lori

@lori@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if Barbie as a character is less popular with American kids than Mario in 2023. Hasn’t Barbie been struggling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, Barbie was a movie where things actually happened and characters actually did things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the ‘Barbie’ Magic Won’t Be Easy to Recapture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right after getting home from this movie I went “man, this is going to be like Starship Troopers where it gets a ton of sequels that don’t understand what this movie was, huh?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'King Of The Hill' Dale Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dead At 64⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I already strongly felt that they shouldn’t reboot King of the Hill for a lot of reasons, but I especially can’t imagine them going through with it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Twisted Metal’ Sets Audience Record For Peacock Comedies, Earns Spot Among Streamer’s Top Originals Series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of, basically we live in the era of every IP possible getting some kind of adaptation just out of name recognition (and there’s not a modern Twisted Metal game to justify it so it could easily have been a nostalgia ploy and nothing else) and frankly I don’t think Twisted Metal has the most compelling writing as a video game either so it was a low bar to begin with. Twisted Metal Black has some fun monkey paw ideas but it would be hard to adapt a TV series to just that given that you’d need every contestant to win to see how their wishes go.

  So I didn’t have much reason to think it’d do well as a TV show but I think they took the best bits of it and let themselves get creative enough outside of it to make it work for the most part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Twisted Metal’ Sets Audience Record For Peacock Comedies, Earns Spot Among Streamer’s Top Originals Series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the weird middle ground of person who kind of knows some of the Twisted Metal game stories but doesn’t really care a lot about it, and I was shocked at how competent this show is. I definitely got the feeling they didn’t have the budget to do more car stuff but were fishing for a second season and more money for that. They did a great job with the car scenes they did have. But I think they made as good of a show as anyone is going to with Twisted Metal and it was a really fun watch. I was expecting way, way, way less from it.