I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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(See also: M. Night Shyamalan)
I think that instead I will give my money to Netflix and Amazon. If anyone can unseat lazy formulaic film making, it's them.
Eric von Foerster, the trailer's been playing on TV it seems like during each commercial break.
The article completely forgets about the third option: c) Independent studios funded by the likes of Netflix and Amazon producing quality material at a fraction of the cost of major production powerhouses. Granted, this wasn't an option a decade ago, but now broadband Internet has given online-only distributors an opportunity to unseat entrenched film business model.
Bottom line - if Hollywood doesn't want to take risks, they won't benefit from rewards. Someone else will though, and they are the ones worth supporting with our money.
Marvel's Daredevil Netflix show looks promising, but that series has Marvel/Disney money funding it, not Netflix.
The only real place I see chances being taken is on the small screen. With premium channels (HBO/Showtime/Cinemax) making original content, cable channels creating original content as well as the broadcast networks, for truly original risks, the small screen is where it's at.
for truly original risks, the small screen is where it's at
And I'm perfectly fine with that. My popcorn tastes better than the stuff they sell at 10x the price at the theater anyways :p