Jman Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 This is where your subscriber money is going kids! We lost a Bone cartoon for this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) I don't even have Netflix. Worst of the streaming services by far! Been enjoying the hell out of Bleach: TYBW on Hulu though! Edited December 12, 2022 by OwlChemist81 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 At least it will suck and bomb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, MasqueradeOverture said: At least it will suck and bomb. How is that a good thing?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Jman said: How is that a good thing?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand poe's law strikes again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicinumatt Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Jman said: This is where your subscriber money is going kids! We lost a Bone cartoon for this! Have they not learned from the live action failure they did with Bebop? Edited December 12, 2022 by atomicinumatt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 finally, something live action that has superheroes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3ngag3 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 We already have a live action My Hero Academia. It's called 'Sky High' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, 3ngag3 said: We already have a live action My Hero Academia. It's called 'Sky High' I’ve heard this joke nonstop since the project was first announced years ago. So I’m just going to say it. FUCK SKY HIGH. IT WAS SHIT. A WASTE OF BRUCE CAMPBELL. A BOX OFFICE BOMB. IT SUCKED. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 6 hours ago, Jman said: I’ve heard this joke nonstop since the project was first announced years ago. So I’m just going to say it. FUCK SKY HIGH. IT WAS SHIT. A WASTE OF BRUCE CAMPBELL. A BOX OFFICE BOMB. IT SUCKED. I think it had potential, but they went wayyyyy too campy with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Well it was a Disney film marketed towards kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 3 hours ago, PokeNirvash said: Well it was a Disney film marketed towards kids. Always remember, just because something is marketed to kids.... doesn't mean it has to suck. It didn't seem to know what it was trying to be. A wacky parody/ comedy? Or a serious story about a super hero school? Harry Potter was about a wizard school and heavily marketed to kids, it didn't treat its story as a joke though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 21 hours ago, Jman said: This is where your subscriber money is going kids! We lost a Bone cartoon for this! To be fair, they just need to follow Super Sentai/Power Rangers formula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 7 hours ago, Daos said: I think it had potential, but they went wayyyyy too campy with it. I actually really liked Sky High. Superhero materials can be Super (ha) camp. I think it worked. And Bruce is the king of B movie camp. He was perfect for that film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpressAngel Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 You'd think at some point, western studios would look at the track record of live-action anime adaptations being both critical and financial poison and just cut their losses. Like, I'm pretty sure you can count on one hand the number of these things that have actually made a profit and/or got genuinely positive reception. If nobody's able to make money off of this idea, and the intended audience tends to be lukewarm to downright hostile about the idea, maybe it's just not a viable idea and you should let it go? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 4 hours ago, EmpressAngel said: You'd think at some point, western studios would look at the track record of live-action anime adaptations being both critical and financial poison and just cut their losses. Like, I'm pretty sure you can count on one hand the number of these things that have actually made a profit and/or got genuinely positive reception. If nobody's able to make money off of this idea, and the intended audience tends to be lukewarm to downright hostile about the idea, maybe it's just not a viable idea and you should let it go? I've actually always wondered about this. How does Hollywood actually make money? Most of what they put out is crap, and they put out far more bombs than money makers. My guess is the money makers make so much money that they pay for all the bombs and still have money left over. Look at DC movies. A whole wad of money losers. So what do they do? Put out Black Adam. It loses money. What will they do next? More DC movies. Why? Don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) 15 hours ago, EmpressAngel said: You'd think at some point, western studios would look at the track record of live-action anime adaptations being both critical and financial poison and just cut their losses. Like, I'm pretty sure you can count on one hand the number of these things that have actually made a profit and/or got genuinely positive reception. If nobody's able to make money off of this idea, and the intended audience tends to be lukewarm to downright hostile about the idea, maybe it's just not a viable idea and you should let it go? Yeah, but all the good comics have been used. Seriously, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel over at the House of Ideas (Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, Ms. Marvel), DC has no clue what it’s doing, and indie comics worth a damn have dried up. The problem is that manga adaptations don’t work nearly as well because they’re much less malleable. So they naturally go for the most obvious Shounen Jump titles with no way to translate that into a visual medium, or change so much the end result is slurry (the script for the LA Gundam from the Paper Girls and Y the Last Man guy is supposed to be complete shit). So be on the look out for Chainsaw Man in 2026 starring that black kid from Cobra Kai as Denji. And it’s directed by Quentin Tarantino. (Actually, Tarantino is the one director I would actually somewhat be morbidly curious with a Chainsaw Man movie). Edited December 14, 2022 by Jman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Technically we were scraping the bottom of the barrel when Guardians of the Galaxy came out. Like most people, I hadn't heard of any of those characters. But Marvel at the time had good enough writing to turn obscure characters into big franchises. Disney/Marvel doesn't have that anymore, and WB/DC never had it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) I would argue that Black Panther has sort of done that. And then there's Dr. Strange. On the DC side, Suicide Squad/Harley Quinn KIND of did that. Not many had really heard of King Shark before Ron Funches voiced him. Also, Aquaman IS relatively obscure. Edited December 14, 2022 by OwlChemist81 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 On 12/13/2022 at 11:08 AM, matrixman124 said: I actually really liked Sky High. Superhero materials can be Super (ha) camp. I think it worked. And Bruce is the king of B movie camp. He was perfect for that film. I wanted a sequel for a long ass time. Also me during a rewatch some years later: "Warr..en...Peace? Ohhhhhh!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 (edited) I understood the pun behind Warren Peace's name from the very first watch. And I hadn't even heard of Tolstoy at that point. Edited December 15, 2022 by PokeNirvash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 9 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said: I would argue that Black Panther has sort of done that. And then there's Dr. Strange. On the DC side, Suicide Squad/Harley Quinn KIND of did that. Not many had really heard of King Shark before Ron Funches voiced him. Also, Aquaman IS relatively obscure. Aquaman Obscure? What are you smokin bro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Daos said: Aquaman Obscure? What are you smokin bro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 No one watched old CN promos? "My ability to talk to fish is of no use to us here!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Top Gun said: No one watched old CN promos? "My ability to talk to fish is of no use to us here!" I mean he's not exactly well respected but almost every human being in America knows exactly who Aquaman is, even before the movies came out. That's the opposite of obscure. Edited December 16, 2022 by Daos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 Production has begun, headed by Joby Harold, the producer of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (aka the TV show with Godzilla). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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