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Aesquire
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 12:47 pm: | 
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https://instapundit.com/650440/
Between the Covidiot years, the slump in DVD sales, and making lousy preachy movies pushing political agendas while insulting their audience/customers, Hollywood is in crisis.
I still buy DVDs. The streaming service world has proven in movies, music and games, that they can steal back your paid for content.
And the gaming industry is dominated by a ruthless tiny racist company, Sweet Baby, who's very name mentioned can get your accounts locked. You could have paid thousand$ over the last decade plus buying DLCs and subscription multiplayer, and one comment on a poor quality game ruined by woke crud, and it's Gone.
I'm not one of the idiots complaining about race switching of characters, except when it's overtly racist. If the actress playing Juliet is good, I don't care if she's Korean, and ditto an Eskimo Romeo. Even changing from House Rivalry ( original and the DiCaprio version ) to Gangs, ( West Side Story and the DiCaprio version ) and race divides, ( West Side Story ) can work if well written. It's a timeless story of angsty idiot teens.
But if the Racism and lectures on same is the Point of the rewrite of a story, it's likely lost the original plot and characters you want to root for.
There are stories with unsympathetic characters that don't suck. Dr. Strange is an egotistical jerk, albeit competent, and that is the character arc. He's never going to get to true enlightenment because of his character flaws, but it's the struggle and journey to less jerk, even if momentarily, that drives the plot.
But typically, an author introduces you to a character you like and then puts them through trials/hell to challenge them and make them grow, while you cheer.
I blame the humorless scolds for Hollywood failures.
Especially the idiots who scold their customers. The Gay Movie director who tells the world he didn't make the movie for normal people ( or Feminist Director, men ) and then complain when their hated customers don't buy their stuff?
Morons. And some mental illness that will be redefined as mandatory, probably. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 01:16 pm: |
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Re: Dr. Who.
I quit watching after it went behind a Pay Wall, and they changed the whole cast. Just the first episodes with the new ( now gone, female Doctor ) and it didn't grab me like the Reboot ( 2005? ) did.
If you want an example of How To Do It Right, the Dr. Who reboot is perfect. Great characters, personal growth, multi-racial relationship with zero mention/pointing at to distract from the story.
Just good examples, personal struggles with difficult subjects, like war and freedom from mind control, the lectures woven into the story, not laid on top. ( hard to argue with "war is bad" & "slavery is bad" )
Feel free to complain about season whatever.
True, every change in Companion and Doctor is going to get complained about. That's baked into the Dr. Who series. ( my brother in law never liked Donna ) |
Marksm
| | Posted on Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 10:22 am: |
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This newest Dr Who is the crappiest crap that was ever crapped. It's for woke children. |
Crusty
| | Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2024 - 12:31 pm: |
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https://babylonbee.com/news/10-new-star-wars-chara cters-coming-to-disney?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20 Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 10:27 am: |
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https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/06/13/may-the -farce-be-with-you-star-wars-fans-roast-amateurish -series-the-acolyte-n2397210
Generally I'd be a fan of Lesbian Space Witches, but I'll wait for the porn parody, instead of the Kennedy version.
I tend to make fun of the Star Wars fans who argue about the different crystals that power everything. ( crystals of dilithium doesn't power the Enterprise, it modulates the raw power from antimatter into useful handwavium! Not at all the same made up science! )
Partly because the original Star Wars trilogy is a Fairy Tale In Space, not Space Opera like the later novels that created the rich backstory and were sometimes accepted as cannon. Props to Timothy Zahn. Subsequent movies tend to follow the Space Wizard theme instead of hard SF.
The notable exception being Rogue One, a spy caper film, and arguably the best since Lucas's original trilogy.
I'm pretty sure someone else has done a great, well researched, paper on the fossil fuel parallels in Star Wars "science", so I'm not going to bother, except to point out how obvious it is, and how the preachiness is off target.
To be fair... 
Star Trek novels are mostly fan-fiction and in retrospect you can see where they cut the Kirk/Spock sex scenes from the paperbacks. ( "Draco & Harry in the broom shed" is the Potterverse cliche ) But the Mary Sue characters are there, and ultimately I don't recall a book... Great Enough to become part of the accepted fandom, like the Zahn novels. ( I could be wrong, I probably don't have All the Trek novels, just far too many taking up room on a shelf )
And I quit watching Trek spinoffs after Enterprise and Voyager, partly because I missed big parts with network changes in local cable, plus... Alien time travel space nazis?
The newer CBS stuff is behind a paywall. I did see Season One of Brave New Worlds when they put it on YouTube to tease/advertise Season 2, and it was pretty good. Haven't heard much good about the other spinoffs. So haven't bothered. Please let me know if I'm missing a gem. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 08:09 pm: |
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https://instapundit.com/654795/
I hear the Mandalorian was good, but I don't subscribe so I don't know.
The Meme is the best part. Making Lesbian Space Witches unappealing to 18 year old nerds? Wow.
Frankly I am Almost annoyed more by the Fan screaming than I am by the flushing of a nearly INFINITE PROFIT property that has fans that will accept nearly anything. Space wizards, Glowing magic crystal laser swords, weird milk critters...
There's a lot of really dumb racist and sexist idiocy in the complaints about entertainment.
I don't care if Romeo is Mongolian and Juliet is a cross dressing tattooed mumble rapper, unless you're bragging about authenticity. Set your rip off in the Judge Dredd 'verse, and party on. But don't make a big fracking deal of it, because that just proves you don't give a Damn about entertainment and just want to preach.
It's like Charity. I far more respect the working class dude or dudette that writes a $40 check to help people than a Jillionaire that makes a big deal out of giving a few thousand, since the first is actual charity and the other is Ego and probably Extortion.
While I'm on a rant, casting actors and Directors that Literally tell people not to buy their product unless they are 100% Pro-Whatever Imagined grievance thing of the day is, is so stupid I fail to find words acceptable on this website.
I'm unlikely to ever see The Acolyte, not because of the outcry from probably crazy fake fans and semi pro victim trolls, but because I just don't care anymore about the franchise, retconned so much and so badly that it's like KFC pretending that it's always been a salad bar.
Let me know if it's worth reconsidering.
Oh, and is the Porn version available on Laser Disc? 'cause... Lesbian Space Witches? |
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