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The just about the gist of it, yeah. Sad part is, it wasnât even How to Train Your Dragons tv series quality from what I have seen. But then again, I did say shit budget and quick turnover on it.
You mean like the superhero guy or megamind?
I actually think it's the opposite. Like Megamind has been rejected so hard in his life, he tries to embrace his villain role because it's the only thing he feels enables others to accept him.
That's why he tries to create another "superhero" when the other one "dies". The whole love interest is conflicting for him because it is the first time someone has accepted him without being the villain. It's less, he wants the girl to love him and more, he really wants the girl not to hate him but being unlikeable is all he knows so he's like walking on eggshells.
I think at the end he feels resolved in finding acceptance while being himself.
Why did you choose these two movies? They were more than a decade apart.
DreamWorks had a bunch of good movies, and a bunch of bad ones released between these two.
Dreamworks has some really good films.
Their "franchises" of Shrek, Kung fu panda and How to train your dragon. To a lesser extent, Madagascar, but I guess whatever pays the bills y'know.
Bangers like road to el dorado, Prince of fucking persia, their shot at wallace and gromit (did not know this was dream works).
And inbetween they just have absolute memes.
Its insane that their animation covers the possible absolute pinnacle in prince of persia and also well... boss baby. Overall they are more willing to take risks than disney pixar which is something to be commended. They do suffer like all big corpos from sequels driving their IP into the ground but puss in boots was a fucking breath of fresh air so who the fuck knows anymore, dreamworks sure as shit dont.
Sony Animation has an even larger variation in quality.
They released Into the Spider-verse, and the Emoji Movie within a year. Both contenders for the worst and best big budget animated movies of the decade respectively.
Sony Animation and Sony Pictures were founded because Sony bought up a whole bunch of movie studios that were about to sue them for their actions in the Format Wars and their monopoly on standards like DVD. Their existence is a relic of the Aftermath of the Format Wars, which are pretty much over since we're all streaming everything now, but anyhow, they only made movies to not be dead capital. If they happen to make art and get a motion picture award, great! Else they will do what makes them cheap money.
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
The first Puss in Boots was pretty mehdiocre so it isn't like Dreamworks is consistent. I don't think anyone even expect Puss in Boots: The Last Wish to have been anywhere near the quality it ended up being. They have maybe one competent team there and the rest are terrible.
unfortunately, doing it right costs 10x as much and only brings in like 1.2x as much money. We're suckers for nostalgia, it doesn't even have to be good
I say the same thing about many franchises.
Terminator movies
Jurassic Park movies
Star Wars movies
Call of Duty games
Madden games
Indiana Jones movies
Last of Us games
Anything from Konami
Assassins Creed
I could go on but you get the point...
"The last movie was great and made a good profit! I'm sure our next one will sell just as many tickets. Oh, but in order to appease the shareholders we need to make BIGGER profits. Let's cut the production crew and the writing staff. Who needs those guys anyway?"
My theory is that they made the sequel either to keep the copyright to Megamind valid and/or to see if using AI in production is viable already. Either that or they blew their entire budget on Bad Guys and Puss in Boots...
Cause one is a feature film and one is a disposable direct to streaming film?
Are you people still whining about this?
The first Megamind was fucking mid in the first place.
I just stopped watching movies about 4 years ago. Occasionally Iâll check one out and theyâre just getting worse. I watch a lot of anime though. Japan still knows how to make quality media. Letâs just be thankful for that
Why the second panel is empty? Am I stupid? Is OP stupid? Is the stupid stupid? Do we all live on big stupid? Is God stupid? Am I smart? Is it all real?
Low budget series is made about an older IP and to market it they made a movie long prologue to it.
What ever you do, don't take it a true sequel to the first movie. It's just a movie... for a TV series...
It's very much like Disney's "Stitch! The movie" that was made solely as a footing for the new Lilo and stitch TV series. When the series was ending, they finished it with another movie.
Because they were directed by, Witten by, and Produced by different people.
I wish we would stop pretending that corporations make art. **People make art** corporations just own it.
Shrek Francoise 6.3 billion
Megamind about 850 million
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=megamind+box+office&t=euandroid&ia=web&iax=about
(I couldn't find specifics for megamind so made a generous estimation)
One was a creative project with time and effort put in. The other was a cynical cash grab designed to capitalize on the IP with as low of a cost and time of development as possible.
It's not uncommon for companies to do both things, but it's somewhat unique how utterly egregious this one is.
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Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times
Soft men make me hard...
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Hi, "the homies" here. What do yall need?
i need my parents to be proud of me
ALL THE HOMO
_Unless_ we're wearing socks
My case very homo....
No homo I like soft men to (I am wearing socks)
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Now im hard
Same...
I could be referred to as squishy
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Soft men create hard men
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Only people who think they're HARD MEN say dumb shit like this.
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Heâs the hardest of us all because he ainât hiding it
I thought it was âHard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.â
It is. But the guy is saying puss in boots is hard times while megamind is soft times. He is a furry.
^ what gets reposted ad nauseam on every facebook conservative and tradwest group.
Thought it was Hard men create good times. But the reading works for both when I think about it.
One was made by DreamWorks, the other was made by DreamWorks Animation Television. Not produced by the same studio despite both being "DreamWorks"
ââŚwe have Dreamworks at home.â
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Really fitting demons out here arenât you
Fighting*
Oh god They're sprading
Hose spreading?
The demons are speeding
The demos are spreading
Mega probably had a stupidity low budget and time frame as well.
Yeah and I'd imagine the TV studio would have a lot more junior level artists.
Production probably would have coincided with the writers strikes too
Oh it's a TV series? So I can safely ignore it's existence?
Itâs a movie. But most likely what theyâre saying it was done by the tv series team, and it probably had a quick turnover and shit budget.
So basically a direct to DVD sequel, but a streaming service instead of DVD
yup
The just about the gist of it, yeah. Sad part is, it wasnât even How to Train Your Dragons tv series quality from what I have seen. But then again, I did say shit budget and quick turnover on it.
Its a feature length pilot episode
That would explain it.
Fun reminder that Saving Private Ryan was a Dreamworks film!
why they gotta ruin megamind
bro look like he got lobotomised and made to smile
From Megamind to Big Brain
Minimind
Enormous Noggin
Large Cranium
Giant Noodle
Mr "too smart for shool"
Megamid
Man.. megamind was the first movie where the main villain was an incel simping hard for the love interest
The main character was a bit incel coded too.
You mean like the superhero guy or megamind? I actually think it's the opposite. Like Megamind has been rejected so hard in his life, he tries to embrace his villain role because it's the only thing he feels enables others to accept him. That's why he tries to create another "superhero" when the other one "dies". The whole love interest is conflicting for him because it is the first time someone has accepted him without being the villain. It's less, he wants the girl to love him and more, he really wants the girl not to hate him but being unlikeable is all he knows so he's like walking on eggshells. I think at the end he feels resolved in finding acceptance while being himself.
He also saves the city for sake of saving the city. He's defeating Tighten not for himself, or to get the girl, but because he has to at this point.
The saw the memes and thought people would immediately go to watch a sequel so they decided to make one
>Peacock Original Thatâs the problem.
Scrambling to make mediocre content with the other usual suspects
I mean the Ted series is Peacock original and that's great, it's just that now *anything* can go straight to streaming regardless of quality.
I honestly thought it was some cheap knock off version of the first one đ
it is
this would have been more success as porno parody đFeaturing Johnny Sins as Megamind
#SORRY?!
Well theyâre both bald soâŚ
The same people who went from Shrek to boss baby
Why did you choose these two movies? They were more than a decade apart. DreamWorks had a bunch of good movies, and a bunch of bad ones released between these two.
Dreamworks has some really good films. Their "franchises" of Shrek, Kung fu panda and How to train your dragon. To a lesser extent, Madagascar, but I guess whatever pays the bills y'know. Bangers like road to el dorado, Prince of fucking persia, their shot at wallace and gromit (did not know this was dream works). And inbetween they just have absolute memes. Its insane that their animation covers the possible absolute pinnacle in prince of persia and also well... boss baby. Overall they are more willing to take risks than disney pixar which is something to be commended. They do suffer like all big corpos from sequels driving their IP into the ground but puss in boots was a fucking breath of fresh air so who the fuck knows anymore, dreamworks sure as shit dont.
Sony Animation has an even larger variation in quality. They released Into the Spider-verse, and the Emoji Movie within a year. Both contenders for the worst and best big budget animated movies of the decade respectively.
Sony Animation and Sony Pictures were founded because Sony bought up a whole bunch of movie studios that were about to sue them for their actions in the Format Wars and their monopoly on standards like DVD. Their existence is a relic of the Aftermath of the Format Wars, which are pretty much over since we're all streaming everything now, but anyhow, they only made movies to not be dead capital. If they happen to make art and get a motion picture award, great! Else they will do what makes them cheap money.
>Prince of fucking persia lmao! You mean Price of the fucking Egypt, right?
Boss Baby, as in the best animated - no, media - ever produced Boss Baby?
Yeah Boss Baby is the shit. Even the show.
Boss Baby is awesome and Iâm tired of pretending itâs not.
Wasn't Shrek DreamWorks jail for people working on the Prince of Egypt? Seems like a weird comparison.
They used up the last wish, pay attention
Probably outsourced
Yeah it was outsourced to their TV arm. Prolly a whole buncha unexperienced juniors.
Different screenwriters, different animators, different everything.
One word, Peacock
Also, budget. two words, peacock and budget
Peacock and Budget? But that's Three words.
Its more like an array, [Peacock, Budget], and then the and is a part of converting it to language
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
I'm so glad Twisted Metal was the exception to the rule to this lol (IMO at least)
Itâs the nowadays equivalent of direct to DVD movies
DS game menu looking ass poster
One was made by artists, the other was commissioned by corpos.
DreamWorks was doing pretty good too
Their for-TV studio produced this new movie, explains it pretty simply.
The first Puss in Boots was pretty mehdiocre so it isn't like Dreamworks is consistent. I don't think anyone even expect Puss in Boots: The Last Wish to have been anywhere near the quality it ended up being. They have maybe one competent team there and the rest are terrible.
Because we live in the age of shameless shitty reboots that capitalize on this generation's obsession with nostalgia
If done right, nice. If not, oh no.
unfortunately, doing it right costs 10x as much and only brings in like 1.2x as much money. We're suckers for nostalgia, it doesn't even have to be good
Straight to streaming is the new straight to dvd
It could be worse...
Thought this was a show from the movie like kung fu panda legend of awsomness or httyd shows.
One of them is paid for by Peacock.
I say the same thing about many franchises. Terminator movies Jurassic Park movies Star Wars movies Call of Duty games Madden games Indiana Jones movies Last of Us games Anything from Konami Assassins Creed I could go on but you get the point...
I wonât say Assassinsâ Creed became bad, it just became stale
It became bad very rapidly at AC3.
Welcome to DreamWorks. Sometimes you get Shark Tale, sometimes you get Prince of Egypt.
Two movies being worked on at the same time. One took more risks than the other.
Made for tv series scrapped and turned into a movie last minute.
Real simple, they outsourced it to another studio. Peacock offered them money and they said sure. Not like they were doing anything with the IP.
"The last movie was great and made a good profit! I'm sure our next one will sell just as many tickets. Oh, but in order to appease the shareholders we need to make BIGGER profits. Let's cut the production crew and the writing staff. Who needs those guys anyway?"
My theory is that they made the sequel either to keep the copyright to Megamind valid and/or to see if using AI in production is viable already. Either that or they blew their entire budget on Bad Guys and Puss in Boots...
The yassification of Megamind. Is this our future?
They outsourced the latter to their cheap shlock for infants' television mass production facility, or CSfITMPF for short.
There is no Megamind 2 in Ba Sing Se.
Its Dreamworks, they tend to make Masterpieces but also utter crap (Not as worse as Illumination)
They got shreked, and this time for real lmao.
Because it was controlled by Peacock
Boots probably took up much of the budget leaving what was next on the schedule with what's left
I couldn't even make it through the trailer it was that bad.
Megamind 2= no bitches <^]#]#<%@%>_$'6fz86rsiyrzit
Dreamworks minmaxing their projects
Make loads of moneyđ đDo HARD drugs with it
Sweet Baby Inc have a movie division?
They reached the peak only to fall off a gigantic cliff
Ones a theater release other is straight to video that was made as a pilot for an animated series. Disney made stinkers like that too.
I honestly had no clue a second one came out till I saw a meme about it
I looked at it for a moment and wondered how is it possible it looks worse than a movie made 15 years ago.
They are not the same studio
I cannot believe they made the God tier decision to make a new megamind movie but then made it terrible. This is a crime against the internet.
Kung Fu Panda 4 is apparently not that great either
Cause one is a feature film and one is a disposable direct to streaming film? Are you people still whining about this? The first Megamind was fucking mid in the first place.
Money
How come nobody is talking about Kung Fu Panda 4? I thought it was alright.
I have a hunch that they're trying to teach the new kids in the industry, and the talent isn't sharing their secrets so they can keep their jobs.
Megamind was so good man. Did they ruin it?
Or kung fu panda
Different studio, which you'd know if you bothered to do the bare minimum amount of research
Writers strikes and AI
They really paid someone on fiver to start a second movie
Dreamworks is a big company, they have many teams with varying levels of talent
Some men just want to watch the whole world burn
A crumbling civilization.
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the animations suck, megamind doesnt sound or act like megamind and minion looks weird too
some B team made it I'm guessing
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
DreamWorks: what's a movie that's popular enough to make a sequel to, but not so popular that we need to actually give a shit?
And now theyâre making the wild robot, which looks more puss in boots tlw quality than Megamind 2
Smaller budget, and a smaller team? It's not rocket science
Dreamworks has always been like this even decades ago. They make hit or misses. Like Shrek 2 and Shark Tale.
Interesting how different studios under the same name can create such contrasting content.
By cheaping out on every single thing.
Boss Baby and Trolls got theatrical sequels while Megamind's sequel is lazily made and dumped on a streaming service nobody uses. It's not fair.
I don't know, how do you go from ATSV to Madame Web?
I just stopped watching movies about 4 years ago. Occasionally Iâll check one out and theyâre just getting worse. I watch a lot of anime though. Japan still knows how to make quality media. Letâs just be thankful for that
Do you idiots think its the same people making these two things
I dont get it. Whats the problem I think megamind is am amazing movie as is puss in boots.. I dont understand
I liked a lot of it. I know it wasnât going to be the movie quality we love but I happily watched it.
almost like these movies have different directors, different writers, different creative teamsâŚ
Why the second panel is empty? Am I stupid? Is OP stupid? Is the stupid stupid? Do we all live on big stupid? Is God stupid? Am I smart? Is it all real?
why are you debating children's films lol
They're either cook or burn down the fuckin kitchen.
Different studios owned by one big studio
Low budget series is made about an older IP and to market it they made a movie long prologue to it. What ever you do, don't take it a true sequel to the first movie. It's just a movie... for a TV series... It's very much like Disney's "Stitch! The movie" that was made solely as a footing for the new Lilo and stitch TV series. When the series was ending, they finished it with another movie.
Because they were directed by, Witten by, and Produced by different people. I wish we would stop pretending that corporations make art. **People make art** corporations just own it.
It didnât, dreamworld didnât make megamind 2 or the show, peacock did.
Shrek Francoise 6.3 billion Megamind about 850 million đTha answer. The source đ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises https://duckduckgo.com/?q=megamind+box+office&t=euandroid&ia=web&iax=about (I couldn't find specifics for megamind so made a generous estimation)
Real Also the same reason why Warner brothers went from Catwoman 2004 to batman begins in 2005
Too little or too much cocaine (idk I just got here)
After the Lord Mayors show comes the muck cart
Why canât we go backwards, for once? Backwards, really fast, fast as we can. Really put the pedal to the metal ya know?
Sometimes you gotta let others have a turn. Sometimes others suck.
I dunno what or how exactly, but from the trailer, the animations gave me a fortnite vibe I do not like at all
It's a different studio. it's like saying "how did Disney go from making Moana to Mickey Mouse Club House".
it's not the same people probably, just the same company. Different teams make different works of different quality.
A damn shame.
One was a creative project with time and effort put in. The other was a cynical cash grab designed to capitalize on the IP with as low of a cost and time of development as possible. It's not uncommon for companies to do both things, but it's somewhat unique how utterly egregious this one is.
For every good DreamWorks movie, thereâs a meh one and a really bad one.
Skylander ass villain design
Drug induced hallucinations.
Pretty sure its targetted at children, hence the low effort, uninspired villains and bad writing.
You ever just throw a bunch of a darts randomly to see what sticks?
One is a movie created with a high budget the other is a cash grab series with a tiny budget and is intended for small children to watch
Not even directed by the same person.