Lovely family entertainment. Just what Apple's young audience needs to see, although the they don't know it yet.
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Apple Hunting for Next 'Breaking Bad', Interested in Violent Drama Starring Richard Gere
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I'm confused. Apple bans InfoWars for "hate speech" (i.e. harmless Alex Jones tantrum rants), but bidding on a TV show that portrays killing young people is perfectly fine?
Hope Apple gets it. Their stance on guns and violence should ensure this project is never released. And besides, if Apple's name is on it, there's a chance no one watches it. Aint nobody got time for that ****.
I take it you never saw Internal Affaires?I don’t know about anyone else, but when I think of “Violent Drama actors”, I think Richard Gere...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099850/
I hate violence but I quite enjoy it in the movie (when I know it is all acting) I have watched the entire series of Breaking Bad twice. It is called entertainment.
Something tells me this Apple TV/Movie production is going to flop just as bad as the Ping Social Network
please dont give that great show to apple.
it will become a sweet washed nothing
this thing must go to hbo, for full violence - this needs full violence
Yes there is nothing that liberals of Tim's ilk like better than violent, gun-toting drama. Hilarious.
Fiction. Just a hint. And no, liberals are NOT hypocrites for enjoying or creating fictional art that contains violence while condemning violence IRL. Not really a difficult concept to grasp. Well, maybe it is, for some, but we can't really take every mental deficiency into consideration, can we?
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Nobody every really had an issue with fictional violence in dramas, TV shows, movies. So it's somewhat funny to see the right wing clowns being triggered by this.
Sigourney Weaver wielding a gun does not equal some gun nut pig in Las Vegas mowing down the country music herd. Even you should be able to understand that?
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Did Apple speak out against "violence" in fiction? Just to make sure that I understand your "equation"? A simple yes or no would suffice. Thanks!
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Hey, I've got an idea! How about a TV drama series revolving around an online forum veteran who goes on a killing spree targeting young online forum posters, "because today's kids don't understand how to read fake news critically"?
Let Netflix go out into the weeds on development. Apple should become the Netflix we once knew that had all the movies.
Or maybe Cook was referring to real violence as opposed to dramatized, fictional violence because you know...context.
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maybe not...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18072070/breaking-bad-spinoff-film-vince-gilligan-greenbriar
Getting in on that SJW Military hatred psyop Apple, nice!
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Internal Affairs. Watch it this weekend. You'll be thumbing thru the internet seeing if he got an Oscar for this movie.
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Internal Affairs. Watch it this weekend. You'll be thumbing thru the internet seeing if he got an Oscar for this movie.
Sorry, but the premise for this is not just stupid but dangerous. Yes, young people today have no effing clue how good they have it and probably wouldn't step up to protect their way of life if needs be. Yes, they need to be taught a lesson. No, this isn't the way to do it. All this show is going to do is drive an even bigger wedge between the generations. C'mon, Apple, you're better than this.
I don't understand this line of thinking. It's not a 'channel' that only has one program available at a time and you're stuck viewing whatever the programmer wants you to see--it's a large cache of programming of all types that allows the user to view whatever they want. It's not like you'll be required to watch anything you don't want to watch. That is, the inclusion of adult entertainment doesn't preclude the inclusion of family friendly content.
That said, the world actually gets less 'funked up' every day and despite the prevalence of violent entertainment, humans (especially Americans) are safer than they've ever been in the history of the world. The rate of violent crime in the US is about half what it was in the early '90s; I'll never understand why so many people insist that everything is so horrible when it's clearly not.
I don't see Apple's streaming service being very competitive with the others if they only offer a small subset of the types of programming that all of the others have.
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Why not?
Yes. See above--the increasing prevalence of violent entertainment actually correlates with a very noticeable drop in real-life violence.
Sounds like the same kind of argument that calls for more guns to reduce gun violence. Even accepting this is true, I would think a society would benefit even more from shows that display compassion, understanding, humor and generosity and a population that seeks such entertainment.