by cybercat » Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:31 pm
Now, y'all know that 'kitty here is almost to that 'Charlie's waiting for me in the jungle' level of Straight Up Paranoid. Consider that as you consider this:
I cry bullsh**. The reason given is entirely specious. Bogus. Crap. I mean, think about it: okay, this team keeps making good (pretend they are, Megatron Wolf!!) movies, or books, or songs or whatever. Let's ditch them because they keep making hits.
Huh?
That's about the same as saying, eh, Lucy and Desi get kinda old doing the same shtick. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope? Eh, who wants to hear them do *that* thing they do again. Considering how much 'comfort' people seem to like in the formulae for their TV shows and movies (can ANYONE tell the Pirates of the Caribbean movies apart?), I can't believe that *originality* is something Hollywood's now trying to lay claim to. It's either irony or hypocrisy. You pick.
Consider it from the producers' perspective: If you like what they're doing, you keep them. If you think they're making masterpieces, you keep them (think about how the cast of _Friends_ or _Seinfeld_ pulled all that long green their last few seasons). No one ever said, y'know, I think maybe someone else should play Kramer on _Seinfeld_, just because the same actor playing the same role, well, then that doesn't give any new actors a chance. It's ri*donk*ulous.
I'm guessing (remember Charlie out there rustling in my tall grass, mind you) that someone higher up doesn't think this upcoming movie is going to do well and is trying to 'course correct'. Were I a Hollywood producer, concerned only with profit, I'd be concerned that this movie won't do well. One: massive CGI budget. Two: So many robot characters, who don't have the instant sight recognition because of massive redesigns? Face it, *we* are Transformers geeks, and we can't look at a 'bot and instantly say, OH, that's X! You and I, we're willing to do the homework to learn who's who on sight before we see the movie. Is Jack who thinks Rambo's a great series when it doesn't have all that pesky Vietnam stuff in it going to be able to follow the action of what might seem to him like a bunch of nameless 'bots clomping each other? Three: Too much love for the fans makes a movie almost impenetrable for non-fans. That's what I learned from _Tank Girl_, anyway.
I also learned Ice-T looks cute in a mutant kangaroo suit. But that's not the point. The point is they didn't make a TG 2.
This is Hollywood cutting bait. Next step (I say, in my best Cassandra voice) is they're going to hire some creative team from some other shallow action blockbuster who know nothing about the continuities to make them a nice people-heavy plot.
'Sing new songs' is the new way of saying 'handwriting on the wall.'
HK, having flashbacks to a war I was never in.
But anyway, maybe I'd like to see Simon Furman writing the script for the 3rd one.
