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fedia.io

The Section 31 movie was pretty bad but who knows — maybe it will be remembered just as fondly by people 50 years from now as Blackenstein (1973) is today.

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There was an article were the author argue that the new Section 31 movie could only bomb since they scrapped what was Section 31. They’re not hero’s, they’re villains

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lemmy.world

There's a world in which someone takes the Section 31 plotline and spins it out into a compelling Star Trek storyline. But it's where Section 31 is basically Specter to the Starfleet Rebel Captain's James Bond. They could have even done it with NuTrek, if they'd left Into Darkness on a cliffhanger (Khan Noonien Singh remains commander of the Enterprise, while Kirk and Spock have to do spook shit to stop him before he takes down Star Fleet from the inside).

If you're feeling squirrelly, you can do a Hitman style story arc, where you introduce a fresh new character/team doing Le Epic Spycraft Shit in the first Act, realizing the moral hazard of the agency in the second Act, and going through a redemption arc in the third Act. Presumably with some handful of Star Fleet cameos operating as the protagonist's Jiminy Cricket.

Instead, we get some kind of Space Charlie's Angels, where the Gene Roddenbery story beats are all tossed in the trash and it's just generic cowboy sci-fi with Starfleet badges.

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Similar could be said of Assassin's Creed. Cast, check. Budget, check. Writing...

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lemmy.world

Dune infamously went well over budget and bombed. Whether Section 31 eventually becomes a cult classic is yet to be determined.

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piefed.social

Oh come on, we all know the best it could hope for is the infamy equivalent of "cult classic". The movie people turn on to remember just how shitty corpo Hollywood butchered real classics. ... Assuming corpo Hollywood dies soon ... oh god, I hope it's soon...

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You know its only going to get worse, its already dead but the dead baby spawn is making everything sooooo shite.

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lemmy.ml

LMBO how to turn a st movie into a generic scifi snoozefest in 3 easy steps!

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lemmy.world

rips beetlesnuff

I got it! Let's mash Ocean's 11 with Temple of Doom, the attempted wit of Marvel, and characters who don't belong anywhere near a clandestine shadow organization.

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sticks combadge stickers onto the characters in the "Suicide Squad" movie poster

Done, boss. Can I go on my break now?

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rips beetlesnuff

That's it, my new headcanon is that Section 31 is made by the same Ferengi studio that did Pog and Dar: Cop Landlords.

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The way the colour scheme makes me think of The Watch is just 👌👌👌

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