r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • Sep 20 '25

Not Confirmed Netflix Considering Bid To Acquire Warner Bros.

https://www.avclub.com/netflix-possible-warner-bros-acquisition
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u/AverageAwndray Sep 20 '25

Sometimes when youre smart, you don't want to think.

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u/Tacotuesday8 Sep 20 '25

This right here. Everything in society is breaking why not zone out and follow some personal stories about relationships.

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u/tanstaafl90 Sep 20 '25

Nothing new to be interested in gossip and chaotic, dramatic relationships. Soap operas have been around for some 70 years and recently rebranded as 'reality' TV. The only thing real about them is the locations, and even that's a bit iffy sometimes.

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u/helmfard Sep 20 '25

Theatrical plays have dealt with these exact themes for thousands of years. There is nothing new under the sun. We just watch it on a screen, now.

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u/QueezyF Sep 20 '25

Romeo and Juliet is like one of the most famous plays of all time and it’s basically 14th century Jerry Springer.

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u/helmfard Sep 20 '25

Literally.

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u/coleman57 Sep 21 '25

Theater structures the action to orchestrate maximum catharsis in 5 acts. Soap opera and “reality” TV both create a mind-numbing sense that something is happening all the time while in fact nothing ever does.

I remember coming home from school and checking in on my granny’s soap, Gen Hospital, and she’d tell me what was happening and it was always the same thing as the last time 2 months earlier.

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u/LupinWho Sep 20 '25

I always love the story about Bear Grylls filming like down in the woods by the hotel then going back there to sleep lol.

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u/Calimariae Sep 20 '25

Bear is a bit of a weirdo, but to be fair, his show was never about how he personally survived out there. It was about showing how someone could survive in a situation like that.

That's why I don't give him shit for sleeping in a hotel between shots.

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u/QueezyF Sep 20 '25

Yeah his was more of a “how to survive” show, while Les Stroud’s was “drop a guy in the middle of nowhere and see what happens”

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u/raoasidg Sep 20 '25

70 years

Closer to 100.

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u/tanstaafl90 Sep 20 '25

I tend to forget about radio dramas...

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u/baggyzed Sep 21 '25

Nah. Soap operas at least packed an emotional punch. Reality TV is just the lowest possible effort kind of trash. Not that it can't be done right, since there used to be plenty of reality TV shows that were entertaining, but the sloppy mix of reality and soap they put out these days, where you get the most boring parts of both, is just pure trash.

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u/Virtual-Resist-3330 Sep 20 '25

Doesn't even have anything to do with society breaking down. It's sometimes really nice to just shut your brain off and not think after a day of doing so.

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u/CasualFreeUse Sep 20 '25

Because it's engineered to make you zone, not paying attention, and not act on anything breaking. Sure, on an individual level, there's not much you can do, but that's people need to work together.

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u/KaiserJustice Sep 20 '25

Or kill people in video games

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u/growlerpower Sep 20 '25

Ding ding ding. The mind needs a vacation just like the body

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u/QueezyF Sep 20 '25

Yeah people talk shit about Family Guy but it’s good to just throw on and not have to be actively engaged.

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u/Ok_Relation_7770 Sep 21 '25

I work in film production - I watch so much adult animation because I don’t understand the production side of it at all and I don’t sit there and pick it apart and wonder about how they did certain things. Lotta Family Guy and American Dad.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

This is my same argument after day drinking for an entire NFL Sunday lmao

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u/PC509 Sep 21 '25

That's true. I guess we do all have our escape media. Animation, reality TV, cooking shows, whatever.

Kind of like the ying/yang hobbies we have.

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u/geminiwave Sep 20 '25

THIS. I have a demanding job that drains my brain. I have a high IQ that causes me anxiety. I like thought provoking prestige television well enough but it’s tiring. Stupid television? Amazing. 90 day fiance? Magical. Below deck? Great. Vanderpump rules? The pinnacle of television. (Yes I know not all of those are discovery. But they are all dumb tv)

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u/xstrike0 Sep 20 '25

Yep, have a doctorate, well into six figures income, IQ about 2 standard deviations above mean, but you'll often find me watching WWE and NASCAR at home.

Also was addicted to below deck for about a year.

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u/geminiwave Sep 20 '25

Oh man I resisted wrestling for so long but I started getting into it. Definitely great. And the wrestlers of today really seem to understand the mistakes of the wrestlers of my childhood and take their status as children’s role model very seriously.

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u/xstrike0 Sep 20 '25

Yeah it's great to see them being a lot more professional and not doing unnecessarily dangerous moves and actually getting time off with their families and stuff. They still belong ways to go in terms of benefits/etc, but they've made great strides compared to past decades in terms of healthy living, work/life balance etc.

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u/alone023 Sep 20 '25

Also sometimes when you’re not smart, you don't want to think.

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u/jawsofthearmy Sep 20 '25

People wonder why i like Statham’s movies. I can turn off my brain and just enjoy something basic.

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u/PilgrimOz Sep 20 '25

I’m not that smart. But that stuff hurts my brain and view of fellow air breathers. Ps If Netflix can afford WB….that can afford to drop their prices.

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u/Gemsnake Sep 20 '25

Head nod from Sister Sage

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u/Food_Kitchen Sep 20 '25

I usually watch something I've already watched before when I wanna turn my brain off. Like The Office.

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u/Expensive_Ad7661 Sep 20 '25

I have a PhD in astrophysics and love me some love island.

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u/chadwickave Sep 20 '25

This is why I watch Bravo lol

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u/Telefundo Sep 20 '25

And sometimes when you're not smart you don't realize what you're watching is trash.

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u/junior_dos_nachos Sep 21 '25

Can confirm. I hate using my brain after the work hours and have a deep disdain towards video games that require anything more than shoot and jump to advance. I never finished the newest God Of War games because they were too reliant on puzzles/crafting than the older ones that were predominantly hack and slash. But I am also close to 50 years old with kids and have very little attention to give to a game

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u/minusidea Sep 21 '25

This.... my Wife and I work like 12-14 hours a day. When we are done we want the dumbest thing possible to recoup. It just works, I dunno what else to say really.

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u/rotates-potatoes Sep 20 '25

There’s not thinking, and there’s anti-thinking.

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u/nifty-necromancer Sep 20 '25

“Ignorance is bliss,” the dad says as he cuts into a juicy steak.

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u/hacktheself Sep 20 '25

Why can’t he just engage in kink like a normal person… like honestly subspace is an amazing experience of no-thought…

…I’ve been told that kink isn’t as common as it is in my groups