Never in a million years would I have guessed the plot to drive angry. I can’t quite remember what the marketing was back then but I was expecting a taken with cars, and while that’s technically true it really isn’t.
"I never disrobe before a gunfight." is the best line Nicolas Cage has ever delivered.
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I am reminded of two years ago when my best friend, his (ex)girlfriend, and I were trying to decide on which movie to watch one night, so we put our top two suggestions each into an online spinning-wheel.
I was victorious with Drive Angry, a cinematic classic.
And after the movie my best friend's (ex)girlfriend casually remarked, "That's the worst film I have ever seen."
God, what a fuckin great movie.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
Its got to be so little money they're saving too which makes it even crazier.
It's not about the money, it's about the control. By paying these authors, there's an implicit suggestion that Disney does not own these properties and they could potentially find themselves in violation of the contract or it could even just expire on them, and then they lose those rights.
By pulling their calvinball bullshit and going "We have the rights but no longer are under obligation of the contract" then they basically are saying contracts say what they want them to say, and whatever written down is worthless. Right now they're hiding this behind the Fox aquisition, but if it works here they will absolutely try to extend it out to every fucking thing they've ever touched.
"we only bought the parts of the contracts we liked" is so brazen an argument.
They're going to run this all the way up to SCOTUSA and the justices are going to blink.
I'm actually not sure.
The thread mentions this aspect of it, but just to restate it - in addition to this being actively evil in the present, if they are able to get away with it it would actively fuck up contracts with any sort of royalty component, permanently and in perpetuity. It would enable the contract writers to sell those contracts to shell companies, ditch the financial obligations, and pocket all the money. It would render contracts largely illusory. And it's the sort of thing that corporations could use against each other, so I'm not sure they'll open a can of worms of quite that size.
But we live in very stupid times, so, who knows.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I think it's possible that the courts could determine that contracts are to be fulfilled on a discretionary basis, determined by whichever party has more power
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
If the courts up through SCOTUS decide to overturn the bedrock of contract law we have got so many bigger problems than Disney screwing creators over.
That would essentially destroy modern society overnight, and I'm really not being hyperbolic to say that.
If the courts up through SCOTUS decide to overturn the bedrock of contract law we have got so many bigger problems than Disney screwing creators over.
That would essentially destroy modern society overnight, and I'm really not being hyperbolic to say that.
frankly the argument disney is making with this shit is so patently absurd and unbelievable that I can't believe they're actually doing it, like how did their lawyers let them try this shit, but every day I don't hear about this going to court and getting them absolutely thrown in a trashcan with all legal fees and massive punitive damages awarded to the author's estate I start to feel the dread creep up my spine a little more
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My dad used to get a royalty check from Bantam every once in a while for the two Star Wars short stories he wrote. It was always like some tiny amount but those two anthologies kept selling.
He has not gotten a single one since Disney.
This is sadly not a new thing for authors, especially when publishers get bought and change.
Covid postponed, hopefully for a while, the next turn of the screw from Disney and the terms they force theaters to operate under.
They made some big reaches on Star Wars in terms of how much cut the theaters get and minimum screen counts etc.
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My dad used to get a royalty check from Bantam every once in a while for the two Star Wars short stories he wrote. It was always like some tiny amount but those two anthologies kept selling.
He has not gotten a single one since Disney.
This is sadly not a new thing for authors, especially when publishers get bought and change.
From context I am guessing Authors have nothing like the screen actors guild to back them on things like royalties?
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
If the courts up through SCOTUS decide to overturn the bedrock of contract law we have got so many bigger problems than Disney screwing creators over.
That would essentially destroy modern society overnight, and I'm really not being hyperbolic to say that.
frankly the argument disney is making with this shit is so patently absurd and unbelievable that I can't believe they're actually doing it, like how did their lawyers let them try this shit, but every day I don't hear about this going to court and getting them absolutely thrown in a trashcan with all legal fees and massive punitive damages awarded to the author's estate I start to feel the dread creep up my spine a little more
Someone has to actually bring litigation against Disney for it to end up in a court, and you need a lot of money and legal muscle before "let's pick a legal fight with Disney" isn't a completely suicidal idea.
Part of Cory's tweet thread is about a coalition that's trying to get lawyers and funding together explicitly for that purpose.
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the audacity of it is something else. Like you can bet your bippy if someone bought Sony and tried to pull this shit with the Spider-Man license, Disney would come down on them with every lawyer they could possibly find.
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A lot of this is why I can't muster anything beyond "ok I guess" as far as new marvel movies go. Forget that it's all just streamlining entertainment to be incredibly bland and safe, they make billions of dollars and just fuck the content creators. The fact that Ed Brubaker makes more from residuals from his guest appearance in winter soldier, then any other think involving winter soldier is a crime. They make a profit by selling good vs evil stories while being as evil as they fucking can when it would cost them barely anything to not.
Tell me that alan dean fosters royalties cost as much as anything star wars brings in.
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My dad used to get a royalty check from Bantam every once in a while for the two Star Wars short stories he wrote. It was always like some tiny amount but those two anthologies kept selling.
He has not gotten a single one since Disney.
This is sadly not a new thing for authors, especially when publishers get bought and change.
From context I am guessing Authors have nothing like the screen actors guild to back them on things like royalties?
A lot of this is why I can't muster anything beyond "ok I guess" as far as new marvel movies go. Forget that it's all just streamlining entertainment to be incredibly bland and safe, they make billions of dollars and just fuck the content creators. The fact that Ed Brubaker makes more from residuals from his guest appearance in winter soldier, then any other think involving winter soldier is a crime. They make a profit by selling good vs evil stories while being as evil as they fucking can when it would cost them barely anything to not.
Tell me that alan dean fosters royalties cost as much as anything star wars brings in.
If you are looking for justice in creators getting paid for their creations Comics is never going to be the place to find it sadly. That whole deal is pretty iron clad.
"we only bought the parts of the contracts we liked" is so brazen an argument.
They're going to run this all the way up to SCOTUS and the justices are going to blink.
I'm actually not sure.
The thread mentions this aspect of it, but just to restate it - in addition to this being actively evil in the present, if they are able to get away with it it would actively fuck up contracts with any sort of royalty component, permanently and in perpetuity. It would enable the contract writers to sell those contracts to shell companies, ditch the financial obligations, and pocket all the money. It would render contracts largely illusory. And it's the sort of thing that corporations could use against each other, so I'm not sure they'll open a can of worms of quite that size.
But we live in very stupid times, so, who knows.
You have far more faith in this composition of SCOTUS than I do.
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"I never disrobe before a gunfight." is the best line Nicolas Cage has ever delivered.
I was victorious with Drive Angry, a cinematic classic.
And after the movie my best friend's (ex)girlfriend casually remarked, "That's the worst film I have ever seen."
God, what a fuckin great movie.
It's enjoyable
I can't stop laughing about Danny McBride doing a Seth Rogan impersonation for two hours.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
i would give that to drowning mona, simply for this look
thank god I wasn't the only one that was continually hearing seth rogan.
William Fichtner is up there with David Straithairn as an actor I've liked in everything.
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Twitter thread about the fight against Disney's bizarre legal bullshit about buying contracts and not honoring them.
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They're going to run this all the way up to SCOTUS and the justices are going to blink.
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Disney will just settle out of court each time someone brings litigation against them.
It's not about the money, it's about the control. By paying these authors, there's an implicit suggestion that Disney does not own these properties and they could potentially find themselves in violation of the contract or it could even just expire on them, and then they lose those rights.
By pulling their calvinball bullshit and going "We have the rights but no longer are under obligation of the contract" then they basically are saying contracts say what they want them to say, and whatever written down is worthless. Right now they're hiding this behind the Fox aquisition, but if it works here they will absolutely try to extend it out to every fucking thing they've ever touched.
I'm actually not sure.
The thread mentions this aspect of it, but just to restate it - in addition to this being actively evil in the present, if they are able to get away with it it would actively fuck up contracts with any sort of royalty component, permanently and in perpetuity. It would enable the contract writers to sell those contracts to shell companies, ditch the financial obligations, and pocket all the money. It would render contracts largely illusory. And it's the sort of thing that corporations could use against each other, so I'm not sure they'll open a can of worms of quite that size.
But we live in very stupid times, so, who knows.
That would essentially destroy modern society overnight, and I'm really not being hyperbolic to say that.
frankly the argument disney is making with this shit is so patently absurd and unbelievable that I can't believe they're actually doing it, like how did their lawyers let them try this shit, but every day I don't hear about this going to court and getting them absolutely thrown in a trashcan with all legal fees and massive punitive damages awarded to the author's estate I start to feel the dread creep up my spine a little more
He has not gotten a single one since Disney.
This is sadly not a new thing for authors, especially when publishers get bought and change.
They made some big reaches on Star Wars in terms of how much cut the theaters get and minimum screen counts etc.
From context I am guessing Authors have nothing like the screen actors guild to back them on things like royalties?
Someone has to actually bring litigation against Disney for it to end up in a court, and you need a lot of money and legal muscle before "let's pick a legal fight with Disney" isn't a completely suicidal idea.
Part of Cory's tweet thread is about a coalition that's trying to get lawyers and funding together explicitly for that purpose.
Extremely.
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A lot of this is why I can't muster anything beyond "ok I guess" as far as new marvel movies go. Forget that it's all just streamlining entertainment to be incredibly bland and safe, they make billions of dollars and just fuck the content creators. The fact that Ed Brubaker makes more from residuals from his guest appearance in winter soldier, then any other think involving winter soldier is a crime. They make a profit by selling good vs evil stories while being as evil as they fucking can when it would cost them barely anything to not.
Tell me that alan dean fosters royalties cost as much as anything star wars brings in.
Nope. Basically you need a really good agent.
I mean that in a good way it's just so chill.
I was worried this, My Neighbor Totoro, and Ponyo would be too slow for my hyperactive 6 year-old, but he loves them.
Ponyo?
She loves ham
If she loves ham, show her the D&D movie. Between Jeremy Irons and Thora Birch, that movie is hammier than a sausage deli.
If you are looking for justice in creators getting paid for their creations Comics is never going to be the place to find it sadly. That whole deal is pretty iron clad.
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You have far more faith in this composition of SCOTUS than I do.