Don’t give them too much credit. Those jokers don’t actually want their viewers to think. Just absorb whatever they’re saying without question or critical thought.
I appreciate Kevin Smith's promoting of the show. Whichever side of the fence you're on regarding him (I'm not a fan of his work post Dogma), you can't say he's just calling it in. And just to be clear, I'm not pro or anti Kevin Smith, I'm simply pro MotU. I forgot that Henry Rollins was cast as Tri-Klops and now seeing the direction the character has taken in Revelation, it's a perfect fit for him. When Adam gets his own Masterverse toy, I really hope they give him a sword holding hand with a vertically aligned hinge so he can hold aloft the Sword of Power in the iconic pose.
Will agree to that after Dogma he hasn’t quite been the same person, spent a little too much time in the Hollywood bubble. Or he just grew up stopped trying to rebel and just conformed to the Hollywood system. Can’t blame him. Money and projects are better if you conform and he has a family to take care of.
Honestly, his most rebellious and least Hollywood stuff has been post-Dogma. Sure, there was also stuff like Strike Back and Cop Out, but he definitely hasn't conformed to any Hollywood system with Tusk, Yoga Hosers, etc.
I think he was never necessarily rebellious, more of a person who got a kick out of getting a rise out of people. When the status quo changed after heading into the 2000s and more and more people were being outrageous in TV/film/etc., frankly his style of humor was no longer edgy or shocking and he became less relevant because he no longer had that particular brand of edge to leverage as something that set him apart others in his generation of film makers. He didn't seem to grow up that well off so I can see how he made decisions to go a certain way when he was able to make money by doing what he does and take care of his family in a way that he didn't experience growing up in NJ. Do I agree with what he has done or how he has done them? Not necessarily but like you, I don't blame him. I also think that after his heart attack, his general attitude in life changed so I'm sure that has been a factor in him becoming the Kevin Smith we know today. People criticize him for things, and I don't disagree necessarily with much of it, but I think him nearly dying prematurely to a heart attack made him re-evaluate his priorities. I think that may be why, on some level, he took on writing and being the show runner for MotU Revelation, a project that I wouldn't have pegged him for pursuing.
Yoga Hoisers was more or less something to give limelight to his and Johnny Depp’s daughters. No one took that seriously. It was akin to that awful movie with Will and Jaden Smith.
But the Smith thing was 100% a Hollywood movie. Yoga Hosers is nepotism in action, but it's also a sequel to Tusk and features Nazi sausages. It's maybe his least Hollywood work. And I also think the heart attack definitely changed him. He's less concerned with being a "filmmaker" now and just wants to make stuff he likes, whether that's He-Man or movies about killer mooses that only makes him laugh. And, hey, good for him. Life's too short.
Yeah I used to see him at comic con every year I could get into Hall H he’d more or less close out Saturday night after all the big premieres Hall H only videos and take questions, mess around with fans and do long monologues about stuff till the room closed. He talks very differently now than then. If I remember right he was doing something similar when he had his heart attack. That changes you when you have a medical situation like that. So as I said can’t blame him. But have memories of him being a very different person in person.
Yeah, I saw him on his speaking tour in 2006, I believe, and he was a different person then for sure compared to these days.
Yeah, I don’t see Smith as being some sort of Hollywood guy. I don’t think the guy ever tried to fit into Hollywood or anything in particular. I don’t even get the impression he goes out of his way to get projects. He just seems to show up randomly with new projects. He also doesn’t seem to go out of his way to be provocative or be an attention getter.
My issue is they're saying it solely based on the word of an "anonymous insider". Bullshit. I don't trust "anonymous insiders". Legitimate sources have names.
Tell that to Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. Also they are called anonymous for a reason. News media has been using them since the Newspaper was invented. They could lose their jobs if they revealed themselves. That is how it works. Many famous news stories like Watergate had anonymous sources. Is this in the same category…no but saying just because the source is anonymous invalidates them is silly. Wait till the show comes out, if they are proven wrong then you can disregard them. Look at what happened with the powerpuff CW show rumors. People were screaming they are lying it can’t be that bad. Then the script leaked. Then it was announced the show was getting revised and they planned to redo the pilot and the head of the CW apologized. Those were anonymous sources too.
Watergate and power puff girls on cw; absolutely identical in terms of whistleblower protections needed.
When it comes to the show, I'm gonna give it a shot, I was never a big he-man fan, but I enjoyed the 200s series, and hey I watched the original as a kid, seems interesting and from the trailers well if nothing else it'll kill a weekend or something. That being said, seeing people go nuts over this show from a PR and opinion stand point has been nothing short of amazing to me, I kind of wish people paid this much attention to things like climate change or other things I won't say out of trying to not break rules that they do to a show that is being continued from 30 some odd years ago....
While I may have worded my post that makes it seem like I'm disregarding it, I'm not. What you say here is precisely what I'm doing. Sadly, others aren't. They blindly believe it even though the show isn't out.
I know I'm in the minority here, but... absolutely nothing about this seems like a follow up to the Filmation series. NOTHING. If you told me it was a follow up to 200x then I might believe that.
