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Jem and the Holograms (Film)

Rape by Fraud is a thing. Tell enough lies and what happens next is not consensual.

Wearing a full holographic body mask and pretending not to be a nerd.

Rio could have sued Jerrica, and taken her whole damn company.
 
Wow, nobody's posted William Shatner's response to the trailer yet? For shame, people:

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Too awesome. :lol:
 
Never saw the cartoon - nor, I suspect, did Shatner. Whoever writes his Twitter feed is reaching.

This looks like a cute movie that will probably reach its intended audience. Should do well on home video.
 
I suspect that a 40 year-old man such as yourself - and most certainly a man of my age - might be arrested on suspicion of something-or-other for hanging around too long outside the theater where this is playing. :lol:
 
I suspect that a 40 year-old man such as yourself - and most certainly a man of my age - might be arrested on suspicion of something-or-other for hanging around too long outside the theater where this is playing. :lol:
That is the entire reason my wife and I had our daughter, so we could use her as our excuse to go see stuff like this. Er. Wait. I didn't mean to admit that out loud. :alienblush:

;)
 
Never watched the original show, I remember it though.

This... I don't know what this is. They took an '80s show about an all female punk-rock '80s band that battled other bands over... crimes? Or something.... And turned it into some angsty teen-band biopic?

Seems to me someone had a script, wanted it made, someone else had the movie-rights to Jem and no script and the two people shared a beer one night -possibly cocaine- and had an idea.

This movie is an insult to fans of the OP.
 
Life itself is an insult to lots of fans of old TV shit. Let it go, Elsa...
 
Life itself is an insult to lots of fans of old TV shit. Let it go, Elsa...

True, but anyone with a cursory memory of this show can see that this movie is nothing at all like the original show. Granted there'd have to be tweaks for the original show to work today but they went to polar opposite. It's also "interesting" that this is a property that was targeted towards girls. So when old cartoon/comic properties targeted towards boys get movie adaptations we get things that at least try and be faithful. For all of their faults the GI Joe and Transformer movies attempted to be like their original counterparts.

But this girls' property? Ehhh, angsty, dark, teen rock-drama.

I don't care on a personal level as I never saw the original show, but I care *for* the fans because I'm sure it's very disappointing to have something you remember and loved turned into something not at all like what you grew up with.
 
Maybe to be fair they figured there's a difference between this and say Transformers. In that Transformers gained a franchise of other cartoons, video games, comics, toys, conventions, etc. The boys who watched it as kids grew into men and were still spending money on their old favourite show.

... I doubt there are that many women in their 30s and 40s now who are still obsessed with Jem and the Holograms is all I'm saying. Without being sexist, I just don't think most women are like that, certainly not as much as men is all. So I suppose they figured they may as well market it towards the younger girls of today. And if that means having some god awful One Direction song, and some "Youtube/American Idol/X-Factor etc" style themes of being famous I suppose I can understand.
 
You'd be surprised what a proper and quality turn of an older and somewhat forgotten franchise can do for a resurgence of popularity and sales. For example, bronies and My Little Pony.
 
More importantly, would someone please hire Molly Ringwald in roles/projects that actually appeal to those outside the tween/teen girl demographic? She doesn't seem to have had a really significant part in a notable and/or mainstream movie since... 1987's King Lear? Five years on The Secret Life of an American Teenager, and now this? Is she intentionally spiting her 80s-era fans (and newer fans of her 80s work), or is she just not being offered good parts?! :klingon:
 
You'd be surprised what a proper and quality turn of an older and somewhat forgotten franchise can do for a resurgence of popularity and sales. For example, bronies and My Little Pony.

Excellent point.

The trailer definitely killed any interest in the movie for me. It did, however, force me to remember how wonderful and strange the original series was by the trailer being so devoid of those qualities itself.

So, I guess:

"Thanks, lousy trailer. You reminded me of how much I used to enjoy Jem & the Holograms by being nothing like it. Cheers!"
 
You'd be surprised what a proper and quality turn of an older and somewhat forgotten franchise can do for a resurgence of popularity and sales. For example, bronies and My Little Pony.

Excellent point.

The trailer definitely killed any interest in the movie for me. It did, however, force me to remember how wonderful and strange the original series was by the trailer being so devoid of those qualities itself.

So, I guess:

"Thanks, lousy trailer. You reminded me of how much I used to enjoy Jem & the Holograms by being nothing like it. Cheers!"

Same here. When I first heard rumors, I was excited. We were going to get awesome music, great battles between Jem and the Misfits, powerful computer gadgets with amazing 3D holo-technology, and hopefully some awesome 80s hair! What we got was Sisterhood of Hannah Montana's Traveling Pitch Perfect Mean Girls.
 
Maybe to be fair they figured there's a difference between this and say Transformers. In that Transformers gained a franchise of other cartoons, video games, comics, toys, conventions, etc. The boys who watched it as kids grew into men and were still spending money on their old favourite show.

... I doubt there are that many women in their 30s and 40s now who are still obsessed with Jem and the Holograms is all I'm saying. Without being sexist, I just don't think most women are like that, certainly not as much as men is all. So I suppose they figured they may as well market it towards the younger girls of today. And if that means having some god awful One Direction song, and some "Youtube/American Idol/X-Factor etc" style themes of being famous I suppose I can understand.
Compared to Transformers and G.I. Joe Jem was in fact largely forgotten by the public and pretty much a dead IP, so I understand the movie not getting a 100 million dollar budget but if you use an an IP like that it's obviously for the fact that there are still fans (both hardcore and lapsed) who recognize it otherwise you could save the money.

They obviously want to appeal to younger people, that's completely understandable but you don't throw away everything that made Jem Jem. you want american idol/x factor style themes? Easy, that's already in the original show, that's how Jem and the Holograms became famous, they won a competition!
It was a local competition in a park but it would be incredibly easy to change it to an x factor like show. There's your plot for the movie, they need to win this thing to save starlight house run by aunt Molly Ringwald (I don't mind Jerrika being a teenager, that's a change that can work) and the Misfits are one of the competing bands.

Forget Starlight Music, it never made sense that Jerrika couldn't simply take the money she needed out of the company she co-owned or that she needed to win the competition in the first place, she could have given the Holograms a contract and be done with it. It also made no sense that Eric Raymond didn't want to sign both the Misfits and Jem & the Holograms.
Make Eric Raymond the producer of the show they compete in, make him biased against Jem for some reason, maybe because they won a spot through youtube and Eric doesn't like that because it takes control away from him and the Misfits resent JATM because they circumvented the entire auditioning process and jumped right into the stage shows from their living room.

They use synergy for a kick ass show on stage, and the effects don't have to be expensive, do it like TNG, the holograms fade in and out with a *whoosh* sound effect, primarily use them for costume changes or to confuse the Misfits with a Jem double.

They could have done a Jem movie on a low budget instead they combined Justin Bieber's youtube discovery with Hannah Montana.
 
And I remember when people were most concerned that the director of the massively stupid GI Joe: Retaliation wouldn't do the feminism of the cartoon justice... :rommie:
 
Same here. When I first heard rumors, I was excited. We were going to get awesome music, great battles between Jem and the Misfits, powerful computer gadgets with amazing 3D holo-technology, and hopefully some awesome 80s hair! What we got was Sisterhood of Hannah Montana's Traveling Pitch Perfect Mean Girls.

:lol:
 
I don't think it is too unreasonable for fans to want producers of something they enjoy to at least stick to the basics of what makes an intellectual property what it is. Of course some liberties will be taken and things switched up a bit but that isn't what they did here with Jem and the Holograms. :shrug:
 
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