• rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Lord of the Rings, the moment it was infested by the malignant growth of WB.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.

      Like: suddenly they’re aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it’ll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.

      There’s not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.

    • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      👏We’re👏sick👏of👏the👏waste👏of👏money👏and👏creative👏talent👏producing👏garbage👏

      • Wogi@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.

        There’s a story about the suggested sequel to the gladiator that has Maximus traveling through fucking time. The reason that movie was pitched was because the director and the writer specifically did not want to make that movie. But the contract for the Gladiator required a multiple movie deal if it was successful. So they pitched the craziest shit imaginable and the studio let them out of the contact.

        A lot of movies are made this away. Original IP doesn’t get picked up unless a studio thinks they can milk it.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          19 days ago

          Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.

          I say this with the utmost respect to “the industry”: If all you have is a shitty moneygrab sequel or reboot “or nothing,” make nothing. Get back to the goddamn writer’s room, take a walk to your local comic shop and look for something creator owned that hasn’t been adapted if you have to, there’s plenty good shit, worked for Invincible, but for “Bob’s” sake stooooop with the bullshit.

          Not that it matters to me, I gave up on them in about 2010, and they’d have to pay me to watch their garbage now.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.

    I know I’m old, but I can’t even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.

    • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      See, I actually think the F&F franchise is the exception here. The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players. If it had just been that movie, I think it would have been mostly forgotten. It’s not bad, but it’s not iconic on its own. With each subsequent one they continue to lean harder and harder in to ridiculousness to the point where suddenly we have Tyrese and Ludacris in SPACE. To me the franchise is an example of how to do the action movie right: with a huge amount of self awareness and never taking it too seriously. They know what kind of movies they’re making.