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What is the worst Cinematic universe you can imagine? : RedLetterMedia

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Universal monster movie universe. They'd call it something stupid like "dark universe".

I guess the redditor didn't know about this...

Dark Universe | Dark Universe Wiki | Fandom

2016[?]

The Dark Universe was a planned series of monster films that were being developed and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Dark Universe was meant to serve as rebooted versions of past monster films that take place in a shared universe. Plans for the shared universe were shelved following the failure of The Mummy.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Wizarding World by far is the worst cinematic universe. The wizard boy movies are kind of mid, the creator is a hack and a TERF. The prequels are fucking horrible and somehow the writer decided "the bad guys motivation to take over the world is because they saw a vision of the future where the nazis made concentration camps and nuclear weapons." She didn't have to make all the wizards complicit with Nazis, in fact in her earlier books, it was implied that wizards were doing their own WW2 on the sides of good and evil, but nope, she had to bang out those shitty movies and refused to take notes or edits from anyone else.

    Including TV-universes - it's the Dick Wolf universe because aside from The Wire, it's a world where All Cops Are Better.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I'll maintain that the first movie had a few decent bits. If they had cut all of the Grindelwald stuff and made the movie about a quirky british man doing cryptid conservation it would have been great - but part of JKR's problem (besides her being a Tory) is that she doesn't seem to realize that the "serious" parts of her writing drag down the bits that people actually like.

      • Deadend [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It’s true, we want whimsy and cryptid conservations, not super Wizard bloodline shit.