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Years ago I was all about movies, then shows like Vikings, and Black Sails changed my perspective. I would much rather watch a TV series than a movie any day of the week.
A good, tightly written film is still a joy to me. They're rarely tightly written anymore. Out of all new releases I looked at recently, only 3 were under two hours, and only one was at the nearly-perfect-90-minutes.
Not every filmed media needs to be an adaptation of a 15 book set. A movie is more like a short story whereas modern TV series are more like novels.
My personal problem with the ‘near-perfect 90 minutes’ is that the cost to experience them in cinemas (including snacks, drinks, popcorn etc.) is just too damn high for that short of a time.
But it gets easier to justify (amortise?) that cost for a ~2.5hr movie - even if the pacing makes it feel like a slog in comparison.
You don't need to eat or drink during a film. I don't know why this myth comes up every single time someone is complaining about cinema prices, it's so incredibly stupid.
Because it makes the experience more enjoyable for people?
Popcorn has literally been a part of the movie-going experience since the invention of the “talkie” nearly a century ago.
The only thing incredibly stupid here is your inability to grasp a relatively simple concept.
How does it make the experience more enjoyable for me to have some fat fuck behind me munching and slurping throughout the entire film? I don't understand why you guys can't go literally 2 hours without CONSOOOOM. Even when (by your own admission) you can't afford it, you still feel the urge to waste your money on the overpriced, optional stuff that is only there to milk suckers like you. And then to top it off you get online and type up these little rants about how everything is "so expensive these days". Are you people real?
you should try Game of thrones!!
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You'll go back to movies.
When it started all my friends were watching it and I did not have hbo. Then I moved and we had no internet for a while, then when we did it was 5gb/month. By the time we had good internet again it was in its death throes and my wife and I decided to not bother.
Black Sails started good but somewhere they lost me
This is kind of silly. He has done TV for decades. It is where all the DTV trash he makes is shown…
Not really according to his Wikipedia page
I wonder if the juxtaposition between the pilot he was in not being picked up and the relative success of Fast Times at Ridgemont High tainted his view any.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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