Jackie Chan is a 70-year-old stunt man that's STILL working the film industry. I do not believe Jack charges much to be a voice actor anymore. I bet he is just beyond busy being an old man.
As far as the 'Tall Tales'. To be completely honest, I'm really bored of the constant reboots and alternate continuities and character retcons. I'll blame DC and Marvel for it though. I heard Deadpool and Wolverine was good. I'm glad everybody else enjoyed it. I imagine they don't want to step on any fanbases toes and invite ire from the old heads that just get offended they messed with their baby again. 1987 TMNT was better than 2003 TMNT was better than 2012 TMNT type of argument. Just make a new original series with new characters. The supporting characters are coming down with a serious case of Benjamin Button. The Turtles become mutants three different ways. The main villains gain the ability to fight Goku and growing increasingly more depressed. Their leaning so hard on trying to expand a franchise with new generations instead of expanding their greater universe with newer, uniquely compelling characters.
Like seriously, at least the Flash has a family that each dons a unique persona. But here's a Milkman Superman, here's the Batman who laughs, here's the anti-Justice League, here's the Injustice League, look at all these Spidermans. It's pathetic to me. They're not making anything stick, they're muddying the waters, making it difficult for a community to relate to each other while relating to a character. Instead of ensuring a character is coherent, they try to cram EVERY possible idea into one. It's the same thing as tearing it apart to reduce it to its bare bones, there's just no point anymore. What happened to the X-Men? They don't make many new characters anymore. Nah, how 'bout Earth 52, how 'bout New 52, how 'bout 616, how 'bout the Dark Multiverse, how 'bout the Omniverse, how 'bout the Multi-Multiverse. The scaling in these stories is so bad it's unhealthy. Imagining universes so massive they minimize the very idea of space, time, and cycle of life and death itself. Where's the Warhammer 40ks? If they can make an awesome line-up without using the same names and craft compelling stories without needing to significantly change the way a character was originally written, why can't they. I can't even argue it being about money anymore because these people are legitimately stupid. All the money in the world can't buy talent without a proper hand guiding the wallet.
All that to say "Yeah, I really don't like reboots too much." Sure, they can be good sometimes but if they're walking into the board room and pitching the idea for another reboot based on the dumbest statistics they can get their hands on, I have to start tossing the franchise out the window. They're mistreating the consumer base at this point.
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Jackie Chan is a 70-year-old stunt man that's STILL working the film industry. I do not believe Jack charges much to be a voice actor anymore. I bet he is just beyond busy being an old man.
As far as the 'Tall Tales'. To be completely honest, I'm really bored of the constant reboots and alternate continuities and character retcons. I'll blame DC and Marvel for it though. I heard Deadpool and Wolverine was good. I'm glad everybody else enjoyed it. I imagine they don't want to step on any fanbases toes and invite ire from the old heads that just get offended they messed with their baby again. 1987 TMNT was better than 2003 TMNT was better than 2012 TMNT type of argument. Just make a new original series with new characters. The supporting characters are coming down with a serious case of Benjamin Button. The Turtles become mutants three different ways. The main villains gain the ability to fight Goku and growing increasingly more depressed. Their leaning so hard on trying to expand a franchise with new generations instead of expanding their greater universe with newer, uniquely compelling characters.
Like seriously, at least the Flash has a family that each dons a unique persona. But here's a Milkman Superman, here's the Batman who laughs, here's the anti-Justice League, here's the Injustice League, look at all these Spidermans. It's pathetic to me. They're not making anything stick, they're muddying the waters, making it difficult for a community to relate to each other while relating to a character. Instead of ensuring a character is coherent, they try to cram EVERY possible idea into one. It's the same thing as tearing it apart to reduce it to its bare bones, there's just no point anymore. What happened to the X-Men? They don't make many new characters anymore. Nah, how 'bout Earth 52, how 'bout New 52, how 'bout 616, how 'bout the Dark Multiverse, how 'bout the Omniverse, how 'bout the Multi-Multiverse. The scaling in these stories is so bad it's unhealthy. Imagining universes so massive they minimize the very idea of space, time, and cycle of life and death itself. Where's the Warhammer 40ks? If they can make an awesome line-up without using the same names and craft compelling stories without needing to significantly change the way a character was originally written, why can't they. I can't even argue it being about money anymore because these people are legitimately stupid. All the money in the world can't buy talent without a proper hand guiding the wallet.
All that to say "Yeah, I really don't like reboots too much." Sure, they can be good sometimes but if they're walking into the board room and pitching the idea for another reboot based on the dumbest statistics they can get their hands on, I have to start tossing the franchise out the window. They're mistreating the consumer base at this point.