When you take a joke from Megamind but you also made Megamind
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So the Megamind sequel came out and, uh, yeah. It feels so weirdly disconnected from the first movie and I don’t mean because the animation is lower budget and the voice actors are different. That’s to be expected for a direct to streaming sequel. I mean it feels like it was written by entirely different people which I thought was super weird because pretty much the only people who returned are the original writers!
So I did some digging with my writing partner and learned that, apparently, Megamind was *heavily* tinkered with between the OG script being written and it being produced. Justin Theroux and Guillermo del Toro were creative consultants and I think, despite not having writing credits, they and maybe others must have edited the story in a big way because I found the original script and…
You can check it out here if you want (or check out a recap post here) but it’s very clear that what they wrote was a raunchy adult comedy that through the movie making process got transformed into a family-friendly flick.
So the disconnect, imo, is two guys who are probably more interested in writing for Adult Swim than for kids being told to write a movie with no R rated jokes and without any of the other writers who worked on the first movie behind the scenes. I just wanted to put this out there because a lot of reviewers seemed confused at the fact that the writers were the same and I was too until I learned all this info.
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Megamind Rules / Megamind Vs The Doom Syndicate is NOT made by AI
Listen y'all what we're NOT going to do is make shit up and accuse the writers of Megamind Rules / Megamind Vs The Doom Syndicate of using AI to make the scripts. I've been following them on twitter since before the show was even announced; they are against AI as it directly impacts their livelihoods and there was an entire team of writers for the show/movie.
Just because you don't like the concept or animation isn't enough reason to just blatantly lie; Brent Simons, Alan Schoolcraft, Eric Fogel, and the rest of the team for sure put their hearts into it. It's not their fault they got such a small budget that makes it look crunchy. The Doom Syndicate were also ALWAYS a concept that existed; they were enemies removed from the original film late enough that they're all over the Art Of book and the 2010 video games. And YES Megamind is isolated and awkward, but the existence of the Doom Syndicate in his past is NOT impossible by any means-- it is entirely possible to feel absolutely alone in a large group of people that make you feel inferior or unsafe. When he said in the movie "it was me and Minion against the world" what he means is Minion was his main support growing up. It would be impossible to have no adults in his life even isolated in a prison, and other villains would absolutely be trying to use his smarts to their advantage.
Again, just because the animation is crunchy is no reason to just make shit up and blame the writers of using AI; perhaps the AI is picking up that plot because THIS CONCEPT ALWAYS EXISTED and has fueled countless fanfiction and fan rp blogs that said AI models stole from. :) Thanks for playing!
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Megamind keychain interest check! It would be double sided with this design.
Just looking to get an idea of how many people would be interested for now. Ideally these would be available in February, pending responses. Cost will be determined by how many I can order.
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so many posts about villains and nemeses come back to megamind or doofenshmirtz and perry the platypus and honestly i love that for them
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The supervillain's family.
I really like how Darkonesroses wrote Megamind's parents.
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Megamind and Roxanne dynamic but it's Raphaella and Lyfrassir. Raphaella la Cognizi, the dumb-smart mad scientist, and Lyfrassir Edda, the cute reporter/journalist she's always kidnapping. Obviously they fall in love bonus points for any of the following: Marius as Minion, if you can figure out how Ivy would fit into the dynamic because this feels so so so wrong without her she's my wife I love her (maybe Bernard somehow? or just a new character placement period), and BONUS bonus points for a polycule between the four of them.
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I thought of this meme in the shower. I can’t believe it took me this long to realize it.
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