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Same for me in the 80’s and 90’s. It was something to look forward to, all your friends were going to be there, you’d hit up the arcade, have fun waiting in line together. Now it feels like work

That is a fair point. Costco did not deserve a low blow like that. I don’t think Dollar General even does

I like where your head is at. I feel it’s going to be “legit eye candy” from someone who cared vs “the 7th Circle Of Hell though

It can definitely be a great start. Might need to burn it to the ground to save it

Just had this conversation with a friend the other day. The point of movie used to be to have genuine fun, not get some lame lecture

I’m right there with you. Fantastic Four is hard enough to do as it is because you have to get the family dynamic right and it is based on the 60’s, which is what makes it great but sadly, a family based super hero team is outdated. So to make it harder is yourself as is, is just peak Disney. I love Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn, but this has potential for disaster written all over it

😂 Your move Sony.

I don’t either. Especially when he’s best at telling 90 minutes of someone else’s stories instead 😂

Thanks bud. I really did want to like these films. Zack needs to realize writing just isn't his strength, even Kubrick didn't write his best works.

Same here 😂 Mostly because both films know exactly what they are and don’t try to be anything else….and they’re just good, dumb fun.

@@ThePaladinJock Bunny!!!! BALL BALL

@@_dh 😂I can't stand prequels or spinoffs, but if I had to make one, I'd be ok with a story about Darwin and Manerva Mayflower.

@@ThePaladinJock that lady was so unhinged it was great

@@_dh Perfect role for Sandra Bernhard

I’d agree. I wasn’t really referring to him crafting the story visually, just translating. I wanted to elaborate more but I already had to cut about 4 minutes of video out because it was getting way too long. It’s surprising how fast time goes by and the sacrifices you have to make, when trying to make a point, when you’re trying to keep something to 10 minutes 😂 He’s great at translating page to screen. That’s about it. He doesn’t know how to tell a story.

I was actually thinking about doing a video at some point on visuals, that Superman shot being a good example, where at first it looks cool and then you think about it and it makes no sense. Working on a video looking at Empire with a modern eye and how silly some of the things are in that movie, tongue in cheek, but how we will overlook them because the storytelling is good whereas most recent films have zero story so we have all day to nitpick them.

Zack and JJ should get together for a trilogy that is just slo-mo lens flares

😂Now I'm picturing a "Dutch angle" slo-mo shot of someone shaking oregano on Zack's Italian B.M.T lol

I won’t mention the frankenstein lens he used for The Army Of The Dead which made me feel like he had just gotten out of his first film class where he learned about Depth Of Field. He’s genuinely the ,often mentioned, kid bashing his figures together. He never evolved. People loved the speed ramping in 300 and he took it as people saying “DO NOTHING BUT THAT!” I would also like to point out I have TWO devastators in my advanced age and thankfully they never transformed into whatever Michael Bay created.

@@theroguerider Nice! Bay’s Devastator was so bad. Army Of The Dead was such a disaster. That movie is to visual dysfunction, what Tenet is to audio dysfunction 😂 I still need to buy a Devastator for my collection. Just bought a CIB Optimus, so Devastator might have to be next.

It definitely felt like work and not entertainment 😂

A Border Run is definitely in order

Heathen! All restaurants are Pizza Hut!

They completely went for the sterile, overpowered Carol Danvers. So predictable and boring

Prettt much. Undo the actual work for change that good people are trying to do, while making a quick buck.

Nailed it. Their true product isn’t narrative consulting, it’s selling a “Get Out Of Jail” card to companies that buys the company protection from the cancel mob….for now. If you took out the names and the parts about gaming and described it to them, they’d think you’re talking about a mafia related protection racket

I was tempted to throw some Herschel in there 😂

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She’s definitely a nepo-baby with an extremely limited acting range 😂

Not a bad loop to be in 😂 I currently have “Hatful Of Hollow” on my turntable

So true. Imagine turning down all that draft capital to draft Akili Smith 😂 They likely would have still gotten Akili at #12 too. Or possibly ended up with Culpepper. Double whammy

I didn't mind Bran on the throne. It kind of makes sense. They need someone to bring stability while the country rebuilds. I just hated how rushed it was and for once, it wasn't a studio's fault. Daenerys's turn was way too fast and about as believable as Anakin's in Revenge Of The Sith. If Season 8 had about 4 more episodes, and some stronger writing, I probably would have liked it more. Benioff & Weiss were just in over their heads without source material to work from. Season 8 almost felt like a spinoff.

@@ThePaladinJock Bran on the throne was the least of the problems.

I have no interest in either side Im a fiscal conservative, sociall liberal and both sides annoy me 😂 The Far Right likes to pretend things don’t exist and the Far Left likes to pretend the world is ending. Climate change being a prime example.. My other degree is in Physics with an Astro emphasis, so I had to study a lot of meteorology, climatology and Paleoclimatology. The Far Right pretends it’s a myth and the Far Left has weaponized it to try and attach all their bull crap pork spending bills to it. I should have elaborated more on that part at the end as well. The video started out at about 18 minutes and I wanted to keep it as close to 10 as possible. I don’t really want a boycott per se . I want the consumer to just be a little wiser with their money. I feel we’ve all become a bit robotic in our spending, myself included, and companies have ran with it. I think it’s time for the customer to just become a bit more discerning again. There’s probably another video in there somewhere. Great comments and insight. Cheers 🍻

!00% true both in monetary and "ideological" terms. At this point I'm not even pissed off, other than it makes for a more entertaining presentation in a video. In reality, apathy has set in. "Corporate wokeness" is a mask they wear. There is zero principle or true ideology behind it. It's purely for show, social equity points, (whose value is debatable at best) and like you said...a pure money grab. Unfortunately, had I gone done that route, my video instead of going from 20 minutes to 11, would have gone from 20 to 40 😂 I could make 10 videos just on that. Perhaps one in the future would be interesting to dive deeper. I have an economics minor, so I keep a passive interest in the goings on of the market outside my own investments. Though, the things you're alluding to make following it more frustrating than interesting. With oligopolies and monopolies on the rise and enforcement against those things at a dwindling low, the smaller studios and companies can continue to lose money and market share in the short term because the system will just continue to run as it does, up the food chain. Disney is merely pissing around and killing time until a company like Apple buys them. Iger's dream scenario. Then he can ride off into the sunset, patting himself and his ego on the back.

I like when expectations are subverted. I probably should have elaborated more. I just don’t like it when a hack like Rian Johnson “subverts expectations” just for the sake of “subverting expectations” with no real artistic merit behind it. In the hands of a talented director, it can create a masterpiece. In the hands of someone like Rian Johnson, it just creates an unrecognizable piece of crap 😂

If Hollywood could make something new and original, why buy Star Wars at all ? Of course, the answer is, they CAN'T make anything original, at least not in large enough numbers to make any real money. They own Star Wars to milk it's memberberries for every drop of green alien titty milk they can squeeze out of it, and they used Mark Hamill and the other OG cast to do it, even thought they ARE way too old for this sh!t. In the Disney Star Wars movies, all of the new characters were completely uninteresting, and they couldn't figure out anything cool to do with them, and the Disney + shows were just complete jokes, that somehow cost what an actual movie would have cost. I'm not sure if even Lucas could have made a decent episode 7-9, just because his ideas for those movies had also left the heroes journey, and I'm not sure the envisioned plots would have been interesting in movie form.

The Star Wars Expanded Universe did that.

​@@sprinkle61They should have let STAR WARS die with some dignity instead of sucking the corpse dry for profit.

@@HolyknightVader999 Even the EU got a bit ridiculous 😂 But I’ll take the best of the EU any day

@@ThePaladinJock Exactly. It was ridiculous, but in a fun sort of way.

Thanks! Appreciate it. I love those guys, they're amazing at what they do and I 100% get where they are coming from. I try my best to stay optimistic and hopeful with my favorite IP's but I'm also a realist. These companies aren't making it easy, but I try to be the eternal optimist.

Sadly true. They run the numbers and if it's even a sliver on the side of what direction they'd like to go, they take that path of least resistance. To quote Office Space: "We fixed the glitch." Now, how that manifests in each company, depends on too many variables too count. But there are some companies that could have avoided or staved off their destruction by returning their focus to the customer. Customer service has become a niche market and as the tide turns in some markets, there is a return on a smaller scale, to customer focused business models. But to your point, the oligopolies can just keep cruising along with zero reason to change.

100%. Only reason I hung on with Best Buy was that they are brick and mortar and they gave me that great customer service in the past. They’ve now lost my wallet.

All that does is ensure we only get whatever those with the fastest wallets want. Why invoke democracy when talking about capitalism when they're opposites? Unless you like oligarchy. Because that's how you get an oligarchy.

There’s only one good store in our entire area where the employees care and are knowledgeable and that’s the one I went to. Unfortunately their hands were tied. The other 7 stores are ghost towns with idiot employees that don’t care and couldn’t answer a question.

Good question and in theory you would think that, but they made changes to the policy after the tires. It had to be their product. So in essence it was no longer a pure “no questions asked” but they still were regarded as having the best return policy. I forget what the overall net gain was, but it was substantial.

Very true. The average investor doesn’t care that much as long as they see growth. But in cases like Disney, when you’re doubling the stock price with steady growth over years and then halving that stock price in a very short time, based on very obvious and public decisions, the natives get restless.

True, which means a CEO change and layoffs, then back to BAU of trying to make Blackrock and the other hedge funds happy. @@ThePaladinJock

@@amamdawhatever Sadly, you're spot on.

Thanks a lot. Great to hear you’re a marketing student. Stick with it, lots of cool, interesting jobs out there right now. I’m about to start a guerrilla campaign for a friend’s niche retro tv/film premium format magazine. As far as pandering, I wanted to keep the video to 10 minutes, but I should have elaborated more. What I was getting at and even I noticed I could have stated better, is that Star Wars has a core formula. Just its bare bone basics in storytelling style, not actual story or subject matter. Stripped down to its very frame. Basically the hero’s journey. Start with that and then make it as unique and original as possible. I’m not someone who wants more Skywalker stories. I didn’t even want a sequel trilogy. I wanted a Knights Of The Old Republic type story. Dune Part 1 Denis took some liberties, because they aren’t linear style books, but he strictly followed The Hero’s Journey and that's why it resonated with audiences. We went along for the ride with Paul like we did with a young Luke. Ups & downs. The Kenobi series, Boba Fett, the sequels, were all just sterile, lazy piles of sludge in my opinion. I think its possible to tell something fresh, exciting and unique but also follow the core basics of Star Wars. At some point I'll probably make a video elaborating on just this idea.

@@ThePaladinJock I’ll definitely be on the lookout for that video! I agree that they are very bare bones in the sense of a hero’s journey. I think there is some quote about 90% of stories coming from 3 general story structures or something like that. What is interesting about the story of Dune is that it's showing a downfall more than a rising up. This is what will be most interesting for me to see when it comes to Dune Messiah. Will they keep Timothee as the face of the film and market it as him being the star or will they lean heavier on Zendaya as the "good side". Side note about the cool jobs part. Currently applying places as I graduate this May. I am intrigued in film marketing. Do you have any advice about breaking into the job market? Its rough out there right now hahahaha

@@MangoChunks Paul is getting the fall Anakin deserved. Tough to guess where they will go. Chani in the books is all-in with Paul. I have a feeling she'd come back to him in the films. I think the only reason Denis ended the film like that, was to show casual fans that Paul was starting to lose control. Chani was his way of showing that, the fact she was upset with him. Kind of like when Padme said "I don't know you anymore." I'd guess the next film starts out with her coming back in the fold with him because she loves him. As for breaking in, I'd recommend one of two ways: either trying to get in with a large company that has a recognizable name and reputation, that will look good on your resume for your next job or get in with a smaller, younger company, where you will gain more experience and likely have a variety of job roles that will look good for your next employer. It's when you get caught in the middle that sucks. Either name recognition and reputation or smaller company, hands on experience is best for that first job. If you want to try and go straight into movie marketing, you just need to get your foot in the door any way possible. My friend worked for Paramount after college. I think he started as an assistant.

I would disagree with you, there is a reason we have genre films and comics . Genre is another way of saying culture and counter culture. Like lord of the rings but want it in space. Well there is a genre for that. The Japanese industry always says you should think of what's appealing to an audience . In Japan it's about the "sale" of an idea I.e the ego needed to play football Vs a manga about the power of friendship and football Vs being the son of a famous footballer and living up to expectations. The American industry has become about the ego of the sales team . It's like a person standing in front of your TV trying to get your attention. They have turned the industry into one of idol worship where you're supposed to worship the people making it. Dune worked not because it was fresh, but because it had that old Hollywood charm

@@raven-sf3di I agree with every single thing you just said. So I'm trying to figure out what you specifically disagree with. Those were kind of some of the points I was hinting at. Unfortunately you can't go in depth on every point or you end up with a 40 minute video that nobody will watch 😂 My point was Hollywood is all about ego. That's the crisis. They don't care about the art, they care about the prestige they hope it brings, unfortunately they skip the art part. Meanwhile countries like Japan, South Korea and India are doing "Hollywood" better than Hollywood.

Thank you! Stuff breaks. Bad things get made. Shit happens. Just sad to see companies caring less and less about their customers.

Minimum wage use to buy alot more to

They’re definitely not, but the store managers making $100K used to and had power to make actual customer service decisions. Like I said , it’s the corporate decision makers that drive policy and their policy has driven me to take my $10K or so I spend a year on electronics, elsewhere. Corporate should care. But, Best Buy stores are closing left and right as online sales continue to decline as well. Best Buy had its glory days. RIP another store chain.

@@ThePaladinJock and maybe that's part of the problem why is a store manager making almost as much as a physician? I completely understand why youth feels discouraged, buying power for these jobs is at below the poverty level and there are no more bootstraps to grasp for.

I think the mental anguish of a series, might actually be worth the countless hours of entertainment that would flood RUclips after each episode.

No way, bro! Never in a million years, man!

@taejasper1343 Watch The Flash is a Masterpiece. It deserves a CW Live Action Flash Show and you'll get my quote

Sadly, so true. It’s a systematic lowering of expectations.

Thanks and 100%. Disney is infiltrated by activists at every level. I think one of the main culprits for the executives is obviously hubris, but on a deeper level, these executives at these levels always want to conquer something else. Someone like Kathleen Kennedy fancies herself an artist and creative. I think that describes Kevin Feige to a degree as well. I think Iger, as successful as he is, has a chip on his shoulder and a complex from starting out as a weatherman and not some blue chip, Harvard grad prodigy, like other CEO’s, which is why I think he fancied himself a politician and had pie in the sky dreams of political office. Kathy starting as an assistant and having to work her way up in a “Boys Club”. I think she felt this was her chance to show George and Spielberg that she could hang with the boys. I think they also got intoxicated by the social clout their virtue signaling bought them in their social and professional circles. Always telling themselves they could change things or fix it with the next one. Almost addict level behavior. At least that’s my Arm Chair Psychologist perception 😂 I guarantee the actual people that care and our working in marketing are tearing their hair out because all the hard work and data they are collecting, might as well just be burned in a pile or put through a shredder lol. Cheers

@@ThePaladinJock Iger having an inferiority complex would help explain the savior complex he demonstrated when he was going on about the Black Panther, Moana, and Tiana movies (notice a theme there?) on that video released a few months back . . . all very cringe! My theory is Disney got rid of all their sane, experienced maketing people, just like they got rid of senior artists at Pixar, and replaced them with younger females ages 20-40 that they found on Twitter, just like they got new artists for Pixar off of Tumblr. What I mean is their decisions make sense (sort of) if all of their marketing information is based off of Twitter, which skews younger, more left, and more female. Unfortunately for Disney, despite what they say in their Twitter posts that group doesn't like and won't pay for male- or family-oriented IPs like Marvel and Star Wars like they will for Barbie.

@@guygadbois3010 Nailed it. I'm a fairly down the middle libertarian politically, but rich, white liberals in positions of power, sure do love to put themselves on pedestals as saviors of the people. As if any of my friends that aren't straight, white males, give two shits about Bob Iger or Kathleen Kennedy and what they have to say 😂I'm sure they had a John Lasseter type leading marketing and that person said: "Screw this." Any hangers on are the ones ripping their hair out. Even if you ignore how Twitter skews, it's still a small percentage of a small percentage of your audience and to your point, the SJW's that are the loudest and try to change everything, don't even consume your product when you bow to their demands. They're already on to destroying the next property. They're like a plague of locusts that destroy everything and buy nothing.

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I just find it hilarious that we are called "toxic" because we want quality, if we're going to give up our time and money.

Thanks. Appreciate it. George definitely likes to overcomplicate things. For as great as a lot of the show was, some of the battle scenes left a lot to be desired.

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I want to get the Dominic Toretto “You embarrass me!” clip 😂 Get on that! You need to see this on an Ultra Screen 🤘🏼

LoL You've been killing it with your videos. I just have a natural proclivity to hate Disney and companies like it. Before switching to Marketing & Physics, I was studying to go into forensic accounting. So I have a disdain and interest in shady corporations like Disney and scumbags like Bob Iger 😂