I never knew that......

[wayniac211]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[MetalMario]

 

[MetalMario]

This is a copypasta so don’t give me too much credit. Someone noted the difference in quality and quantity of shows that HBO(max, GO etc) have vs their competitors in the streaming service game. Netflix and Amazon prime whomever.

Spoiler

One of the only measurable differences is the sheer amount of existing assets. HBO is owned by Warner Bros. Warner Bros has a massive studio, so they can nix about $30,000 per studio stage per month from the budget - big shows will have multiple stages. Even if they don’t shoot at WB studios, WB can trade studio space with a studio in another city to still get the discount. Theres also things like WB’s famous sign shop. I had to order a massive painting print for a show I just did. It would’ve been $3-5k for a non-WB show. I got it for $500 and they paid the overnight shipping for it and a sample. WB has massive warehouses of set dressing and costumes - free for all their productions to comb through. Period pieces become much cheaper if you don’t have to buy outfits from that time period for every scene. Amazon and Netflix have nothing. Literally no warehouses. At the end of the show we had to sell everything, or even give it away, cause they didn’t have anywhere to store it. I sold $500 chairs for $20, what mattered more was just having a payment on the books cause storing it or giving it away was worse.

HBO also understands the power of their brand. They win more Emmys than any other network. This doesn’t mean much for most people, but it does hold sway with top tier talent interested in the prestige. When HBO courts an A-list star they can offer a lower rate knowing that the show is more likely to get recognized come awards season - which leads to more roles and a higher asking price for that star on their next movie. (The Oscars have become a recruiting grounds for Marvel/Disney, lol.) Amazon on the other hand has to offer Rosamund Pike almost a tenth of Wheel of Time’s entire budget.

The third thing is how WB divides their brand. The CW is also WB. WB can direct very specific types of products to HBO. Then they can direct their schlocky teen melodramas to The CW. Mediocre products can be Max Originals. Netflix doesn’t have this luxury. Everything is altogether. So in comparing HBO to Amazon and Netflix, a more fair comparison would be HBO + The CW. Disney is actually pretty smart and already establishing Hulu as their HBO competitor - particularly the “FX on Hulu” branding as a mark of high quality.

Lastly, Netflix and Amazon are in a content rush. They are trying to produce content as fast as possible. Netflix needs to fill their library, same with Amazon. They both are at the stage where they need to have multiple original movies and tv shows coming out every week. WB has been around since the 1920’s. HBOMax has a massive catalogue. Any WB movie not loaned out to another streaming service is just slapped onto HBOMax. Any tv show WB ever made - even those originally distributed on other networks like F.R.I.E.N.D.S. - has just been plopped on HBOMax. As such they came out the gate with a library bigger than Netflix. So they don’t feel the need to race. Shows can take longer to prep. Longer to shoot. Longer to edit and ad VFX. This doubles down with the idea of the brand being a mark of quality. The same leniency isn’t given to The CW shows. Netflix and Amazon however, can’t give this to all but their top few shows.

 

[Mark Antony]

Was just thinking about that. The new Max originals series have all been at least a decent level of quality and some even already winning awards.

 

[shogun]

It's funny reading that amazon has no warehouses for their shows.

 

[jumpmanpro97]

When people refer to a stock as “blue chip” or college athelete is a “blue chipper” it is a reference to poker chips, the blue chip holds the most value

 

[MetalMario]

Saw this famous gif in another thread and decided why not. here it goes.

Here is this guy's senior HS yearbook photo. He's in the middle left of the photo above the empty hole

this guy in the gif is to his right. orange shirt in the insert pic

now look at the school and year...

Spoiler

the killers are in the top left of the class pic. with gestures....

 

[oidreez]

So TLDR

The jaguars fan guy is a survivor of the Columbine school shooting of 1999

 

[SC kid]

That's crazy

 

[DB Cooper]

Saw this famous gif in another thread and decided why not. here it goes.

I always trip out at the guy in the back who's pretty much doing the same hand gesture as the Jaguars fan.

 

[sooperhooper]

Wow what a wild coincidence with that pic.

 

[waukeganwill]

Saw this famous gif in another thread and decided why not. here it goes.

Here is this guy's senior HS yearbook photo. He's in the middle left of the photo above the empty hole

this guy in the gif is to his right. orange shirt in the insert pic

now look at the school and year...

Spoiler

the killers are in the top left of the class pic. with gestures....

Dawg no ******* way…..

This is prolly one of my fave /most used gifs….never knew all that. Thanks for sharing

 

[MetalMario]

In 1972 An Italian singer named Adriano Celentano wanted to prove that people love American music just because it’s American so he made a song of pure gibberish to see how much people would eat it up.

Besides the beginning words “all right” the rest is nonsense. Unbeknownst to him it does show a bit into the communication barriers one faces. A “this is what English sounds like to non-English speakers” type of thing


It peaked to #5 on Italian charts. Various European countries also had the song in high numbers

 

[wayniac211]

First song that came to mind

 

[SC kid]

Ime udoka, The coach of the Celtics, is married to Nia long

 

[negrotastic]

Look what 4 years of war does to a young man

Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev. In 1941, he was a young man who had aspirations of becoming an artist as he loved painting portraits and landscapes. He had just graduated from the Kyiv State Institute in Ukraine and was looking to embark on his career as an artist when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

Kobytev spent two brutal years in a prison camp where approx. 90k civilians including Jews died. he finally managed to escape. He then quickly rejoined the army and served out the remainder of the war fighting in battles to liberate German-occupied cities in Ukraine.

Thats why all them Civil War soldiers be looking grizzled af.

 

[chippedtoothsmile]

Ime udoka, The coach of the Celtics, is married to Nia long

Portland native. Went to Jefferson HS & PSU

 

[SC kid]

 

[chippedtoothsmile]

In The Godfather when they’re showing all those news paper clips with the music (the intermission part). Anyways, that was all George Lucas

 

[wayniac211]

Portland native. Went to Jefferson HS & PSU

Ran into the homie Aaron miles at the warrior game yrs ago. Did not know he was coaching and was a part of the development of that dynasty squad

 

[MetalMario]

This is a warning label in Mexico telling you that coca-Cola has high levels of sugar and whatnot and not safe for child consumption (not my picture from Twitter)

Diabetes is the leading cause of death in Mexico.

 

[ogbobbyjohnson773]

In The Godfather when they’re showing all those news paper clips with the music (the intermission part). Anyways, that was all George Lucas

also the montage of cuts of the corridors when don is in the hospital alone - coppola wanted to somehow spice up the drama of that scene and george figured that out for him

 

[thenewjs23]

MEMORIAL DAY WAS FIRST CELEBRATED BY FREED SLAVES IN CHARLESTON, SC

 

[1995]

It would take more than 200,000 years to watch every video on Youtube