who decides to get involved in the drug trade. It came up in my recommendations on Hbo and it was a quick watch. It has 97% on the tomatometer and an 87% audience score. It's the first film directed by Joshua Marston, who went on to make a name for himself with American Crime, In Treatment and The Good Wife.

 

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53 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Maria Full of Grace is a spanish language film about a spunky, young Colombian woman who decides to get involved in the drug trade. It came up in my recommendations on Hbo and it was a quick watch. It has 97% on the tomatometer and an 87% audience score. It's the first film directed by Joshua Marston, who went on to make a name for himself with American Crime, In Treatment and The Good Wife.

 

Required movie in I think in Spanish I or II while I was at UT. Pretty good movie. 

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HBO wants to print money.

But that cast was something else, basically this:

 

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Probably a wildly unpopular opinion, but I’d like to see a TV-14 Potter from the professors’ perspectives. They all had pretty interesting back stories. There’s a good show in there somewhere.

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7 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Probably a wildly unpopular opinion, but I’d like to see a TV-14 Potter from the professors’ perspectives. They all had pretty interesting back stories. There’s a good show in there somewhere.

Yeah, would be pretty interesting to say spend a year or two covering the time up to Harry's birth (since many of the profs were involved), and then they could skip forward to him getting the letter.

J.K. Rowling is apparently involved to make sure things hew to her source material (apparently that's in her contract, but she's not the showrunner), so this is going to really divide the community. 

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, would be pretty interesting to say spend a year or two covering the time up to Harry's birth (since many of the profs were involved), and then they could skip forward to him getting the letter.

J.K. Rowling is apparently involved to make sure things hew to her source material (apparently that's in her contract, but she's not the showrunner), so this is going to really divide the community. 

It’s her stuff so I completely understand that. She sucks monkey ass but keeping the series in line with her source material is important. I’ve been reading the books again / watching the movies as I go along and the movies just did such a disservice to the books. 

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Maybe they'll come up with Quidditch rules that actually make some goddamn sense.

 

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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, would be pretty interesting to say spend a year or two covering the time up to Harry's birth (since many of the profs were involved), and then they could skip forward to him getting the letter.

J.K. Rowling is apparently involved to make sure things hew to her source material (apparently that's in her contract, but she's not the showrunner), so this is going to really divide the community. 

So kind of like GRRM in House of the Dragon. I mean Rowling is author not a director, I can’t find any qualms in that set up. 
 

I do think they a pretty big twist on the original material to make it interesting for the average fan. 

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Just a total wild ass guess on my part, and I say this as someone who hasn't seen more than 5 minutes of a Harry Potter movie, nor read a single page of any of the books. But the involvement of JK Rowling will turn this production into the biggest shit storm to hit Hollywood since that time Harvey Weinstein got out of prison and landed a production deal. Oh wait that didn't happen. Well too bad for HBO that it didn't because it would have surely surpassed the ferocity of the shit storm they're about to stir up with the involvement of Rowling. They're probably going to have problems filling production and acting spots. And I think they'll also find a large portion of their old audience is no longer interested in any output from Rowling.

Anyway feel free to ignore my rant. I'm probably just pissed that HBO is picking up a Rowling series while passing on a David Chase (Sopranos) series, which they had a right of first refusal on, but which is now going to Fx.

 

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2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So kind of like GRRM in House of the Dragon. I mean Rowling is author not a director, I can’t find any qualms in that set up. 
 

I do think they a pretty big twist on the original material to make it interesting for the average fan. 

About the only good thing for HP vs GOT is all the damn material for a 7 or 8 season show is done and written. 

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Was third Fantastic Beasts any good? It seems like a pretty solid cast. I liked the first one. Skipped the second because Depp is a joke. 

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6 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Was third Fantastic Beasts any good? It seems like a pretty solid cast. I liked the first one. Skipped the second because Depp is a joke. 

Better than the second

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I would definitely watch some new HP stuff on HBOMax but I’m not excited about a pure reboot of the books. I thought the movies were well done and there is so much other backstory in that world which could be covered.

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8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, would be pretty interesting to say spend a year or two covering the time up to Harry's birth (since many of the profs were involved), and then they could skip forward to him getting the letter.

J.K. Rowling is apparently involved to make sure things hew to her source material (apparently that's in her contract, but she's not the showrunner), so this is going to really divide the community. 

She's probably there to make sure they include at least one steamy sex scene between Dumbledore and Grindelwald.