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  1. Roy Focker
    3 observations from the latest episode. 1. I don't like Jayden's speech pattern. First thought it was because it's his 2nd language or his shyness but it comes across as bad acting. Then I watched a video with the actor talking in their normal much higher pitched voice where they said the producers were going to help him to deepen his voice. Now his speaking pattern makes sense. The actor is fighting too hard not to sound like himself. If they wanted a deep voice Klingon they should of hired a deep voiced actor. 2. Fish face Daren what is with the human disguise? Alien faces cgi too expensive? Why not real makeup? What's the in universe reason? For such a progressive leaning show/school it seems odd for a student to be hiding their true self. 3. Does every thing take place in main lobby of the academy? Classes, diplomatic events, sporting events? This multi use room would be fine if it was an assembly hall but it is just a large lobby where people go through to access all other spaces of the academy. Why aren't there more people walking through and disrupting these events?
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    There's plenty of reasons to hate Highlander 2. But I recommend watching it again. Not for the story or for some of the acting choices. Watch it for the production design and cinematography it looks so much better than what today's films look like. For the scenes where they had money to spend Highlander 2 looks way too good for such a bad movie.
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    I'm surprised the latest episode did end before it even began with charges of assault being placed on the war colleges cadets. I assume that it is illegal to transport someone against their consent. What if besides being transported to an embarrassing location one of the freshly showered cadets slipped and impaled themselves after transport? The show is just stupid and annoying. I thought strange new worlds was pushing it with the comedy. Academy follows many of the tropes about school comedies. Where there's some misfits trying to make it with some stuffy squares trying to stop them. But this show doesn't have any stuff squares to act as a comedic foil. Every character is the quirky misfit. This is Seinfeld if every character written as if they are all Kramer. Imagine if Holly Hunter's character wasn't the school's dean, but an unconventional substitute teacher assigned to a class of misfits all on the verge of failure. All the other teachers, coaches and students are played serious. You've seen this countless of times because it works. Instead, everyone is a misfit. Even the characters from the rival school are misfits. The show needs some serious characters to react to the quirky antics of these misfits.
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    Looks like a remake of the 1st Thor movie. With Thor exiled to Earth looking for his Hammer, making human friends until his allies from Asgard come to bring him back home to evil.
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    They're blinded by childhood nostalgia for the Clone Wars. See I never watched the entire series. I just saw a couple episodes each season. Usually the best and worst episodes. His fans only give him credit for the good ones. Average them out and he's just mediocre. If you include his live action it is just more mediocre.
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    Halfway through the 2nd episode. I guess the show is okay, but I find many of the characters to be annoying. I don't know if they're all bad actors are they just gave them bad characters. Holly Hunter, I know is an award-winning actress, but I can't stand her quirky character. Holly Hunter is one of those god awful I refuse to wear shoes in public people. Many of these characters share the same traits: quirky, awkward and annoying. I'm fine with such characters when there's only one of them by series. Dialog is way too modern. In less than 10 years this show will be more dated than the original series because of this. I still think the production design looks cheap and figured out the reason they've got CGI droids and aliens in the background. I rather they used the money for more physical sets. One of the main cadets is a blue skinned fish-face alien. His makeup is all CGI, but I guess they don't have the budget to CGI his face all the time, so the Cadet wears a human face hologram? The logic of this show offends me. In the 2nd episode a cadet is hauled to his seat at very important diplomatic meeting by security. The cadet's uniform is covered in space snot. How dumb is security? Bringing in a cadet covered in snot isn't a good impression. This is especially stupid when we see them changing cadet's clothes through some sort of a transporter dressing room. Why didn't security stop off there first? I think this show is trying too hard to connect with the Zoomers. Is that what the current generation is called? I'm no Zoomers but even they should be offended by such pandering. This show has potential and isn't that bad, but I feel it needs a course correction to focus on what works and everybody being the quirky character is not it.
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    I'm about ready to mark all AI trailers as spam. It is bad enough that people have to post every single official image for every single movie. Here's the same official image was already posted here last week but here it is again with a different font. The same images repackaged is not new information. AI trailers are even worst. They are garbage that no-talent thieves spam on YouTube to steal views from actual official creators and actual fan creators.
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    100% true. If you loved Ahsoka and Mandalorian Season 3 well I got good news for you. Filoni is the world's most luckiest hack.
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    I'm sorry but all this is just AI slop. It makes for some pretty screen grabs and looks good in short clips, but it is just slop. There are cuts every few second because the technology isn't there for a longer takes. Resulting in bad edit. Actors look and sound the part, but performances are robotic. These hacks are capitalizing off of fan nostalgia more than Disney is. Using AI to give fans what they wanted to see back in 1990 with the original actors. It is nice to see a young Luke Skywalker again but that's the only good these things going for them. Remember when fan films were actually real films.
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    I bet at its release the makers and right holders considered M2 canon. Kawamori wasn't involved. Only when he returned to making Macross did M2 join the Kelvin timeline. Even the Kawamori post Macross TV stories belong in a 3rd alternative timeline in my opinion. In that timeline Macross TV happened but stylistically it looked more like DYRL in design. Once you make a retcon no matter how small it creates an alternative universe. Canon is meaningless. It is whatever they say it is to support the latest project. M2 and M+ just watch and enjoy both for their individual merits.
  11. Roy Focker
    This movie will sink Disney. Movies are just too expensive to make. I don't why. Maybe people see a movie production and automatically charge them triple for services. Too often we're seeing these multi hundred million dollars films that don't look that good which need to take in almost a billion to break even. Unless they can convince everyone in world to see it that's a near impossible feat. I look at this movie and think how much money will it cost? Throwing more money at the screen creates a bigger problem. You now have to convince everyone in the world to see it twice. It will be a miracle if they break even.
  12. Roy Focker
    I have this rule. It is called if the opening of your movie includes somebody pissing, you're in for a bad movie. See Water World for example. I have yet to see the new Superman movie but from what I've seen and read a bunch of monsters and cosmic weird stuff happens in it. I've got problem with superhero movies that bring cosmic chaos to Earth. It is unrealistic in how everyone is pretty much fine afterwards. That stuff is too strange for average people to deal with. The economy, essential services, law and order would all break in the mass hysteria. Not just in the city happen it but around the entire globe. When your movie take place in outer space you can get weird and it doesn't break the rules of reality. So, I'll give it a point for that.
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    I would pay to see the original unaltered but I don't want to have the same experience as I did with the special editions. With a bunch of teenagers running around throwing shit and yelling. I want to see it with an audience of cinemaphiles in the screening room of a university. Who can appreciate it in silence for the film's narrative structure and technological achievements in the art of filmmaking.
  14. Roy Focker
    A few months ago, rumors were flying around YouTube this Bat in the Sun guy wasn't paying people as promised.
  15. Roy Focker
    The second one forgettable? I think not.
  16. Roy Focker
    It was the company owner. Went for Segway walk right off a cliff.
  17. Roy Focker
    Much of social media is one big jumble. You can't return to a conversation because it gets buried under a ton of other stuff or doesn't get seen at all because the algorithm isn't sharing it. Many people just post to please the algorithm by sharing to get likes or incite anger. That what Enshittification is about. In the beginning social media is very cool. It is more convenient and has a bunch of features. Once they get everyone onboard, they turn the place to shit on purpose.
  18. Roy Focker
    I'm aware of how tacky it looks for a Moderator to make a "look how cool our place is" post. I still have to make a post about it. With the rise of social media, we saw the decline of many traditional methods of online fan gatherings. Like forums. While useful most forums are very subject specific. Many fans have multiple interests.Those who wanted to be well informed would have to visit multiple forums a day. Social media made being a fan of multiple interests more convenient. Just visit Facebook, join a bunch of Groups and read all the news about your hobby fed directly to your timeline. Then came the enshittification, AI Slop, scammers and the meme spammers. Way too much clutter. You can't keep track of things. I now find myself starting to lurk old forums of the past. Wondering if I can remember my old login information. Social media has been helpful finding locals who share the same interests but for day-to-day online interactions to learn something new and share opinions I'm seeing forums as the superior method. Anyone else feeling nostalgic for the days of online fan communities before the age of social media?
  19. Roy Focker
    I agree with the logic that this was a dead character and a post death movie of them being alive could break the universe, but they had a good actor an award-winning director wanting to make a movie - you do what it takes to make that work.
  20. Roy Focker
    I don't understand what I just watched. Is this for the current audience or new audience or older audience? I can't describe the premise or tone. You could take that trailer and reedit to make trailers for at least two different shows.
  21. Roy Focker
    That Tron set is 1:18 scale and $260? When I saw pictures of it earlier, I assumed it was 1:12 scale. $260 for that scale made sense. Not at 1:18.
  22. Roy Focker
    Is the Night-Viper a kit bash? For such a cool design this one isn't that impressive.
  23. Roy Focker
    But is it fine enough to take the entire family to the theater pay full price for tickets and popcorn on the opening weekend when you can just wait for it on Disney Plus?
  24. Roy Focker
    It is my opinion that Lucas and others are wrong about Star Wars being for kids. You can categorize movies for 3 audiences: kid friendly, family friendly and grownup friendly. Of the 3 only family friendly has something that will appeal to all audiences. With the other two categorizes only the named audience will enjoy their experience. Traditionally Star Wars has been family friendly. Later sequels and prequels introduced extended sequences that were specifically kid friendly. I guess you could call this Fan Service for Children. We usually see it in the form of cute and funny creatures and droids getting into cartoonish situations. This trailer is showing a lot of that.
  25. Roy Focker
    Boba's character assassination was result of I think them not wanting lead characters to be bad. Children are watching. We can't have him a crime lord doing criminal activity.
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