I know this is about video games but… When Netflix made Deathnote it’s like they went out of their way to piss off the fans. Actively spitting on the source material.
I liked Ryuk, but that’s about it. I guess he’s just good in anything.
He was killer as the voice… But the fact that they made ryuk a straight up villain as opposed to the impartial observer that he always was was just another level of rage.
Mmm, good point, I’d actually forgotten about that.
mental block lol
And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for… An entire season of the Master Chief without his armor, having lengthy conversations and getting emotional about things he can’t control. But he gets to wear his armor for the last episode.
…Who’s Cortana?
“If you don’t like the color red, you’re not a real fan of Blue” – Pablo Whatshisface, clown
I’m out of the loop, mind sharing the original quote/source?
“If you don’t agree with the helmet coming off in the show, you don’t like our show” – Pablo Schreiber, actor who tries to convince people that he’s playing Master Chief. He’s disrespecting the character and then putting the blame on the audience. And he’s right, I haven’t played Halo other than Reach, CE, and half of Infinite, but I understand Chief’s competently stoic appeal and fucking hate the show.
I refuse to watch that show, I was planning on bing in it once it was done but as soon as I heard about the absolute disregard for the IP I stopped caring and every time I see it mentioned it somehow gets worse over there.
All they needed to do is space John Wick with just 20% more high level plot
League of Legends Arcane is pretty damn good though!
Adaptations are usually cash grabs because Hollywood is allergic to taking any risk or making anything that isn’t middle of the road, bland, mass appeal bollocks
“Lets take this unique ip, remove the unique bits and just have it be the same as every other shite movie we make”
They only want the name value and a guaranteed audience, sick of it. Make something new FFS.
Maybe I’ll get shit for this, but I really hate the whole “remake a movie but make the character black” purely because it’s lazy and makes it so you’re giving a black character a white story.
Take some fucking risk and make original black characters that actually represent real people and their heritage, rather than just wanting to remake a movie but mark off the black character checkbox. It’s a disservice.
Maybe I’ll get shit for this, but I really hate the whole “remake a movie but make the character black” purely because it’s lazy and makes it so you’re giving a black character a white story.
I’m white af so I tend not to comment on stuff like this but I agree. It always makes me think, like wouldn’t it be more productive to make a new character?
No, because that’s risky, and lazy race/gender swaps allow them to play the “It’s not a bad product, you’re just racist/sexist” to both gaslight consumers, as well as explain to investors why they keep having massive critical and/or financial flops.
“It’s not our fault (Large Studio Remake of a classic IP) lost millions of dollars, we made a great movie! It’s the consumer base being bigoted! Please keep giving us money.”
Isn’t Marvel (or was it DC?) known for having it out for gingerheads? If character has ginger hair and white skin, there’s mighty chance they’ll switch to black actor in movie lol.
I was thinking this. I don’t think other cultures even want media where it’s an existing story but the races are swapped. They want original stories that connect to who they are and their experiences.
One of the best recent examples I can think of is Everything Everywhere All At Once. That movie was steeped in Chinese culture, not just a story in new york in a bland city block apartment with Chinese faces.
And it worked. The Chinese heritage and how it evolved into the American-Chinese hybrid that many first-generation Chinese families in the US live through was a central theme of the movie. The movie would not have been the same without it.
