Dynaman

Well, just watched it.  It was OK, nothing great.  I don't think it will be enough to get the show back on.

Since it supposedly released yesterday it makes sense to advertise.  I'll have to give it a look tonight.

5 hours ago, danth said:

I can't imagine what this movie will have that makes it "Matchbox". Cars are just cars. 

I have literally seen this exact movie 10 times in the last 4 years. 

And Matchbox is the "realistic" of the two car lines.  Hot Wheels at least had those outlandish cars that would have been distinctive.

8 minutes ago, Big s said:

It already sounds off

I forgot to add - the original cast probably asked for more money too.

Deleted - Matchbox instead of Hot Wheels.  Boring...

15 hours ago, Big s said:

I was under the same impression. I thought for sure they would just use the actual voices, but I guess I was also wrong 

The voices of at least the boys have changed and unless the actors are trained for it (and still have the vocal range to pull it off) using the actors from the films would sound off.

I despise Guns and Roses.  

For me that screams "cash grab"

Highlander 2 was a TERRIBLE movie on it's own merits and an even worse sequel.  Even Robocop didn't fall so far so quickly.

I'll be giving this one a look (theater or streaming yet to be decided, reviews will determine which) but even the first movie ended up a far better film then the sum of many of the parts.  The opening alone was cringe worthy.

19 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

I would much rather overthink something than underthink it. That's how we ended up with Discovery and Dave Filoni's take on Star Wars.

If the WRITERS would overthink things it would be better.  WE can think all we want but it won't change anything till the writers do.

15 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Well, I'm the one who asked, and I'm satisfied with Seto's answer:

I said you were overthinking it, not that the thoughts are wrong.  A major difference.  You both put more thought into it then the writers.  

I had a philosophy professor who told us to try to prove to him a door was not alive, it was an interesting lesson on when to leave a conversation topic alone...

4 hours ago, Dynaman said:

I'm thinking your overthinking it.  Some writer heard the term War College, thought it meant college, and threw it in.

Then you should not have put in this paragraph in your previous response.

16 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The implication behind the War College appears to be that the Federation decided to change the curriculum for future Starfleet officers after the Burn led to the Federation's collapse and forced Starfleet to switch from focusing on exploration to focusing on defense.  Why they felt the need to create a whole separate institution for that is a mystery.  You'd think it would be simplest to change the curriculum at the already well-established Starfleet Academy with its dozens of campuses and call it a day.

I'm thinking your overthinking it.  Some writer heard the term War College, thought it meant college, and threw it in.

Since it is an animated show I'll compare it to the animated shows so far.  At least the trailer looks good and they didn't try to make Maul a hero (protagonist yes but it does not appear they did to him what happened to Boba Fett).  The animation detail has come a considerable way as well.

SO, since I still have D+ I'll be watching it.

A trailer for a trailer?  About as fun as being made to watch ads youtube when watching a trailer for a movie...

That has disaster written all over it.  It was bad enough when the Bob Iger DID quit (kinda)...

Sounds like what I was expecting...

I did watch the first 15 minutes or so of that Section 31 dreck - I'm not even going to bother watching that much of a new Trek show without some good recommendations and that ought to scare the powers that be at Paramount (not me personally, but that so many former Trekkies like myself will no longer make it a point to watch new Trek).

40 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That hasn't really been the case for a long time.  Star Wars is a merchandising empire that goes far, far beyond the movies. 

 But that's not what Star Wars's crybaby culture warriors are complaining about.  

The hilarious irony is her anointed successor has a far better claim to being responsible for what ails Star Wars than she ever will.  😆

Star Wars Merchandising is based off the movies being popular.  All of that will dry up if the movies don't start making big profits again.

I am NOT one of those culture war crybabies.  But the new trilogy characters are all completely forgettable.  That is a problem.

Last I checked Dave had nothing to do with the movies (except perhaps that Clone Wars animated mess that started the whole thing off).  The movies are where things went off the rails.

So, has anyone watched this yet (and will admit to having done so)?  

I'm not inclined to watch it but if someone here says it was great I'll give it a look.  

Not saying it is bad, but 90210 was all the rage and I had no interest in it.  Same for Survivor or America's Got Talent (when everyone at work was shocked I'd never seen it and to this day I never have)

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Even so, blaming the president of the studio for a lack of leadership on the part of the lead producer, writer(s), and director(s) is a bit like blaming the CEO of a restaurant for a line cook getting your order wrong or blaming "Can you hear me now?" guy for a cell phone network outage. 🙃

Going to disagree.  Star Wars IS the movies.  The other stuff was a way to milk money out of the movies.  The president of the studio very much deserves the blame when the product does so poorly (at the end) that the studio has to stop producing movies completely for years.  Does she get the blame for any particular thing that went wrong, no, but any president of a company that had a product mishandled so badly gets the blame for who they kept in charge during that time frame.

She may not have been heavily involved creatively but at least some of the mess was caused by not enough control from the top in regards to the sequel trilogy.  Normally it is too much control but in this case they had two directors purposely contradicting each other.

10 hours ago, Mog said:

And now Rise of the Resistance is gonna be down for awhile. 🫤

Unless the announcement has been changed there are no planned changes to RotR.  Other areas of the land will receive a slight naming change and OT characters will be walking around.   I do hope that Rise of the Resistance is rebranded to Rise of the Rebellion one day.

As for this coming to DW, I just saw Mando and Grogu walking around the Hollywood Studios Star Wars land and they were only originally announced for Disney Land as well.  This is something Disney can't afford to not have at their biggest park.

I always liked the VOTOMS designs but have not watched the anime since I think it would feel too dated now.  I'll have to give this one a watch.

YUP!  You can easily trace that back to "Disco Beaver from outer space"!