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    Hmm let me think...Macross and Macross. Did I mention Macross?

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  1. Roy Focker
    I'm sorry but all this is just AI slop. It makes for some pretty screen grabs and looks good in short clips, but it is just slop. There are cuts every few second because the technology isn't there for a longer takes. Resulting in bad edit. Actors look and sound the part, but performances are robotic. These hacks are capitalizing off of fan nostalgia more than Disney is. Using AI to give fans what they wanted to see back in 1990 with the original actors. It is nice to see a young Luke Skywalker again but that's the only good these things going for them. Remember when fan films were actually real films.
  2. Roy Focker
    I bet at its release the makers and right holders considered M2 canon. Kawamori wasn't involved. Only when he returned to making Macross did M2 join the Kelvin timeline. Even the Kawamori post Macross TV stories belong in a 3rd alternative timeline in my opinion. In that timeline Macross TV happened but stylistically it looked more like DYRL in design. Once you make a retcon no matter how small it creates an alternative universe. Canon is meaningless. It is whatever they say it is to support the latest project. M2 and M+ just watch and enjoy both for their individual merits.
  3. Roy Focker
    This movie will sink Disney. Movies are just too expensive to make. I don't why. Maybe people see a movie production and automatically charge them triple for services. Too often we're seeing these multi hundred million dollars films that don't look that good which need to take in almost a billion to break even. Unless they can convince everyone in world to see it that's a near impossible feat. I look at this movie and think how much money will it cost? Throwing more money at the screen creates a bigger problem. You now have to convince everyone in the world to see it twice. It will be a miracle if they break even.
  4. Roy Focker
    I have this rule. It is called if the opening of your movie includes somebody pissing, you're in for a bad movie. See Water World for example. I have yet to see the new Superman movie but from what I've seen and read a bunch of monsters and cosmic weird stuff happens in it. I've got problem with superhero movies that bring cosmic chaos to Earth. It is unrealistic in how everyone is pretty much fine afterwards. That stuff is too strange for average people to deal with. The economy, essential services, law and order would all break in the mass hysteria. Not just in the city happen it but around the entire globe. When your movie take place in outer space you can get weird and it doesn't break the rules of reality. So, I'll give it a point for that.
  5. Roy Focker
    I would pay to see the original unaltered but I don't want to have the same experience as I did with the special editions. With a bunch of teenagers running around throwing shit and yelling. I want to see it with an audience of cinemaphiles in the screening room of a university. Who can appreciate it in silence for the film's narrative structure and technological achievements in the art of filmmaking.
  6. Roy Focker
    A few months ago, rumors were flying around YouTube this Bat in the Sun guy wasn't paying people as promised.
  7. Roy Focker
    The second one forgettable? I think not.
  8. Roy Focker
    It was the company owner. Went for Segway walk right off a cliff.
  9. Roy Focker
    Much of social media is one big jumble. You can't return to a conversation because it gets buried under a ton of other stuff or doesn't get seen at all because the algorithm isn't sharing it. Many people just post to please the algorithm by sharing to get likes or incite anger. That what Enshittification is about. In the beginning social media is very cool. It is more convenient and has a bunch of features. Once they get everyone onboard, they turn the place to shit on purpose.
  10. Roy Focker
    I'm aware of how tacky it looks for a Moderator to make a "look how cool our place is" post. I still have to make a post about it. With the rise of social media, we saw the decline of many traditional methods of online fan gatherings. Like forums. While useful most forums are very subject specific. Many fans have multiple interests.Those who wanted to be well informed would have to visit multiple forums a day. Social media made being a fan of multiple interests more convenient. Just visit Facebook, join a bunch of Groups and read all the news about your hobby fed directly to your timeline. Then came the enshittification, AI Slop, scammers and the meme spammers. Way too much clutter. You can't keep track of things. I now find myself starting to lurk old forums of the past. Wondering if I can remember my old login information. Social media has been helpful finding locals who share the same interests but for day-to-day online interactions to learn something new and share opinions I'm seeing forums as the superior method. Anyone else feeling nostalgic for the days of online fan communities before the age of social media?
  11. Roy Focker
    I agree with the logic that this was a dead character and a post death movie of them being alive could break the universe, but they had a good actor an award-winning director wanting to make a movie - you do what it takes to make that work.
  12. Roy Focker
    I don't understand what I just watched. Is this for the current audience or new audience or older audience? I can't describe the premise or tone. You could take that trailer and reedit to make trailers for at least two different shows.
  13. Roy Focker
    That Tron set is 1:18 scale and $260? When I saw pictures of it earlier, I assumed it was 1:12 scale. $260 for that scale made sense. Not at 1:18.
  14. Roy Focker
    Is the Night-Viper a kit bash? For such a cool design this one isn't that impressive.
  15. Roy Focker
    But is it fine enough to take the entire family to the theater pay full price for tickets and popcorn on the opening weekend when you can just wait for it on Disney Plus?
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