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  1. mechaninac
    Now THAT is a ridiculously ignorant, yet oh so typical, comment...
  2. mechaninac
    The Mandalorian, seasons 1 and 2 at any rate, harkens back to old westerns; that's what made it good, if not all that original, so it is easy to appreciate because it feels like old-school SW. Unfortunately, season 3 became infected with a lot of the same drivel and poor writing that ruined, depending on your point of view, Obi Wan and BoBF... they better wise up, or the drop in viewership will only get worse. Out of all the Disney Star Wars live action series, Andor is the only one consistently well written... it's almost as if Andor was produced by an entirely different studio, so it is a damn shame it got hamstrung by the garbage before it.
  3. mechaninac
    You mean multiyear peg warmers at deep discount retailers that eventually become regrind or dump fillers? No thanks.
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    DoD is chock full of loose threads and plot holes.
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    Lets not also forget that, in their arrogance and their expectations that the lemmings will buy anything they produce... a normalcy bias echo chamber they've erected around themselves, these studios have bloated their budgets in these films, while woefully diminishing quality, that these movies have little to no chance of ever turning a profit.
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    On this we can wholeheartedly agree. Indiana Jones should've ended as a trilogy; both #4 and, in my opinion, especially #5 were terrible ideas that should never have been made because both, in their own ways, diminishing and tarnishing the character.
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    I think what you are trying to explain, but failing to make the proverbial horse drink, is the difference between explicit and implicit, nothing more, nothing less. In both Mutt's and Helena's case (*), they were not explicitly shown as meant to be taking the passed-on torch to carry the franchise forward (within the movie), but the idea was implicitly there for anyone to see. (*) Helena's was/is a much more in-you-face attempt by the studio to push a replacement due to the confluence of modern day ideology with current lack of writing talent and directorial finesse. Indi 5 displays all the hallmarks of hackneyed editing trying to stitch together original directions that miserably failed in test screenings with hastily conceptualized and shot ideas meant to fix those issues... the ending of the film is evidence of the thematic neurosis the whole production suffered in its multiple rewrites and reshoots scrapbooking road to release.
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    It's the ONLY Disney-Marvel production I'm excited for. Please, please, please don't let Disney's corrosive BS ruin this. I sure hope Ryan Reynolds is in full control of this production... given their recent track record with Marvel, they better be smart enough to be COMPLETELY hands off on this one.
  9. mechaninac
    I must admit: I like the Templar Knight.
  10. mechaninac
    The 20th Century Fox ruins is classic Deadpool cheeky irreverence... Love It!
  11. mechaninac
    Never write something like that... Disney/Lucasfilm may take it as a challenge in "Hold My Bud Light" fashion...
  12. mechaninac
    The target demographic is the Twitter mob these checkbox obsessed studios, everything Disney being the most deluded, think represent the ever elusive, completely nonexistent, MODERN AUDIENCE; in order to appease and supposedly attract their white whale, they keep injecting THE MESSAGE -- to varying degrees, from mildly annoying to downright offensive -- in just about everything they produce, and it's costing them dearly, but they're too arrogant to course correct... I guess they haven't experience enough financial pain, yet. Expanding the fanbase of legacy IPs requires making new content for the old fans who will, in turn, bring in new fans into the fold, who'll bring in others. Pooping out generic, often disrespectful, drivel that disappoints, or worse... angers original fans (why is irrelevant; that it does is the salient point), breaks that bond and severs the passing-on of interest and attachment; the future of these franchises wither away and slip into irrelevancy, met with nothing more than apathy. Is it possible to recover? Sure, it's been done before, but current Disney does not seem to have the ability, or inclination, to do so any time soon.
  13. mechaninac
    Awful may be a bit of hyperbole (a few people actually like the movie, more -- myself included -- think it is hot garbage, and most just view it as mediocre unworthy meh with only about 9% of folks who've seen it actually recommend it to others... it's all a question of personal taste); however, the massive Disney flop thing is 100% accurate. This film will be lucky to end up around 350-400 million global, on a ridiculously overblown budget of over 300M... this is set to be a historical money losing dumpster fire for Disney -- well north of 300 million loss on a flick that needed to rake in 800 M just to barely break even, and movies aren't made to just barely break even.
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    I'm right there with you. Other than Bad Batch which, if I'm not mistaken, is coming to an end, and Andor on the live action series side of things (which fell flat with audiences in large part as a result of the abysmal BoBF), I don't hold any hopeful delusions that Disney/Lucasfilm can produce any decent Star Wars content anymore. Ahsoka looks like more of the (meh) same KK-imprinted garbage... the only thing that will give it a leg up in the beginning is that fans still have a positive opinion of the character from Clone Wars and Rebels, but this good will only carry it so far; for a real train wreck, however, just wait for The Acolyte... if that pile of KK dung ever even sees the light of day. For all intents and purposes, Star Wars is a dead brand, and KK-run Lucasfilm under Disney killed it... just like Willow and Indiana Jones.
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    As much as I want it "tomorrow", I'm relieved there is no further developments, made public, recently; the longer it takes, the more time to save up and the easier it will be on the old beleaguered wallet... but damn it if what we've seen thus far doesn't look great -- very hard not to descend into Verruca mode...
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    I'll give DoD "props" for having a less bad 2nd weekend than The Flash did, with a 55% total 3 day drop in US ticket sales, being outsold by Insidious: the Red Door. It is damning it with faint praise, I know, especially considering what its 1st, at the very lowest end of expectations, outing brought in.... and Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning (just like Top Gun Maverick, a non demoralized deconstructed legacy male protagonist) coming out this Wednesday will crush everything in its wake. Audiences have spoken loud and clear, so I think it's pretty obvious what Indi 5's outcome will ultimately be...
  17. mechaninac
    It's a Lucasfilm, and Harrison Ford, mainstay at this point: Portray a legacy male hero as a broken, depressed, separated/divorced, old man with a fallen son being overshadowed and led around by a "better at everything" brunette KK self-insert. PM hit that nail square on the head, in hilarious fashion.
  18. mechaninac
    ^ Fantastic, both of them!
  19. mechaninac
    I placed a preorder for Dana as soon as it was first announced, and have regretted it for quite some time, since they've been holding what I paid upfront for years now. Suffice to say, that's the only preorder I currently have with them, and there shall NEVER be others. If they release something I really want, I may pull the trigger if it is in stock; for reservations, I'll go with BBTS, as they charge only upon release and cancellations are a no stress affair.
  20. mechaninac
    Not anti Disney, and if just calling balls and strikes is "obnoxious", then guilty as charged. I wish they would go back to producing good content; alas... Edit: Btw, I'm having a ball, as things currently stand, the "caustic YouTube videos", as you call them, are endlessly more entertaining and joyful than anything coming out of The House of Mouse.
  21. mechaninac
    So, you solely focus on the wording of the header, not the content of his commentary... got it. Edit: When the final tally is in and the magnitude of the financial losses are revealed (well north of 200M, perhaps 300M or more), a lot of excusers and apologists are going to have a lot of eggs on their faces. Face it, regardless of liking the movie or not, this thing is a major record breaking, not in a good way, turd and if these studios -- the ones under Disney being the worst offenders -- don't learn a sobering lesson from all the flops they've been crapping out, it will be a very cold day in hell before they operate at a profit.
  22. mechaninac
    Here's a very thoughtful even keeled -- no inflammatory snark or dismissive rhetoric -- analyses of DoD's failure, the roots of the movie's -- Lucasfilm at large, and other studios as well -- ignominy and fallout:
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    mechaninac replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    I've had the Frontier version VF-19 Advanced in battroid mode, with the fast packs and boosters mounted, for years and haven't experienced any noticeable looseness anywhere; admittedly, I'm more of a pose once and forget kind of collector whose preferred mode for display is fighter - aircraft aficionado, first and foremost... so, your mileage may vary. Ultimately, all transforming toys loosen over time, some more so than others (too many factors to go into here), but Arcadia's ankles on that particular design are usually wobbly right out of the box and get worse fast.
  24. mechaninac
    The old saying " Too many cooks spoil the soup" comes to mind... and when those cooks use tofu cubes while claiming it's chicken, while calling the customers names for pointing it out, it just exacerbates the problem, leaves a sour taste in the mouth, and loses the customers.
  25. mechaninac
    The theaters have to make the business decision on what movies get their most profitable screens, so I'm not surprised in the least that, unless contractually obligated, they'll relegate the turds to second or third tier screens to free up the money makers for films that will actually draw an audience; DoD, with only about 1/4 of the butts-in-seats count of KotCS, isn't it, and could potentially lose them money with every showing.
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