I am not a teen.

  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    So I’ve noticed that there are a lot of streaming movies and TV shows that match a lot of these patterns:

    • IP is announced. Adaptation of extremely popular series with existing fanbase
    • IP is billed as “adult” with “mature themes”
    • Producer/Director goes on a podcast and compares IP to “Game of Thrones” a few weeks before release. Said comparison treats GoT as an ideal to aspire to instead of a cautionary tale.
    • Producer/Director also insults existing fanbase for some reason
    • IP is previewed to critics, gets amazing reviews
    • IP comes out, and gets high streaming numbers day one
    • Writing ends up being terrible
    • Plot ends up being surface level, with all the subtly of the original adaptation cut out. This somehow is true now matter how basic the source material may seem
    • Acting is terrible. There is at least one race swapped character, who they also butcher from a writing perspective
    • VFX is terrible, and expensive scenes are cut out
    • Costumes are terrible to the point where everything looks like shitty cosplay
    • There’s a few violent scenes that are extremely gratuitous. VFX and writing are so bad that it’s comical instead of jarring
    • There are a few random sex scenes thrown in. The sex scenes detract from the pacing of the story, and are blatantly thrown in so producers can brag about them
    • Sex scenes tend to focus on the female form. If men are involved, they all are hairless and look like boy band members
    • If it is a gay sex scene, it blatantly written by women and for women with an extremely limited knowledge of men as a whole
    • In a few days, the Internet erupts with needlessly vitriolic discourse about said IP.
    • A year post release, the show is essentially forgotten.

    In that context it’s no surprise younger people don’t like sex scenes. It’s basically a canary for a low quality show and extreme toxicity.

    • lousyd@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 day ago

      Are you taking about Uglies? I feel like you described Uglies. I liked the adaptation, but a lot of critics didn’t.

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        I think the Netflix Avatar the last air bender checks off a good amount of that list.

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          8 hours ago

          I didn’t have anything specific in mind, but a lot of this matches up based on the one episode I watched. There weren’t any sex scenes though.

          The Air Nomad genocide happens within the first ten minutes, while Aang is on a walk or something. It’s billed as this super metal moment that shows you this isn’t for kids. However it looks so fucking cheap and is written so badly. I just sat there rolling my eyes.

          To be fair, the online discourse part also didn’t match up. The show got good but not great reviews. Avatar is a lot more popular that most adaptations, especially among millennial bloggers who do these reviews. While there were the usual 9/10s, there were also a ton of reviews written by people who grew up watching the show that were just like “yeah this is disappointing in every way. I guess it’s okay if you didn’t watch the original show, idk you do you 5/10”. Because of the diversity of the original IP, there was no culture war BS either.

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          18 hours ago

          Oh God, please tell me they didn’t put a sex scene in a movie led by literal children?

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            16 hours ago

            Couldn’t tell you, I only watched the first couple of episodes because it covers a bunch of the first points of the list.

            Guess we’ll never know