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  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
    hexbear
    11
    5 months ago

    Hexbear, looking at the Marvel Cinematic Universe: "Its absolute shit and if they make another of these awful movies every last one of these fuckers should be gui-better "

    Hexbear, looking at the Bug Bunny Cinematic Universe: "Can't believe they threw away perfectly good slop".

    • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      14
      5 months ago

      I think throwing away a movie thats already been made into the garbage so it never sees the light of day is different then the initial decision to greenlight a movie in the first place. One is destroying art that already exists, the other is preventing a project from being made in the first place.

      But yeah honestly the former has always been incorrect lol and Ive never been one to say that! Im an art maximalist. Plus I'm like probably the biggest MCU enjoyer on Hexbear. So...

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
        hexbear
        5
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        I think throwing away a movie thats already been made into the garbage so it never sees the light of day is different then the initial decision to greenlight a movie in the first place.

        I agree. And the "throw away a movie to claim the tax write-off" trick only really works when you're a new CEO with a bunch of old media in the hopper. WB can't do this for very long.

        I just find it silly to be a fanboi for a movie you're never going to see. If Disney had trashed The Marvels or Quantumanium, this community would have been ecstatic.

        Im an art maximalist.

        I mean, the Hollywood model has been absolutely poisonous for the arts for ages. Losing a courtroom dramady about a cartoon character is ice cubes on the glacier.

        • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
          hexagon
          hexbear
          10
          5 months ago

          I dont think saying a movie being shitcanned is a bad thing is fanboing.

          If Disney had trashed The Marvels or Quantumanium, this community would have been ecstatic.

          I dont think they would have actually. We were mad about Batgirl iirc. Or I certianly was. And I didnt even think that movie was going to be good.

        • Esoteir [he/him]
          hexbear
          9
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          the main difference is that when you trash a movie that's already complete, you're throwing away thousands upon thousands of labor hours

          if a marvel movie got cancelled before production started i'd celebrate, if it got thrown out after it was completed, I'd feel really fuckin bad for all of the VFX artists, actors, and camera/sound folks that spent a chunk of their lives making the movie and now won't get any meaningful accreditation for it to help them move onto better projects than "buddy cop courthouse looney toons dramedy"

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
      hexbear
      11
      5 months ago

      I think the difference is that they haven't been churning out multiple boilerplate Looney Tunes movies every year, and also the Wile E. Coyote movie is (presumably) not propaganda for the military-industrial complex.

      • @SSJ2Marx
        hexbear
        13
        5 months ago

        Yeah "wile e coyote stars in a buddy comedy set in a courtroom" is such a thoroughly unique idea that I want to see it even if it's bad.

    • @TraumaDumpling
      hexbear
      7
      5 months ago

      we should be very critical about how capitalism shapes the production of movies and art in general, and this is an example of the 'capitalist art creation machine' working against its stated purpose - according to capitalists, capitalism is supposed to breed innovation, not waste. it is supposed to create art, not cancel it. by pointing out when the capitalist's promises fail to manifest, we reveal the underlying contradictions of forces involved.

    • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      7
      5 months ago

      I disagree with your post but would like to acknowledge that WB hasn't done anything good with Looney Tunes since the 90s at least, probably longer.