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I once had a meeting with David Kosse who was head of international film at the time. When we asked what kind of films he was looking for, he said very seriously "we're looking for anything that would have been great on DVD in the 2010s era". That stuck with me.
I don't understand why this is so controversial. The property tax bill expressly lays out specifically what services are being paid for as part of the money owed.
Mission S vs Tesla Roadster is a perfect example of one company delivering right on the mark for its customer base of ardent enthusiasts, and the other company delivering right on the mark for its customer base of incel internet dorks.
It’s always difficult to analyze and cast judgement at Netflix production costs because they aren’t structured the same as traditional films. This presumably includes some elevated talent deals. Spending 250M+ isn’t par for the course for Paramount and Warner bros
Netflix’s film problem can be broken down into one sentence:
Who permitted ANYONE to spend $280 million on a Narnia film?
If the movie is bad, Gerwig gets Elaine May’d; but the fundamental problem was greenlighting and capital allocation. This was under long-gone Scott Stuber,
Quentin Feelantino retweeted
Porsche Mission S in matte black mogs every Tesla that has ever existed or ever will
This is a feature, not a detriment. I’d pay more for modern interiors to be like this than whatever slop we’re being delivered now.
On the very expensive Porsche Mission S you have to use your phone for navigation and entertainment, like on the cheap $20k Slate truck, or an old car.
Quentin Feelantino retweeted
Yesterday was Elon’s greatest magic trick.
It got everybody believe an amazing technological gap had just been made.
I got fooled too.
At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was so excited.
And don’t get me wrong , the technology, the precision at which the car did what it did, was fabulous.
However, it was not a car doing it.
And that is the true, Machiavellic genius of Elon.
There is no flying car.
There is no car at all.
It was an empty shell. As light as possible. No seats. Nothing.
Full of gas tanks.
With a maximum of 2 secs of thrust usage.
In other words, it was a drone.
A drone with a shell that looked like a car.
Imagine if it had been a square piece of metal instead.
You would have said “nice”.
The truth is, it is nothing more than that.
It was not the car that you will see in the street. It was just a piece of light metal, that had the same body as the one you wil buy.
The technology exists since a long time.
If nobody did it, it’s not that they didn’t think about it’s it’s because it is not sustainable.
It is not achievable.
So why were we fooled ?
Because most people can’t imagine the biggest entrepreneur and genius of our century would have put millions into a show and be ruthless enough to put a fake car in a demonstration with the goal of selling something that will have nothing to do with what he is showing.
It was a show. A spectacle. Pure manipulation. Ruthless, immoral marketing.
The whole “ socialism vs capitalism” or “Europe vs America” we are seeing is the result of a fabulously done propaganda.
The car doesn’t fly.
It never will.
Most importantly,
there wasn’t any car on that show.
But the brainwashed idiots that we are will rush to buy it, waiting for another two years ( 9 have passed already since the preorders), only to receive something that has nothing to do with what we have seen.
Expect the shell.
But in 2026, it seems it is what we are. Empty shells for which entertainment and lies are enough to make us dance like apes.
Porsche maybe didn’t do a flying demonstration.
But at least they will deliver exactly what they have shown. And it will drive better than any Tesla ever will ( especially if it weights two fugging tons).
lol, tell me you haven’t spent much time around rich people without telling me.
For the first time in my life, I have come to understand why some people care about having a lot of money / being high-status:
Because when you've got cash, you can afford to insulate your kids from the insane LGBT-degenerate garbage that goes around these days.
You can afford that neighborhood where the kids are basically all decent and you can, as a parent, relax a little and let the kids play with whoever's around.
I literally could not care less about how "high status" I am, and I actively hate money -- but when it comes to our kids, OK, I see the steelman against the Franciscan ethic with regards to making a lot of money.
I see how the poor live. It's lowest common denominator now in a very specific and ideologically-charged way. Tons of low-income kids going "trans" and so on. It does seem like things are not what they were in the time of St Basil, St Francis, etc. We have no "virtuous poor" left.
Are the kids getting transed in like, Nantucket? I somehow doubt it. Though of course I may be wrong here, maybe the virus is everywhere now. I have no idea. All I know is that if having money is a weapon against the life-destroying gender-homo garbage -- OK, I'm down, I will obtain it for the sake of our kids.
“Netflix not aware of how middling its content has become” is a signal of the company’s profound arrogance when dealing with the rest of the town. This company destroyed the industry nearly single-handedly. They’re getting what they deserve.
Porsche no longer a supercar with superlative performance? Lmao get a grip dude.
Of course the flying Tesla Roadster is a gimmick but that sort of misses the point, the tech flex behind it isn't.
Tesla's bulk business is about advanced technology from EV to self drive, but decided to create the most ridiculous manual drive supercar. Supercars are a gimmick,almost by definition, based on how wild can you make them.
The gimmick that can make the car literally fly, briefly, can make it corner like no other supercar and accelerate, literally like a dragster on a test track. It's got nothing to do with flying continuously, but having a car that will outperform every Lambo, Ferrari or McLaren with technology that they cannot replicate because it requires experience from space launches and computation that they don't have now nor will in future.
So Porsche, Bugatti, Aston Martin just became legacy prestige brands, like Rolex, Richard Mille or Patek Philippe. These cars celebrate the bygone age and the baroque, physical complexity of the internal combustion engine just as mechanical watches do for non digital, complex time-keeping mechanisms. But hey won't be faster anymore than a mechanical watch keeps better time than a Casio. They are now, de facto, mobile jewelry and no longer supercars with superlative performance. And this affects their ability to market the bulk business of mainstream European internal combustion engine cars. It's the end of an era of industrial era manufacturing.
The absolute dumbest people on the TL are impressed by this and claiming Porsche and Ferrari will be out of business in 2 years.
One is an actual technological marvel and engineering achievement, the other a shameless parlor trick. But sure, I guess the Tesla represents ‘American accelerationism’?
As a 911 and Model Y owner, watching the Porsche and Tesla releases back to back today makes me a lot.
In the afternoon, after Porsche's Mission S. I thought god Porsche is finally back on track. The deep purring of a combustion engine, the center screen and infotainment gone entirely, quad exhausts. Their PR just says that if you want entertainment, bring a phone mount. One can see Porsche practicing first principles with real engineering chops, in a Germany and a Europe that have lost the plot.
In the evening, Tesla's Roadster. Gripping the track at 180 degrees, then lifting off and landing in place. That's when I realized that Tesla isn't even in the same race anymore. Once again, American accelerationism shocked me deeply.
Porsche's press release pays homage to the 356, a vintage classic. Tesla's pays homage to two fighter jets.
“It’s just a car bro”
“we're not a car.”
Or are we?
Looks sweet, too bad I’ll never drive one!
Ah yes, Los Angeles, where much of the fashion industry lives (and Hollywood), a place where people famously don’t care about what they’re wearing.
Quentin Feelantino retweeted
Oh, how times have changed. Netflix films playing at AMC were once the exception… and at times the subject of a theatrical cold war. Now, with LA BOLA NEGRA receiving a traditional 46-day window, the old line in the sand hasn’t merely shifted… it’s being erased.
And with Netflix announcing 1,000 layoffs today, perhaps the company has finally recognized what exhibitors have argued all along: theatrical revenue is money worth collecting. Netflix doesn’t need cash. It needs growth. Suddenly, the box office doesn’t look so antiquated, does it?