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I think the sequel is obvious: the arcade is shutting down and they need to find another place to go, which yes would also use the internet but not really a central focus. Like how the previous one paid reference to Donkey Kong, MarioKart, and Metroid/Halo, make the next one reference Zelda, Street Fighter, and Final Fantasy and if you could get the rights maybe make Ganondorf or Sephiroth as the main antagonist, a bad guy who actually is a bad guy for once.

I love reading stuff like this, gives me a good laugh

These movies are not marketed towards you. None of the people who they market these movies to have any idea who any of the people you are referencing are. When they bother to make a reference to something you like, it’s either coincidental, something the developers care about, or designed to make you make your kids watch it. Why would they bother to make a movie catering to your demographic when 95% of the people who will watch aren’t in your demographic?

Grow up dude

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Posted by Broski

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Posted on 5/17/24 at 8:08 pm to Tiger1242

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These movies are not marketed towards you.

Yep. It always funny how people complain about children movies as an adult with the idea that they "need to make kids movies like they did when I was a kid"

The irony hits them right square in the face and they still don't realize it.

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Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 5/17/24 at 10:47 pm to Tiger1242

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These movies are not marketed towards you. None of the people who they market these movies to have any idea who any of the people you are referencing are. When they bother to make a reference to something you like, it’s either coincidental, something the developers care about, or designed to make you make your kids watch it. Why would they bother to make a movie catering to your demographic when 95% of the people who will watch aren’t in your demographic?

Yeah, how is it working out for Disney telling people who grew up with them and loved their products to frick off? They managed to make a Buzz fricking Lightyear movie bomb, probably the most popular and iconic animated character created in my lifetime. That should be theoretically impossible to do.

Back in the day people grown and young alike would go to watch a movie in a theater knowing nothing but one word: Pixar. It was a near guarantee to be a masterpiece and a classic. Not anymore. Inside Out 2 may get some of these former fans back into the seats, but quite frankly it’s been since The Incredibles 2 anyone really had these thoughts about Pixar, and they haven’t made a truly great film since Coco.

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Posted by SouthEasternKaiju

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Posted on 5/18/24 at 7:29 am to Tiger1242

Going back to Bugs Bunny & Warner Bros, cartoonists routinely would aim their jokes and gags at kids but there was always a wink & a nod to the parents, older folks who they'd know were also watching. That's what makes such movies and shows 'timeless'. A style that today's studios are actively rejecting, to their own demise.

The idea of 'it's not made for you!' is what is acting like a dead albatross around the necks of some studios. Of course it's 'for' the kids, but there's a kid in all of us who have since grown up. That's the timeless aspect of so much of the older stuff.

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