Eh.
Better to spend it than keep it in the bank, honestly. Maybe not for keeping their business afloat, but better for everyone else. And when they actually make something enough people want to see, they’ll earn even more than they spent, so, yeah…
Not the person you’re replying to, but for my own POV:
I think the new Dune movies are the best they could be and I’m glad I was able to catch them in theaters, but they’ve also convinced me that Dune just isn’t a franchise I’ll ever be interested in. I’m not sure if I’d bother with the third movie, and any spin-offs are also fully out of the question for me.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but:
If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I’m not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don’t see a good repacking reason in this case.
As a developer, this seems like a reasonable argument to me.
Also, I see from a comment you made recently that you seem to be involved with NixOS:
There’s always Nix but the dev behind HA has a personal vendetta against Nix people building his software (for some ridiculously stupid reason…he doesn’t understand the tech!). We packaged home assistant in nixpkgs anyway because we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Calling him a terrorist is rather melodramatic. And I think further enforces his point, that your actions are creating unnecessary problems for others, and you simply don’t care.
Edit:
Did Frenck come off as a bit of an asshole? Yes. But in my opinion, so did all of the NixOS people. Kind of a bad situation all around.
I’m not entirely certain what would be considered uplifting, but I think D&D: Honor Among Thieves would fit alongside some of the movies in that list.
Beyond that, going down my list of movies I’ve rated on IMDb:
Fly Me to the Moon, maybe? Honestly, I don’t remember it all that well.
Bullet Train is probably a stretch, but it does more for me than a lot of things on that list. shrug
Top Gun: Maverick. I’ve been meaning to watch this one again at some point. Perhaps not really uplifting on its own, but it was certainly uplifting for me in how it bucked certain movie trends of the time and was really solid.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Batman. It’s a fairly somber, morose film, and at three hours long it’s a bit of slog, but hey, the climax is the Dark Knight learning to be a beacon of hope for the downtrodden. I debated whether or not to even mention this one, but then I saw that list includes The Force Awakens… so… at that point, I’d say pretty much anything is fair game. And with that, I’m not going to bother searching for more.