Also, if interested, check out this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory. Has a lot of interesting crosstalk between Chinese/American views on work and business.
Their "bias* ratings skew slightly to the left (e.g. in no universe is the AP left-center), and people have complained about positive ratings for pro-Israel news outlets.
Oh, 100%. One of the side effects of trying to appeal to families, who are usually more budget-conscious, is that they felt like they had to bring the price down... despite the fact that that was basically impossible. I'm not saying they should have gone luxury, but I'm puzzled as to why they wouldn't target the many nerds who have lots of disposable income and would kill to throw it at this kin dof experience.
True, but those are feature films. After an hour or two the audience starts losing the plot, literally. Jenny's video I would describe more as a documentary (I'd categorize most video essays as such), which typically run for much longer without losing too much.
My take was that they were pulled very hard in two directions: the initial idea was to appeal to the hardcore fan who would love nothing more than to drop thousands of dollars to have an immersive Star Wars experience, and it was see-saw'd by the desire to also appeal to the classic Disney market of families with children. Inevitable result: you get something that satisfies neither group.
I don't give a shit whether people 3 decades ago would have watched this, since they had no way to do so. It does worry me that if you post a video longer than 30 seconds or write a response in paragraphs, the immediate response is "tldr?".
You should watch it. Jenny does a great job breaking down what they did right and wrong. And it turns out it was such a monumental project that you need four hours to talk about it fully.
Our attention spans are dropping precipitously, and it worries me.
Picture-in-picture is one of those things that should only happen when I explicitly ask for it, in my opinion.
Does anyone really think that Amazon cares what anyone wants?
I know. I was devastated when I first watched it, because I was so sure it was going to pass...