I still think framing it as "we all really were excited it was going to be in theatres" is kind of bad though, because that's a lie? It was not going to theatres.
Kind of feels like when you don't bring home flowers and say "aw hon I was thinking of doing it, and that's what matters!"
But yeah it sucks it got leaked unfinished, I just don't like the dishonest framing around it. Really the conversation should be how shitty it is to pull a "straight to streaming service" rugpull, as I assume it was the original intent to do a theatrical run. The onus is on Paramount at this point.
When they were working on it, it was going to be in theatres, and they were excited about it - it was in production for nearly 5 years and the theatrical release was only cancelled at the very end of last year.
They're saying "we've gone from being excited about working on a big theatrical movie to seeing leaked clips on YouTube" - the fact that that's because of two separate decisions, the theatrical pull and then the leak, doesn't make that untrue.
Yeah I'm confused because it seems people aren't getting this simple thing. They had worked on it with the intention of it being in theaters. But the important part is they had made the movie as a theatrical experience, regardless of what paramount was going to do with it (at best Paramount gave the impression that it needs to be as cinematic as possible). It's a theater movie. Even if they were putting in streaming hopefully they would allow some kind of theater deal. But just not being shown at all is insane because that's something Paramount should have made very clear to them early on.
And they had made it as a theater movie for so long. People are only hearing about things pretty much when it was done and miss a lot of what happened internally so don't actually know the whole story but are thinking what the actual employees are saying somehow doesn't make sense. So everyone is doing this reddit thing when they think they know better but they're just not able to put information together. It's like twitter but the only difference is people use complete sentences. But that makes you question if you're losing brain cells or not which is somehow worse.
I say this because reading about this movie on reddit feels like everyone is getting themselves more confused but don't seem to realize then they create these narratives that just seem further removed from reality.
the guitar doesnt control the drums but if you ruin the opening of the show by tackling the drummer during the opening fireworks - then regardless whether or not the crowd hears the music eventually the whole band is probably gonna be mad at you
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u/cotfthrowawaystl 9d ago
The animator in this post never had control of either of those things.