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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago (28 children)

I'd go one further. Do longer run remakes for good source material that ended up with a bad movie.

Golden Compass Movie = bad

His Dark Materials limited series = fantastic

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (15 children)

Do longer run remakes for good source material

In that vein, I would go even farther. Cinema is a defunct, dinosaur medium, with built-in limitations. Anything worth making at all is worth making into a high-quality, high-production-value series.

You know what's hilarious about that, though? The first people who would start shrieking that I'm going too far...you know who those people are? Film directors and obsessive fans of film directors. And yet, if I'm not VASTLY mistaken, directors always want to make a cut of every movie that's, like, 50 hours long.

Motherfucker, that's a series. Make a series. This is the 21st Century. We all have perfectly good screens in our houses. Let go of your popcorn fixation and just do everything as a series. ESPECIALLY if you're adapting a comic book series or a novel, or series of novels.

If we just assume, from the get-go, that everything will be a "TV" series (even the word "television" is a stupid dinosaur word, but I'll use it for convenience), we can also finally convince studios that they should MIX THE FUCKING AUDIO FOR PEOPLE TO HEAR IN THEIR HOUSES, WITH 2-CHANNEL SPEAKER SYSTEMS, RATHER THAN 872 CHANNEL THEATER SETUPS.

I'm fucking tired of having to turn on closed-captioning for every goddamn thing I watch.

[–] deadlock@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm too lazy to comment on all the other stuff, but you can get your bog-standard 2.0 stereo from any encoded track. Strikes me as kind of funny to argument with future vs. past and then stick to 1930s stereo tech for film when it's become more easy than ever to set up a decent 5.1 system.

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

That's a fair point. Although I'm pretty sure the encoded mixes don't really solve the dialogue-is-mixed-way-too-low problem.

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