Imagine wasting time watching this

Anyone remember how back in boomer times CNN couldn't do this because it was a 24-hour news channel? Zoomers, this is a concept you've never seen before, but there used to be TV channels that just constantly told you what the latest news is all day and all night. Oh wait, zoomies probably don't even know what a TV channel is.

All I know about these people is I saw Michael Ian Black on Reno 911 where he's playing a dying pervert who keeps saying the most vile offensive things possible, so he's capable of that. But I really doubt CNN has the guts to let this show be edgy enough to work. That and as I alluded to above, young people don't watch cable tv. That's a critical demographic for this kind of show.

So I'm just waiting to see how bad this bombs.

Driven by interest into the venerable franchise, The Acolyte got off to a strong start when it launched June 4 with two episodes, generating 4.8M views in its first day on the streamer to rank as the biggest series premiere on Disney+ this year. The tally rose to 11.1 million views globally after five days of streaming. Corroborating Disney's data, the series made its debut on Nielsen's Top 10 originals chart in its premiere week at #7 (488 million minutes viewed), climbing to #6 the following week

But The Acolyte could not sustain the momentum, dropping out of the Top 10 in Week 3 and staying off before returning after the release of the finale at #10 (335M minutes, believed to be the lowest for a Star Wars series finale).

https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1ewg6fe/the_acolyte_canceled_no_season_2_for_disneys_star/

https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1ewg6fe/comment/liygle8/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/1ewg6jc/the_acolyte_canceled_no_season_2_for_disneys_star/

Can't believe Deadline aren't naming the Disney employee leaking info to them in the article

https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/1ewg6jc/comment/liye82y/?context=8

!kino

!kino !ifrickinglovescience !sophistry I found the perfect show for us smorts

https://yts.mx/movies/jackpot-2024

A Smiling Friends director/board artist reveals the real reason animation is so expensive, and kids accuse him of not having class solidarity or something. https://t.co/2Z9dioknsG

— Michael Falk (@farmerlychucks) August 18, 2024

It's not funny or not trying to be intentionally funny I guess, just a breakdown of the apollo 8 mission. I found it really good. His accent may be a barrier but

Santa Claus is real, non-believers

also spotify link https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oLAY760T4TlxzycU7nZwL

!kino discuss

@Aevann please pin

It's not that it is underrated, it's the capeshit that is overrated

Do not care, it needs a recount.

I'm glad Josh Hartnett is still getting work because he was the best thing about this shitshow.

Well Shamaladingdong's daughter can actually sing so thats a plus, and she's a solid 8/10 in the looks department. But she cant act worth a frick.

Also why didnt Josh Hartnett just frick Kid Cudi? Kid Cudi clearly wanted wyiboy peepee? Getting bleached would be a heck of a twist.

It certainly make this movie less boring.

Why did the Cops just let Josh Hartnett kill their buddy without shooting him? Bro was actively murdering their fellow officer and they just use tasers?

Also why let him walk up to a bicycle clearly taking off a spoke? Why let him say goodbye to his daughter? Frick, Pablo Escobar got less leniency than this.

Also why the Frick is the FBI letting a popstar in on their plan? Let alone the fricking snack guy?

!chuds

Favorite part:

The skull with a gun. The black squad leader is wearing an African beret. Which is considered outdated even by African standards.

This is like the 40k version of Wakandans fighting with spears.

Lisa getting to suffer for an entire episode is so cathartic pic.twitter.com/KYmHaSZFxA

— 🩷🩵🩷JemStarGold🩷🩵🩷 (@JemStarGold) August 12, 2024

https://x.com/marinscho/status/1823374111898493437

https://x.com/JemStarGold/status/1823444044069937643

https://x.com/Fenrirtheicewo1/status/1823813907515105558

They hate to see a queen living her best life:

https://x.com/Nodicepervert/status/1823861830294671864

This is just current year gender discourse:

https://x.com/MimJorrisonDos/status/1823731462744756604

Um yikes delete this:

https://x.com/Midnight_Sonoda/status/1823486653530562691

https://x.com/rougarou1776/status/1823503576246698432

This b-word really hates Lisa lol:

https://x.com/DevilsCatacombs/status/1823085236168917027

Tldr:

https://x.com/allison4095/status/1823065909533266338

!kino

!chuds

Look at all these examples. Why can't we have this level of kino in full feature length cinema format.

It's like hollywood or normiewood has stagnated in terms of quality and environment and there are fan films out there with far better depth, detail, and environment than actual blockbuster movies out there.

Answering to the lowest common denominator has been a real let down for cinema.

The fact that alien 1 is still counted as one of the best horror movies out there shows exactly how stagnant western cinema is in terms of quality. It's like all the movie grads learnt nothing after "don't have too many jumpscares" as one of the pieces of advice from the last generation.

The quality of cinema today could probably be doubled or tripled with ease if only there was a team who cared enough, had the funds, and also the required levels of artistic freedom to make their vision come true.

Nicholas cage appears to be the only novelty innovator in hollywood anymore and that is just sad.

There were some hopes for the A24 studio but they went down the route of le heckin wrong think accusation plus high tier atmosphere for an indie movie.

28 weeks later released in 2007, and we haven't had zombie kino half as good in 1.5 decades and counting now.

We are stuck with marvel slop now. Half of which has been trash lately. The current marvel phase is likely to be the weakest one of all time.

Cinema is dead, and the normies killed it.

Just to be clear, I am not arguing that some great high budget movies haven't released in recent times. I am arguing that the average quality of cinema today is shit, with entire genres of cinema being shit, like horror.

It's like the entire industry is stuck in some shitty loop of telling all their stories in the same order, the same style, the same scope, and the same angle, with only the script changing at best, if not being an outright copy of some earlier material.

You have any idea how shit cinema has to be for Avatar 3 to be the most exciting thing coming out of it next year?

Decent CGI has existed since 2007 or 2008. It's been 1.5 decades since then. Good CGI should be in the hands of the average indie developer by now, but instead we are stuck with shitty CGI making its way up to the highest budget movies out there ( looking at you black widow movie ).

Cinema is so shit right now that bringing back animatronic looking monsters is considered revolutionary right now.

This looks so fricking stupid for a monster design. Like some trash from 2013. How the frick are people celebrating this as innovative in current year is beyond me.

Video games have probably evolved at a 10x to a 100x rate compared to movies and cinema. No wonder vidya beats the income of movies today.

Conclusion:

Current day horror scene sucks. Current day science fiction scene is doing average. Current day cinema on average sucks with only the biggest budget movies somehow pulling their weight.