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[RetiredSkunk]

Not to pat myself on the back, but I called this situation in the time between infinity war and endgame. Multiplex Ed had 99% of their screens showing the same marvel movie and would fill in the months between the next Disney slop with cheap movies from the 90s. As soon as whispers of movies going to Disney plus started, I figured it would be the end of movie theatres.

[Eric Cartman]

no more Mr Plinkett confirmed

[NekoFever]

Sympathise with Jay on “VHS player”.

[Nintex]

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[Boredfrom]

This one is pretty good just pointing out how vapid is the culture wars shit.

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What is a Star War™? The better question is what has it become? Ages ago it was a film made by a California hippie named Georgie who loved race cars and worried about an authoritarian future taking away his race cars. Now that he is old and lives in an authoritarian future that has taken away his race cars, he sold the evil empire he created to a different evil empire. The modest kid from Modesto just wanted to tell a tale of a farm boy who goes on an adventure with a space wizard to save a princess… and it ended up ruining his life and the lives of so many others. After Star War was a hit, he made Empire Strikes Back. It was so awesome because other people made it for him. Then he was so mad he crashed his golf cart into a lake. For the third film, he hired a former circus clown named Richard whom he could boss around and yell, “Add more midgets!” and thus the original trilogy was borned. Several years and pant sizes later, Georgie made the prequels. Fueled by ego and blue screens, G.L. made three films that were met with a luke-warm reception (pun intended). While the films made cash, G.L. wasn’t really and truly happy. He complained and complained to Oprah and Charlie Rose about white slavers and nightmares where Ewoks would pee in his salad. He eventually found a new love: washing his flannel shirts and producing terrible films. Several books and video games later, George was so bored he sold the Star War to Disney (a company known for their porno and children’s meat pies) and would regret this decision all the days till his grave. He could have chosen Universal, Warner Brothers, hell even Orion, A24 or Gravitas Ventures , but the only company big enough to shell out that kind of cash was Disney. After all, 4 billion is a lot to dig out of the couch cushions. Imagine though, the blue jeans and flannel shirt wearing man who claimed to be the indie rebel selling Star War to a smaller company like an A24? Or Dimension films, or something like that. Sell it for a discount to show how much he cares. He's got enough cash right? Or does he need 4B to finally producer his smaller films? Anyway, selling to a smaller production company of a quality nature, that’d be like winning the lottery for them. Make a good first film and rake in the cash. Restrict them and force out the quality. Force them to have a smart plan of what to do with a Star War. With Walt Disney’s company, they went the quantity over quality route. And filling the troughs of streaming content didn’t help. Forced to have a buffet of Star War content available to subscribers, no care or forethought was placed into a plan or a long term story or connectivity, etc. They certainly didn’t plan it all out like Marvel. They went at it like RDJ at a snowman made of cocaine. Thus a mess was created. Then KK emerged as the queen of Star War, pointing and yelling at the kids in the writers rooms. Make this. Make that! MAKE IT FAST YOU CLOWNS. Every day a new movie or cartoon was in production. The wheels began to spin faster than a cuckoo clock. The drool spilled as movies began to emerge from the anus of Disney at a diarrhea-like pace. An army with no general. A war without a goal. Like the everlasting gobstoppers being churned out of Wonka’s silly contraption, the Star War Disney products began to come out like old butt plugs from Andy Dick's insides. But who were they made for? Star Wars Man? Kids? My dead grandma? People waiting to board a plane at the airport? Some content was good. Most was bad. All the actors smiled and pretended to love a Star War. “I watched it as a kid and always dreamed of this shit” they’d say. Lies. They just glad to be working and cashing checks. Directors lie and say “This was my dream to make to Star War pie and play in a playground of my dreams. I’d rather make a Star War than a real movie with artistic nature” what a lie. They like the checks. The Disney/Star War gatherings where the crowds wave lightsabers around and clap like animals at a political rally further ensures the Disney dominance of power over this once beloved story. It’s more machine now, twisted and evil. What comes of the Acolyte? What is it? Is it a secret story about how the gays are harassed by the religious cops? Is it a story about sisters who go different ways and then decided they were both on the wrong path but can't decide what clothes to wear and to keep the same haircut their whole lives? When does someone save the galaxy? I just learned today that Billy Mays has died and the Sham-Wow guy was arrested. Do all of our heroes fail us eventually? Yes. Even rebels from Modesto become the Emperor someday.

[killamajig]

It's a scary time. So my recommendation for everyone out there........ Start investing in canned foods and shotguns.

-Mike Stoklasa

[Polident]

Based on watching the video, maybe most of the show is bad and boring and the main actresses can’t emote, but I gotta say those clips of the lightsaber fights with helmet guy look pretty good. Complete fluff like art of the saber fan films or those old republic cgi ads. Compared with obiwan and other recent lightsaber stuff, it’s actually kinetic and interesting.

Seems it’s just in episode 5 and the finale. I’ll check those out.

[killamajig]

I came across this video that talks about something Jay and Mike bring up about modern TV/Film. Blocking. It's less than 10mins long.

A video essay about the legendary 1976 BBC miniseries "I, Claudius": the intrigue-heavy, blood-soaked, sex-maniac, decades-spanning story of the first four Roman emperors.

Brilliantly adapted by Jack Pulman from the novels by Robert Graves, the series was directed by journeyman Herbert Wise. Here you'll see how his deft camerawork and creative blocking elevated a seemingly stagy production into an extraordinary example of effective cinematic staging.

Something that annoys me, Disney/Marvel spends gobs of money and we get this mix of great cinematography in one scene and the most boring shit you've ever seen the next. 

This shows if you move the camera around a bit you can spice things up while your characters give the giant exposition dump for the dumb-dumbs in the audience.

[Eric Cartman]

I think its just Disney just hire a lot of people that are only in it for the money and don't particularly give a fuck about what Entertainment Franchise Product they've been assigned to make and / or want to make their own shitty idea that they can't get their own funding for and just overlay it on what they've been assigned.

I mean, not everybody is Sam Raimi when it comes to making something feel kinetic, but his Spiderman films still absolutely hold the fuck up, because he wanted to make a Spiderman film and had ideas about how to do it. Like Mike was hinting at, it really seems like The Acolyte wanted to be a 'topical' (ie instantly dated) ACAB parable, except the Jedis aren't cops and it fundamentally doesn't work at a first level.

[DavidCroquet]

I think its just Disney just hire a lot of people that are only in it for the money and don't particularly give a fuck about what Entertainment Franchise Product they've been assigned to make and / or want to make their own shitty idea that they can't get their own funding for and just overlay it on what they've been assigned.

I mean, not everybody is Sam Raimi when it comes to making something feel kinetic, but his Spiderman films still absolutely hold the fuck up, because he wanted to make a Spiderman film and had ideas about how to do it. Like Mike was hinting at, it really seems like The Acolyte wanted to be a 'topical' (ie instantly dated) ACAB parable, except the Jedis aren't cops and it fundamentally doesn't work at a first level.

To take your point further, I perceive a trend of cart-before-horse happening across media in terms of "topicality" anyway.

A lot of legendary, important media is highly topical! Modern creators know this, and seem to start from a topic and wrap a story around it. In reality, those well-regarded topical stories were very likely conceived as a story first, and inherited their of-the-moment nature from just...existing in a context. 

(couldn't resist the joke, but the post is sincere)

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Funny that Mike like it but didn’t understand WTF was going on. Jay seems to care more about the story… but I disagree, this as shallow as The Flash, is just that you care a little more about those Marvel characters  (even if is only to laugh about their deaths like Mike).

Mocking and calling out Bryan Singer is always good, though.

(Seriously Jay, I get you about CG actors… but a 10 second cameo is not going to hurt you).

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[Eric Cartman]

Funny that Mike like it but didn’t understand WTF was going on. Jay seems to care more about the story… but I disagree, this as shallow as The Flash, is just that you care a little more about those Marvel characters  (even if is only to laugh about their deaths like Mike).

Mocking and calling out Bryan Singer is always good, though.

(Seriously Jay, I get you about CG actors… but a 10 second cameo is not going to hurt you).

I haven't seen it yet, but I think there's a big difference between how the other Deadpool movies handle cameos etc and how the flash did; for one the deadpool films are actually pretty funny in how they engage with the audience, and they usually dont use cameos as an easy fanservice crutch (which the flash absolutely did, in the exact same way Doctor Strange multiverse of madness did with the illuminati scene).

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[TylenolJones]

RIP to a real one. 

https://www.investmentgrading.com

[benji]

Kevin Hart explaining Roland.

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