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I've never rooted for Comcast in my life, but even I know that they were best of a very bad bunch who had any chance at winning this bidding process.
There was NO good outcome from this sale, but Netflix is the worst possibility.
Say what you will about the Ellisons, they aren't actively trying to destroy cinema (just pervert it), nor are they running the biggest slop machine in existence, but Netflix is, on both accounts.
This isn't saying I think it would have been good if Paramount won, just less bad than Netflix, as at least HBO would have probably survived.
I'll take poor production quality and early show cancelations over right wing billionaire propaganda any day of the week. I don't understand why you would downplay the significance of the Ellisons taking over WB and TikTok simultaneously. It's clear what the intentions are.
My thoughts exactly. If I had to choose between these two evils, I would consider Netflix to be the lesser one.
And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't care about cinemas and Hollywood at all. I go to cinema like once per 3 or 4 years, and I watch like 5 movies per week at home.
Pre-COVID I went several times a week. COVID broke theater etiquette and now I dont go because I dont want to have toget an usher again because someobe feels the need to play on their phone during the movie.