Like clockwork, the big studios are doing it on purpose.
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Iām on record as enjoying Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and I fully intend to see this Mickey Mouse movie and enjoy it too.
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Canāt they come up with something more creative, though? Disney character enters public domain, make a slasher film out of it? Letās try something a bit more creative and leave slasher films for the actual slashers. Freddy, Jason, Michael and Chucky are all probably shaking their heads in embarrassment over this.
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Can they? Probably. Do they need to? Not really. The idea of taking a beloved childrenās character and turning them into a serial killer is already creative enough. Do you want them to take Steamboat Willie and turn him into the love interest in a time travel story about a lake house or something? Put him in a spaceship exploring Mars? Make him into a hit man?
The existence of a cheap slasher movie doesnāt prevent any of those things so let them all happen and the public will spend their money on what they want to see. Iāll gladly pay to see serial killer Mickey Mouse, personally.
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But the gimmick is over after Winnie the Pooh. The fact that theyāre ready to go with another slasher from a Disney icon shows that it really is just a gimmick now. Lets try doing other things with these newly released properties.
The gimmick will be over when the money fountain stops.
Did you see how much that Five Nights At Freddyās movie made? Oooh, stuffed animals and ostensibly cute creaturesā¦ but in horror! Never underestimate a moronās desire to spend money in the name of supposed irony.
Edit: Not that Iām calling @schatenjager a moron. More so the collective crowd that makes movies like that rule the box office for a month. Remind me, how many Transformers movies are there?.. Okay, cynicism over for now.
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There will always be people who want āHollywoodā to be more creative, make better movies, write better stories, and be more avant garde. There will also always be people who pay to see the next Transformers movie.
The last year I actually saw the movie that won best picture that year was 2004. Iām very used to not being among the film elite and I recognize Iām not qualified to be a movie critic. I know what I like though and stupid gimmicky slasher movies fit the bill. Iāll also watch so-called cinema, but I wonāt have as much fun as I will laughing my way through something incredibly stupid.
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Agreed and I was being aggressively cynical. I love camp and schlock. I watched Meg 2 the other night and that movie is utterly outrageous ā though it succeeds as entertainment on the fact that it* knows* itās outrageous.
Thereās good schlock and thereās bad schlock. Especially in the horror genre, studios pump out bare-minimum-effort, low-hanging-fruit, hyper-edited jumpscare-athons because theyāre such reliable money-makers. Occasionally one will be more than just surface-deepā¦ but it still amazes me when a rote C-grade horror flick comes out and makes over 100 million dollars.
āAre you not entertained??!ā and all that, what what, pip pip.
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I feel like the reason groups have chosen slasher movies for newly public domain characters is because slasher horror is one of the easiest, low budget movie concepts to make.
The beauty of public domain is that if a person doesnāt like what other people are creating with a public domain character, they can always make their own art with them.
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Horror built itself on imitation and itās a proven strategy that brings various degrees of success.
Halloween imitated/ripped off Black Christmas. And Friday the 13th imitated/ripped off Halloween. Unsurprisingly with the context of knowledge Halloween and Friday the 13th became very successful franchises.
The same goes for Winnie The Pooh, made extremely cheap and regarded as an awful movie. It was successful enough to get a sequel and the same will potentially be for this Mickey Slasher film.
Imitation is part of the Horror Eco System especially in the main stream. Itās why after SAW released we got Hostel. And itās why when Insidious released we got The Conjuring. Also itās why when Halloween 2018 released we got the Legacy Sequel Craze that is Scream 2022, Ghostbusters Afterlife, and the god awful Texas Chainsaw film thatās on Netflix. Where there is money there is imitation. Thatās how horror is profitable and itās why creativity with horror is in more independent projects and is why Iāll praise Terror Vision for giving indie/niche titles physical releases.
Yes it can be argued that the āelevated horrorā fad thatās been going on is creative but thatās a can of worms I wonāt open since a majority misunderstand the subgenre to the point where it comes off as āfart sniffingā.
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Flashback to last year already! I was bad and forgot to upload a picture of my calendar.
Itās the last one of the year and probably my favourite of all of them.
Duck has ULTIMATE POWERRRR!!
That concludes the human civilization of the year 12,023.
I āgotā the 12,024 calendar for christmas this year, it just hasnāt arrived yet.
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You mean like any decent studio and just release the Mickey-Porn-Movie already?
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Hey, if Mickey is banging Minnie and Daisy at the same timeā¦
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Well, Daisy wasnāt introduced until 1940 so youāve got a few more years to wait before that happensā¦
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Not sure if this has been brought up before, but Limited Run Games are doing a vinyl release of IOIās and Jesper Kydās Freedom Fighter score. Order period ends on January 7th, shipping for May.
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Well since doing the progress transfer on November 13 which reset all my Hitman 3 Progress, Iām pretty much done with everything related to Hitman 3! All main mission challenges (including Ambrose Island), all ET Arcade missions, and all escalations on 3ās locations are now complete!
The only things I have left to do specific to Hitman 3 are finishing up Freelancer and Featured Contracts - Track 2. Thereās still a good amount of legacy stuff to do like The Sarajevo Six, mission stories, the 2016 and 2 escalations, Featured Contracts - Track 1 and Sniper Assassin where Iām at 17/20 on Himmelstein and I have no progress on Hantu Port or Siberia. I still have never played Hantu Port once in all my time spent on Hitman 2 and 3.
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(really wish there were some easy way to embed or properly display twitter posts hereā¦)
fuckinā Kaiju simulator over here is implementing time of day/atmosphere options to its game, it looks great and a small way to spice up repetitive gameplay loopā¦
https://vxtwitter.com/DareLooks/status/1742984949106606516
IOI Iām fuckinā begging you. Please give us more existing level variations in Year 4 Freelancer pleaseee 
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My game controller finally died on me, had to command a new one.
The locker code to retrieve it had the most appropriate last 4 digits : 0451
(I took the occasion to also buy a lilac scarf, not to wear, but because I thought it would be pretty in the bungee cord compression of my backpack for the day to day. Iām happy that I was correct. Always like some colour.)
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You didnāt stop at the main menu and just go afk for H1 and H2 to increase playtime, did you? 
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