MCU to "Refocus” and Disney sinking faster than the Titanic (Starwars is dead Marvel is dead)

MissChief · 17 Jan 2024 at 19:52

A bit unfair on Tatiana Maslany, she was OK I thought.

Bigpig · 17 Jan 2024 at 20:13

They set out to own the trolls and owned themselves

C Kent · 17 Jan 2024 at 20:33

I wouldn't celebrate just yet, we've seen Disney row back sensible decisions like this time and time again.

Gerard · 17 Jan 2024 at 23:22

Bigpig said:
some good news

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1747427045817348170

Wonder what they blew their budget on, certainly wasn't the She-Hulk cg.

PlacidCasual · 18 Jan 2024 at 09:01

Gerard said:
Wonder what they blew their budget on, certainly wasn't the She-Hulk cg.

I suspect they have used massive amounts of greenscreen instead of real sets. The set photos for Secret Invasion showed ridiculous levels of CGI where it was utterly unnecessary. I bet they were weeing money away on effects that could have been done for a fraction of the price with props and locations.

Nitefly · 18 Jan 2024 at 11:01

I think there is a clickbait merry-go-round going on with some of this stuff as the new rumour is that the Rey films have not been cancelled.

Click click click click click

Ayahuasca · 18 Jan 2024 at 11:05

Nitefly said:
I think there is a clickbait merry-go-round going on with some of this stuff as the new rumour is that the Rey films have not been cancelled.

Click click click click click

Well it definitely works, look how many times this thread gets bumped with those tweets etc.

Bigpig · 18 Jan 2024 at 11:45

C Kent said:
I wouldn't celebrate just yet, we've seen Disney row back sensible decisions like this time and time again.

They got their hands full trying to sort the mess out over at Lucas hah.

Rey film brought forward, Rey film delayed full on damage control. Full on PR spin.

Lucas have announced and cancelled more films than they have released lol

Neil79 · 18 Jan 2024 at 19:30

Bigpig · 26 Jan 2024 at 07:06

lol is Disney handing out PR lessons now?

Who would have thought calling fans all the horrible buzz words would come round and bite them

Daisy Ridley Runs Massive Damage Control For Disney, Says Claims That Star Wars Fans Are Sexist Have Been "Blown Out Of Proportion"

In what is an ostensible PR move by Disney, Daisy Ridley has pushed back against the idea that Star Wars fans are wildly sexist.

boundingintocomics.com

iamtheoneneo · 26 Jan 2024 at 07:59

Well I think Daisy has a brain and understands that she needs a good script to work with ... most people would agree it's not the actors fault they get handed poorly thought out characters.

C Kent · 26 Jan 2024 at 09:36

To be fair I don't remember ridley doing the usual disney diatribe when ever previous sw properties she was involved in didn't live up to expectations, she was always good at fence sitting/not outright blaming fans.

Jokester · 26 Jan 2024 at 13:21

Yeah I would give Ridley the benefit of the doubt, especially since she's not really part of the Hollywood machine.

VincentHanna · 26 Jan 2024 at 13:28

PlacidCasual said:
I suspect they have used massive amounts of greenscreen instead of real sets. The set photos for Secret Invasion showed ridiculous levels of CGI where it was utterly unnecessary. I bet they were weeing money away on effects that could have been done for a fraction of the price with props and locations.

Remember they were all Covid productions.

It might have been easier to use green screen instead of location/sets

PlacidCasual · 26 Jan 2024 at 13:41

VincentHanna said:
Remember they were all Covid productions.

It might have been easier to use green screen instead of location/sets

That's a very fair point for locations and a lot of sets. Seeing a photo of Samuel L Jackson holding a fake gun thing that they then CGI'd into a regular firearm however look like wasteful CGI when a prop would have been better and cheaper though.

Jokester · 26 Jan 2024 at 13:46

PlacidCasual said:
That's a very fair point for locations and a lot of sets. Seeing a photo of Samuel L Jackson holding a fake gun thing that they then CGI'd into a regular firearm however look like wasteful CGI when a prop would have been better and cheaper though.

I guess it saves the embarressment of one of the actors killing a member of crew though.

Bigpig · 26 Jan 2024 at 16:09

C Kent said:
To be fair I don't remember ridley doing the usual disney diatribe when ever previous sw properties she was involved in didn't live up to expectations, she was always good at fence sitting/not outright blaming fans.

There’s direct quotes calling the Mary Sue thing sexiest but to be fair I actually don’t mind her.

ianh · 26 Jan 2024 at 23:00

PlacidCasual said:
That's a very fair point for locations and a lot of sets. Seeing a photo of Samuel L Jackson holding a fake gun thing that they then CGI'd into a regular firearm however look like wasteful CGI when a prop would have been better and cheaper though.

In one of the very rare times where I'll kind of defend Disney a little - The specific "gun" that was CGI'd in afterwards was actually a Veterinary dart gun which is extremely rare to find in most typical Hollywood armourers stashes, so CGI'ing that particular pistol does kind of, in that one case, make sense. However, I 100% agree woith your general point that far too many "simple" things which should have been practical were instead CGI'd which feels like a waste of time/money.

XPE · 27 Jan 2024 at 10:47

Unfortunately both will never get back to where they were, why? There is no passion behind it anymore. Its just people using it for clout, produce for people that need content.

Shamikebab · 27 Jan 2024 at 11:29

XPE said:
Unfortunately both will never get back to where they were, why? There is no passion behind it anymore. Its just people using it for clout, produce for people that need content.

The last thing you can accuse Dave Filoni of is lacking passion.