Can't help but wonder how Chuck Jones gets so much credit, when Friz Freleng did most all the best WB cartoons that I can remember.
"Freleng introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, and Speedy Gonzales. He directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards."
Yes, I realize you don't understand, but at this point I don't see what else I can do to help you. It has nothing at all to do with what I "feel" or "consider basic" and is entirely a practical limitation.
I think the era of superhero movies may be coming to an end. Marvell seems to do a good job with the first film in whatever series, but then the sequels are mundane and terribly disappointing. In fact the same plot seems to be reused excessively, and poorly. Even bad sequels make good money, but they hurt the brand, and bore the audience.
And what's more, they started off with the best franchises, and now they can only head downhill. No matter how good Ant-man is, it's not going to have the draw of an Iron Man or Avengers movie. And after every film, the MCU get stretched and a bit more ridiculous each time.
Considering that Germany was utterly pulverized by bombs, economically crippled, and largely earmarked to be transferred into Russian hands at the end... I'm not so sure anyone really wanted to go home. It's quite a different thing when a devastating war is being waged right on top of your home. Even Texas might look like a small improvement...
You might have a point if there was magical "fix stuff" fairy dust you could use. Instead, no matter what you're trying to do, you're going to run up against massive corruption, political assassinations, lack of a free press, and more. This discussion has exceeded my stupidity limit for the day...
You can't just adjust for inflation, which misses out on a number of factors, you also need to compare typical wages at the time, particularly for farmers.
First, obviously nobody got murdered in that video, so your comparison is ridiculous. Second, assassinations of reporters is more than just killing one person... it has a large, sweeping impact across society, much as assassinations judges and politicians does. There's a reason freedom of the press is among the first rights guaranteed by the US.
Russia has so many huge problems, homophobia is off the bottom of the list. Maybe when reporters no longer get murdered, the massive systemic corruption and cleptocracy gets addressed, the economy improves, and more, then maybe the homophobia and antisemitism can get some attention.
You have to remember that those appliances at the time cost more than cars do, today. How would you feel about getting a new car? I can think of a few Oprah audience members who would show the same kind of enthusiasm...
They picked the wrong scene in Nightmare on Elm Street, that one wasn't too bad. Earlier, in the ally scene they tried to show Freddy with extremely long arms, and it looked horrendous, plus the scene was so dark nobody could really see it. They pulled it off properly in a sequel, but in the original, it should have been cut.
I happen to PREFER low population density, yet he used it as a big black-mark. Why? Anybody really think people are at their happiest when packed-in like sardines?
And his opinions on weather seem backwards to me. I'd much rather have excessively hot summers than long and freezing winters. That's not just me, the entire US population continues shifting south and westward every year. Arizona is a strange choice, when Phoenix is such a huge and successful metropolis, with many tech companies building facilities there... sort of a low-rent Silicon Valley satellite.
"Freleng introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, and Speedy Gonzales. He directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards."
And what's more, they started off with the best franchises, and now they can only head downhill. No matter how good Ant-man is, it's not going to have the draw of an Iron Man or Avengers movie. And after every film, the MCU get stretched and a bit more ridiculous each time.
Well, the papa bear's rock was too large, and the mama bear's rock was too small, but the baby bear's rock was *just right*...
And his opinions on weather seem backwards to me. I'd much rather have excessively hot summers than long and freezing winters. That's not just me, the entire US population continues shifting south and westward every year. Arizona is a strange choice, when Phoenix is such a huge and successful metropolis, with many tech companies building facilities there... sort of a low-rent Silicon Valley satellite.