JustinBRLA

Bingewatching is about efficiency. If you add up all the "Previously on...." you get to skip, that's a not-insignificant amount of life you gain back.

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It's a musical. I don't think this movie is going to do very well. Presales for opening weekend are currently weak. Making it a musical was a bold choice

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I think it will do a lot better than the Venice reviews would indicate. The Gaga factor alone will keep it from being anywhere close to a flop. Then the nostalgia of wanting to revisit the Phoenix performance. And I think it will get a boost from people who kinda wanna witness a potential train wreck.

Regardless, from the second it was announced to randomly be a "musical" the review aggregates were pretty much guaranteed to land anywhere from 4-6, where people are either going to love it or loathe it. And most made their decision about it a long time ago.

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Eh the only reason this is getting a thread here or even talked about on any website is because of that. It's like a Bat-signal for lazy show.

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It's getting a thread here because we celebrate the cancellation of shows or under-performance of films that dare to acknowledge that black and/or gay people exist.

Something that noone seemed to care about until around 8 years ago. Prior to that, you just found other things to watch if you weren't interested. But then 2016 hits, when someone decided the best way to win was to get people pissed off... and the best way to get people pissed off is to create an enemy for them to be pissed off at... And since the target market is ~10-15 IQ points lower than average, we need low-IQ reasons for them to buy into being pissed off...i.e. race, sexuality, etc... easy differences to exploit.

The irony is that all these newly pissed off people love to call everyone else "sheep" when they themselves were literally puppeteered into hatred as part of a successful marketing plan :lol:

It's delicious when you think about it. When in all actuality, this was just Amazon's attempt to have a Bridgerton of their own and it was a poorly ran, boring show that didn't have a prayer of capturing the Bridgerton love Amazon was looking for.

But no that can't be the reason... we celebrate because we know the real reason it didn't succeed... them pesky black and gay folk.

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In your opinion, if there is a certain artist who is a great performer but does not write any of the material they perform, do you think less of them?

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I think to say you don't respect a singer who doesn't write is kind of insane. It's just a different kind of respect.

Do I respect Celine Dion as a songwriter? Well, no. Because she's not one. She's always been straightforward in saying she can't write a song for shite. Do I respect her as a vocalist? Absolutely. Is her use of and mastery of her voice to interpret what other people write a form of art? Sure, why not.

In general I respect someone like her a lot more than say a Beyonce who is a "songwriter" by virtue of "if I'm using your song, you'll be giving me a writing credit for the privilege of me singing it."

On the replay the TeeTee to Gabby pass looked smooth as frick, but watching it live stressed me out. TeeTee flew that 2nd leg

Just some random OC trivia:

Beijing 2008: Sarah Brightman performs the Olympic Theme Song.
Tokyo 2020: John Legend, Keith Urban, Angelique Kidjo and Alejandro Sanz perform Imagine.
Athens 2004: Bjork performs an original song Oceania.

And finally, the delicious irony that will really upset all the pearl-clutchers from the live thread complaining that Lady Gaga isn't French...

Atlanta 1996: Celine Dion performs The Power of the Dream.

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That Lady Gaga bit was painful.

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Honestly the Gaga number has been the only interesting thing so far in this. Maybe its nostalgia for me but I don't get the whole float the river thing as opposed to doing this in a proper stadium.

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How do you average a double double? You get it. Or you don’t.

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So to answer your question, averaging a double double should mean you get it more times than you don't.

But mathematically, just means you're averaging 10+ whatever 2 stats

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Angel Reese is extremely physical and athletic, if she wasn't she wouldn't be able to rebound the way she does.



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Uh oh, case closed. We found 1 example to extrapolate an overall assessment of Angel Reese's athleticism. Reminds me of the "Noone I know has died from it so they're lying" brain trust.