• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Doesn't it already exist? There's a bunch of books and collectibles already

      • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        yeah but I want extra large buckets of slop that I can see on a shiny screen, moving around and flashing lights to delight my porcine brain

      • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but people aren't going to read 300+ page novels to understand the lore of M:TG, they want to have it explained in an entertaining way over the course of about 2 hours.

        Also, The Thran would be awesome as a movie. Hell, I'd even go see a stage production of The Thran.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          They had an anthology I read as a kid that was maybe 20 pages/story

          Genuinely good stuff, too

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              1 year ago

              Everyone wants to do a blank slate and an origin story, but as soon as writing gets hard they'll shamelessly plagiarize the old material.

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This sort of thing could work if they stopped trying to make money on the movies themselves and treated them like what they are: advertisements for merchandise. Let the creatives cook, give them the money and mandate to make things that actually appeal to specific audiences, then make money selling toys and lunchboxes on the back of the movie hype. We get good movies, they make money.

    How this is probably going to go, though, is that they'll sit there trying to figure out how to squeeze an extra dollar of profit out of selling content, meddle endlessly in the creative process, then wonder why their shitty movies are losing them money while not improving toy sales. This sort of thing is a defining feature of late stage capitalism. Overoptimization and compartmentalization ends up making everything shittier, and they don't even end up making more money as a result. What good is capitalism doing for anyone if they can't even make the slop right?

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Hello from all,

    I really really enjoyed the D&D movie. I am a pretty big D&D fan. I was very skeptical of it but it was so so good. They even managed to cram so many plot threads and it kept working somehow. Would love to see another.

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Most of the franchises that were supposed to make lots of money in the 2000's (D&D, GI: Joe, MLP) wound up fizzling in the latter half of the decade and into the 2010's (maybe MLP is the exception to this, but IIRC, Bronies being chuds put a huge dent in their sales)

      The success of Honor Among Theives and Barbie showed there's still elements of the pop culture nostalgia market that can be mined for profit.