Two things happen to new TV formats: 1) We assumes ALL programming will be in the new format (until we discovered that live 3D sports was too hard to film),
And 2) Gamers assume new screens were made FOR THEM. (Gamers complained “Only a few 3D games, all I could do was watch movies!” Um, yeah!)
It was basically the Broadway poster everyone knew in the early 80’s, which was the draw, but the movie poster got to embellish other things happening.
(And even then, only three actual scenes from the play ended up in the film.)
Allow me to catch you up on 70’s Saturday morning lore:
(TBH, I grew up sort of picturing spending 2020 doing other things than ordering DoorDash, campaigning for Harris and watching the live-action Mulan. 🫤) youtu.be/8nGS0UbmGD8
Yep: That was how Paramount/Hasbro planned to spend their Transformers money, with board-game movies, and it blew up on launch.
Ouija and Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots were sold off, a game-friendly Clue reboot is missing in ether, and no trace of the Candyland project Adam Sandler bought.
This one has been rolling around for LITERALLY ten years, ever since 3D gave studios the idea that they could make a third Men in Black movie or a third Ghostbusters movie (yes, that one).
When a project is revived from the dead after ten to twelve years, it’s not usually a sign of quality.
Ben Elton’s mix of anger and silliness was funnier when it had a more coherent directed target in the Blackadder series, but there were random moments: youtu.be/CmSL41CAR6o?...
2000: Hollywood claims the photorealistic CGI of Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within may replace actors someday, causing widespread concern throughout the industry:
To put it in pre-‘08 five-nominations terms, imagine if so many voters agreed that A Beautiful Mind was the second-best movie of ‘01 that it won first place WITHOUT anyone wanting it to. 😠
Well, that one may have actually BEEN a mistake: Ever since Ranked voting was introduced in '09, it’s created a problem where a consensus for second place ends up getting more votes than a divided first place, and taking the prize.
It’s possible only three movies in the last 15 years actually WON.
