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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by thatfrenchguy on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:53PM (#39471373)
> Same stuff with Star Wars where Disney shoved Rey the super-powerful Girl Boss™ to replace Luke Skywalker the old and useless CIS white Jedi, and defeat all other evil white men in the movie by herself with her magic powers. Same with Marvel, Snow White, Little Mermaid and every other of Disneys trash remakes that are all about DEI instead of entertainment.

I don't see how this was a flop given they grossed more $ than their predecessors, so people actually do pay more money to have better representation? https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Star-Wars#tab=s...

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by gnicholas on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:08PM (#39471576)
Did the previous movies have similar marketing spend? Apparently they spent over $350 million marketing The Force Awakens: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/star-wars-force...
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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by FirmwareBurner on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:08PM (#39471573)
How much of that money the sequels earned was simply because it was piggybacking on the established decades old Star Wars IP, even though the movies were crap? But that train already lost all of its inertia. People don't go to se Star Wars IP anymore.

I also went to see some of them and was disappointed and gave up on Star Wars.

You fool me once shame on you. You fool me twice shame on me.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by flir on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:15PM (#39472516)
> You fool me once shame on you. You fool me twice shame on me.

Dude. You watched the first six.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by justinclift on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:58PM (#39475072)
If the writers had written something decent, there's a good chance people would have watched the next six too.

Unfortunately, that's not what happened. :(

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