Quote: (11-15-2016 01:33 PM)Meister Eckhart Wrote:
I think Disney is going to have to reverse course soon. TFA's script was already dated by the time its release, the SJW nonsense has already reached its high water mark.
This is part of Hollywood's problem, one that's going to be glaringly apparent in the next couple of years: it takes too long to write, film, and release a major motion picture. Even allowing yourself one year from script to screen is a maniacally difficult deadline to meet; most "tentpole" releases like this sucker have to be booked into theatres 2-3 years ahead. Cultural shifts are starting to happen too quickly for the studios to keep up, in other words.
Therefore, what you see on the silver screen is what the studio thought was hip or culturally acceptable roughly 2 years back, or maybe 1 year ago if major script doctoring is done. It's not possible to heavily mould a film's script in editing because pretty much the entire process of set and location selection, lighting, cinematography and the rest of it are more or less wedded to the script as written. When the studio does fuck around with the script in a major way, trying to change the tone, the results are usually pretty clear for all to see.
Hollywood therefore is going to have to eat some significant money over the next 12 months or so on its returns. Simply put, it's going to come across as propaganda as against what Trump is going to do to the US, and people won't respond to it.
On a related note: Rogue One's take will be an interesting barometer of the US politically. On the trailers alone Rogue One's script doesn't sound that much more impressive than your average Star Wars fan film -- and there are impressive ones out there. The only difference is the scale of onscreen mediocrity afforded by having a big budget.
Unless there is something really hearty and spiritual in this film, something more than you-go-grrlism and improbable female leadership and asskicking, I don't think this one is going to do fantastic returns. The one Star Wars nut I know, a guy roughly in my demographic, i.e. the demographic they need to turn out since the film is basically a riff off the OT, has said he's not terribly impressed with the look of it and is likely to give it a miss. This guy is regular blue pill and a little aspie, i.e. again, Star Wars's key demographic these days. If he represents the wider feel for the film, then I'd say the show has some problems. Putting an ageing Donnie Yen in it as a sort of Star Wars Zatoichi isn't going to terribly impress people I'd have thought, and while they've clearly cast token ethnicities all over the place to try and pull a Cameron-style
Titanic effect, my feeling is that it's not quite going to pull it off.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm
