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Nightweaver20xx

Evil

@Hollowfox the Stallion
Oh yeah, TF are a Hasbro property, that’s right… I guess anything that boosts their bottom line means more possibility of pony, so yeah. Go BumbleBee? ~

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Mr.Myoozik

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@Hollowfox the Stallion
Bay’s not directing? That’s a relief. Still, I’m with Weaver on this and say who asked for that? I’m pretty sure by the third film, people were getting tired of the Transformers films and they just kept making them because it still turned up a profit despite critics being hostile towards them. I know that the last film bored me to fucking death.

Also, Hasbro isn’t getting “bullied” by critics. They don’t care what they say or think, their films are still financially succesful regardless.

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Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person

Est. 2012

@ILoveMyoozik
If then why most movies based on Hasbro brands were critically scorned?

Also, not all of them were financially successful and the Jem movie was one of them, and I agree that it deserved to fail, even if I am not fond of the Jem series. Not even after Atomic Betty was replaced on The Hub (b4 it’s now Discovery Family) after the end of the series.

Why do you care about money rather than public opinion?
Do you think it’s okay to make terrible movies because they’re just a toy/game company?

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Mr.Myoozik

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@Hollowfox the Stallion
It’s because of the fact that Hasbro is a toy company first and foremost and not a movie studio. Their biggest criticism is that when they make these movies, it’s usually to promote their brand rather than put effort and quality into it. Now does this mean that the films themselves are shit? Considering that some of them become box office successes, not necessarily. Quality is subjective, so clearly there is some audience for these movies because they like them. The biggest example of this is MLP: The Movie.

Because of greed, that’s why. Movie studios and businesses are always finding ways to make some sort of profit, even if it means sacrificing their artistic integrity and ignoring public and critical backlash.
Like I said, quality is subjective, and Hasbro has proven that they can make something watchable.

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Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person

Est. 2012

@ILoveMyoozik
So was Lego but The Lego Movie succeeded in both ways.

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Mr.Myoozik

Music Connoisseur

@Hollowfox the Stallion
Who cares if a movie is succesful or not? If you liked it, then you liked it, simple as that.

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Nightweaver20xx

Evil

So Ralph Breaks the Internet is basically like a slightly better Emoji Movie?
I don’t think I’ll be going to watch How the Grinch Turned into a Pussy Tsundere, and then Sold Out, Hard.

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Icicle Niceicle 1517

Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes

@Nightweaver20xx
Ralph Breaks The Internet is like the Emoji Movie, if it actually had love and care put into it.

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Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person

Est. 2012

@icey wicey 1517
Even if it doesn’t have emojis, I am still gonna watch it regardless. (My niece wants to see RBTI with My Mom and I)

I mean, I liked Wreck It Ralph and I cannot wait for the sequel, even if I still like emojis and don’t treat it like trash over a film like The Emoji Movie just like the rest of the world.

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Applepie1973

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@Hollowfox the Stallion

@icey wicey 1517
Even if it doesn’t have emojis, I am still gonna watch it regardless.

And me.

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Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person

Est. 2012

Is this thread ded?

If so, lemme revive it.

Movies I have seen this year:

Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler / writ. Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole / from Marvel Studios)
Game Over Man! (dir. Kyle Newacheck / writ. Anders Holm / from Netflix, Mail Order Comedy and Point Grey)
Avengers: Infinity War (dir. Anthony & Joe Russo / writ. Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely / from Marvel Studios)
Deadpool 2 (dir. David Leitch / writ. Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick & Ryan Reynolds / from 20th Century Fox & Marvel)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (dir. Juan Antonio Bayona / writ. Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly / from Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment & Legendary Pictures)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (dir. Peyton Reed / writ. Gabriel Ferrari & Andrew Barrer, Paul Rudd, Erik Sommers & Chris McKenna / from Marvel Studios)
The Predator (dir. Shane Black / writ. Shane Black & Fred Dekker / from 20th Century Fox)
Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween (dir. Ari Sandel / writ. Rob Lieber / from Columbia Pictures & Sony Pictures Animation)
Venom (dir. Ruben Fleischer / writ. Scott Rosenberg & Jeff Pinkner / from Columbia Pictures and Marvel)
The Christmas Chronicles (dir. Clay Kaytis / writ. Matt Lieberman & David Guggenheim / from Netflix and 1492 Pictures)
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It-Ralph 2 (dir. Rich Moore & Phil Johnston / writ. Phil Johnston & Pamela Ribon / from Disney Animation Studios)
Ready Player One (dir. Steven Spielberg / writ. Zak Penn & Ernest Cline / from Warner Bros. & Amblin Entertainment)
Baywatch 2017 (dir. Seth Gordon / writ. Damian Shannon & Mark Swift / from Paramount Pictures and Skydance (under Uncharted))

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Icicle Niceicle 1517

Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes

I’ve been watching a bunch of old war and cowboy movies with my dad recently.

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Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person

Est. 2012

Also, it’s funny how the MLP movie wasn’t praised (with the exception of the audiences, especially its fanbase) despite being faithful to the source material, and yet Bumblebee, another film faithful to the source material, gets all the praise by both critics and audiences.

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Nightweaver20xx

Evil

@Hollowfox the Stallion
MLP doesn’t have nearly the marketing machine of Transformers. Also Transformers is “live action” (even though it’s half CG), so therefore it’s considered a more “valid” style of film than animation. That and there’s still the cultural stigma of liking anything perceived as too “girly” like MLP, so it will never receive nearly the same public praise or critical support. We still live in a very macho culture.

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Mr.Myoozik

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I just saw the film “Superfast”, and my God was it boring was all fuck. For a “parody” of The Fast & The Furious movie franchise made by the infamous Friedberg & Seltzer, it was a slog to sit through with overdrawn scenes that don’t even look like jokes but treat themselves as such. Also, these are grown adults acting immature just to get some cheap laughs, especially the impersonator for Brian, they should know better. They should’ve stuck with trying to cram every single modern at the time pop culture references they could find, cause at least it was their shtick and had “potential” for jokes. This was just a dull and miserable experience.

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Icicle Niceicle 1517

Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes

@ILoveMyoozik
They still make movies?

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Mr.Myoozik

Music Connoisseur

@icey wicey 1517
Well that film was from 2014, so I’m going to say kinda?

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Icicle Niceicle 1517

Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes

@ILoveMyoozik
I just hope they don’t try to parody the MCU or DCEU

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Mr.Myoozik

Music Connoisseur

@icey wicey 1517
Judging by how popular both are (the former more so), I would say that they definitely are going to do that.

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Icicle Niceicle 1517

Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes

@ILoveMyoozik
Oh no…

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Mr.Myoozik

Music Connoisseur

Is “Holmes & Watson” really that bad of a film? I’m hearing a lot of shit talk about that film and I’m morbidly curious to watch it to see how bad it is.

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Nightweaver20xx

Evil

@ILoveMyoozik
Let’s put it this way: Here are some comments from the critics on RT:

It’s so painfully unfunny we’re not sure it can legally be called a comedy.

Holmes & Watson is head-scratchingly unfunny. Filled to busting with talent and potential that, say in the hands of Aardman animation, might flourish as well as it should, but here it all falls disappointingly flat.

Puerile, imbecilic and imbued with the kind of casual 1970s sitcom homophobia that reads all male friendships as somehow suspect, this slack-jawed grossout comedy represents the nadir of Conan Doyle adaptations.

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Mr.Myoozik

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@Nightweaver20xx
Damn. Usually I don’t care for critics from sites like Rotten Tomatoes, but geez it is that bad, huh?

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Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person

Est. 2012

@Nightweaver20xx
This is why comedy will die as a genre. Because critics take jokes too seriously to the point of not liking a comedy.

But again, genres don’t die.

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Mr.Myoozik

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@Hollowfox the Stallion
It’s not that they take jokes seriously, it’s that jokes have to have some type of weight to them in order to make them funny. Also, just because one movie flopped and is getting hatred doesn’t mean that an entire genre of films is going to die.

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