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Cognac McCarthy posted:Hopefully this makes it into the OP of next year's thread: American Sharia. A bad comedy (is there anything more unwatchable?) featuring a Muslim guy doing his best Chris Tucker impression. It looks like it was shot and takes place in a strip-mall. And it's really close to just being the "Black & Tan" movie from Clone High.
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Alan Smithee posted:Dearborn has hella Muslims and Detroit is cheap because the American dream died there and now they are paying filmmakers to be their friends Also we're giving out a ton of tax breaks because omg Hollywood please come and spend all your money here we really need it.  (But then we also used it all up on Batman vs Superman and so there wasn't any money left when Vince Gilligan wanted to film his new show Battle Creek in uh...Battle Creek.) Lost River was also shot in Detroit, which you probably already guessed from watching the trailer.
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LesterGroans posted:It looks like it was shot and takes place in a strip-mall.
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Sleeveless posted:To be fair this has as much to do with the failure of the Nielsen ratings system as anything else. No, it doesn't. Outside of rare calculation fuckups, the Neilsen ratings are very good at what they get paid to do, which is calculate the number of eyeballs watching a television program (on a television) as it airs.
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Sleeveless posted:To be fair this has as much to do with the failure of the Nielsen ratings system as anything else. Never underestimate the amount of people that will religiously watch absolute poo poo television.
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I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. Like, I also have no real identity beyond my own day-to-day actions as a result of living in a government city of a million people, but I just embrace the entropic suffering of this existance and consume for emotional sustenance my own apathy and rage in a hideous cycle while obsessing over the women I work with and imagining the hate-filled sex we
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. what the hell's going on in this post
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. Where did this come from? If you don't believe those from rural areas are morally superior, why does it bother you so much that city folk try to emulate them?
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. Calm down, y'all
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. When I read this out loud to myself how much passion am I suppose to use?
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Pretend the voice you hear reading the post is The God Warrior.
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I'm from a big city in a really cowboy state, am I allowed to say yall
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I am very confused right now y'all
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This city is afraid of me. I have seen its face, y'all.
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CelticPredator posted:Pretend the voice you hear reading the post is The
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This city was and always will be a cattle town. The modern cattle drive is done by the bus drivers instead of cowboys now, and the cows are office workers slaving in their cubicles waiting to be slaughter. Its just a little bit harder to tell the good guys from the bad now, because there ain't no white cowboy hats or black cowboy hats. No, because ya see all these fedoras only come in black. Yee har
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. I understood this clearly and can only assume the rest who are confused aren't nearly as observant as they think they are
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I know people who were born and raised in large cities who, nonetheless, proclaim themselves "country" and wear riding boots, Stetsons, ranching shirts, and camo. It's complete bullshit. There's no moral superiority to living rural, suburban, or just regular urban. We're all poo poo. Lol as if you could fit a bumper sticker on that lil smart car, city slicker.
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JohnSherman posted:No, it doesn't. Outside of rare calculation fuckups, the Neilsen ratings are very good at what they get paid to do, which is calculate the number of eyeballs watching a television program (on a television) as it airs. Nielsen isn't a measurement of who watches TV, it's a measurement of who watches broadcast TV live and is willing to fill out an exhaustively detailed pen-and-paper TV journal for every program they watch. Nielsen themselves have admitted that it's inaccurate, which is why they're starting to include DVRs and Twitter info in their ratings and even then advertisers and networks are starting to ignore them in favor of other metrics.
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Sleeveless posted:Nielsen isn't a measurement of who watches TV, it's a measurement of who watches broadcast TV live and is willing to fill out an exhaustively detailed pen-and-paper TV journal for every program they watch. Nielsen themselves have admitted that it's inaccurate, which is why they're starting to include DVRs and Twitter info in their ratings and even then advertisers and networks are starting to ignore them in favor of other metrics. No, the journals are never used for actual ratings collections. Nielsen uses boxes hooked up to the tv for that. Here's the thing, advertisers, you know, the people for whom ratings matter. don't give a poo poo about the Twitter following of a show. All they care about is how many eyeballs are watching their ad during the original broadcast of a show. For that, the Nielsens metric works great. I always love the people who think a decades old organization on which tens of billions of dollars is staked is incompetent because someone can watch tv on their laptop.
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Just saw a preview for an interesting looking movie about an ai woman robot and a man that lives with her. Looks like a neat thriller, but previews can be deceptive. Forgot the title though, but it was before I saw Fury, if that helps. (It was good too)
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effectual posted:Just saw a preview for an interesting looking movie about an ai woman robot and a man that lives with her. Looks like a neat thriller, but previews can be deceptive. Forgot the title though, but it was before I saw Fury, if that helps. (It was good too) Ex Machina.
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JohnSherman posted:No, the journals are never used for actual ratings collections. Nielsen uses boxes hooked up to the tv for that. They tend to track Twitter activity, mentions of the show, etc. during the original broadcast, not how many people are following the official show twitter or the actors or whatever. Im sure for certain demographics thats at least as good a metric as anything else and I'm sure its not the only method theyre using either. Presumably if youre tweeting show when it airs on network TV you're not pirating it the day after/streaming it on Hulu, and therefore your eyeballs are also on their ads.
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JohnSherman posted:I always love the people who think a decades old organization on which tens of billions of dollars is staked is incompetent You could say the same thing about the MPAA and literally every major movie studio in existence but it doesn't stop this thread from existing.
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JohnSherman posted:I always love the people who think a decades old organization on which tens of billions of dollars is staked is incompetent because someone can watch tv on their laptop. I don't see what's the issue considering that are centuries old organizations on which trillions of dollars are staked and are also incompetent.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Ex Machina. It's from Alex Garland who wrote 28 Days Later and Dredd so I have high hopes.
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Corek posted:It's from Alex Garland who wrote 28 Days Later and Dredd so I have high hopes. Why'd you leave out Sunshine?
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Travis343 posted:They tend to track Twitter activity, mentions of the show, etc. during the original broadcast, not how many people are following the official show twitter or the actors or whatever. Im sure for certain demographics thats at least as good a metric as anything else and I'm sure its not the only method theyre using either. Presumably if youre tweeting show when it airs on network TV you're not pirating it the day after/streaming it on Hulu, and therefore your eyeballs are also on their ads. Yeah, they've been doing that for the past two years or so, especially since people on Twitter are usually young people with lots of spending money, aka who advertisers want to reach. The problem is not everything that is huge on social media is as huge in real life, and there isn't a real way to turn social media mentions into money, despite the awkward attempts from companies the past two years. Media companies want to factor the amount of mentions into the cost of commercials, but then again are people even paying attention to commercials (much less the show) if they're blabbing on Twitter every three seconds? Also stars with large followings can use that as an asset and factor in tweets as promotional material (hence that Sony email leak where they were upset that Kevin Hart wanted money to tweet about a film)
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Why'd you leave out Sunshine? Never seen it, and never heard about it anywhere.
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Corek posted:Never seen it, and never heard about it anywhere. I've heard it's very good, except for the end. And as such haven't bothered to watch it.
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If you go into Sunshine expecting it to fall apart and become a different movie in the latter half, it's a pretty good movie.
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Groovelord Neato posted:I don't see what's the issue considering that are centuries old organizations on which trillions of dollars are staked and are also incompetent. You can certainly claim they are, but in none of these discussions has anyone managed to come up with a more biting criticism of the Nielsens than "I watch all my shows on my laptop, which means ratings are outdated." Baronash fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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JohnSherman posted:You can certainly claim they are, but in none of these discussions has anyone managed to come up with a more biting criticism of the Nielsens than "I watch all my shows on my laptop, which means ratings are outdated." The only people who are Nielsen families are those willing to put the boxes in their homes, and that skews the data because it's no longer a true random sampling.
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As someone who called it chav James Bond I shamefully kinda want to watch Kingsmen even though it's clearly going to be bad. It's still chav James Bond and remind me of Stormbreaker which I saw on an airplane and made me wonder if Brits had gone from complaining how much better their stuff is than America's to actually trying to emulate its trashaxleblaze posted:If you go into Sunshine expecting it to fall apart and become a different movie in the latter half, it's a pretty good movie. Sunshine is overrated as gently caress. Yeah I said it
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