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Lance was a cool guy. Best to his family

On a far less important note, He was voicing the Big Bad of Legend of Vox Machnina(Thordak, the Red Dragon) so unless those lines were already recorded that role will need to be recast.
 
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What in the ever loving fuck is this enigma? (On prime now too apparently, lol)



(Shit, not Lance Reddick! He was on a pretty great roll to go this early. Am wondering if he's famous enough for the conspiracy assholes to shamelessly exploit his passing like they do with everyone else. Hopefully his family will be spared of such toxic nonsense)
 

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I'm sad today.
Lance was a cool guy. Best to his family

On a far less important note, He was voicing the Big Bad of Legend of Vox Machnina(Thordak, the Red Dragon) so unless those lines were already recorded that role will need to be recast.
Sad to hear. I didn't see much of his work but what little I did really impressed me. He will be missed.
That's sad news. It's probably too late to add in a memoriam to him in John Wick 4 too.
 

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Guess again, but you're on the right track. Here's a hint: she has crimson red hair.
Ah, I see now. A little late to strike that iron for contrarian points but whatevs. Then again, red hair is striking and I find alignment neutral most of the time.
 

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Trust Dreamworks to take something that's conceptually interesting (ancient feud between mermaids and krakens) and reduce it to a lowest common denominator (high school drama).

Sigh...
 
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Trust Dreamworks to take something that's conceptually interesting (ancient feud between mermaids and krakens) and reduce it to a lowest common denominator (high school drama).

Sigh...
Don't knock it out of the park yet. At least Dreamworks have been trying different things recently and a few times before back in the 2010s. More than whatever Disney is doing nowadays, most of the time, whenever it comes to their animated theatrical releases. I'm in. Besides, it's pretty clear neither of us are the exact target audience. Nothing wrong with this, nor will it make the movie immune to criticism, but it is something to be noted.

Animated movies have been getting great these past few years, and is basically their golden year for 2023.
 

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Animated movies have been getting great these past few years, and is basically their golden year for 2023.
False. Animation's Golden Year is whenever Zootopia 2 comes out.
And this Mermaid vs Krakens would be interesting, conceptually, if it wasn't clear how it ends. Let me guess, the kraken teen is nerdy and she isn't accepted but has a strong family bond. And the beautiful red head not-Ariel mermaid is beautiful and smart and plays with seahorses and everyone loves her, but she also is stressed out from a broken family life and doesn't want the pressure of being a Disney princess and really wants to be an oceanologist. And the two realize they're more similar than different and put aside their differences to defeat something utterly pathetic, like the gym teacher wanting to sabotage their enchantment under the seas prom dance and then the princess and kraken break dance on stage, in sync, and the crowds cheer and everyone has a great time, and they're friends now.
 
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False. Animation's Golden Year is whenever Zootopia 2 comes out.
Nothing against Zootopia, but Spider-Verse 2 comes out this year. That makes it the Golden Year (for me). Who knows whenever Zootopia 2 comes out. Assuming it does at some point. Unless you know something we don't. Doesn't matter much for me.

And this Mermaid vs Krakens would be interesting, conceptually, if it wasn't clear how it ends. Let me guess, the kraken teen is nerdy and she isn't accepted but has a strong family bond. And the beautiful red head not-Ariel mermaid is beautiful and smart and plays with seahorses and everyone loves her, but she also is stressed out from a broken family life and doesn't want the pressure of being a Disney princess and really wants to be an oceanologist. And the two realize they're more similar than different and put aside their differences to defeat something utterly pathetic, like the gym teacher wanting to sabotage their enchantment under the seas prom dance and then the princess and kraken break dance on stage, in sync, and the crowds cheer and everyone has a great time, and they're friends now.
One way it could end, but we don't know that yet. Don't know where you're getting the gym teacher thing. Even if it was the case, how it is executed is the main thing. Besides, Dreamwork's rarely ever do set-up/false villains, nor do sympathetic villains poorly. Granted, most of Dreamwork's villains are never meant to be sympathetic to begin with. That's been Disney, Nickelodeon, and a few other animation studios' fuck ups for the latter half of the 2010s. Ironic, because with Puss n' Boots 2, DW performed excellently. PnB2 has three sets of villains: Goldilocks and the 3 Bears as your sympathetic/likeable villains, Jack Horner as your funny villain that is not meant to be "subversive" nor sympathetic in any way and is a force to be reckoned with, and then you have the Big Bad Wolf (BIG SPOILER HERE), who is actually Death. Who is not so much a villain, as he is just a force nature doing his job. Yet interfering and an obvious axe to grind for a good reason.

Dreamworks has got this and I am interested.
 
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Trust Dreamworks to take something that's conceptually interesting (ancient feud between mermaids and krakens) and reduce it to a lowest common denominator (high school drama).

Sigh...
Eh, nothing inherently wrong with high school drama. I'm pretty sure you could make a decent adaptation of the Iliad about high school drama, a lot of the conflict is much the same.
 
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Eh, nothing inherently wrong with high school drama. I'm pretty sure you could make a decent adaptation of the Iliad about high school drama, a lot of the conflict is much the same.
Eh, maybe? I dunno, High School Drama is all Greek to me.