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Byron Lafayette

@ByronLafayette

| Journalist | Film Critic | Chairman @indiecriticsUSA | Editor @ViralHare | Member: @CFACelebrity, OFTA | Bylines @FanSided, @whatculture, @TVObsessive_

Los Angeles Katılım Nisan 2011
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Adrian Cooper@_adrian_cooper_·
@JoseSanche89405 "as he's always been", and yet you literally state the Silver Age. DC wasn't always just the Silver Age, so you're writing nonsense.
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Jose Sanchez Juarez
Jose Sanchez Juarez@JoseSanche89405·
Superman feels like a comic book brought to life. James Gunn embraced the Silver Age aesthetic with all the colors, the fantasy, the weirdness and the surrealism in order to adapt Superman as he's always been without being ashamed of that. This is how DC must be.
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John Baker@jkbaker1117

Gunn's Superman is aging like milk getting worse with every new detail, while Snyder's trilogy ages like wine with awesome new details discovered all the time.

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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@Ergenton @mjarbo F4 was rewritten to hell, and edited to hell, we never got to see the real product. They cut the whole second act and trimmed the third act.
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Richard
Richard@Ergenton·
@mjarbo This is an understatement. I haven't seen the 're-imagined' version of F4, but given that Kinberg was involved, I can see why it was so poorly received. X-Men Apocalypse was very disappointing and Dark Phoenix was plain rubbish.
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Matt Jarbo
Matt Jarbo@mjarbo·
I really do not like the idea of Simon Kinberg’s *Star Wars* trilogy becoming Episodes 10–12. I understand why he got the job. Kinberg co-created and produced *Star Wars Rebels* with Dave Filoni, so there is clearly trust there. He also knows how to deliver safe, accessible franchise entertainment for a studio. That is exactly what worries me. His *X-Men* movies, *Dark Phoenix*, and *Fantastic Four* involvement do not make me think he is the guy to carry *Star Wars* into its next major saga. Especially when Lucasfilm already has a more immediate story sitting right in front of them. *Ahsoka* Season 2. Thrawn. The Imperial remnants. The entire *Heir to the Empire* lane Filoni has been building toward. And after *The Mandalorian and Grogu*, there is clearly still an audience for that corner of the franchise. *Star Wars* should eventually move forward. But jumping straight into Episodes 10–12 with Kinberg feels like trying to manufacture the next saga before Lucasfilm has rebuilt enough confidence in the brand. Let Filoni finish the story already in motion. Then worry about the next trilogy.
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@ByAllMeansMovie I don’t disagree, taking a break from the Skywalkers for a while would be good. I personally think an Old Republic Trilogy would be awesome
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ByAllMeansMovies@ByAllMeansMovie·
@ByronLafayette It’s a sequel to a Disney plus show. I really think Star Wars would benefit from leaving the skywalker timeline for something original. It’s obvious the fanbase feels so strongly about those characters I think going a new direction could help us fall in love Star Wars again.
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@MoviesThatMaher Nah, Mando and Grogu is a film sequel to a TV show, it always had a limited ceiling. Even in the 90s the X-Files movie at the hight of the shows hype only made 75m domestic Tv show movies just can’t make that much
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@lam574201571451 @ByAllMeansMovie Exactly, had the Last Jedi not killed off Luke and allowed him to triumphantly return in Episode 9 as the epic Jedi Master, TLJ would be well liked and respected
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lam@lam574201571451·
@ByAllMeansMovie Last Jedi was original and is fractured the fan base, just respect the property and characters and the fans will follow. Disney did everything they could to kill off pur heroes and replace them. Disney's ignorance has damaged the #1 franchise of all time and downgraded it to 🗑
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Tony Clay
Tony Clay@thetonyclay·
@broodloper @MarioNawfal Because he is not Maximus. As an artist, he is much more than one role. Russell Crowe played Maximus, not the other way 'round.
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
Russell Crowe stopped a mob of autograph seekers in Paris and made his terms very clear. "Don't fu*king push in on me. As soon as somebody's a dick, I'm gone." Honestly, fair enough.
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Sir Bobby
Sir Bobby@prinzabobby·
@MarioNawfal All these instructions and guidelines just to get an autograph… lol
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@mjarbo Yep, Marketing is never counted into a film’s profitability, it comes from a completely different part of the company and is from a pool of funds that pay for all the movies.
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@MrGitz @mjarbo Being forgettable is its biggest sin. I mentioned it to my mom last week and she said “Did we see that?” (We had lol)
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Mr. Gitz
Mr. Gitz@MrGitz·
@mjarbo It was awful & worst of all? Forgettable. Too much of it looked like a video game & Mangold feels way out of his depth. Gore Verbinski would’ve been my choice. This was an empty husk. It was too long. A $300 million fan film. Indy 4 was far better(competent) & at least memorable
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Matt Jarbo
Matt Jarbo@mjarbo·
With THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU in theaters, scratching that pulpy Lucasfilm adventure itch, I have been thinking a lot about INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY as it approaches its third anniversary. People were way too harsh on this movie. I understand why audiences may have been hesitant. Set leaks involving Roman soldiers made people nervous about the time-travel element, while the usual culture-war crowd spent months insisting Helena was going to replace Indy by the end of the movie. That obviously did not happen. What we actually got was one final adventure with a man who spent his entire life trying to understand history, only to reach the end and realize he no longer understood where he fit into it. That is what made the movie work for me. Indy does not know he is going on a time-travel adventure at the beginning. He is just an old man who has lost too much, feels left behind by the modern world, and gets pulled into another hunt for an artifact. Then, at the end, he finally gets the one thing he has chased his entire life: the chance to actually live inside history. And he wants to stay there. I also love how much it feels like a spiritual companion to TEMPLE OF DOOM. It is strange, pulpy, darker than people expected, and far more emotional than it was given credit for. By the time Marion walks back into that apartment at the end, I was tearing up like crazy. Was it the financial hit Disney wanted? No. But as a final Indiana Jones adventure, I think *Dial of Destiny* is quite wonderful. I really wish more people had given it a fair chance.
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Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@mjarbo I don’t hate the movie, but I think the time travel aspect was a mistake. Spear of destiny being sought by the Nazis to rebuild the TR was right there lol
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CSP
CSP@SpazNerdd·
@Itssan17 Snyder’s fans are the worst thing to happen. Period. Toxic lowlifes with no real life common sense. Just brainwashed idiots.
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Allen Straith
Allen Straith@FutureFilmNSidr·
@MyTimeToShineH A mix of greatness and mediocre. Season One was good, Season Two was peak, Season Two point Five was mediocre (Book of Boba Fett) and Season Three was good. Just under season one for me. I know this opinion is a lonely one, but it’s often lonely being right so I’ll live. 😂
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MyTimeToShineHello
MyTimeToShineHello@MyTimeToShineH·
Give me your honest thoughts on The Mandalorian (tv series)
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Proper Pen
Proper Pen@TheProperPen·
@guyfelicella @CollinRugg They are addicts before they are homeless. Everything, including their living situation stems from the addiction. They cannot review housing or any resources before their addiction is dealt with, else wise it’s merely enabling their deaths.
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Collin Rugg
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg·
NEW: Spencer Pratt fires back at reporter after he was asked about his plan for the homeless, says they will all end up in Seattle. Reporter: "What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?" Pratt: "Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts... These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits." "These people, when I unplug them ... they're all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them."
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@zombierayne The funny thing is that both Star Trek Online and Lord of the Rings Online are thriving with concurrent player counts that never climb over 1500, yet they are still releasing new content all the time. Its wild that D2 still has so many players yet they are not pushing it more.
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Zombierayne🧟🌧️@zombierayne·
Hate to be the "Steam charts guy" but Bungie killed Destiny 2 for marathon a game that can't top the active daily players of D2, and likely never will. And no amount of work will change that. Bungie higher ups need to be fired and let someone who has a brain cell take over.
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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@casualblu3 His ideas are no worse then what Sony and Bungie did to the game already
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casualblue
casualblue@casualblu3·
Kim dot com wants to save destiny 2 by ruining destiny 2. It's an interesting strategy, let's see if Bungie goes for it.
Kim Dotcom@KimDotcom

Open letter to Sony You got ripped off by Pete Parson of Bungie in the biggest heist in gaming history. You paid $3.6 billion for a failing company. You can do 2 things now. Punish everyone at Bungie for your mistake or go on the offensive to make your money back. This letter is about option 2. You can make your money back and here is how. You need to monetize D2 better. I have over 10.000 hours in the game and built several multi-billion companies that controlled 4% of the Internet before the US Government shut them down, unlawfully. You have nothing to lose at this point so hear me out. Monetization of D2 is shit. You have a large community and here is how you grow that community for Bungie to be profitable. Add a marketplace for the best items in the game. Let users and content creators auction what they earn in-game. Sell vault slots. Many gamers are horters. Let them pay for it. Add items that are truly rare. Make the gaming experience more rewarding by limiting those special items. Change the sandbox and allow Gamers to feel powerful. Allow 3rd party developers to make commercial mods for D2 and acquire the best mods. Make D3 Turn this bad investment into a winner. You will have some pushback from the community about ‘pay to win’ but having some criticism is much better than letting D2 die. Make content creators excited to play and promote D2 again and you will observe a steady increase in player numbers and income. Regards, Kim Dotcom

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Byron Lafayette
Byron Lafayette@ByronLafayette·
@Mr_Boffin @andrewtlloyd @BradRTorgersen Yep. It gives Indie a happy ending, and does feel like an adventure film, when it’s good it’s really good, but when it’s bad it’s bad lol. That being said I overall enjoy it as an epilogue to the trilogy
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J. M. Anjewierden
J. M. Anjewierden@Mr_Boffin·
@andrewtlloyd @BradRTorgersen I keep 4 in my personal canon for exactly that reason. The rest of it was silly fun at best, clunky at worst, but they were at least *trying* to make a proper Indy film, and Marion (and even Mutt) make it worthwhile.
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