TV: One Person's Trash...

[Handyman]

The speculation is that is how they will market it... HBO alone will be $14.99. For $3-5 more you get HBO along with Friends and other TV, their whole movie catalog, possibly DC Comics stuff, etc... All the value is in that $3 upcharge....

Yeah it is weird. I know you get all of the past HBO content (like GOT) but nothing I saw says anything about current HBO. I would assume the DC streaming service gets rolled in cause all the DC shows and movies will be there.

My guess is this will do well. WB has tons of properties to show. Unless they go stupid with the price I gotta think people will sign up. We saw how important Friends leaving Netflix was when the rumors hit 6 months ago.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Yeah it is weird. I know you get all of the past HBO content (like GOT) but nothing I saw says anything about current HBO. I would assume the DC streaming service gets rolled in cause all the DC shows and movies will be there.

My guess is this will do well. WB has tons of properties to show. Unless they go stupid with the price I gotta think people will sign up. We saw how important Friends leaving Netflix was when the rumors hit 6 months ago.

WB has Harry Potter right? It’s not Star Wars but it is something.

 

[RaceBoarder]

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WB has Harry Potter right? It’s not Star Wars but it is something.

The major franchises WB has under their banner would be Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla (current one), and DCEU. I'm sure there is a ton of older movies (>5-8 years ago) that will be included. That'll be individual movies instead of franchises, but there should be plenty to keep us occupied.

 

[ticapnews]

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The major franchises WB has under their banner would be Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla (current one), and DCEU. I'm sure there is a ton of older movies (>5-8 years ago) that will be included. That'll be individual movies instead of franchises, but there should be plenty to keep us occupied.

The problem is that going forward Warner doesn't have much else. If it wants to reboot things it can tap into the Rocky, Dirty Harry, Matrix, Police Academy, Mad Max, Sherlock Holmes, Lethal Weapon and Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes franchises, but the only current franchises are the fading Lego, Potterverse and Godzilla franchises. The Conjuring universe is still going strongish for a horror franchise. Where is Warner/AT&T going with the Ocean's movies? Scooby Doo? The Stephen King adaptations of It and Doctor Sleep are Warner, but he also has series in development with Amazon and AMC, and has done work with Hulu, so WB can hardly count on him to provide exclusive content.

 

[RaceBoarder]

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The problem is that going forward Warner doesn't have much else. If it wants to reboot things it can tap into the Rocky, Dirty Harry, Matrix, Police Academy, Mad Max, Sherlock Holmes, Lethal Weapon and Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes franchises, but the only current franchises are the fading Lego, Potterverse and Godzilla franchises. The Conjuring universe is still going strongish for a horror franchise. Where is Warner/AT&T going with the Ocean's movies? Scooby Doo? The Stephen King adaptations of It and Doctor Sleep are Warner, but he also has series in development with Amazon and AMC, and has done work with Hulu, so WB can hardly count on him to provide exclusive content.

On the animation side of things, it goes well beyond just Looney Toons... They have all of the Hanna Barbara content as well (Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, various Cartoon Network toons like Dexter's Lab and Space Ghost). That's quite a large selection of content, especially given how much value can be placed on nostalgia nowadays...

Edit to add: Hanna Barbara Wiki.. Not sure if all that translates to WB's ability to use for this venture, but it's a ton content.

 

[ticapnews]

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On the animation side of things, it goes well beyond just Looney Toons... They have all of the Hanna Barbara content as well (Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, various Cartoon Network toons like Dexter's Lab and Space Ghost). That's quite a large selection of content, especially given how much value can be placed on nostalgia nowadays...

Edit to add: Hanna Barbara Wiki.. Not sure if all that translates to WB's ability to use for this venture, but it's a ton content.

Let's do a live action Dexter's Lab!

 

[The Rube]

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The Anne Frank one is pretty good. The show is alright but I wouldnt go out of my way to watch it just a time killer.

Watched that one tonight. The highlight was obviously Gilbert Gottfried as Hitler. He will go down as an insta-HOFer in comedy, IMO, just because of his style/brand. Some of those lines....wow.

 

[Handyman]

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The problem is that going forward Warner doesn't have much else. If it wants to reboot things it can tap into the Rocky, Dirty Harry, Matrix, Police Academy, Mad Max, Sherlock Holmes, Lethal Weapon and Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes franchises, but the only current franchises are the fading Lego, Potterverse and Godzilla franchises. The Conjuring universe is still going strongish for a horror franchise. Where is Warner/AT&T going with the Ocean's movies? Scooby Doo? The Stephen King adaptations of It and Doctor Sleep are Warner, but he also has series in development with Amazon and AMC, and has done work with Hulu, so WB can hardly count on him to provide exclusive content.

These studios dont need franchises...they are good to have mind you but they arent needed. WB has been around for quite some time they arent going to run out of content any time soon. Plus they have enough Past TV Shows to keep things going for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

Plus it isnt like they are going to stop making Batman movies or any other successful character.

 

[Kepler]

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Watched that one tonight. The highlight was obviously Gilbert Gottfried as Hitler.

The role he was born to play. It took me years to understand and appreciate what GG is doing. He is f-cking incredible if for no other reason than dogged determination. He's Andy Kaufman if he had lived.

 

[mookie1995]

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The role he was born to play. It took me years to understand and appreciate what GG is doing. He is f-cking incredible if for no other reason than dogged determination. He's Andy Kaufman if he had lived.

he almost follows the "as long as they don't call you needle d!ck" mantra, except that would be just fine with him as well. there may be a time limit for some with sitting around on a couch and listening to him go on and on, but mookie would be there a while. funny guy (to mookie).

 

[SonofSouthie]

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Season 3 of Snowfall starts tonight.

 

[Kepler]

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there may be a time limit for some with sitting around on a couch and listening to him go on and on, but mookie would be there a while. funny guy (to mookie).

There's a time limit for everybody except Pryor. Even Carlin wears eventually.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Carlin gets a bit tiresome once you hit 30 and are no longer as easily entertained by hearing all the different ways in which "Fck" can be used/conjugated in the space of 5-10 minutes.

That's why "Baseball vs. Football" will always be his best bit.

 

[SJHovey]

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The role he was born to play. It took me years to understand and appreciate what GG is doing. He is f-cking incredible if for no other reason than dogged determination. He's Andy Kaufman if he had lived.

About 10-12 years ago I caught a GG live show. He came out and did about 55 minutes of nothing but "knock knock" jokes, and like pretty much every "knock knock" joke ever written, they were bad. He then walked off the stage, sat at a table and sold DVD's of his past performances.

To this day I have no idea what that was about.

 

[Handyman]

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Carlin gets a bit tiresome once you hit 30 and are no longer as easily entertained by hearing all the different ways in which "Fck" can be used/conjugated in the space of 5-10 minutes.

That's why "Baseball vs. Football" will always be his best bit.

You have never sounded so much like Kepler in all your life.

And that doesnt rank in the top 10 of his best bits though it is a good one. Carlin does sometimes fall back on the "F" word too much but his best bits are always about why humanity sucks and how we can destroy large segments of them. Or anything he says about Golf

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

You have never sounded so much like Kepler in all your life.

That accusation isn't THAT big of an insult anymore.

I like the one about the NRA and fruity "Wayne LaPierre", but I'll bet most of the Twitter Left would find it homophobic now.

And of course, there's always the one about airline announcements.

 

[Slap Shot]

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The American Experience: Chasing the Moon. I've only watched 2 episodes so far (3 are available, I don't know how many there will be) and it's been fantastic. If you have even the slightest interest in the space program I recommend it.

What I don't recommend is The Grand Hotel. I knew nothing about it but I saw that it starred Demián Bichir whom I really enjoyed in The Bridge, but I just freaking hate soap operas and will not make it onto E2.

 

[Kepler]

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You have never sounded so much like Kepler in all your life.

And that doesnt rank in the top 10 of his best bits though it is a good one. Carlin does sometimes fall back on the "F" word too much but his best bits are always about why humanity sucks and how we can destroy large segments of them. Or anything he says about Golf

I agree with you on Carlin here, though.

His best bits are about Catholic schools, "hey, fadda...," and of course about what we have been taught to view as "freedom."

 

[Kepler]

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About 10-12 years ago I caught a GG live show. He came out and did about 55 minutes of nothing but "knock knock" jokes, and like pretty much every "knock knock" joke ever written, they were bad. He then walked off the stage, sat at a table and sold DVD's of his past performances.

To this day I have no idea what that was about.

Here's all it was about. Did some people enjoy it?

I can explain GG to you. He's a "pure comedian." Everything is for the joke. He doesn't care about causes or himself or you. He especially doesn't care about you, where YOU is a Very Serious Person who thinks they reason and thinks the things they think Matter. He's not against that he just doesn't give it the slightest attention and this makes people who are used to the staged fellatio of entertainment irritated (he's dissing me) or bored (he's not talking about me).

It's just the joke. That's what links him with Andy Kaufman. They don't want you to like them or hate them or think about them at all and they especially don't want you to think about you. They're the exact opposite of Seinfeld, whose entire act is to appeal to your vanity and your self-absorption. They're the opposite of one of my alltime favorites, Bob Newhart, who is all about getting you to look at yourself and laugh. They don't give a single sh-t about anything but the joke. One reason Kaufman never got along with his co-actors is he played the joke all the time on them, and that's something you may never do, because they are Artists Doing Art. He didn't care. In the same way GG doesn't want to lead you anywhere, he doesn't want to explore you, he knows you're a zero because he's way ahead of you and he's a zero.

I love this about both of them. In a way they are the actual insult comics because guys like Dangerfield and Rickels (and early Woody, a very underrated insult comic) still invited you in and shared the joke. AK & GG just do the joke, without preamble. Either you get it and you buy in totally or you don't, and if you don't they have no time for you to catch up. That was Mozart with music. That's Vonnegut with humor. It's the mark of the genuine article middle finger. I can't do it myself but my God it's beautiful to see.

 

[French Rage]

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What I don't recommend is The Grand Hotel. I knew nothing about it but I saw that it starred Demián Bichir whom I really enjoyed in The Bridge, but I just freaking hate soap operas and will not make it onto E2.

All I know is the daughter character just graduated from Cornell and the other characters said she had to remind everyone how smart she was.

Now, why they would have her graduating from the business school and not the hotel school, I don't know.