The final trailer for James Gunn’s Superman was released this week, and I do hope it is good.

I’m sure six million people can inform me that Superman was created by the Jews. Yes, I am aware. However, he is a hopeful American superhero, and it seems to me that a good Superman film, with a positive message, would be good for everyone. People complain about the entertainment industry a lot, obviously, and while it is true that basically nothing good is ever released, it should be noted that some of the reason for the poor quality is that everything is so dark and negative. It would be nice to have some piece of popular culture that is not totally nihilistic and dark.

From the trailer, I would say that Clark, Lois, and Lex all look good. And Guy Gardner. But Superman does not look great. And it really looks like there is a lot going on. I don’t know how there are this many characters. I guess you had to ram a black man in there, but there are really a lot of characters. Putting Metamorpho, Hawkgirl, Ultraman, The Engineer, and others in the film seems to be a bit much. I’m fine with Krypto. I think he should be a yellow lab instead of whatever that dog is, but including Krypto is fine.

Primarily, I don’t like the fact that Clark is getting berated and nagged by Lois. And I don’t like that he gets all mad. I don’t ever need to see another man getting nagged or him getting mad in response to nagging. Maybe in the film, she keeps nagging him and then he punches her in the stomach and rapes her, which would be cool. But I doubt that happens. I mean, that would subvert expectations, to have Superman engaging in domestic violence and rape, but I wouldn’t bet crypto on Polymarket that Superman beats or rapes any women in this film.

But in general, the tone looks fine, frankly. It’s what I would want the tone to be.

The rumor is that “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” is never said in the film. But the tone is fine.

There is something political in the film, apparently. Superman is involved in some kind of war. It’s not clear where. So that suggests that there might be some kind of political commentary, which would completely kill the film. I doubt they will make it political. It looks like Lex is the bad guy and Superman is the good guy and there isn’t any sort of confused political gibberish.

This trailer could be a fake-out, I guess, and it could end up being a totally political thing. As with all big budget movies, any of the gay stuff or anything else sickening is kept out of the film by the fact that the budget includes selling it in China. So there won’t be anything too terrible.

But that “nigger” in the film, which is what people are calling him (they’re also calling him “Supercoon”), Mr. Terrific, is gay in various DC TV shows, and he can’t be gay in the movie because it would get it banned in China and all of the budgets of Hollywood films are based on including the Chinese audience. If the Chinese would only show movies based on the response on 4chan, the world would be a much better place.

But I think it might be okay. And Superman sending a hopeful message to the world would be good. There’s no reason to just be totally negative about everything. If the Superman movie is not political and has a hopeful social message, and it’s a big blockbuster hit, it’s hard to think that’s a bad thing.

David Lynch has died at the age of 78.

Although he had emphysema from nearly 70 years of smoking, it appears that his death ultimately came as a result of being forced to flee the LA fires.

But yes, he was going to die either way.

People attack me for being pro-smoking, but what do you want? You want to live to be 100? Why would anyone want to do that?

The average US life expectancy for males is 77. Obviously, the reason the US number is so low compared to other countries is that the US is an obese country, and given that Lynch was not obese, he may well have lived another few years if he had not been a smoker. Fair enough.

But who knows – maybe if he had not been a smoker, he would have been obese?

The point is: this smoking thing is really exaggerated beyond anything remotely reasonable. If everyone was in tip-top shape and the government was very strict about toxins in the food and water and in the environment, maybe it would be reasonable to talk about smoking as a health risk, but literally everything is worse than smoking. Watching the most obese country on earth talk about the threat of cigarettes is pathological.

Funnily enough, I was recently talking to someone about the available BluRay releases of the original Twin Peaks, and was going to watch it. Literally, just a few days ago. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it. I like it a lot, though it is of course one of the great tragedies of film and television that the studio interfered and destroyed the show by forcing Lynch to solve Laura’s murder.

I would like to go back and watch some of his other films. I never understood Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway, but in reading other people comment on these films over the years, I’ve realized you’re not really supposed to understand them. I do think Blue Velvet is a great film, and I really appreciate the aesthetic of Dune, which lines up with the books much better than the new films, and it’s unfortunate Lynch’s Dune film was such a disaster when it could have been great.

Though I appreciate the work, I’m definitely not the biggest fan. What I can say about David Lynch in memoriam is that he is the sort of person you want to have in society, involved in the conversation, because he was a very unique person. I remember back a million years ago hearing him on Alex Jones saying that 9/11 was done by the government. He later came out and said that he was a Democrat but that he couldn’t be a Democrat because they try to stop him from smoking. During Trump’s first term, he said he was the greatest president in history because he was destroying everything. He was obsessed with transcendental meditation and other strange new age things. You need people like this, and unfortunately, our society always sidelines these types of people, as we have a culture that demands uniformity of thought.

As time goes on, more and more interesting people are dying and fewer and fewer are being born. There are very few interesting millennials. Me, Sam Hyde, Moist Critical, that guy from My Chemical Romance, maybe a few others. I’ve never seen any interesting people younger than millennial. They are very feminine retards who say nothing interesting and can’t even make memes. All zoomer memes are just bastardizations of millennial memes. These people are totally devoid of creativity.

People can complain about boomers and they should, but there were a lot of interesting boomers. That’s just a fact. They made a lot of good music and other art. They did a lot of weird things.

So, those are really the messages: smoking is good and it’s a shame all the weird people are gone.

People don’t know that if they don’t stop eating meat, start driving Teslas, and really pay a whole lot of tax to the government, they’re about to be melting out this bitch.

At least, they gonna be swamp ass like a mf.

The sauna business is gonna go out of business because people will just go into the air. The bitch is going to be so hot.

AP:

Aquaman might not mind if the oceans rise, but moviegoers might.

That’s one of the takeaways from a new study conducted by researchers who set out to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis. The vast majority of movies failed the “climate reality check” proposed by the authors, who surveyed 250 movies from 2013 to 2022.

The test is simple — the authors looked to see if a movie presented a story in which climate change exists, and whether a character knows it does. One film that passed the test was the 2017 superhero movie Justice League, in which Jason Momoa’s Aquaman character says, “Hey, I don’t mind if the oceans rise” to Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne.

But most movies fell short — fewer than 10% of the 250 films passed, and climate change was mentioned in two or more scenes of fewer than 4% of the films. That’s out of touch with a moviegoing public that wants “to see their reality reflected on screen,” said Colby College English professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, lead researcher on the study.

“The top line is just that the vast majority of films, popular films produced over the last 10 years in the United States, are not portraying the world as it is,” Schneider-Mayerson said. “They are portraying a world that is now history or fantasy — a world in which climate change is not happening.”

The study authors said they see the climate reality check as a kind of Bechdel-Wallace test for climate change. Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist, is credited with popularizing that test in the 1980s by incorporating her friend Liz Wallace’s test about gender representation in film into a comic strip. The test asks if a movie includes at least two female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man.

Bechdel herself spoke highly of the study’s climate test, which she described as “long overdue” in a social media post during this year’s Academy Awards season. Bechdel said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that “for a movie set in the present to ignore this existential threat just doesn’t make sense anymore” in the age of climate change.

I guess the more interesting angle is that the Hollywood movie industry has such an incredible capacity to change people’s beliefs about literally anything, including making them believe cow farts are going to melt them.

It will also make them accept gay sex, which is a lot more ridiculous than the idea that cow farts are going to cause people to melt.

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— Truthseeker (@Xx17965797N) May 26, 2024

Yesterday, I wrote about the recent controversy of casting a very gross black woman as Juliet in a new British production of the (currently) most popular William Shakespeare play. She is cast alongside that gay kid from Spider-Man. Having a handsome white boy next to this objectively unattractive black girl has led to a backlash on the internet.

The media is focusing on how mean it is that people are saying they don’t like this, and how it is hurting the feelings of the girl. I noted that no one is specifically trying to hurt this girl’s feelings. What the media is doing is bypassing the entire discussion around using black casting in white productions, particularly focusing on race-mixing, in order to attack white people as a group.

In 2022, a Twitter account called “Dr. Thala Siren” (this appears to be a pseudonym) coined the term “fan-baiting” to explain this phenomenon of movie studios casting blacks and women in traditionally white male roles in order to cover-up for bad writing and force critics to claim their productions are better than they actually are.

The essay the tweeter wrote relates a lot to what I wrote yesterday, and is worth sharing.

“Fan-baiting” is a form of marketing used by producers, film studios, and actors, with the intent of exciting artificial controversy, garnering publicity, and explaining away the negative reviews of a new and often highly anticipated production.

Fan-baiting emerged as a marketing strategy in 2016/17, after fans of beloved franchises such as Ghostbusters and Star Wars objected to what they saw as poor writing choices, sloppy scripts, and cheap alterations to plot lines and characters for the sake of shock value.

Along side these critics, there was a small group of bigoted but vociferous commentators who objected to the inclusion of black and female actors in roles traditionally held by white male actors. Some of these individuals began publicly harassing actors.

Bigots have always attacked diversity on screen, but in a highly polarized political climate, instances of harassment on garnered disproportionately massive media coverage, which provided production studios with both free publicity and a new defence against actual critics.

Studios seized the opportunity to discredit criticism of poor writing & acting, insinuating that these, too, were motivated by bigotry. What used to be accepted as standard critiques were increasingly dismissed as part of the ignorant commentary of a “toxic fandom.”

Soon, it became standard practice before release to issue announcements specifying diverse casting choices, coupled with pre-emptive declarations of solidarity with the cast whom they now counted on to receive disparaging and harassing comments.

Actors who are women and/or BIPOC became props & shields for craven corporate laziness and opportunism. The studios save money both by avoiding expensive veteran writers as well as by offloading publicity to news outlets and social media covering the artificial controversy.

“Fan-baiting” works. It brings in a new sympathetic audience whose endorsement is more about taking a public stance against prejudice than any real interest in the art. “Fan-baiting” also permits studios to cultivate public skepticism over the legitimacy of poor reviews.

“Fan-baiting” also compels reviewers to temper their criticism, for fear of becoming associated with the “toxic fandom” and losing their professional credibly, resulting in telling discrepancies between critic and audience review scores.

The true nature of “fan-baiting” is never so clear as when a script is well-crafted and audience reviews are accordingly positive, exposing the announcements, declarations of solidarity, & grooming of skepticism for what they really are: cynical corporate marketing tactics.

Put another way, media corporations have found a way to monetize the racism that they set their actors up to receive.

Amazon knows exactly what it’s doing. One of the first images released was of Disa. On cue, a couple bigots said the predictable, allowing a giddy Amazon to release its pre-prepared scripted statement denouncing the “pushback”. It’s the new business model.

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-team-responds-pushback-diverse-cast

Fan-baiting isn’t “black people getting cast”. Rather, it’s corporations banking on black people getting harassed to inflate publicity. Hence, diversity casting is in part motivated by the hope that the corporation can maximize harassment and, consequently, $$$.

Racism and sexism are the main issues. A secondary issue – one that is being overlooked – is corporate monetization of bigotry. Even while a studio purports to be “challenging bigotry” it is also counting on bigots being bigoted, and doing its best to direct them to the actors.

Solution: Media corporations should (a) hire experienced writers and give them the time required to write great characterization and plots for these actors, (unlike Amazon and Disney) and (b) accept critique rather than suggest all critique is motivated by bigotry.

As evidenced by the success and great reviews of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” in comparison to Amazon’s Rings of Power, both of which feature a diverse cast, the problem is the quality of writing, not the complexions of the actors.

For those of you who like this thread on #fanbaiting, know that it is an example of structural racism: the individuals involved may not be personally racist, but the profit motive of the corporations who employ them orients them to make decisions that harm racialized peoples.

I don’t necessarily agree with all of that, but I agree in general.

This essay is primarily about films and shows such as Captain Marvel and Amazon’s Rings of Power that were very bad and yet deflected all criticism by claiming anyone who doesn’t say they are good is a hater. What the Romeo & Juliet production is doing is slightly different, but along the same lines: they are creating a situation where “good people” are morally obligated to go see this production to show solidarity against the evil Nazis who do not think that gorilla bitch is attractive.

Further, while I agree that this is a financial strategy used by Disney and the streaming services to prop-up bad writing, there is also definitely an agenda to attack and degrade white people. It just so happens that this agenda is also exploitable by people who want to rush through poorly written productions and then demand good reviews under threat of accusing critics of being haters.

It is also true that most of us (even me, to some extent) will ignore a certain amount of diversity casting if the production is otherwise solid. I’m hearing good things about the new Fallout show that was released yesterday. I plan to watch it and write a review. A lot of right-wingers liked Dune, despite the diversity. I think Dune was boring as all hell, regardless.

What I have previously argued is that creative people tend to be intellectually honest, much more so than the average person, and it is therefore hard to get creatives to work on these diversity propaganda projects, as they are so intellectually dishonest by their very nature.

Frankly, there is really no reason that a diverse production can’t be of good quality. After watching the first episode, I thought that the feminist version of True Detective was going to be good. It turned out it was horrible, but the problem was definitely bad writing.

See: After True Detective Season 4, The Hunt for the Great Woke Whale Continues

The whole society is intellectually bankrupt, which is why nothing is good. This is not necessarily a direct result of diversity. It is simply that this forced diversity agenda is a parallel result of intellectual bankruptcy.

Having black characters is not a problem in itself. Black people exist and they buy movie tickets. However, we all seem to understand the difference between “oh, they put these black character in so black people could relate to the movie” and “they put these black characters in as an attack on white people.”

This Romeo & Juliet casting is obviously the latter, and it is very obvious that this was done to hype up a play that otherwise, no one ever even would have heard about.

The former looks like this:

In a democracy, the supposed ability of the people to petition grievances is via voting. This is different than in an “autocracy,” where you directly petition the government for policy change (like the Chinese did when they protested the lockdowns and Beijing said “yeah, okay”). An autocracy or a dictatorship or a kingdom or whatever you want to call it has to meet certain demands of the people, because it doesn’t have the escape hatch of voting.

In a democracy, any hated leader can always escape by simply resigning or being voted out. In our experience, this always results in someone very similar taking over and doing the same thing, then being replaced again, indefinitely, all while a “deep state” bureaucracy remains run by the same individuals.

Here’s the thing: if voting does not work, you do not have any form of petition of grievance.

It is an absolute state of tyranny when the total opposition party, which is almost certainly the most popular party in the country, is down by law.

Reuters:

Two star members of the Berlin Film Festival’s jury on Thursday criticised a decision to withdraw invitations to hard-right politicians, with one suggesting the event could have broadened the lawmakers’ horizons.

Five members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were invited to the opening ceremony on Thursday evening alongside other elected politicians.

But organisers withdrew the invites last week amid a nationwide uproar after it emerged members of the party had discussed deportations of ethnic minorities at a secret meeting.

That didn’t even happen and if it did it’s their right to discuss whatever they want.

But I don’t think it did happen and there is no proof, it’s just a trumped up hoax to deal with the fact that the AfD would be about to take over the government through the established democratic process, if they were allowed. (Of course, in Germany, a court can simply say they’re not allowed to be the government, regardless of whether they are elected, so it doesn’t really mean anything.)

German director Christian Petzold, whose film “Afire” won the festival’s Grand Jury Prize last year, and Italian actor Jasmine Trinca both said the decision was not conducive to open discussion.

“We are not cowards,” Petzold told journalists at a news conference presenting the jury. “If we can’t stand five members of the AfD as part of the audience, we will lose our fight.”

Christian Pretzold

Jasmine Trinca

Trinca, whose TV series “Supersex” about porn star Rocco Siffredi will show at the fest, said cinema had the power to change people’s perspectives.

The five politicians could have sat in the audience, watched the “works of cinema chosen by the Berlinale to represent this time and moment in life”, and broadened their perspectives, Trinca said.

Katrin Brinker, the AfD’s leader in Berlin who had her invitation cancelled, earlier said the decision showed the festival as bowing to pressure from cultural activists.

“It marginalises, stigmatises and denies democratically elected representatives of the AfD the same rights that it grants to others,” she said in a video on her Facebook page.

This was more or less definitely ordered by the government.

The German government is insane. They control the entire culture, as in a dystopian novel. In the US, the situation is more or less the same, arguably, but it’s at least more complicated and less surreal.

My horizons feel broadened just from the trailer

Women are very empowered these days. Except when they’re not. When they’re not empowered, they are helpless victims, who are totally incapable of making decisions, and have all of their behavior shaped by men against their will.

Sometimes, decades after being oppressed, they become empowered, and fight back against previous instances of oppression by filing criminal charges against men they had sex with.

Many times, the women are completely irrelevant by the time they get empowered, and lash out at very successful men, demanding money.

Japan Today:

French actor Judith Godreche has pressed charges against film director Benoit Jacquot 25 years her senior, accusing him of raping her when she was a teenager, her lawyer said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the 51-year-old actress lodged a formal complaint with the Juvenile Protection Brigade (BPM) for suspected rape of a minor by a person in a position of authority, lawyer Laure Heinich told AFP.

The announcement comes as French cinema is reeling from claims the world of arts has shrugged off sexism and sexual abuse for decades.

She was previously a victim of Harvey Weinstein, who asked her to give him a massage

Taking to social media in January, Godreche accused Jacquot, now 77, of manipulating her into a relationship as a vulnerable underage actor, saying the arts have provided cover for abuse.

French daily Le Monde, which first carried the story of the formal complaint, said that Jacquot “firmly” denies the allegations. Jacquot declined to speak to AFP when asked to comment in January.

The relationship between the two began in the spring of 1986, when Godrech was just 14, and ended in the early 1990s.

Godreche said she remained “in his grip” for six years, starring in two films he directed, “Les Mendiants” (“The beggars”) in 1988 and “La Desenchantee” (“The disenchanted”) in 1990.

Wow, six years.

You would think “that must be the longest rape ever,” but in fact, Harvey Weinstein raped women for even longer.

She decided to speak out after discovering him boasting about their relationship being a “transgression”, and cinema providing a “cover” for it, in a 2011 documentary.

“I threw up,” Godreche has told the TMC television channel, seeing him enjoy such “impunity”.

“Consent does not exist when you’re 14,” she said. “I wasn’t seduced, I was completely manipulated.”

It’s convenient, you might think, that consent didn’t apply to her when she consented to this relationship with a powerful and influential man.

However, it is simply part of The Science that consent doesn’t apply at 14 in France. Different countries have different consent periods, and even if 14 did have consent in France in the 1990s, it doesn’t now, meaning the history changed.

Trailer from one of the movies she made while he was raping her

When consent age changes, and then history changes, men remain responsible, and must give a lot of money to women.

Previously: Disney Releasing Fourth Consecutive George Floyd Animated Film Despite Massive Losses

I wrote a long thing about how much money the “woke agenda” AKA “George Floydism” is costing Disney. I wrote about the fact that Disney is slated to release its fourth George Floyd children’s animated film, despite losses.

The MCU, which is a much bigger project than the animated films, involving a lot more money and future money. Instead of producing what people want, however, Disney is doing George Floydism.

The Marvels is a feminist film that also pushes the race agenda, starting an astonishingly ugly white women with foot fungus, a female paki, and a negress.

Released this weekend, it did not go over well, and the studio is now set to lose tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on this attempt to force extreme Jewish values on the public.

The Hollywood Reporter:

The Marvels box office debut is anything but marvelous.

From Marvel Studios and Disney, the superhero tentpole opened to an estimated $47 million at the domestic box office to rank as the worst start in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also came in behind expectations overseas, where it launched with $63.3 million from 51 material markets for a global start of $110.3 million against a hefty $200 million production budget.

The Marvels marks a new low for Kevin Feige‘s Marvel Studio and adds fuel to the theory that superhero fatigue is a real thing as fanboys grow weary of a glut of titles and are hence far less forgiving. Marvel has been unrivaled in its success for years, with its movies collecting more than $30 billion in grosses at the worldwide box office.

Everyone knew this was going to happen. Everyone knew that the core audience of MCU films is not interested in grrrl power films, let alone all of this race propaganda.

Pre-George Floyd, pre-summer of love, 4 of the top 10 highest grossing films ever were MCU films.

Because of this bizarre Jew agenda, Marvels, which cost as much as the big films, is now set to be one of the biggest box office disasters ever.

This is funny and I’m happy and they deserve it.

But it is confusing.

Is it really just BlackRock that’s responsible for this? Or is something else going on?

It is frightening to see corporations losing money on purpose in order to push a George Floyd black, anal, and vaginal agenda onto the public.

Previously: Disney Releasing Fourth Consecutive George Floyd Animated Film Despite Massive Losses

I wrote a long thing about how much money the “woke agenda” AKA “George Floydism” is costing Disney. I wrote about the fact that Disney is slated to release its fourth George Floyd children’s animated film, despite losses.

The MCU is a much bigger project than the animated films, involving a lot more money and future money. Instead of producing what people want, however, Disney is doing George Floydism.

The Marvels is a feminist film that also pushes the race agenda, starring an astonishingly ugly white women with foot fungus, a female Paki, and a negress.

Released this weekend, it did not go over well, and the studio is now set to lose tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on this attempt to force extreme Jewish values on the public.

The Hollywood Reporter:

The Marvels box office debut is anything but marvelous.

From Marvel Studios and Disney, the superhero tentpole opened to an estimated $47 million at the domestic box office to rank as the worst start in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also came in behind expectations overseas, where it launched with $63.3 million from 51 material markets for a global start of $110.3 million against a hefty $200 million production budget.

The Marvels marks a new low for Kevin Feige‘s Marvel Studio and adds fuel to the theory that superhero fatigue is a real thing as fanboys grow weary of a glut of titles and are hence far less forgiving. Marvel has been unrivaled in its success for years, with its movies collecting more than $30 billion in grosses at the worldwide box office.

Everyone knew this was going to happen. Everyone knew that the core audience of MCU films is not interested in grrrl power films, let alone all of this race propaganda.

Pre-George Floyd, pre-Summer of Love, 4 of the top 10 highest grossing films ever were MCU films.

Because of this bizarre Jew agenda, The Marvels, which cost as much as the big films, is now set to be one of the biggest box office disasters ever.

This is funny and I’m happy and they deserve it.

But it is confusing.

Is it really just BlackRock that’s responsible for this? Or is something else going on?

It is frightening to see corporations losing money on purpose in order to push a George Floyd black, anal, and vaginal agenda onto the public.

It’s good to see this movie fail miserably.

Even if people won’t stand against the sickness of this system, at least they won’t make a point to stand with it.

CNN:

Harrison Ford brought the legendary titular character Indiana Jones back to the big screen this weekend with “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” but its opening box office showing was lower than advance estimates.

The movie grossed $60 million in the United States and $70 million internationally, bringing the fifth and final installment of the storied franchise’s global box office to $130 million on its 3-day opening.

“Dial of Destiny” reportedly cost nearly $300 million to make, which makes the open weekend box office numbers underwhelming and a tall hurdle for the movie to clear in order to profit.

Remember when Indiana Jones was racist? Those were good times.

The movie did open at number one despite mediocre reviews for Indy’s final chapter, and is projected to earn $82 million in its 5-day opening through the July 4 holiday weekend.

…

The opening is one of several disappointing showings for big-budget movies at the box office this summer, with Warner Bros.’ “The Flash” and Pixar’s animated “Elemental” both falling well short of expectations. (Warner Bros., like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.)

Mission Impossible, which is one of the last apolitical series left, is likely to crush this “Old Man Jones” tripe.

Harrison Ford looks depressed

Harrison Ford is actually half-Jewish. He’s never come across particularly Jewish, and he doesn’t look Jewish. I can believe he just did this for money and doesn’t feel particularly good about it.

It’s unclear how Disney is expecting to continue to survive while releasing this sort of tripe.

The world’s best bittorrent website, RARBG, has closed unexpectedly.

They posted a message about how they don’t have any money and all their employees died from coronavirus or went to fight in the war.

Firstly, let’s just be clear – no one died from the coronavirus, because there was no virus.

Probably, some of their people went to fight in the war. I can believe that. Bittorrent people are the kind of people who would sign up for Wagner.

I’ve not given money to Jew media in years and years. Of course, I live in a country where torrenting is not illegal, and so I advise everyone to check their local laws on the matter. But it sure was nice to be able to download anything from this website.

Most of the other torrent sites are spammy, and tell you to click a magnet link and it’s actually some spam ad trying to get you to download an .exe malware file.

I’ve been using torrent for 20 years, and RARBG was the most straight-up and legit site ever.

People will always say “oh, just get on a private tracker,” and I know people feel really smug about being on private invite-only trackers, but the reality is, those sites don’t have as many old films, and they also have annoying nanny shit where they make you seed a certain amount.

I believe in 1:1 seeding, but I don’t really like some nanny watching me.

Hopefully, a new torrent site on par with RARBG will emerge. As of right now, I looked, and I don’t think any of these current ones are any good. You can get the torrent, but it’s a hassle, with them trying to do pop-ups and malware against you.

Torrenting is totally legal in Russia now, so there’s a big opportunity there. I’ve used RUTRACKER for music a lot, so I might go check what they’ve got going on with BluRay releases of classic films. Of course, they still refuse to put up an English version of the site, so you have to do annoying auto-translate bullshit.

We shall see.