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*slap bass* These high school kids can’t take a joke anymore “what’s the deal with these pronouns” I said and they go “sir you’re not allowed within 100 feet of here”
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hollywood is still baffled by camp and embarrassed of fantasy elements of anything unless forced to not downplay and/or over explain it all in ways no viewer actually wants. Animation can barely get away with it since that's dumb poo poo for babies anyway.
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A handful of exceptions aside, it's never stopped being a problem.
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Bernard Hill, passed away at 79.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Bernard Hill, passed away at 79. Argh, how sad. I know him mainly as Theoden, but he made that character my favorite in the Lord of the Rings movies despite coming in late.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Bernard Hill, passed away at 79. Headbutting down the gates of heaven. 
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Asterite34 posted:I feel like every attempt to make a He-Man reboot makes the mistake of trying to play it serious. I mean yes that terrible 80s movie had comic relief, but it had a lot of goofy poo poo that I'm pretty sure was supposed to be taken at face value and not intentionally camp. Nobody on Earth, not the little kid consumers of it, not the original creators, no one actually thought this poo poo was gritty or dramatic. You know it's bad when they try and make Skeletor actually an intimidating "serious" villain. He's named Skeletor for fucks' sake! The original He-Man is an interesting production because the more serious approach was something they originally envisioned for it, like much closer to Conan the Barbarian in tone. Obviously between it being a kids show and the kitchen sink approach to toy merchandising and characters that was never going to really happen. But that sorta Weird Tales almost dying earth sorta pulp story vibe is still in the cartoon on the edges despite how campy and stupid it is on the face. With that in mind I though I thought those Netflix animated ones (Revelation and more recently Revolution) were a lot of fun for actually catching on to and nailing that kind of journey for the characters while still having it be a kids show. I know people hated Revelation for how little screentime He-Man has but it was cool to see the other folks fleshed out a bit more, and also to see them work in incredibly stupid toy poo poo like He-Ro and similar things that never really made it into the cartoon in fun ways. I think it captured that general concept of having this New Sun hosed up world but with a bunch of cartoon people in it. As far as the all the rage "legacy sequel where all the good guys are sad failures" go I think it handled it fine. He-Man is such a broad setting though, there's a lot of lore but room for plenty of different takes on it. Like on the opposite end, Netflix had this like deadly serious CG Transformers mini-series awhile ago dealing with the final bits of war on Cybertron before the Autobots head to earth/etc., jesus christ was it boring.
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Neo Rasa posted:Like on the opposite end, Netflix had this like deadly serious CG Transformers mini-series awhile ago dealing with the final bits of war on Cybertron before the Autobots head to earth/etc., jesus christ was it boring. Not only that, it was a deadly serious CG Transformers series where all the characters that are slowly growling to each other about how serious and brutal their war is are 1:1 recreations of the toys, down to having peg holes and little fake wheels because Megatron's tank treads can't actually move.
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Earthspark on Nickelodeon ended up being a better Transformers show about the impact of war. Megatron switched sides and now has to round up his former soldiers who went rogue, the humans are unlawfully detaining Decepticons including the few good ones, Bumblebee is now a fugitive for unknown reasons, Starscream has PTSD from being abused by Megatron, there's now young Transformers created by their god out of the Earth itself so they're like a new race. But it's all still fun and the characters are more interesting to watch.
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Can't find it rn but apparently Gina carano is saying there's no animosity against Disney now and she wants back on star wars, please
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Can't find it rn but apparently Gina carano is saying there's no animosity against Disney now and she wants back on star wars, please
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May 6, 2024 02:46
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ya people celebrate Star Wars Day in Mexico
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https://twitter.com/screentime/status/1787226199086747668?t=abNJjYpIkE__ZrcUGpxXmQ&s=19 It's apparently from a screen rant article so take it with a grain of salt
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/screentime/status/1787226199086747668?t=abNJjYpIkE__ZrcUGpxXmQ&s=19 I suppose this is true in the sense that I would be willing for Disney to give me a million dollars, no hard feelings
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mystes posted:I thought they fired her rather than her quitting? Isn't it weird to be like "I'd like to come back and there are no hard feelings" to someone who fired you? Yeah they kicked her to the curb after she did some dumb culture war bullshit saying right wing people are being holocausted. She's especially bad because she still did some anti trans posts even though Pedro Pascal has a trans sister.
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The MSJ posted:Earthspark on Nickelodeon ended up being a better Transformers show about the impact of war. Megatron switched sides and now has to round up his former soldiers who went rogue, the humans are unlawfully detaining Decepticons including the few good ones, Bumblebee is now a fugitive for unknown reasons, Starscream has PTSD from being abused by Megatron, there's now young Transformers created by their god out of the Earth itself so they're like a new race. But it's all still fun and the characters are more interesting to watch. Ooh, nice, I recognize stuff "borrowed" from the first IDW run remixed in there, good times.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah they kicked her to the curb after she did some dumb culture war bullshit saying right wing people are being holocausted.
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That CGI Transformers trilogy on Netflix was the Transformers series I wanted since Beast Wars and I throughly enjoyed it. I was surprised it didn’t get received very well.
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Casimir Radon posted:She was given a talking to about her posts and they gave her another chance. I don’t think she even waited a full month to throw away her second chance to go work with Benny Shapiro on a movie that made absolutely nothing. Like really, that is what you threw your career away for? Idiot.
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mystes posted:I thought they fired her rather than her quitting? Isn't it weird to be like "I'd like to come back and there are no hard feelings" to someone who fired you? You may have noticed that Gina Carano is a dumbass.
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Detective No. 27 posted:That CGI Transformers trilogy on Netflix was the Transformers series I wanted since Beast Wars and I throughly enjoyed it. I was surprised it didn’t get received very well. I think it's because it's too dreary and serious for its own good. I think Kingdom, the final part with all the Beast Wars characters is far better received. Most fans who want a mature Transformers series is thinking of the IDW comics that has like some grim stuff like the serial killer who turns Cybertronians inside out or a regretful Megatron seeing the number of people he has killed but also silly things like Thundercracker adopting a dog and becoming a Hollywood screenwriter or the superserious Ultra Magnus curing himself of an infection by smiling. FlamingLiberal posted:I still laugh that she was in that Hunter Biden movie, and was probably the biggest name person in it, but they wouldn't give her character a name beyond 'Secret Service agent'. More proof they don't know women. Including how to write them.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/screentime/status/1787226199086747668?t=abNJjYpIkE__ZrcUGpxXmQ&s=19 Things got heated, we both said some nasty things, let's just let bygones be bygones and can I see that Cara Doon spinoff contract again please
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okay fine but can i make a crowdfunded fan film some just plz don't sue
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That lawsuit is still happening afaik which goes to show you how well that case is going. Hee lawyer's brief for it was pretty funny if you can find excerpts of it.
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It's complete nonsense, it's a bunch of the attorney quoting some of the other Star Wars actors 'saying bad things', and not at all a legal argument
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Why was Beast Machines so bad  I barely even remember it, I was so hyped for it after being a huge fan of Beast Wars and it was so wildly off-putting that I'm not sure if I watched more than like 3 episodes
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the solution should be to go to the non woke trillion dollar sci-fi property. which is that, again?
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well why not posted:the solution should be to go to the non woke trillion dollar sci-fi property. which is that, again? There is one some fans claim is nonwoke, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcZgdZEq0M
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There's a totally not missing the point of the movie crowd that also thinks Dune is apparently non-woke as well.
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Martman posted:Why was Beast Machines so bad It wasn't bad. The problem was they only aired 2 of the 26 episodes made.
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Mr Hootington posted:It wasn't bad. The problem was they only aired 2 of the 26 episodes made.
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It was definitely a choice to make a transformers show where the characters couldn't actually physically transform and just kind of switched forms.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Woke has destroyed comedy smh Having seen it, it's a bit unusual in that it seems like the first Netflix movie where there are some production notes. There are a number of fairly joyless scenes that are atonal and just don't belong in the movie, like an extended dance sequence over the end credits. Bee Movie is a good comparison, as it feels pretty similar where the entire movie is just hanging on one or two jokes. And it's a kids movie that really doesn't work as a kids movie.
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Simplex posted:Having seen it, it's a bit unusual in that it seems like the first Netflix movie where there are some production notes. There are a number of fairly joyless scenes that are atonal and just don't belong in the movie, like an extended dance sequence over the end credits.
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