Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku

FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why can’t the movie be for everyone like the game is? Why make it purposefully empty and soulless so only small children with a short attention span can enjoy it? Take some notes from the Lego movie. It’s not that hard.

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  • 60fpsrefugee@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For one, it is easier/cheaper to make that instead of a good, enjoyable movie.

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  • UprisingVoltage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The mario movie was also good in my opinion. I enjoyed it and it did not feel like a cringefest at all (which I wish I could say about Minecraft’s trailer)

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• gap_betweenus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The idea that children don’t deserve good media is kind of wild to me.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A good movie for kids can be boring for adults sometimes.

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    • mods_mum@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure but it doesn’t have to be like that. Shrek is prime example that you can make a movie both groups enjoy

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      • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is like comparing paintings to the Mona Lisa. Shrek is the crowning achievement of our civilization.

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t say that it does, lol

        I said in another comment that there’ll always be demand for lower quality kids’ media, and that’s okay. Adults don’t need to enjoy every piece of children’s media.

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    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are plenty of “kids” movies and TV that are excellent for adults, too.

      Listing a few:

      1. Bluey
      2. Most of Pixar
      3. Adventure Time (after Season 1)
      4. Star Wars Rebels/Clone Wars (again, after Season 1)
      5. Shrek
      6. Star Trek: Prodigy

      This is not an exhaustive list, but you get the point.

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, I know that. And I knew it before, too…

        I guess people hopped on the downvote train before they got to the word “sometimes” in my comment, lol

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    • gap_betweenus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure (also I can’t think of any examples) - but than again the question becomes more complex and subjective: what is a good kids movie. But really often kids movie is used as an excuse for bad execution, art, storytelling, acting etc. - while I think kids deserve at least the same quality as adults maybe even better - since media has much more influence on children than on adults.

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        while I think kids deserve at least the same quality as adults maybe even better

        When we start buying that kids’ media enough that it’ll bring in as much money as other demographics’ media, and we choose to buy it based on its artistic merit and quality, then we’ll see more of that change.

        But I think there’s always going to be a demand for “kids’ stuff” that’s lower quality, and I think that’s okay. Adults don’t need to enjoy every piece of kids’ media that exists.

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• Moghul@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do kids movies have to be stupid and vapid? This looks completely soulless.

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• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why even bother making good movies, when children also watch elsa getting spiderman pregnant?

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  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trust me that’s way better than what kids are watching nowadays on yt shorts. That content should seriously be investigated for permanent/temporary brain damage.

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    • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who is out here downvoting in defense of yt shorts?

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that capital-G Gamers are still hell-bent on the GamerGate-era Kotaku war is deeply amusing to me.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sir, this is a good Pastafarian server, pls censor that filth. The childrens eyes can’t handle the raw sewage that is the word g*mer.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is exactly what someone who works at or has friends that work at Kotaku would say.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    G*mers should have been bullied more.

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  • Crismus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It really bugs me how every scandal co-ops the -gate from the Watergate scandal to try to give it more legitimacy.

    The Hotel was the Watergate Hotel. There is no gate in Kotaku or Gamer. Just another fundamental ignorance of reality the media has come to.

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry but Kotaku has always been 100% garbage, either bad writing, way behind the news, or both at the same time.

    Except if its labor related, they immediately remember how to write.

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  • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been scrolling through the comments to see the reaction to this trailer and this is the only comment that made me legit cringe.

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• mods_mum@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What does one have to do with the other? Snow white is also a story for children and yet adults can still be disappointed about the upcoming remake. Are you suggesting we can’t criticise content for kids? If yes then why?

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