Writer's Guild Strike of 2023 - Fuck these people

[Random Internet Person]

First batch o' scabs just dropped.

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Lots of tweets:
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LOL:
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Can't to see how things go from kneecaps and thumbs being destroyed by thugs to being cancelled on Twitter. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

You see, making new things is risky for the executives because it might actually fail to make a profit and problematic for the writers because they would have to actually use the atrophied sections of their brain where people with actual creativity hold their ideas at. Thus in this great stagnant culture where we cannibalize the past because there is no real future to look forward to, the present is too controversial to make anything but the most basic bitch shitlib nonsense about; Sequels and Reboots are the name of the game because the only thing that anyone values in this society any more is maximum profit for minimum effort. Welcome to 2023, fuck you.

And the worst part is that I'm not sure how you can damage this thinking, let alone destroy it. And I'm not too sure if this strike will do anything, or if this is one of the things where the payoff doesn't come until years from now.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

First batch o' scabs just dropped.

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Lots of tweets:
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LOL:
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Dear Hollywood, I will scab write for cheap just to piss off the Writers and I promise I will do a better job than most of em.

 

[Yamma Damma]

Pour one out for the homies.

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Holy shitsnacks and crackers! Look at all that rehashed recycled garbage! Rest in piss to all of it but Bettlejuice 2 I was kind of interested in it.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Nah, Beetlejuice 2 should've happened years ago if they were actually serious about it. If it was talked about but had been in development hell for this long, there was a damn good reason for it.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Nah, Beetlejuice 2 should've happened years ago if they were actually serious about it. If it was talked about but had been in development hell for this long, there was a damn good reason for it.

Nah dawg. Beetlejuice 2 should happen when nostalgia fever is at it's height, when writers would be able to insert themselves as the new Lydia, and when Tom Burton was old and everything he makes sucks ass.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Dear Hollywood, I will scab write for cheap just to piss off the Writers and I promise I will do a better job than most of em.

Why even bother with you?

Just use Archive of Our Own.

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The WGA has very little power as opposed to the UPS, longshore, and rail workers strike.

Even if the hint of these groups striking got the US and Canadian Secretary of Labor involved. Heck, one even merited an act of Congress.

Other than some platitudes, most politicians don't give a shit.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Pour one out for the homies.

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"OOOOOOHHHHHHH NNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! GET BACK TO WORK OR ELSE WE WILL NEVER GET OUR UNTITLED CAPESHIT SEQUAL WE REALLY NEED RIGHT NOW!"

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Anyone else notice how quiet things have gotten despite things like executives being quoted saying things like "We will wait till they lose their homes and starve" and articles stating that Hollywood is doomed if they don't sort things out soon? Almost like the public at large doesn't give two shits about this and the people involved are too tired to care.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The AFL-CIO president is 'joining the picket lines" of the SAG strike,while the AFTRA part of SAG-AFTRA claps like seals and writes endless pages of (paid) reports in the national media about how the totally independent, totally does not glow in the dark AFL-CIO is right there for YOU, the starving UCLA art grad who won't get a job because a computer algorithm can do it instead.


It is absolutely hilarious to me. Every day I watch the latest round of this story and every day I am amazed how the absolute retards running this strike fail to see how rather then being the strong bastion of labor, they are nothing more then a ball of yarn being batted about by the Federal Government and its subsidiary non-governmental organizations. Like the AFL-CIO.

Satan has called in his debt Hollywood!

 

[ZMOT]

There is another thread about this strike, so I don't know where to post, so I'll just do it here, & probably repost there.

Apparently, as per a Forbes article [A], SAG-AFTRA is keeping tabs on any "influencers" who might be supporting the studios during the strike, & are threatening to blacklist you, should you ever decide to join. Also, if you think it's impossible for them to keep track of every single YouTuber & TikTokker, you're 100% correct, cause they're relying on your peers to snitch on you. All this for a crumb of Hollywood.

Tweet & Video by Clownfish TV on the matter:

This might be even worse than the cosplaying copyrighting they're trying to pull.

the other thread is in A&N, so will sooner or later slide off or get replaced by a new article about it. happening threads are more persistent and focused, a&n is usually more like a comment section than actual discussion and keeping up with stuff.
I'd say post it at least here, maybe crosspost in any new a&n thread.

"Untitled Dirty Dancing Sequel"
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do it faggots, I wanna see it in all it's glory!

remember the original was an 80's movie set in the early 60's, a time people remembering that era were still around. it also had a feminist/classism slant (because muh 60's) but mainly was a romance/coming-of-age movie of daddy's little girl growing up (her nickname is literally baby).
it was also highly popular, dunno how much zoomers care about it (probably not many these days) but anyone 30+ will have seen it.

so any [current year] remake/sequel will go all in, I can't fucking wait to see some poor oppressed strong black woman fighting the man in the 60's or 70's, crunking on her white stepdad and not even have a love interest because she's strong female character who can do everything on her own anyway, thus pissing all over the fond memories people have. they can't reuse the originals timeframe setting it 20 years earlier because there are too many people around still remembering how totally not oppressive the 90's and early 00's were, so they can't even bank on the nostalgia.

there already was another dirty dancing movie, while looking it up I stumbled upon those gems:

In August 2011, Lionsgate announced their plan to produce a remake, and confirmed that the original film's choreographer, Kenny Ortega, was attached to direct. "We believe that the timing couldn't be better to modernize this story on the big screen, and we are proud to have Kenny Ortega at the helm", Joe Drake, president of Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group, explained about the project.

In 2020, a sequel was announced with Grey attached to reprise her role as Baby. As part of their presentation during CinemaCon 2022, current rights owner Lionsgate announced the film had the tentative title of DD and reaffirmed that Grey would still reprise her role as Baby.

however you think about it it will be an absolute disaster, and the world is poorer for not being able to laugh about it.

 

[Male Idiot]

Arch and Yellowflash commented on Netflix hiring AI project leader for 900k a year.

Propably will take a lot of code for it to make a distinction between BLM and planet of the apes, but hey, the smug actor assholes and npc writers will at least need to learn to code lol.

 

[Keystone]

Perhaps we've been too rash and should should be thanking those brave strikers.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

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Perhaps we've been too rash and should should be thanking those brave strikers.

You may feel the soul of the planet healing, & do nothing but wish for this moment to go on forever.

Only god knows how much more good this strike can bring out now.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

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Perhaps we've been too rash and should should be thanking those brave strikers.

Oh yeah they should strike for fucking ever, it can only improve the world.

I still think they are retards and I still hate them.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

Oh noes, won't someone think of the poor background actors, only getting $187 for a day of standing around.
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https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-background-actors-artificial-intelligence-1235673432/

https://archive.ph/shtol

I did the math, $187 a day is $23.38 an hour if they work for 8 hours a day. I have trouble finding credit analysis work that pays $20, and these assholes make more than that for being glorified background props! And these are the lowest paid actors in Hollywood? Fuck them all, let the computer take their jobs!

Also, a multimillionaire trying to look like he's poor to "support the protests"

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

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Perhaps we've been too rash and should should be thanking those brave strikers.

why the fuck would you watch SNL
it is science fact that SNL stopped being funny approximately three-to-five years before you could go out and do things on a Saturday night

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

I'm a little surprised how boring these "creatives" on strike are. All they seem to do is whine and fellate each other over how brave they all are.

Assuming UPS goes on strike I fully expect fistfights on picket lines at a bare minimum. Hopefully crowbars to headlights, etc. That should be interesting.

Spoiler: off topic autistic sperging

John Oliver, Amber Ruffin & Ziwe Protest At WGAE Comedy Writers Picket: “These People Are So Bad They Got Comedy Writers To Leave The House”

Can someone please make John Oliver go away? He doesn't necessarily need to jump in lava in minecraft, I just need to never see him again for the preservation of my equilibrium. Something about that smug asshole's face causes a visceral reaction at just about a DNA level for me. Why him and not someone else? I have no idea. It simply is what it is. Not even Colbert rises to the same level.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Assuming UPS goes on strike I fully expect fistfights on picket lines at a bare minimum. Hopefully crowbars to headlights, etc. That should be interesting.

Why?

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Perhaps we've been too rash and should should be thanking those brave strikers.

I never thought about it like that. Although I'm not sure the SNL writers would know who Colleen Ballinger is.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

why the fuck would you watch SNL

For the musical acts, maybe? There was a time when bands and singers were the talk of the nation following a good, bad or controversial performance in the program, much like Ed Sullivan back in the day.

Then again, with the dearth of fun music lately, I can't tell when was the last time such a performance actually made the news. To me it was when Lana del Rey fumbled through her singing.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Since residuals are a big issue…