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The movie offerings have been very limited on all streaming platforms due to COVID-19. It's holding up production on projects that have completed filming. Imagine in a year when we start realizing the effects of the studios not being able to film at all... watch for lots of "back again" listings.

Apple TV+ has thus far proven to be sub-par, once I completed the mandalorian. But, with a free year I guess it doesn't matter. Netflix is still kicking butt with regular movie releases and pretty decent original TV content.
 
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The movie offerings have been very limited on all streaming platforms due to COVID-19. It's holding up production on projects that have completed filming. Imagine in a year when we start realizing the effects of the studios not being able to film at all... watch for lots of "back again" listings.

Apple TV+ has thus far proven to be sub-par, once I completed the mandalorian. But, with a free year I guess it doesn't matter. Netflix is still kicking butt with regular movie releases and pretty decent original TV content.

Netflix is able to draw in top notch directors like Scorsese and Spike Lee so hard to tip that company over. Apple TV+ is alright but not as compelling.
 
Ha ha that's gold. I now take a bag with my own drinks and icecreams when I go to the cinema, cuts down the cost quite dramatically. I do concede to buy my son the cinema popcorn though.

I've recently taken to raiding the supermarket and stuffing our backpacks with the best highest quality organic chips and snacks - tastes a lot better than anything they sell at the cinema, and costs about half. Not to mention it's much healthier.

Kids always get the choice for movie popcorn or high end potato chips, they always go for the chips.. ;)

As for the movie - how many WW2 movies with Tom Hanks does the world need? Seems like nobody has any new ideas ... every year there's a King Kong, a war movie with Tom Hanks, one of the MI- JB- franchises, always and endlessly the same thing in slightly different packages...

About as excited for this as I am for the new 2020 upgraded Toyota Camry now with slightly different-shaped front lamps and tail lamps.... 🤣
 
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The movie offerings have been very limited on all streaming platforms due to COVID-19. It's holding up production on projects that have completed filming. Imagine in a year when we start realizing the effects of the studios not being able to film at all... watch for lots of "back again" listings.

Apple TV+ has thus far proven to be sub-par, once I completed the mandalorian. But, with a free year I guess it doesn't matter. Netflix is still kicking butt with regular movie releases and pretty decent original TV content.

The Mandoralian was on Disney+, not Apple TV+.
 
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There is something about Tom Hanks that is just such a joke. Whatever the merits of the movie Tom will undermine them with his absurd acting.
 
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Surely then you remember all the 62 year-old Lieutenant Commanders we served with!
Actually, from what I can gather, the movie based on C S Forester's 1955 novel "The Good Shepherd," (a work which I have read).

I have read it, and while not the easiest read it provides a clear picture of what these brave officers and sailors did in these dangerous crossings. I am eagerly awaiting the film.
 
As for the movie - how many WW2 movies with Tom Hanks does the world need? Seems like nobody has any new ideas ... every year there's a King Kong, a war movie with Tom Hanks, one of the MI- JB- franchises, always and endlessly the same thing in slightly different packages...
There are certainly more than enough stories of all kinds about WWII (or really any war), so it's hardly anything like some sort of a franchise.
 
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I've recently taken to raiding the supermarket and stuffing our backpacks with the best highest quality organic chips and snacks - tastes a lot better than anything they sell at the cinema, and costs about half. Not to mention it's much healthier.

Kids always get the choice for movie popcorn or high end potato chips, they always go for the chips.. ;)

As for the movie - how many WW2 movies with Tom Hanks does the world need? Seems like nobody has any new ideas ... every year there's a King Kong, a war movie with Tom Hanks, one of the MI- JB- franchises, always and endlessly the same thing in slightly different packages...

About as excited for this as I am for the new 2020 upgraded Toyota Camry now with slightly different-shaped front lamps and tail lamps.... 🤣
Ha ha, nice analogy.

The catalyst for me bringing my own food and drinks to the cinema was because I always bought one of their chocolate coated vanilla ice creams in a cone, but the last time I bought one, they'd gone all cheap, and instead of a full spherical scoop of ice cream, they'd cut it in half so the bottom half was missing, and the ice cream was sitting perilously on the rim of the cone. So not only was this already massively overpriced ice cream now half the size, but it broke off the cone and fell onto my white t-shirt, ruining it with chocolate stains. So their cheapness in saving themselves $0.10 in production costs for an ice cream that they charge $8 for, has cost them many times over in lost sales.

I'm going to try your chips idea, thanks for that, but I'm not sure it will work, as my son loves the cinema popcorn.
 
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