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DoctorWhat posted:Megamind has an extremely rabid fan base and not even like a horny type of fan base. There are people for whom Megamind is an extremely formative like filmmaking and storytelling experience who absolutely despise the new film. And they're loud. the potent mixture of superhero media, kids' media and Being Actually Pretty Good (see also the miraculous ladybug fandom)
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General Dog posted:How did Megamind 2 manage to accomplish this? Sight unseen I have no doubt that it's a cheap, profoundly worthless movie, but it seems like the floor for kids' animated movies is usually about 40% on RT. It's only on Peacock so probably nobody watched it except for fans of the original.
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DoctorWhat posted:Megamind has an extremely rabid fan base and not even like a horny type of fan base. There are people for whom Megamind is an extremely formative like filmmaking and storytelling experience who absolutely despise the new film. And they're loud. Oh, so the response is as if they made a bad, cheap sequel to a good movie?
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A bad cheap sequel to a good movie that only diehard fans of the movie bothered to watch over a decade later
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deong posted:https://variety.com/2023/film/global/aztec-batman-new-hero-annecy-1235645078/ They couldn’t make it Mayan Batman and incorporate Camazotz?
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DoctorWhat posted:A bad cheap sequel to a good movie that only diehard fans of the movie bothered to watch over a decade later Yeah, that sounds right. Megamind has some legit interesting aspects to certain kinda nerds with its approach to the whole superhero thing, to everyone else it was an okay but (kinda deliberately) generic superhero movie that the sequel's target audience won't even remember. So it pisses off the only people who would care enough to leave reviews.
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The concept of a Twilight animated series amuses me and intrigues me. Who's the target audience for something like this? Is there still a diehard Twilight fanbase? It was certainly a phenomenon in its own right, one maligned perhaps more than it strictly deserved (it deserved to be maligned a bit, to be perfectly clear), but what exactly can they do with it now?
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paradoxGentleman posted:The concept of a Twilight animated series amuses me and intrigues me. Who's the target audience for something like this? Is there still a diehard Twilight fanbase? It was certainly a phenomenon in its own right, one maligned perhaps more than it strictly deserved (it deserved to be maligned a bit, to be perfectly clear), but what exactly can they do with it now? An animated romantic fantasy series involving attractive young men who sparkle, you say?
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An animated series featuring "twilight" "sparkle" you say
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https://twitter.com/zackfox/status/1765965621228102094 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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For context this is referring to the recent passing of Akira Toriyama https://twitter.com/DB_official_en/status/1765935471971213816 Larryb fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Unsurprisingly they are making a Super Mario Bros 2. They just started and planning to release in USA on April 3rd 2026.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Unsurprisingly they are making a Super Mario Bros 2. It's actually a Doki Doki Panic movie being redubbed for Western markets.
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Boooo burn the oscars down. That should have been Across the Spiderverse’s Oscar.
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The_Doctor posted:Boooo burn the oscars down. That should have been Across the Spiderverse’s Oscar. Literally any other choice would have made me happy in that category. Even if I was rooting for Nimona.
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I would have given the Oscar to Spiderverse, but I can't get angry about Heron getting it. It was a great movie, and Ghibli deserves more Oscars.
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Heron was mid as hell IMO but still deserves it more than Nimona. No movie with as many catchphrases as Nimona deserves an Oscar
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It's honestly a very strong category this year, with Elemental being the weakest entry.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/ACriticalHuman/status/1764637483340308746?t=hZws9e5UD8avvwUp2M9WtQ&s=19 Oh I actually got kind of emotional reading this. That's a REALLY good sounding movie. doomrider7 posted:gently caress You Zaslav. Agreed.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Oh I actually got kind of emotional reading this. That's a REALLY good sounding movie. I posted this on another forum, but if I was a share holder I'd have demanded his head on a pike for this gently caress-up. Movie sounds amazing and the release window would put it right on time for the holidays where there was little to no competition. If it had released on schedule it would've cleaned house hard.
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Showrunner friend told me 75% of our industry is currently unemployed.
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Woof. Sorry to hear but I'm simultaneously not surprised between the execs constantly trying to cut costs and use AI to put everyone out of work
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I’m sure it’s all record profits too. This country needs a revolution.
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Das Boo posted:Showrunner friend told me 75% of our industry is currently unemployed. Sounds like somebody's back-of-a-napkin estimate. Who would even be responsible for tracking such a thing? If this is being tracked this granularly, by someone, how recently did it change and how quickly?
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This outsourcing the actual production to either low cost countries or countries with tons of subsidies has been happening for decades with vfx. It just took longer to happen with feature animation because the cg in those movies were usually made by the company distributing them, and therefore didn't feel the financial need right away to go abroad, instead preferring to have more input over the final product. But Canada has built up a strong talent base over the last 20 years, mainly from imported talent from the US and France, so it makes sense to send the work there. It sucks for the dreamworks workers that have families and will find it difficult to actually fully immigrate to Canada, as once you pass 35 it becomes a lot more challenging to get Permanent Residency. But working in Canada as an artist is way better. The cities are easier to get around without a car, there's way more studios within a short distance from one another inside the Vancouver and Montreal areas, so if one place downsizes you can just go to the next without relocating. Whereas in the US if you were working at Pixar and then got a job at Dreamworks, you'd have to move because they're 5 hours away. And there's a good mix between games, feature animation, vfx and tv animation all within each city. So aside from right now, when every single one of those industries is in the pits, it can be a much more stable place to survive. The issue is the whole thing falls apart if the subsides get reduced. Like they would still realize some savings, but if Quebec's new plan to reduce their subsidies actually goes through then all the vfx studios will try to flee to Australia.
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saw the trailer for a new garfield movie. with Chris Pratt as garfield and he sounds exactly like how he voiced Mario, meaning how really doing any voice work at all
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GateOfD posted:saw the trailer for a new garfield movie. It's a bummer because I think otherwise it looks like a perfectly fine Garfield movie. But Chris Pratt just doesn't work as his voice. This sounds like deja vu after saying the same about Mario and then him actually being perfectly fine, but I don't think I'm gonna have the same change of heart as I did with Mario
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I'll just wait for a ghoulish fan edit where they dub him over with a AI generated Lorenzo Music.
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Ccs posted:The issue is the whole thing falls apart if the subsides get reduced. Kinda hoping this happens to these giant US based studios exclusively. Or at least make the studio heads move out of Hollywood and into Canada whole hog if they're so reliant on taking government money for their highly profitable shows. I wish the US had cultural subsidies like Canada but imagine how the average American taxpayer would react if their money were being spent on cartoons.
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Macaluso posted:It's a bummer because I think otherwise it looks like a perfectly fine Garfield movie. But Chris Pratt just doesn't work as his voice. This sounds like deja vu after saying the same about Mario and then him actually being perfectly fine, but I don't think I'm gonna have the same change of heart as I did with Mario thats the thing though, Chris Pratt is just "fine" not great or even good. his voice doesnt really add anything to the media. If his voice was a spice itd be flour.
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To be fair, Mario being very generic is probably on brand. But yeah, lazy casting for Garfield. Like, Bill Murray was genuinely a good choice, lazy sleazy comedian and all. The Lorenzo Music connection is more than just a good joke.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:To be fair, Mario being very generic is probably on brand. But yeah, lazy casting for Garfield. Like, Bill Murray was genuinely a good choice, lazy sleazy comedian and all. The Lorenzo Music connection is more than just a good joke. It was also kind of fitting seeing as Music played Murray's character in the Ghostbusters cartoon from the 90s, pity everything else about the live action Garfield movie (that somehow still got a sequel) was terrible though
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Sourdough Sam posted:Kinda hoping this happens to these giant US based studios exclusively. Or at least make the studio heads move out of Hollywood and into Canada whole hog if they're so reliant on taking government money for their highly profitable shows. There was a legal effort years ago to get tariffs placed on any work done in Canada/Australia, etc to offset the savings that subsidies provide. The case was all prepared and ready to go to the international trade court. Unfortunately a lot of vfx artists just didn't care enough about the issue and were willing to move abroad for the next gig instead of donating money to the legal effort, so it collapsed and the people who were spearheading the movement left the vfx industry . When NAFTA was being renegotiate ahead of it becoming the USCMA, there were also efforts to get the new agreement to include digital goods and digital trade, so one country couldn't be protectionist or try to use subsidies to grab work from another country. But that didn't go anywhere, and it wouldn't have been as effective as the international trade court ruling as it would only apply to Canada and Mexico, whereas US film studios also source work the UK, Australia and France. Even Dreamworks currently plan is to not put all their eggs in one basket and get their movies made by Sony in Vancouver/Montreal, Jellyfish Pictures in the UK/India, and Mikros in France/Montreal/India.
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Remember when they were oh yea the next spiderverse movie will release like March 2024, you don’t have to wait long to see the story end, lol
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I'm ok with waiting longer to see art produced by artists who aren't worked to near-death in hellish sprints
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Oh I’m sure they’ll still be worked to dust regardless if it takes another 4 years. That’s the sad part.
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