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« Last post by Dogman15 on September 11, 2020, 04:46:05 AM »I've heard bad things about the modern Babysitter's Club adaptation.
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« Last post by movingthestars on September 07, 2020, 05:46:20 PM »I feel you @nothingfromsomething
I see you said something about picturestart? I honestly thought their social media was satire when I first saw it, but no that’s really how they are. I totally get your feelings and I’m worried about it too— but with this combination we might do okay, is how I felt. Did picturestart do badly previously?
This is what I think about when I think about the 90s thing. I think about
1) Cobra Kai — a show clearly made for 80s nostalgia but set in present day. I feel like they did an amazing job of keeping the necessary vibe
2) The Babysitters Club— also had to bring to present day a series from the 80s/90s. To me, this show was well done too.
Set in the 90s is obviously best. But even if they couldn’t do that, there are other ways maybe.
I see you said something about picturestart? I honestly thought their social media was satire when I first saw it, but no that’s really how they are. I totally get your feelings and I’m worried about it too— but with this combination we might do okay, is how I felt. Did picturestart do badly previously?
This is what I think about when I think about the 90s thing. I think about
1) Cobra Kai — a show clearly made for 80s nostalgia but set in present day. I feel like they did an amazing job of keeping the necessary vibe
2) The Babysitters Club— also had to bring to present day a series from the 80s/90s. To me, this show was well done too.
Set in the 90s is obviously best. But even if they couldn’t do that, there are other ways maybe.
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« Last post by .: Asmo on August 21, 2020, 09:59:00 AM »I'm seeing an Avatar 2.0 for some reason.
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« Last post by NothingFromSomething on August 21, 2020, 06:35:48 AM »I mean, yeah, there's an outside chance it's done right for sure.
Just been burned a bunch of time before with this sort of stuff, and writers theoretically getting to have their say doesn't necessarily pan out that way in practicality. All it takes is one influential suit to throw their weight around and overrule them, not much they can do at that point once the rights have been signed away to the movie house.
For whatever reason, I just can't personally fathom a movie studio really leaning into the harder-edged stuff with this. Even skeptical on them taking the fans remotely seriously with their "set it in the 90s" request, if that's indeed happened (haven't really been following the social media and stuff). Just seems like from a business standpoint it'd make more sense for them to update it to now and go with a breezier Goosebumps movie type of vibe. Can't fault their logic, but it'd suck for us.
But yeah, stranger things have happened, not going to write it off as dead on arrival. Sometimes the universe throws out a wacky positive curveball.
Just been burned a bunch of time before with this sort of stuff, and writers theoretically getting to have their say doesn't necessarily pan out that way in practicality. All it takes is one influential suit to throw their weight around and overrule them, not much they can do at that point once the rights have been signed away to the movie house.
For whatever reason, I just can't personally fathom a movie studio really leaning into the harder-edged stuff with this. Even skeptical on them taking the fans remotely seriously with their "set it in the 90s" request, if that's indeed happened (haven't really been following the social media and stuff). Just seems like from a business standpoint it'd make more sense for them to update it to now and go with a breezier Goosebumps movie type of vibe. Can't fault their logic, but it'd suck for us.
But yeah, stranger things have happened, not going to write it off as dead on arrival. Sometimes the universe throws out a wacky positive curveball.
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« Last post by movingthestars on August 20, 2020, 09:06:51 AM »I mostly use Discord and Steam now... I also made a server for French Anifans on Discord
ooh very cool! and you're more than welcome to join the https://discord.gg/aMPs2JAPS : It's really hard to post on the forum, I'm logged out all the time...
yeah, me too. i wasn't sure if it was just on my end, getting logged out over and over.
Does this discord link work? When I click on it I don’t get anything. I’d love to join!!
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« Last post by Quaf on August 17, 2020, 01:49:54 AM »Thoroughly impressed you remembered your password after 11 years
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« Last post by applix on August 16, 2020, 08:03:34 PM »I'm still alive.
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« Last post by adamjared on August 12, 2020, 12:01:03 AM »Hey y'all. I was going through some WAY OLD emails and I found some from here dated around 2008. Made me wonder if the forum was still kicking. I'm pretty sure I've checked in since then for sure, but I just wanted to say hi, and let you all know that I am still thinking about you.
My parents were going through some boxes of stuff in their basement, and asked me if I still wanted my box of Animorphs books that they had held on for me. I said ABSOLUTELY and ran over to get them before they even considered to sell them on me. I have the whole collection (minus #43, and the Alternamorphs) and I'm gonna re-read them again pretty soon here.
Animorphs and this forum really shaped my early years as a young teenager being on the internet without many IRL friends... This forum was there for me through many of my ups and downs through life. I remember the first person I "met" from Australia being Claire/Nate. I remember Patty from Seattle? Illinois? Idaho? and her adorable son. I remember Jeffrey from the Maritimes of Canada, who also, like me, really enjoys Power Rangers. I still see many others when I log into Facebook from time to time, posting about their lives and how much they are growing as people, with families and friends of their own. I can't remember many of their usernames, but when I see their IRL names, I know WHERE I know them from.
I'm gonna join the discord mentioned above, I'm on discord a lot, and also the forums are being really buggy for me too. Unsure why it is. It keeps logging me out as well, everytime I click on something.
My parents were going through some boxes of stuff in their basement, and asked me if I still wanted my box of Animorphs books that they had held on for me. I said ABSOLUTELY and ran over to get them before they even considered to sell them on me. I have the whole collection (minus #43, and the Alternamorphs) and I'm gonna re-read them again pretty soon here.
Animorphs and this forum really shaped my early years as a young teenager being on the internet without many IRL friends... This forum was there for me through many of my ups and downs through life. I remember the first person I "met" from Australia being Claire/Nate. I remember Patty from Seattle? Illinois? Idaho? and her adorable son. I remember Jeffrey from the Maritimes of Canada, who also, like me, really enjoys Power Rangers. I still see many others when I log into Facebook from time to time, posting about their lives and how much they are growing as people, with families and friends of their own. I can't remember many of their usernames, but when I see their IRL names, I know WHERE I know them from.
I'm gonna join the discord mentioned above, I'm on discord a lot, and also the forums are being really buggy for me too. Unsure why it is. It keeps logging me out as well, everytime I click on something.
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Animorphs Forum Classic / Re: Animorphs Movie Announced!
« Last post by movingthestars on August 08, 2020, 12:45:25 AM »Quote
Tone's more what I'm worried about. Animorphs is a weird one in that the light & silly stuff is really light & silly, and the dark stuff is dark. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the suits decide to just really go for it, and they find a director with the chops to go there, but...yeah. It'd be the exception rather than the rule, and I doubt Katherine & Michael have much say in the matter once Scholastic has decided the thing's going ahead.
So they’ve been pretty candid about their level of involvement. And while they have been clear this could change, at the moment it seems like they are being taken seriously. I just heard Michael talk about how they were asking him about the rating, and he said it needed PG-13 for sure.
I think they’re being cautiously optimistic about the whole thing— and so that’s what I am choosing to be as well. It’s pretty clear they care a whole heck of a lot.