So it's not gonna be a fantasy setting, there's gonna be more humans than smurfs, probably ditch Gargamel in the process, and more than likely turn them into a clone of The Littles...
Oh Hollywood, I definitively love how you keep fixing what it isn't broken...
I was hoping, when i clicked on the thread, to find the words 'gotcha' in the first post.
Alas they are not there. Why do we have to add humans into fantasy cartoons that only had one to begin with. First Transformers features a bunch of humans nobody gives a shit about and now smurfs. I mean, the concept of the smurfs before worked why the hell make it another 'Arther and the invisible' or 'aliens in the attic'. I really don't care what happens to the smurfs but could hollywood just TRY not to use the same tired old formula. I mean hell, 'A Bug's life' worked and it's almost the same concept as the smurfs.
District 9 better be good, Hollywood. You freaking owe me a good movie after raping so much of my childhood.
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jprime
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 01:42 pm
Listen, if we want this sort of thing to stop, all we have to do is tell these people to their faces. Our numbers are great and we've got plenty of malcontence between us. It's just that simple.
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:00 pm
No, it's really not that simple. For every person who wants it stopped there are five who enjoy these movies and a few that don't care enough to try and stop it.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:06 pm
Be that as it may, there are hundreds of us and those other two groups wouldn't be obliged to do that sort of thing. They won't notice, anyway.
Fernin
Title: Comic Author
Joined: Dec 12 2008
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:28 pm
So, shall we just ignore the fact that practically none of us could afford this little vacation out to Hollywood to do some kind of pointless protest of bad movies? Shall we ignore the fact that a few hundred people telling Hollywood what we think isn't gonna make any difference at all? Shall we ignore the fact that if we get violent in any way, the police will stop us long before we can do anything that makes any difference at all?
If so, I'm all for it!
ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:29 pm
the panda is right JP, people will either get a kick out of these movies or won't give a shit what hollywood does.
I guess those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s got really spoiled when it comes to movies. All these remakes are nothing compared to what we grew up with and are mediocre. I'm slowly giving up, i'll still be a snark but i'm convinced that hollywood is so desperate for money that it will rape any classic franchise. I'm still waiting for BTTF to be remade horribly.
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Rydog
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:37 pm
Yeah, I wouldn't expect much success lobbying Hollywood until these movies stop making 100+ million a pop.
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:44 pm
Seriously, JPrime. We're nowhere as influential, sadly. You're welcome to go and blow yourself up in protest, or something. Just putting that out there. Take it or leave it.
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ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
Posts: 2752
Posted:
Aug 19 2009 02:49 pm
Rydog wrote:
Yeah, I wouldn't expect much success lobbying Hollywood until these movies stop making 100+ million a pop.
And what's sad is there are plenty of naive people who wont know this movie sucks until they paid and are in the theater. And as long as their kids love it they won't care. And even after that, the movies moves by so fast and the amount of ADD increases so much that everyone comes out of the picture saying 'meh' or remembering the cool explosions or action scenes. Notice how a lot of these remakes are making millions and are being penned by critics (i'm looking at you Transformers 2).
These movies will be successful as long as hollywood puts enough in to distract audiences from the terrible writing and unoriginal concepts. It's a lot like putting your keys in front of a cat only the cat pays you to dangle the keys for an hour and won't care what kind of keys you put in front of it as long as they are shiny.
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username
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Posted:
Aug 19 2009 11:42 pm
ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
Rydog wrote:
Yeah, I wouldn't expect much success lobbying Hollywood until these movies stop making 100+ million a pop.
And what's sad is there are plenty of naive people who wont know this movie sucks until they paid and are in the theater. And as long as their kids love it they won't care. And even after that, the movies moves by so fast and the amount of ADD increases so much that everyone comes out of the picture saying 'meh' or remembering the cool explosions or action scenes. Notice how a lot of these remakes are making millions and are being penned by critics (i'm looking at you Transformers 2).
These movies will be successful as long as hollywood puts enough in to distract audiences from the terrible writing and unoriginal concepts. It's a lot like putting your keys in front of a cat only the cat pays you to dangle the keys for an hour and won't care what kind of keys you put in front of it as long as they are shiny.
as long as producers keep giving them cash to make what the producers want, we are screwed. no matter how much we protest, no matter how many petitions we make, it ultimately depends on who has the money to produce said movie.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
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Posted:
Aug 20 2009 12:55 am
The problem is that it seems like Hollywood is producing remakes for audiences who never experienced the original thing.
Smurfs for an example, is weird. I know very few people who watch the show religiously and those dudes that do are not cool. At all. It was OK watching it while younger, but just like so many cartoons from the time period, it did not age well.
Why are they making a Smurf movie aimed towards children who were probably not born yet or barely old enough to remember when the show was originally on? They don't play it in syndication that fucking much, and children that age are watching far superior cartoons and programming.
It's like if they do a Saved by the Bell reunion, they shouldn't do it for teenagers like the show was originally aimed for, they should do it for the twenty and thirty somethings who watched the show when it originally aired. Show Slater doing steroids, Zach snorting coke at the "Attic", Screech making date rape drugs, Jessie getting "so excited" on pure Mexican Amphetamine pills, Kelly doing softcore porn for Jeff in his basement and Lisa busted for credit card fraud.
username
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Posted:
Aug 20 2009 01:00 am
joshwoodzell wrote:
The problem is that it seems like Hollywood is producing remakes for audiences who never experienced the original thing.
Smurfs for an example, is weird. I know very few people who watch the show religiously and those dudes that do are not cool. At all. It was OK watching it while younger, but just like so many cartoons from the time period, it did not age well.
Why are they making a Smurf movie aimed towards children who were probably not born yet or barely old enough to remember when the show was originally on? They don't play it in syndication that fucking much, and children that age are watching far superior cartoons and programming.
because it worked with Alvin & the Chipmunks. so, they feel it will work w/other old school franchises
Another part of my childhood raped in the ass. I only have a few favorite cartoon series left that have not yet been raped. I am not going to post them for fear that somebody from Hollywood might read it.
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
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Posted:
Aug 20 2009 09:29 am
joshwoodzell wrote:
Why are they making a Smurf movie aimed towards children who were probably not born yet or barely old enough to remember when the show was originally on? They don't play it in syndication that fucking much, and children that age are watching far superior cartoons and programming.
Because they aren't targeting the kids, they are targeting the ignorant parents of the kids. The parents will see a preview for a Smurfs Movie and think, "Holy Shit! I loved the smurfs when I was young! My kids will love them too! I'll bring the whole family!!"
ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
Posts: 2752
Posted:
Aug 20 2009 10:29 am
joshwoodzell wrote:
Why are they making a Smurf movie aimed towards children who were probably not born yet or barely old enough to remember when the show was originally on? They don't play it in syndication that fucking much, and children that age are watching far superior cartoons and programming.
I can answer this, it's because of 2 reasons:
1) People who liked the smurfs will go to it nomater what, so hollywood not only gets the money of parents of kids who are not familiar with smurfs but the fans as awell. It's like a 'retro-bonus'
2) your under the assumption that hollywood is creative enough to come up with something new, lately it's not and it's much easier to take something old and polish it rather then build something new and original.
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FNJ
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Posted:
Aug 31 2009 06:28 pm
username wrote:
joshwoodzell wrote:
The problem is that it seems like Hollywood is producing remakes for audiences who never experienced the original thing.
Smurfs for an example, is weird. I know very few people who watch the show religiously and those dudes that do are not cool. At all. It was OK watching it while younger, but just like so many cartoons from the time period, it did not age well.
Why are they making a Smurf movie aimed towards children who were probably not born yet or barely old enough to remember when the show was originally on? They don't play it in syndication that fucking much, and children that age are watching far superior cartoons and programming.
because it worked with Alvin & the Chipmunks. so, they feel it will work w/other old school franchises
they feel that they can breathe new life into these old franchises by changing things for a new generation. that's why people always complaining "it wasn't the saaaaame! why did they change things!" is retarded. it wasn't made for those people to begin with.
AtmanRyu
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Joined: Jun 25 2009
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Posted:
Aug 31 2009 08:50 pm
FNJ wrote:
username wrote:
joshwoodzell wrote:
The problem is that it seems like Hollywood is producing remakes for audiences who never experienced the original thing.
Smurfs for an example, is weird. I know very few people who watch the show religiously and those dudes that do are not cool. At all. It was OK watching it while younger, but just like so many cartoons from the time period, it did not age well.
Why are they making a Smurf movie aimed towards children who were probably not born yet or barely old enough to remember when the show was originally on? They don't play it in syndication that fucking much, and children that age are watching far superior cartoons and programming.
because it worked with Alvin & the Chipmunks. so, they feel it will work w/other old school franchises
they feel that they can breathe new life into these old franchises by changing things for a new generation. that's why people always complaining "it wasn't the saaaaame! why did they change things!" is retarded. it wasn't made for those people to begin with.
