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EmptyRadar, w Turns out (*gasp*) - People are over the MCU and Madame Web is the proof

Did you read the article? "MCU" appears nowhere in it and Sony is mentioned 10+ times. This has nothing to do with the MCU whatsoever.

inkican,

Oh yes, of course, my bad. The last MCU movie made so much money - don't know what I was talking about ...

NOT.

I don't want to polarize or argue. My basic conclusion, having watched the quality of the storytelling decline AND the moviegoing populace check out is: People are over the MCU. Whether it's the Sony-based characters that are also tangentially connected to the MCU or otherwise.

themeatbridge,

The next MCU movie is going to be Deadpool and Wolverine this summer. Do you think that movie will make some money?

EmptyRadar,

Yeah, it's definitely clear that you don't enjoy the MCU. I don't think anyone has an issue with you feeling that way. What I don't like to see is when content is misrepresented in titles when posted, it degrades the quality of the platform as a whole and encourages reactions which aren't based on the actual content.

inkican,

it degrades the quality of the platform as a whole and encourages reactions which aren't based on the actual content.

As the guy who posts content 2-4 times a day because others don't, I would absolutely welcome this level of passion to posting new, appropriate, original content as opposed to complaining because the posted content doesn't meet your standard of quality.

EmptyRadar,

Cool, always glad to see another user who makes an effort to submit content - I'm glad you're doing the same. I took issue with your title for this post, and I think I expressed that adequately here. Take care.

inkican,

A wonderful real-world example of Cunningham's Law - my pleasure.

SeeJayEmm, w Star Trek: Discovery Cancellation Gets Even Worse
@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org avatar

The disconnect between the critical rating and the audience rating just reinforces for me that critics are out of touch and can’t be trusted.

theinspectorst,
@theinspectorst@kbin.social avatar

I don't think the 'audience' ratings can be fully trusted though. Any new film or TV show these days with prominent women, minority or LGBTQ characters (Discovery has all) gets routinely review-bombed by alt-right participants who likely haven't even watched it - that's just a fact of these ratings. My anecdotal discussions with irl Trek fans didn't find the same antagonism to Discovery that you find online.

Discovery wasn't the best of Star Trek, and I ended up switching off early Season 4, but much of the early hostility towards it was either that sort of bad faith, or focused on trivia (which leads me to wonder if it was just cover for the same - I cannot get my head around people who refused to watch because they didn't like the Klingon prosthetics).

Season 1 was solid, Season 2 was arguably even better (although owed a lot off that to Captain Pike). Season 3 had great promise in its premise but failed to realise it's potential, and then Season 4 just felt lost.

FaceDeer,
@FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar

It wasn't just the prosthetics that were awful, Klingon culture was completely different too. Why even call them Klingons?

Kepabar,

The shame is that the ending of Season 4 might be one of the most ’ Star Trek’ moments in the franchise. But the lead up to was so generic that many didn’t make it that far.

YodaDaCoda, w Star Trek: Discovery Cancellation Gets Even Worse
@YodaDaCoda@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah, because it wasn’t Star Trek.

WagesOf, w Turns out (*gasp*) - People are over the MCU and Madame Web is the proof
@WagesOf@gamepad.club avatar

@inkican people are over superhero movies made by shitty writers using a random grab bag of disconnected tropes.

Stop spending 99.999% of the funding on CGI flying punch scenes and find a GOOD STORY and people will come to the theater.

Oh, and madam web isn't MCU

originalucifer, w Adrian Tchaikovsky posts on his blog: " I cannot consider myself a Hugo winner and will not be citing the 2023 award result in my biographical details, or on this site"
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar
  1. Several works receiving large numbers of votes were ruled ineligible for unstated reasons, which from leaked emails appears to be the US-based administrators unilaterally deciding that they might cause political offence.
  2. A number of Chinese-language nominations appear to have been entirely disallowed.

The second, in what seems to be a mass disenfranchisement of Chinese voters, means that the composition of the shortlists, as they were presented to be voted on, was entirely unreliable, with an unknown number of Chinese nominees denied their chance at contending.

Diplomjodler, w The Sci-Fi Classic Novel James Cameron Couldn't Turn Into A Movie

It’s Hyperion by Dan Simmons, in case anyone is wondering.

UKFilmNerd, w A Disturbance in the Force finally reveals how The Star Wars Holiday Special went so wrong
@UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk avatar

A great documentary that explains the whole era of musical television entertainment at the time and what happened behind the scenes of the show.

Once you know the details, you’ll understand why it appears so bad when seen decades later.

Highly recommended. 👍

ChaoticEntropy, w Sci-fi author Andy Weir now has two high-end homes in Winnetka
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Getting your novel picked up as the basis of a high profile film release certainly helps, in both direct cash and increase in visibility/sales for that book and its sequels.

DarkGamer, w How Much Power Is 1.21 Gigawatts, Anyway? The Science Behind Back to the Future
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

How many gigawatts in a jiggawatt?

DonDeBon,
@DonDeBon@writing.exchange avatar

@DarkGamer @inkican

Actually, Jiggawatt is gigawatt mispronounced. So they are the same thing. :) There is an article in the NY Times regarding this that when they were doing research, someone mispronounced it to them.

po-lina-ergi,

Who am I going to trust? You, or a man who literally invented a time machine?

DonDeBon,
@DonDeBon@writing.exchange avatar
inkican,

Calvin? Why do you keep calling me Calvin?

inkican,

I finally invent something that works!

Cap, w How Much Power Is 1.21 Gigawatts, Anyway? The Science Behind Back to the Future
@Cap@kbin.social avatar

It would have the equivalent power of 1.3 million horses kicking a hole in the fabric of reality.

Finally explained in terms I can understand!

ivanafterall,

Finally some science to back up the movie!

Rozauhtuno,
@Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Sorry, I still don’t get it. How much would that be in Olympic swimming pools?

Cap,
@Cap@kbin.social avatar

The article does lack any conversion to Olympic swimming pools, bananas, or infinity stones so some of us may never truly grasp the scale of this power.

Bizarroland,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system

inkican,

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

glimse, w Turns out (*gasp*) - People are over the MCU and Madame Web is the proof

If nobody buys your poop sandwich, is that proof that people are over sandwiches?

I don’t enjoy the MCU but your conclusion is pretty bad

Volkditty, w Turns out (*gasp*) - People are over the MCU and Madame Web is the proof

Madame Web isn’t an MCU film, though.

themeatbridge,

It’s also an objectively terrible movie. People don’t want to go see terrible movies.

TubeTalkerX, w Star Trek: Discovery Cancellation Gets Even Worse

Each episode of Star Trek: Discovery is rumored to cost up to $10 million per episode.

What the hell were they spending this money on???

Mongostein,

Lens flare

RickRussell_CA, w ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Roars with Success: A Critical and Commercial Triumph
@RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world avatar

I was wondering why this article was talking about the film in present tense:

There you have it! A news article on Godzilla Minus One in the tone of Forbes. Let me know if there are any other adjustments or additions you would like.

Thanks for the garbage.

Iceblade02, w What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II

There’s way too little sci-fi w/o FTL

KISSmyOSFeddit,

All I want is a sci-fi series (any medium) that just plays in our solar system, without FTL, magical rocket drives, or aliens.
Just “what can humanity achieve in the far future, realistically?”
Cause even in 10000 years, we’re not going to have a star-system-spanning civilization (we may colonize other stars with hibernation or generation ships, but they’ll all be isolated by the distance). We’re not going to have much better rockets (cause the only way to move forward in a vacuum is to push stuff out the back).
But we could terraform and live on or around all planets in our solar system even with current tech, given enough time.

Expanse is very close, and I loved it, but it did have physics-breaking aliens which I didn’t care for much.

blackbirdbiryani,

sounds like you’d be interested in For All Mankind

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