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[I'm a Silly]

So, unpopular opinion, but I think Jared Leto is overhated. The only bad thing about him is that he's a method actor weirdo, but so was Marlon Brando--and that guy was more SJW. His Joker is hated mostly from bad design and writing choices, which reflects more on the producers and Snyder for approving those dailies. He wasn't great in BR 2049 and Tron: Ares, but those movies were pretty boring in general, so it's not like his performances stood out as particularly bad. He doesn't behave like a Rachel Zegler or a Milly Alcock, whom actually deserve the hate because they are sabotaging their own productions.

I regard him with indifference.

He lives at the old Spook Central Lookout Mountain studio, and he's a cult leader/sex pest -- that's all I can find out.

 

[Irregardless]

Leto has a very, very narrow range as an actor, but he isn't a bad one. He's a former model who is pretty good in certain roles. He's also a nutjob, clearly.

Jared Leto "can" be the perfect actor for very specific roles. For example, he was amazing in "WeCrashed" on Apple TV. It had him play a delusional narcissist that talked himself into being worth billions for basically no reason, and he played the role perfectly.
Anything else though? Nah.

Out side of random roles like that, the only person Jared Leto should play is Jared Leto.

Jared Leto is like if Nicholas Cage was in the body of Russel Brand, and outside of being the singer for 30 seconds to Mars, he's only famous for being famous.
So might as well have him just play that character.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Has anyone associated with the Red Letter Media team or at the Gen X Age range addressed Hollywood's apparent disregard for the 1990s? Many of the poorly received political reboots of 1980s intellectual properties were created by Millennials who were either very young or not yet born during that decade. Aside from the Jurassic World movies, Independence Day: Resurgence, Jumanji, Scream, and Power Rangers (2017), the 1990s have largely been overlooked by Hollywood. In fact, I am noticing more nostalgia-focused productions related to the 2000s and even the 2010s, particularly within independent animation. I have noticed that there are stronger arguments and greater demand for reboots of Street Sharks, Biker Mice from Mars, and Mighty Max online than there are for Masters of the Universe. Even toy commercials from the 1990s demonstrate greater effort in world-building and maintaining continuity compared to those from the 1980s. You don’t see the levels of dismissal of 90s cartoons like you do with the 80s yet Hollywood ignores the decade for the most part.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

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He-man might be the first example of a woke rebranding the killed a popular IP. Mattel demanded they add She-Ra to appeal to girls, thinking they would capture both the boys' and girls' market. She-Ra dolls lost them millions. The money that would have gone into a third season of 60 episodes of He-Man was instead used for the She-Ra cartoon, which didn't appeal to boys while trying to attract girl viewers. Netflix's She-Ra series concluded, resulting in significant losses for Mattel. Additionally, Netflix chose to discontinue the She-Ra project as a tax write-off. Before She-Ra was added to the lore. My little pony adding a male cast member to appeal to boys in its last reboot had similar results. He-man was big as teenage mutant ninja turtles and Power Rangers culturally at one time.

 

[Prester John]

The new MotU is 140 minutes. How long is the Earth segment about Adam working an office job? Couldn't they just set it all in Eternia?

Did RLM mention The New Adventures of He-Man? I used to watch the show and I had some of the toys.

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The earth part was something like 15-20 minutes, max. It worked to give Adam a childlike wonder of the heroes he remembered from Eternia, once he returned. I think it worked well, with Adam sort of a stand-in for the men who grew up with the series and are nostalgic.

He-man might be the first example of a woke rebranding the killed a popular IP. Mattel demanded they add She-Ra to appeal to girls, thinking they would capture both the boys' and girls' market. She-Ra dolls lost them millions. The money that would have gone into a third season of 60 episodes of He-Man was instead used for the She-Ra cartoon, which didn't appeal to boys while trying to attract girl viewers. Netflix's She-Ra series concluded, resulting in significant losses for Mattel. Additionally, Netflix chose to discontinue the She-Ra project as a tax write-off. Before She-Ra was added to the lore. My little pony adding a male cast member to appeal to boys in its last reboot had similar results. He-man was big as teenage mutant ninja turtles and Power Rangers culturally at one time.

Yeah, I don't think I ever watched a single episode of She-Ra. Well, I did see The Secret of the Sword in theaters because it was presented as a He-Man movie but was really the first few episodes of the She-Ra series. It was probably a combination of growing out of it and also that She-Ra doesn't scratch the same itch as He-Man for a young boy's power fantasies..

 

[Dante Alighieri]

So, unpopular opinion, but I think Jared Leto is overhated. The only bad thing about him is that he's a method actor weirdo, but so was Marlon Brando--and that guy was more SJW. His Joker is hated mostly from bad design and writing choices, which reflects more on the producers and Snyder for approving those dailies. He wasn't great in BR 2049 and Tron: Ares, but those movies were pretty boring in general, so it's not like his performances stood out as particularly bad. He doesn't behave like a Rachel Zegler or a Milly Alcock, whom actually deserve the hate because they are sabotaging their own productions.

I regard him with indifference.

He's doing the best he can with what he's given, and I'm sure he's trying his best

 

[StarkRavingMad]

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He-man might be the first example of a woke rebranding the killed a popular IP. Mattel demanded they add She-Ra to appeal to girls, thinking they would capture both the boys' and girls' market. She-Ra dolls lost them millions. The money that would have gone into a third season of 60 episodes of He-Man was instead used for the She-Ra cartoon, which didn't appeal to boys while trying to attract girl viewers. Netflix's She-Ra series concluded, resulting in significant losses for Mattel. Additionally, Netflix chose to discontinue the She-Ra project as a tax write-off. Before She-Ra was added to the lore. My little pony adding a male cast member to appeal to boys in its last reboot had similar results. He-man was big as teenage mutant ninja turtles and Power Rangers culturally at one time.

As a girl, I loved She-Ra (the character) back in the day ... But I would be lying if I said I didn't watch Masters of the Universe way more. lol.

The She-Ra toys/dolls were next level though. Loved them. I had the same opinion with My Little Pony too. Rarely watched the actual show (and I remember next to nothing about the OG show except for that one movie where the ponies turned into literal demons ), but I loved the toys.

And yeah, with my brothers and I, the big waves of toys we got during Christmas were MOTU, then TMNT, and then Power Rangers ... Basically, the holy trinity of toylines.

The new MotU is 140 minutes. How long is the Earth segment about Adam working an office job? Couldn't they just set it all in Eternia?

Did RLM mention The New Adventures of He-Man? I used to watch the show and I had some of the toys.

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I remember these toys well. I even remember the fonts of the logo, and all of the gold and blue-colored packaging. The toys were cool, but not nearly as cool as the MOTU toys of course.

And aside from the intro, I remember next to nothing about this particular show. lol.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

How embarrassing Jay.

 

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

Rarely watched the actual show [...] but I loved the toys.

That's how it was for most people with most of these toyline based shows. What you created in your head while playing with the toys was way better than whatever those shows were.
Most people just remember the theme songs because those usually kicked ass but the actual shows were really bad.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

That's how it was for most people with most of these toyline based shows. What you created in your head while playing with the toys was way better than whatever those shows were.
Most people just remember the theme songs because those usually kicked ass but the actual shows were really bad.

The best part was always how the openings to the shows were so long and were much better-animated than the actual shows.

The length was simply to reduce the amount of animation needed per episode, and the most ridiculous was the My Little Pony cartoon, because the show was one MLP episode and one other of Potato Head Kids or something else, but the secondary segments had a full intro sequence as well, so 4-6 minutes of the runtime was just opening sequences, so a 22-minute episode only needed about 10 minutes of actual content.

 

[Andy Soying Out]

I think the only film that Jared Leto was top billing & also gave a good performance was Requiem for a Dream, but that's just going on memory, haven't seen it in almost a decade.
He's been in good films in a top billing role like Lord of War, but I wouldn't say he was the reason that film is good. He's also in some great films like Fight Club, American Psycho and The Thin Red Line, but those are very small roles. He fit the main villain character in Blade Runner 2049 because he could just play himself: an arrogant narcissist, and if I recall correctly he's only in two scenes in that film and never meets Ryan Gosling's main character.
Is there a Jared Leto breakout role or performance that I'm missing?

 

[Acoustic Virgin]

That's how it was for most people with most of these toyline based shows. What you created in your head while playing with the toys was way better than whatever those shows were.
Most people just remember the theme songs because those usually kicked ass but the actual shows were really bad.

I don't know how many weirdos like me are out there, but that definitely describes my experience. I think He-Man was a little before my time (though I recall friends who had the action figures that I think they got second hand at garage sales or as hand-me-downs from older siblings), but I loved the Ghostbusters and the Ninja Turtles as a kid. When the original Ghostbusters movie was on Netflix a couple years ago, I streamed it, and it was like seeing a whole new movie; I didn't remember a thing about it. And when these hack frauds talked about the Ninja Turtles movies in a Re:View with Freddie Mercury Robin Williams the comic book guy I couldn't remember a single thing they referenced. I just liked playing with the toys. Even Star Wars -- I had a bunch of the action figures as a kid, but I couldn't tell you a single plot point from the movies. I just liked playing and dreaming up my own scenes and adventures for the characters.

That's why I can't get too bent out of shape when some filmmaker "disrespects the lore" of these properties -- I've been doing that since I was six.

 

[Pedophobe]

You don’t see the levels of dismissal of 90s cartoons like you do with the 80s yet Hollywood ignores the decade for the most part.

Odd-numbered decades are too niche.

 

[AbbaZabba]

the 1990s have largely been overlooked by Hollywood

At least Æon Flux had it's raping done 20 years ago...

 

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

The best part was always how the openings to the shows were so long and were much better-animated than the actual shows.

I remember seeing an episode of Thundercats.
The intro and the song was so fucking cool, I got shivers while watching it... then the show started and it was like 10 frames per minute, most of the time just their lips moved and nothing else.

When the original Ghostbusters movie was on Netflix a couple years ago, I streamed it, and it was like seeing a whole new movie; I didn't remember a thing about it.

That movie is really good though.
Aside from some stop motion shots, it really holds up and the writing is great. Shouldn't have been a franchise but it was like the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time when it came out so they had to make more.

That's why I can't get too bent out of shape when some filmmaker "disrespects the lore" of these properties -- I've been doing that since I was six.

Yeah, the IPs that started off as toys are meant to have the lore changed since every kid had a different lore.
I didn't fucking know which characters were good or bad among the He-Man or G.I. Joe toys, I didn't watch that crap, I made up my own stories.

The 45 year old men who get bent out of shape when Michael Bay or whoever destroys the epic lore of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are dum dums.

 

[TerminalBlueIce]

I think the only film that Jared Leto was top billing & also gave a good performance was Requiem for a Dream, but that's just going on memory, haven't seen it in almost a decade.
He's been in good films in a top billing role like Lord of War, but I wouldn't say he was the reason that film is good. He's also in some great films like Fight Club, American Psycho and The Thin Red Line, but those are very small roles. He fit the main villain character in Blade Runner 2049 because he could just play himself: an arrogant narcissist, and if I recall correctly he's only in two scenes in that film and never meets Ryan Gosling's main character.
Is there a Jared Leto breakout role or performance that I'm missing?

He was that ultra gay crossdressing roadside hooker in Dallas Buyers Club that won him an oscar and made him that perfect androgynous darling to the pink mafia Hollywood crowd. To his credit, he apparently ages on a scale dramatically dialed back compared to regular mortals.

 

[Quintex96]

Is there a Jared Leto breakout role or performance that I'm missing?

Only the single greatest performance in modern cinema

Spoiler: High Art

 

[I'm a Silly]

I think the only film that Jared Leto was top billing & also gave a good performance was Requiem for a Dream, but that's just going on memory, haven't seen it in almost a decade.
He's been in good films in a top billing role like Lord of War, but I wouldn't say he was the reason that film is good. He's also in some great films like Fight Club, American Psycho and The Thin Red Line, but those are very small roles. He fit the main villain character in Blade Runner 2049 because he could just play himself: an arrogant narcissist, and if I recall correctly he's only in two scenes in that film and never meets Ryan Gosling's main character.
Is there a Jared Leto breakout role or performance that I'm missing?

He broke out by being "Jordan Catalano" on *My So-Called Life* opposite a young Claire Danes.

allegedly he has Savoy lineage, but I can't substantiate this

 

[evergreenrider]

Kid me didn't know that, OK? But then, adult me knows damn well that you're wrong because Thunder Cats was even worse.

Liono very well may have been the first tranny in a reoccurring role on a children's show

 

[frozen_runner]

Jared Leto is like if Nicholas Cage was in the body of Russel Brand, and outside of being the singer for 30 seconds to Mars, he's only famous for being famous.

Nah. Cage is a legitimately great actor. He always swings for the fences, and sometimes he strikes out, but nobody has a perfect batting average.