TRANSGENDERThe wailing and gnashing of teeth has begun, events are proceeding just as prophesied- Harry Potter fans lose their minds over HBOMax TV series with JKR in control.

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[–]BenitoGreen99 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Why reimagine/reboot HP? The movies hold up to this day

[–]Wanderingthehalls 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The movies leave out so much of the story they are almost meaningless. My 10 year old recently read the first book, then watched the movie. He was genuinely angry at the lack of context in most of the scenes. And he said Harry was like a different character in the movie as he was bland and never does anything wrong. He's reading the second book now and says he's not sure if he'll bother with the second movie. But he's excited to see a tv series as it will have room to show the full story.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Because Warner Brothers is absolutely broke and the only IP they have that is actually reasonably profitable is HP. WB has been criminally managed for decades and even though it holds the rights to DC (Batman and Superman etc) and the rights to the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films it hasn’t been able to make money on them for years.

As a guide to how absolutely shit they are, the 20th anniversary of the Lord of the Rings films passed and they didn’t even mark it with a rerelease of the trilogy or even special blue-ray releases. It’s criminal mismanagement.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting. They could make bank on anti-woke content. Mario Bros is doing well for them right now, probably in part because it has no woke shit in it. Which is why the left hates it, also because Pratt is in it.

Someone there must be regretting putting James Gunn in charge of the DCU, because he'll most likely steer it straight into wokeness.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

James Gunn is fucking stupid. He not only got rid of the wildly popular Henry Cavill as Superman, he has apparently filled the writing teams with woke activists and selected a bunch of second-tier, if that, DC characters to lead off with - fucking Booster Gold! I had to google that character when the Gunn announcement was released.

WB/DC is also running into the problem of trying to start a universe up during the dying days of the superhero genre, they’re a decade late having wasted their first go round by trying to rush Justice League before setting up the universe.

Look, you don’t need “anti-woke” content, just make entertaining content. Stop rehashing the same old girlboss, Mary Sue shit and just make good entertaining films and TV. Top Gun Maverick wasn’t “anti-woke” it was just hugely entertaining, I hear the same with John Wick IV, and I really enjoyed Tár of all movies because the characters engaged me and I found the story entertaining.

Tár was really unexpected for me, I saw it on a whim and even though I’m a straight, brownish male, the story of a lesbian, pale as fuck, conductor/composer having a psychotic break spoke to me….so much for muh representation eh!

Hollywood just needs to start making entertainment again, but as Russel T Davies said, there’s too many people writing for TV that don’t actually like the medium and as a result they can’t actually do it. I suspect the same is true for film.

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

  • What is a Woman was probably extremely successful for DW.
  • Sick (2022) is a slick little Scream-esque horror/thriller by Kevin Williamson and also a great send-up of extreme covidians.
  • Bodies Bodies Bodies is a black comedy horror about a group of gen Zs, their social media addict personality disorders and how their victim ladder group politics lead to to chaos and death.

Criticising woke is virgin territory, and there's so much of it to pull material from, unlike "let's celebrate this dude pretending to be a woman, over and over and over again."