when did rian johnson take a dump over an IP?
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Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 months agoThere’s a lot of space between “let’s try something new” and letting Rian Johnson take a hot, steaming dump on your IP because he feels like being an iconoclast.
At every turn Disney execs seem to be in a terrible fucking hurry and keep going off half cocked instead of working methodically and preserving the integrity of the IPs they spent billions acquiring. You’d think that if you spent enough money to build a moon colony you wouldn’t shoot from the hip as much.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
The Last Jedi. The guy fucked the canon so bad Abrams had to come back with “somehow Palpatine returned” to try to salvage any semblance of a storyline.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
last jedi is the 2nd best star wars movie. are you sure you dont mean rise of skywalker and whoever directed that mess?
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Oh I’m quite sure.
Just the hyperspace ramming alone shows the massive problems with that script. For the first time in the IP, every ship with a hyperdrive is a fleet shattering WMD. This immediately leads people to ask “If they could do that why don’t they always do that? Why don’t they rig up torpedoes that are nothing but a hyperdrive with a droid taped to it?”
Johnson wanted a pretty image and a trumped up climax, so he added hyperspace ramming because fuck whoever needs to write that into future films. Sure as shit, Abrams has to come back in the next move and try to handwave it away by having someone say “it was a one in a million shot”.
Disney let Johnson do whatever he wanted to an IP they paid ungodly amounts of money for, and other people had to come clean up the mess and take the blame for it. This entire problem could have been solved by Disney leadership giving a shit, having a long term plan, and supervising the people executing that plan.
AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Bruh I’m talking about the MCU, are you ok?
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Yeah, I’m saying that Disney doesn’t know how to responsibly manage an IP, including Marvel.
AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Ok, but everyone else in the thread is talking specifically about the MCU. Disney has absolutely had issues with Star Wars specifically because they didn’t plan things out, but that’s not a complaint you can make about Marvel.
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
That’s my argument: that Disney gets impatient and squanders their IP. They paid billions of dollars for Star Wars and fucked it up. They have been fucking up Marvel and will continue to fuck it up in similar fashion.