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Macaluso posted:That loony tunes movie is a movie that's... coming out? This year? And isn't being canceled? Where's the advertisements for the movie? Where's the marketing? Even if that's not out til the very end of the year, that post should not be the first I'm hearing of this film Was that the one Zaslav wrote off and then un-wrote off because directors and writers cancelled meetings with WB not wanting to spend years working on movies that would be thrown in the vault and never see the light of day?
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SE was also a huge diva over Cloud returning for Smash Ultimate, and with the bare minimum content he had as a DLC character and not even translated voice acting. I think they had a huge branding thing over the FF7 remake still being in development. They've been pretty prone to comically baffling decisions in recent years, like giving Yuji Naka free reign to completely gently caress up Balan Wonderworld, and still trying to make NFT games happen despite clearly absolutely no one below management level giving a poo poo.
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Das Boo posted:I can get taking bland corporate mascots serious because it's crazy easy to taint water, but it's wild that the lore-laden spiky sad boys are taken so deadly serious. Weirdly enough everyone was surprised said remake actually remembered the characters' personalities, that Cloud is a huge dork pretending to be a stoic and Aerith takes no poo poo. I think it's more S-E is very arbitrary (and often incorrect) who they trust to handle their precious babies, who get basically free reign with them, like Nomura being basically the only guy other than the FF14 dude they let direct a game anymore.
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CelticPredator posted:this hazbin boss poo poo has none of the elements that made me fall in love with Zim. Namely paranormal nonsense and pure stupidity It's very much not really trying to do the same thing. They may have Zim's VA but his character's got more in common with Dagget than Zim. MikeJF posted:Since making him their trademark and logo, they're so locked down on Mickey never doing anything that might not align perfectly with their brand projection that I don't think there's any way they could do a decent long story with him. This is about where people bring up the Mickey shorts on YouTube, but thing is it's far too little, far too late, and Disney doesn't do poo poo to promote them, they're even more buried than the rest of their TV animation. That and I think Disney flat out doesn't know how to do long form stories anymore, and seems to actively sabotage anyone who tries.
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When the topic is Disney, it should be pretty clear that it's not just about reaching the kids of today- the point is Disney totally squandered the reach it had in the 80s and 90s when there was far fewer competition for children's eyeballs, and entire generations grew up knowing Mickey only as a mascot with less personality than Chuck E Cheese, or exclusively in boring edutainment for babies they left behind as soon as possible to watch Transformers, Ninja Turtles, and Pokemon. (where as formulaic and often juvenile as they can be, they at least aren't boring.) Nowadays, a handful of shorts are absolutely nothing compared even to their own remaining cartoons like Phineas and Ferb, let alone the YouTube deluge or juggernauts like Paw Patrol and Bluey. Mickey ends up in the position of Barney where while entertaining for the target audience, the moment they start feeling too old for it, they get immediately and permanently discarded, and that becomes trouble when you want to use Mickey as a mascot to sell to any other audience.
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Jan 19, 2024 07:32
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While Nintendo reportedly is very fussy about how their characters are portrayed and used by third parties but given the history of what happens when they look away for five minutes it's very hard to blame them.
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Eh, Sora is very marketable and even most Kingdom Hearts fans have no idea what's going on with the story. It'd probably be the most comprehensible plot Disney has put out in a while at this point anyway. Also incidentally, Sora and all Kingdom Hearts original characters are iirc actually owned by Disney, they just let S-E make the games. All S-E owns are the Final Fantasy characters that occasionally appear and associated lended material like the spells.
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Hazbin Hotel and its sister show have attracted a spectacularly insane hatedom of the biggest drama llamas on the planet, the actual content of the show is completely irrelevant beyond giving them straws to grasp on. vvv: You might be thinking the sister show Helluva Boss, which is uploaded officially for free on YouTube, Hazbin Hotel is made by A24 and being published by Amazon. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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CelticPredator posted:no, the guy paid a possible teenage animator 50 grand to make a self insert porn from the hazbin hotel show I think they might be referring to the lady in the screencap (Charlie, Lucifer's daughter who wants to redeem the souls of sinners in Hell) who is the subject of said self-insert softcore. People getting horny about the show is less surprising given the shows are themselves pretty drat horny and Viv came right out of Tumblr. The guy in the red suit she literally came up with in high school apparently.
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Das Boo posted:3 was just a bunch of poo poo that happened with no through line and I saw it in the theater with my nephew and wanted to die. That's kind of a theme with Illumination given that's kinda how the Mario movie's described. The visuals are great and there's lots of good gags but the stories don't got a lot of connecting tissue, clearly more thrown together from setpieces than really plotted out.
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Das Boo posted:I watched Mario in theaters on edibles and had an existential crisis about this and what actually quantifies a "film." Clearly you shoulda had mushrooms.
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BioEnchanted posted:Also Benjamin Bratt I thought was a fun villain idea, someone who's career peaked as a child and who has been unable to let it go. Kinda lol that this is straight out of Venture Bros for a few reasons. Feel like if they leaned into that a little bit the movies would be great at being a more kid-friendly Venture Bros, like the DuckTales reboot.
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Open Source Idiom posted:It's at least as old as Batman The Animated Series, there's a villain like that who's in two episodes. Baby Doll is kind of her own thing, but I mean more specifically an adventuring sidekick/kid hero who becomes the equivalent of a former child star. There's one episode with a whole support group of them including what is pretty obviously actual Johnny Quest. (They just don't use the full name after a while because the network complained, but it's clearly the same character) Heck, the new DuckTales even kinda had one of those. One very major villain is introduced pretty much as one of the OG kid sidekicks... who went down in history as being terrible at it, and he HATED it, to the point where he wants to get rid of 'adventure' entirely as an adult.
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Sourdough Sam posted:All of those child actor villain characters stem from the 60s movie "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?". The villain from Cats Don't Dance was also an evil child actor right? Likely. Darla Dimple was still an actual child though, just an excellent performance of your 'spoiled brat with way too much power' type.
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doomrider7 posted:I need to know where this is from. It's an edit. There was actually two different Batman/TMNT crossover comics, one was outright in the BTAS setting. The animated movie draws a bit from both.
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Robindaybird posted:Also loving chasing after the GoT hype in 2024. To be fair, that kinda did leave a huge obvious hole in the public consciousness that someone could probably fill. It's a pretty proven pattern in pop culture, where a franchise's owners have hosed it up or abandoned it, then there's a morose fanbase up for grabs for the next best thing. Bonus points if you can get the original creators on board. Bloodstained Ritual of the Night, Rebel Moon, Death Stranding, even Palworld. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:The only ones of those that were big successes were Death Stranding and Palworld and they're both far different from replacements for Metal Gear and Pokémon. Bloodstained was an niche hit and I think Rebel Moon bombed? Rebel Moon did great by all measurements last I heard, despite the twitter weirdos.
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Like the Atlantis sequel.
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TwoPair posted:I read a theory that Coyote is getting axed because it was greenlit by previous leadership and for a minute I laughed it off but thinking on it I think Zaslav might just be that much of a petty bitch.... Politicians are like that, executives sure as gently caress are, especially since Zaslav openly hates scripted entertainment and thinks it's an obsolete fad and everyone only really wants reality TV slop.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I know the post is old but I wanted to ask: this is about the original mario movie, right? Jokes aside, that movie's whole production is a dumpster fire from a production standpoint as the directors literally only used the name as an excuse to make their 'cyberpunk with dinosaurs' idea and Nintendo had to constant push to make it remotely recognisable as a Mario movie. Some other cases don't help, yeah. Captain N also comes to mind.
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Hazbin is a particular target of a particularly weird and spiteful internet hate crowd looking for literally any angle of attack. I would believe nothing you hear about it that isn't actual verifiable content of the show.
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Panfilo posted:Oh it was always heated, sure. But never "Barry says he got a package of deception logo cookies full of sewing needles inside them in the mail today" or "Gina drew Elita -1 too Caucasian looking and other people in the community kept messaging her telling her to kill herself" level of extreme I hear from these other shows. That stuff happens everywhere. It mostly gets blown up and invented for media that's seen as an opportunity to attack marginalised people.
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The trick is there's a very big difference between 'the discourse' and people actually talking about the show. The latter are usually actually enjoying themselves, and talking about actual things, like the character dynamics, the implicit worldbuilding and foreshadowing, the silly visual running gags and what their favourite songs are. The Discourse tends to be people talking about fans and how dare they talk about things, with the actual media itself being almost peripheral beyond judging whether the show presents the correct moral values based on reading its Wikipedia article, and in general on the level of the guy who went after the poster with the username of the villain from Revolutionary Girl Utena.
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Panfilo posted:I'm curious as to why it tends to happen to particular genres over others. Are there just some Fandoms that attract people prone to getting overly invested in these things to the point of giving people death threats or hoping they unalive themselves? Why do the stakes get so high for a work of animated fiction? It doesn't, it's just what gets the lurid focus because lol weird stupid nerds and/or queers. Counterpoint: Sports.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:im gonna start another riot if they don't wrap things up by 2027 It legitimately is clearly heading towards a conclusion at this point, it's definitely in the endgame.
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Weirdly horny is about on theme for centaurs at least.
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Quite a lot of movies from that era are basically setpieces strung together with a pretty loose plot, often where a protagonist basically just pinballs around and has an arc thrown in somewhere.
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IIRC Sword in the Stone is similar, though like other adaptations it probably gets that from the source material, the early section of Once and Future King that similarly has various disconnected vignettes.
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To be fair, both recent shows that bring back the the Caballeros emphasise that the other two are just as big as deadbeats as Donald, and Donald's at least a single dad and part-time globetrotting adventurer with a crazy-rear end family. And that he's genuinely terrified of Daisy is I think his way of showing his appreciation.
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I'm pretty sure they're both based on a Brazilian parrot. They could probably be considered one of Disney's earliest clear examples of token nonwhite (sorta) characters, but they did it so drat well. A couple of cheerful party animals are pretty much perfect for playing off hard-luck Donald.
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MikeJF posted:One of the sadder bits of the new Ducktales being cut off when it was was that we only got a bit of Daisy and Donald, because they updated the dynamic in a really nice and less somewhat-problematic way while still feeling true to the characters, and it seemed like there was going to be a bit of depth there. Yeah, and in a way that makes sense given the updated context; Daisy would come off as a complete rear end in a top hat nowadays being shrewish and demanding to a boyfriend who already barely keeps his head above water and struggles with being essentially a single parent, but having them be more 'you and me against the world' and dealing with the insane shenanigans of the circles they live in works really well. Of course, context is the tricky bit; the way the Disney mascots get treated as more archetypes than characters with consistent traits or contexts makes it weird. 'Donald as effectively a struggling single parent' is actually a genuine theme of a lot of older stuff, but rarely mixed with 'Donald as a bachelor trying to not piss off his girlfriend'. Came to mind watching the somewhat obscure yet recent Three Caballeros show (which is a weird mix of beautiful animation and kinda inconsistent and dated writing that almost feels like something that was made in the 90s and kept in the vault til now) omits the nephews entirely, but instead gives April, May and June the spotlight as the wise-beyond-their-years triplets who riff on Donald but are also genuinely supportive of him and help him deal with his adventure shenanigans and getting his life and relationship together. It's a very different approach from the new DuckTales, but also a valid one and clearly thought out.
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To be honest, it's kind of boring if a fanbase isn't a hellscape of perverts, weirdos and people with very strong opinions of what combinations of characters should be kissing and loving each other. Though I might have just gotten a little too used to it.
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Famously unpopular and unwanted, Superman in a big superpowered punchfest against a dangerous villain, definitely not what people had been openly wanting for decades at that point.
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I have heard nothing but good things about the Penguins of Madagascar. Show and characters. Do not gently caress with those penguins.
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Also about half of Digimon.
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Trailers are also often made by completely different companies that clearly think audiences are brain-dead morons.
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ungulateman posted:If I hadn't found out it was the adaptation of a children's book, I would have assumed The Wild Robot was directly pitched as a feature-length version of the Overwatch short 'The Last Bastion'. I mean, you're already halfway to The Iron Giant there. (Which is itself based on a children's book that's waaay old)
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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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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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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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