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Once again, Disney does not have a plan.

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Yeah, LIzzo and Jack Black kinda stood out and not in a good way. Nothing against either of them but that whole thing felt like a weird side quest episode. The mandalorian notably seems to have a problem with the show alternating between good world building content and pointless bullshit sidetrips, which wouldn't be so bad if the seasons weren't 8 episodes long and a ton of money being dropped into this.
 
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I can't be the only one thinking outloud like "Ok so they've literally just revealed everything's that's going to happen in Star Wars over the next 5 years or and then confirmed it leads into the somehow palpatine returned trilogy directly, which no one likes so there's like zero suspense here?"

I know what you're gonna say "yeah but we were still excited for the prequels!", yes but we didn't know literally anything that was gonna happen. They already revealed it in the ahsoka trailers. Worse just so bland...blah blah blah clones, new troopers fuckin yawwwn.

Now I'll admit, were I not a jaded old man, I would say it was kind of neat seeing that we are getting a slew of new toys. Well they might still fuck it up, the new trilogy toys sucked and they switched to this weird cheap rubber manufacturing process so I'm not getting my hopes up on that either.

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So duhraaaakoola is back big time and I don't complain although each new angle still feels terribly derivative. Nic Cage? fun, but the trailer looked like a What We Do In The Shadows rip-off. And this looks like the long version of that second Moffat/Gatiss episode.


I love the Demeter, it's the most haunting setpiece of the novel and of the nosferatu films, so I feel a mix of "yay good idea" enthusiams and nerdy "oh noes now everyone will know that darth vader is named anakin" dispossession. But also... it's apparently about a manbat à la Blood The Last Vampire, which is much less creepy than the Count (it's just "Alien the 8th passenger" at sea ?). And the outcome is a tad predictible, I doubt they'd pull a Tarantino re-writing (and so this time Dracula never reached England The End).

So don't know.

Also Liam Cunningham is a captain yet again, which oddly feels very tv.
 
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Absent said:
So duhraaaakoola is back big time and I don't complain although each new angle still feels terribly derivative. Nic Cage? fun, but the trailer looked like a What We Do In The Shadows rip-off. And this looks like the long version of that second Moffat/Gatiss episode.


I love the Demeter, it's the most haunting setpiece of the novel and of the nosferatu films, so I feel a mix of "yay good idea" enthusiams and nerdy "oh noes now everyone will know that darth vader is named anakin" dispossession. But also... it's apparently about a manbat à la Blood The Last Vampire, which is much less creepy than the Count (it's just "Alien the 8th passenger" at sea ?). And the outcome is a tad predictible, I doubt they'd pull a Tarantino re-writing (and so this time Dracula never reached England The End).

So don't know.

Also Liam Cunningham is a captain yet again, which oddly feels very tv.
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Looks entertaining; I'm down for it.
 
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Absent said:
So duhraaaakoola is back big time and I don't complain although each new angle still feels terribly derivative. Nic Cage? fun, but the trailer looked like a What We Do In The Shadows rip-off. And this looks like the long version of that second Moffat/Gatiss episode.


I love the Demeter, it's the most haunting setpiece of the novel and of the nosferatu films, so I feel a mix of "yay good idea" enthusiams and nerdy "oh noes now everyone will know that darth vader is named anakin" dispossession. But also... it's apparently about a manbat à la Blood The Last Vampire, which is much less creepy than the Count (it's just "Alien the 8th passenger" at sea ?). And the outcome is a tad predictible, I doubt they'd pull a Tarantino re-writing (and so this time Dracula never reached England The End).

So don't know.

Also Liam Cunningham is a captain yet again, which oddly feels very tv.
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Those a whole lotta words you using that I don't know bout sonny.
 
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Cicada 5 said:
I think Waititi is a good director. That said, his sensibilities may not be the right one for an Akira adaptation.
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Are anyone's? Let's say you get the perfect director, you still wouldn't be able to get the budget necessary to properly put this story on screen in live-action. But let's say you get the perfect director AND the budget necessary, would they actually have the dialoge be in japanese? Yeah, probably not.

Just leave it the hell alone. Nothing can come of this other than at best mediocrity.
 
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