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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-29 (Wednesday)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:33:03 -0400
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On Thu, 30 May 2024 20:40:09 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 17:44:57 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 10:40:00 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
>>>> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5/30/2024 6:07 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 05:02:00 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I watched:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You didn’t ask, which is OK because I didn’t watch anything.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Only thing I watched was TOP CHEF where Lara returned from the Last
>>>>>> Chance Kitchen and kicked butt. As usual some of the chefs had trouble
>>>>>> when they were asked to do something outside of their normal comfort
>>>>>> zone without restrictions. Some chefs shine when given freedom to do
>>>>>> what they will while others really like to have limitations placed on
>>>>>> what they can do. Seems to be something that has been true since the
>>>>>> very first season.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Over the past couple of days I watched:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ghosts - "Isaac's Wedding" - Season 3 finale Isaac plans to get married 
>>>>> but has second thoughts.  Meanwhile a vengeance ghost from the past 
>>>>> makes a reappearance.
>>>> 
>>>> If you are in the mood for a drama involving ghosts may I recommend
>>>> GHOST WARS. Just finished re watching this and it really shines on
>>>> this ultra wide monitor as it was shot in wide aspect like a film.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Inside Out (4K disc) 2015 Pixar movie that mostly takes place in a young 
>>>>> girls head following her emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and 
>>>>> Disgust).  Joy (Amy Poehler) pretty much runs things and bullies the 
>>>>> other emotions into doing things her way.  She especially bullies 
>>>>> Sadness (Phyllis Smith), to the point of at one point drawing a circle 
>>>>> on the floor and telling Sadness to not leave the circle.  When the 
>>>>> girl's family moves to a new city the tension between Joy who insists on 
>>>>> forcing a positive spin on everything and Sadness reach a breaking point 
>>>>> with the two emotions accidentally being expelled from the girl's head 
>>>>> leaving Fear, Anger, and Disgust in charge while Joy and Sadness have to 
>>>>> make their way back to headquarters.  The movie holds up very well.
>>>> 
>>>> Pixar doing Pixar type things usually does well. Haven't seen this yet
>>>> but it's on my list. Sad to think that we may never see the good films
>>>> from them again if Iger has his way as Pixar is one of the places
>>>> where he plans to cut a large number of the staff. They can still make
>>>> some good stuff like the PIXAR POPCORN but the big films will be too
>>>> much to tackle.
>>> 
>>> The purge has been done. My friend there survived, but he says they lost a
>>> lot of truly amazing people.
>> 
>> That was round one. There is supposed to be another round of thousands
>> of people released in September. (That is across the various Disney
>> companies.) There is a fight going over the number among the board and
>> Iger but it does look like they will be releasing more people in the
>> fall.
>
>Ugh

Ugh, indeed.

>> 
>>> Somebody has to pay for the hundreds of millions of dollars that stinky
>>> cheese Larson has cost them.
>> 
>> I wonder if anyone will pay for that mistake. LOL, as if that ever
>> happens.
>
>Not sure anybody will pay except for the audience and the stockholders.

Sadly all too true. Even Charles Peltz has given up. He was the guy
fighting Iger in a proxy battle and trying to get on the board the
last couple of years. He and his company/group have sold all their
Disney stock so it seems like they've given up the fight so there
won't be anyone pushing Disney to change their ways in a big way.