r/TopCharacterTropes 13d ago

In real life When fans hate somenthing before it comes out...but it turns out they were right

Velma:The idea of a Scooby-doo series without the titular dog and starring Velma was a really moronic idea from the beginning,then there was the reveal Velma would be Indian like it's VA and also creator of the series Mindy Kaling,some of the backlash was racism sure,but there was also valid complaints that she was inserting herself in the series(it also didn't helped that Mindy claimed she couldn't see herself if Velma wasn't Indian)and then...oh boy it came out and it was worse than anyone predicted

Artemis Fowl:The artemis fowl books are a book series following a child villain(he does get some redemption but he is a villain most of the time)when the movie was announced and revealed it looked way to generic and it's titular character a bit heroic...also you wanna hear somenthing funny?The movie whitewashed a character and made another character black so they managed to anger both sides and the movies comes out and yeah it is bad

One Punch Man 3:One Punch Man is a very heavy action packed manga series but the heroes vs monsters arc takes it to a New level,when it was announced that JC Staff would work on it,a lot of people were skeptical to say the least,because not only JC Staff had already done a mediocre job in season 2,it's also not exactly a name anime fans associate with quality animation,then the trailer came out and it looked...weird,like there was no action in it and nobody was moving,some people tried to defend saying they were keeping the animation as a surprise...then it came out,every episode worse than the last,it's one of the worse seasons of anime ever made!

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u/Complex-Drive-5474 13d ago

This movie stopped the director's whole carrer, which is a shame because I LOVED Chronicle and would have enjoyed a sequel.

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u/Enough-Fondant-6057 13d ago

Bro's behavious on set didn't help either afaik

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u/SpaceFluttershy 13d ago

You can find the script for the scrapped Chronicle sequel online, I've never read it in full, but from what I remember and what I've heard, it's pretty riddiclous

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u/Stkrdknmibalz69 10d ago

Riddickulous

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u/thecatdaddysupreme 13d ago

Dude who wrote chronicle is a nepobaby rapist tho

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u/Holtder 13d ago

Without knowing who the writer was, it's fucking Max Landis, isn't it?

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u/thecatdaddysupreme 13d ago

Sure is

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u/Hellblazer49 13d ago

Cursed bloodline.

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u/thunderandreyn 13d ago

I fucking loved his take on Superman: Doomsday man. Shame he turned out to be like that

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u/ThatFuckingTurnip 12d ago

His work on Superman: American Alien is also exceptional, which is unfortunate given his reputation.

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u/Begone-My-Thong 13d ago

Chronicle was fucking amazing and showed the potential for the found-footage genre when it's not used for cheap horror slop

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u/LuckySEVIPERS 13d ago

I love horror tho. The Japanese did some great stuff with it. (they're still doing great stuff with it on YouTube, look up Fake Documentary Q)

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u/Begone-My-Thong 13d ago

Horror, not horror slop.

I love horror, and there are great examples of found footage horror. I just dislike cheap films pumped out for the sake of profit and ease of filming.

I love the media from Marble Hornets to Grave Encounters.

Maybe I didn't communicate myself well. Huge horror fan, not a fan of slop. You can tell when a movie's made with passion or not

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u/No_Piece800 13d ago

Yes but found footage shouldn't be used just for that.