• xyguy@startrek.website
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    18 days ago

    Ah yes, the franchise beloved for its extreme violence and awesome practical effects is doing something without extreme violence or practical effects.

    Bold strategy Cotton.

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      18 days ago

      Exec boardroom

      We must expand the tech of this film full of murder, carnage, and brutality against humans.

      What if we removed those 3 aspects? Then we can lower the age rating to envelope a wider audience.

      Wouldn’t that alienate the existing fanbase?

      Well, think about the new fans we will make.

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      18 days ago

      Is it? Or is the ratings board just being lax so that the studio can bring in cash from teenagers?

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        18 days ago

        Also too, no human characters are apparently hurt in it, only synths, Predators and other monsters killing each other.

        Violence against humans requires a more restrictive rating and because the movies lacks human deaths the violence can still be the same but at a PG-13 rating.

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        18 days ago

        I mean its possible. I wonder if they will get to use their 1 legally allowed F word, and who will say it.

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          18 days ago

          My bet is on a Predator saying it because that is meta and edgy; it hits all demographic targets.

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            18 days ago

            The Predator will call a human “one ugly motherfucker”. God of course. Meta, edgy, flipping the script just to be different without justifying it in the story. Hollywood perfection.

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              18 days ago

              Yep, it’s a Hollywood layup, they’d be made fun of within their fart-sniffing sphere of influence if they didn’t do it.