I see no real benefits in this proposal and an increased attack surface for the supply chain.
I'd also disagree that Django's developmental pace is slow. Granted, I only came onboard with version 2, maybe older versions were slower. After years of dealing with JS churn, I appreciate Django's pace (actually, I think they could even slow down the major version increments).
Spot on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_R-rated_films
That list isn't adjusted for inflation, unfortunately, so the rankings aren't entirely fair. Two things stood out to me, though. The early 00's were a little sparse on R-rated hits (you have to go all the way down to #20 before they start to become more common). And 1991's Terminator 2, adjusted for inflation, surpassed Passion of the Christ by $100,000,000, despite only being #18 (after PotC's #10).
A short list further down the page shows only the timeline of highest grossing R-rated movies at their time of release. PotC is obviously absent from that list.
That's a surprising number. Especially so since I don't really recall any blatant product placements (well ok, I think there was one scene that stood out a little bit).
I'd say the number of brand partnerships is less a problem than how prominent those brands are displayed. I can't think of the exact movies off the top of my head, but the most egregious instances I can think of only had one or two brands. Apple and BMW, for example, have had some seriously obnoxious brand placements in movies.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but:
If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I'm not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case.
As a developer, this seems like a reasonable argument to me.
Also, I see from a comment you made recently that you seem to be involved with NixOS:
There’s always Nix but the dev behind HA has a personal vendetta against Nix people building his software (for some ridiculously stupid reason…he doesn’t understand the tech!). We packaged home assistant in nixpkgs anyway because we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Calling him a terrorist is rather melodramatic. And I think further enforces his point, that your actions are creating unnecessary problems for others, and you simply don't care.
Edit:
Did Frenck come off as a bit of an asshole? Yes. But in my opinion, so did all of the NixOS people. Kind of a bad situation all around.
I was thinking Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.
But there are, for whatever reason, so many possibilities for what it could've been (including the mostly live action Demonlover)
Deadpool & Wolverine is listed under "Marvel Movies," whereas Deadpool 1 & 2 are listed under "Other Movies." This is the best source I can find that D&W is part of the MCU.
If you want to view it that way, sure, I won't disagree.
But L&T having that problem also contributes to the problems of the MCU at large, where each movie has to be some "villain of the week" that's introduced at the start of the movie and disposed of at the end, with a chance of a tease that the villain may return or perhaps a hint of some larger threat; either of which may ultimately lead nowhere. Up to to Infinity War, they were pretty good about those hints of a large threat, obviously with Infinity War and Endgame paying that off. Since then... What have we actually got? They seem to have finally settled on a new major arc, until some real life drama may have derailed that (maybe Deadpool & Wolverine will advance that plot? idk)
At least in retrospect, I think L&T could have been a more interesting movie if it had completely eschewed the villain a-plot and focused either more or completely on the Jane b-plot. Christian Bale's villain could have made for a really good ~3 movie arc, though, either beginning or ending in L&T. But yeah, the Taika Waititi humor really didn't mesh well with either a- or b-plot.
I think Endgame itself was really the beginning of the current MCU problem. They were in too much of a rush to conclude the Thanos story. Where that movie started with a scripted five year gap, we should have had that five year gap for real. Let us feel the consequences of the Snap the way the characters did. Give us the Hawkeye/Ronin and Black Widow movies (amongst others) that show everyone dealing with the catastrophe. Let the consequences of their failure to stop Thanos really hit home. (And while I'm typing all this, please conclude that story without time travel, but that's an entirely separate rant, lol.)
Use those to start a new MCU. An MCEU or whatever lol.
I personally think the current iteration has too much baggage. Too many mediocre to downright terrible movies post-Endgame that would have to be slogged through to get the X-Men or whatever else. Too many dropped plotlines, and too much wasted potential.
They've already introduced the multiverse, so they can treat the X-Men as a soft reboot. If it goes well and they have a vision that requires it, they can merge it back into the current MCU to pick up whatever plot they were already building towards, except with hopefully better writers and revitalized creators.
That, plus their output should be limited to 1 or 2 movies per year, max, and no TV shows. Or if they do have TV shows, keep them completely separate, like the Netflix shows were.
If they do that, I'd considering giving them another chance. Otherwise, if it's more or less business as usual, Love and Thunder and GotG3 will have been the last MCU movies for me (mainly because of how bad L&T was).
My worry after reading that brief blurb is that Cillian would be in the first movie for ~10 minutes, basically just to pass the torch onto the new protagonist(s), who this trilogy would be centered around.
I'm tired of all these "pass the torch" movies, and I'm worried they're using the long rumored/joked about "28 Years Later" to start a trilogy, rather than close out a trilogy.
I'll wait and see how it turns out it. 28 Days Later is one of those rare movies where I actually disliked it the first time I saw it but ended up watching it again a few days later and loved it.
It's been a long time since I've seen 12 Monkeys. My impression has always been that the end was meant to be tragic. That they were so close to being able to figure it out (the one person having actually been there at the time), but ultimately they never did, and never prevented it because it always happened. The scientists in the future are so focused on the 12 Monkeys group that the person that actually released the virus sits comfortably in their blind spot.
I think the series is a product of its time. For all the good and bad that entails. I wasn't able to watch it at the time it aired, but I somehow got a copy of a catalog filled with show-related merch, and that lived in my imagination for a long time. When I finally watched it a couple years ago, it was... a fairly painful experience. I was only able to get through it by using it as background noise while I played games on a handheld console (Vita, 3DS) or worked. After the first season, it did kind of improve for the next couple seasons, but never enough that I'd consider it anything more than average TV (and even that would be generous for most of it). The last three seasons were bad enough that if I didn't already have the full series on hand, I simply would've dropped it altogether.
I do appreciate the way the show expanded the mythos, though. Having all those factions, both mortal and immortal, was a good decision.
I think a full reboot could serve this well, and I'd be excited to see what they can with a decent budget on a streaming platform (for example), without all the constraints of broadcast TV standards and practices.
I've never met a person who I know has seen it but doesn't like Equilibrium.
...And it's at a 7.3 on IMDb. That's a pretty good rating.