"We have a chance to tear their whole sick system down. Humans and bots fighting against the real enemy."
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Humans and bots take on the system in The Electric State trailer
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This looks like they took the visual design of The Electric State and just....ignored any other facet of the book.
Look I'm not saying Stalenhag's artbooks/work are super-clear linear narratives ready for Hollywood, but this looks like awful.
Look I'm not saying Stalenhag's artbooks/work are super-clear linear narratives ready for Hollywood, but this looks like awful.
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And the reason the Russo's are going back to Marvel becomes ever more apparent.
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I remember back when this was first announced having a modicum of hope this adaptation would turn out well. Sadly, this trailer proves me very, very wrong. Aside from some of the visual design, there's none of Stålenhag's book in this. They've taken a melancholic and meditative road trip through the
and given us....this....whatever this is.
Looks like they've completely done away with the secondary, hidden narrative hinted at by the illustrations. Not surprising, but it sucks to see.
A lost opportunity. I guess I can't expect Netflix to throw 300+ million dollars away on a
of a sci-fi tale.
I guess Netflix's efforts to reign in spending on original IP makes sense in light of....whatever this is.
Oh, and for those of you who've not had the pleasure of thumbing through one of Simon Stålenhag's works, I encourage you to do so. Amazon did a decent job at adapting his "Tales From the Loop". Far better than....whatever this is.
post-singularity apocalypse
Looks like they've completely done away with the secondary, hidden narrative hinted at by the illustrations. Not surprising, but it sucks to see.
A lost opportunity. I guess I can't expect Netflix to throw 300+ million dollars away on a
gigantic bummer
I guess Netflix's efforts to reign in spending on original IP makes sense in light of....whatever this is.
Oh, and for those of you who've not had the pleasure of thumbing through one of Simon Stålenhag's works, I encourage you to do so. Amazon did a decent job at adapting his "Tales From the Loop". Far better than....whatever this is.
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That was my first thought hearing about the Russo's picking up the Avengers again
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Hmm. I'm going to pick a few choice quotes from Ars's review of Tales from the Loop, since they align with my feelings about Stålenhag's art
Unfortunately, looking at the trailer, the whole "bleakly beautiful decay" concept seems to have been chucked out in favour of taking a generic YA plot and combining it with a bunch of characters from Borderlands. The movie, not the game, that is.
I don't think I'll be rushing to my sofa to watch this one.
Unfortunately, looking at the trailer, the whole "bleakly beautiful decay" concept seems to have been chucked out in favour of taking a generic YA plot and combining it with a bunch of characters from Borderlands. The movie, not the game, that is.
I don't think I'll be rushing to my sofa to watch this one.
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Netflix spent over $16 billion on content in 2024 alone and made over $8 billion in net income with this films production taking place between 2022-24 I doubt it made much of an impact to Netflix.
Plus Netflix is only the distributer Skybound (owned by Image comics) and Gozie AGBO (49% owned by Nexon) are the production companies funding this film.
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Not to be "that guy" but... it's "Avengers: Secret Wars" (plural, not singular).
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Same, tired of execs reflexively adding Chris Pratt to everything to please the masses
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I generally didn't mind the Mario movie that much. It was nice, easy, and made a ton of money. Unfortunately that success seems to have undone the lesson we learn from Tomorrow's War, and shit movies are getting greenlit with Pratt in the lead again.
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There will never be a more perfect lead actor for a Netflix movie than Chris Pratt. Pretty and robust on the outside …
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Outside of a few shining examples, ignoring the substance of the source material in favor of its aesthetic sounds pretty par for the course these days, especially at Netflix. I love Stålenhag's art and this is...a thoroughly Americana'd use of it.
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How come, every time they try to make a movie based on something that's not 100% like every other story, they make sure to make it that. I guess that's fine for the average Joe, but I feel like I've seen this movie a hundred times already.
I guess that's why I stopped watching movies and tv-series.
I guess that's why I stopped watching movies and tv-series.
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Looking at the source material and then that movie poster... We're gonna need to invent new mathematics to accurately describe how badly they missed the point.
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I don't think I'll ever get used to the new term "drop". I loaded the article and was searching why Netflix would drop a trailer, maybe it was too racy or they canceled the movie. It took a bit for me to realize again the term "drop" means "released" these days. :/
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And "Wise Cracking". You know it's going to be dross when they add that.
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I enjoyed The Tomorrow War and Pratt was fine in it.
I don't go out of my way to see a movie or show because of him, but I don't avoid them either. He's "okay actor" in my book.
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Because the Average Joe isn't going to spend money on something challenging/untested, and the refined palates aren't going to spend enough to make up for the lack of AJs.
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Sorry but no. After "Welcome to Collinwood" which was so bad, I turned it off after 20 mins never again.
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I find this trend to be marginally better than pushing The Rock/Kevin Hart duo on us at every chance...
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See, where it all started to go wrong was where they seem to have left out Oldsmobile Ninety Eight from the book.
That bit of car-casting was a perfect choice -- a perfectly dated relic of 90s American decadence gone to seed.
That bit of car-casting was a perfect choice -- a perfectly dated relic of 90s American decadence gone to seed.
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Ugh. I've loved much of the Russo Brothers' work since seeing it in Community (Winter Soldier's my favorite Marvel movie, by a long shot), with their deft combination of character, action, and wit. And I fell in love with Simon Stålenhag's work since I first stumbled across a painting of his. But this is the precise opposite of the vibe I get from Stålenhag's imagery. I adore how Stålenhag depicts a sense of loneliness, the wan Scandinavian light, the commonplace acceptance of imagery that in another illustrator's work would evoke naive awe.
Tales From The Loop actually managed to capture some of that Stålenhag vibe; this trailer feels profoundly false and glib, a bad joke. It's not so much peanut butter and chocolate, as aquavit and Marshmallow fluff. Honestly, I wish both the Russo Brothers and Stålenhag great success at everything they do, but I also wish the two had never met, based on this.
Tales From The Loop actually managed to capture some of that Stålenhag vibe; this trailer feels profoundly false and glib, a bad joke. It's not so much peanut butter and chocolate, as aquavit and Marshmallow fluff. Honestly, I wish both the Russo Brothers and Stålenhag great success at everything they do, but I also wish the two had never met, based on this.
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Is there a reliable source for that budget? Not that I'd be surprised if it were true, but googling takes me to worldofreel, which definitely isn't reliable, but that sources puck.news, and I have no idea how reliable that is as I've never heard about it until now.
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New? "Drop" particularly in regard to a music album surprise release, started in the late 20th century (ok, 1990s).I don't think I'll ever get used to the new term "drop". I loaded the article and was searching why Netflix would drop a trailer, maybe it was too racy or they canceled the movie. It took a bit for me to realize again the term "drop" means "released" these days. :/
Releasing a bomb, like a Netflix movie starring Chris Pratt, was known as "dropping" much further back.
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araczynski
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I know I'm in the minority, but my tolerance for Chris Pratt/Ryan Reynolds style of prepubescent humor is so shallow that I wouldn't mind if I never heard either of them open their mouths again.
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Really? They lost me at "wise-cracking robot sidekick". Pratt at least can kind of act OK, as long as he's playing a macho white guy hero (Harrison Ford was the same way). Having a wise-cracking robot sidekick sounds like a parody of a stupid corporate suit getting involved in the direction of the art.
Also, I own a copy of the Electric State. That preview seems like it entirely missed the point of that book. Where are the hordes of dead or comatose people left looking at their
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I love this book, but a comedy action thriller is not what I was hoping for...
The best part (besides the art, which at least seems to come through a bit here), is quiet, slow, dystopian trek. The depth. The introspection.
The best part (besides the art, which at least seems to come through a bit here), is quiet, slow, dystopian trek. The depth. The introspection.
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