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- New Hampshire
i think you just put more thought into this... thing than the entire team of writers and most all of the behind-the-scenes people. I wish I was joking, too.
Disney Descendants, the upcoming Disney's adaptation of a fanfiction plot
- Thread starter Feng Lengshun
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- Movies
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- New Hampshire
I know fanfic writers who legit and dead-all serious could do this far far better than this. And not just SB/SV folks, either.
Harry Leferts
Suave Shadow Cabal Kaiju
... Need I remind you of how "The Golden Compass" turned out?
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- The Midlands.
I was referring obliquely to the first really successful fanfic I ever wrote, back in highschool when His Dark Matrerials was making waves in YA lit. Someday I'll reboot it, because the premise was really kind of cool.
Harry Leferts
Suave Shadow Cabal Kaiju
Ah. Well, when I was in school it was Animorphs that was the YA hit... Along with books like The Hatchet.
sum sine regno
A traveller searching for purpose.
I remember that book. We read it in junior high.
Anyways, I said it elsewhere, but I will say it here too. Lunatics are running the Asylum...
Dream Logic
An offseason swallow
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- In transit
...is Young Adult stuff supposed to be for middle schoolers? 'Cause I think I read all those by the time I was in seventh grade. 
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Also, as with all things this movie and the fanfic that it's derived from would be greatly improved via the introduction of Iorek Byrinson.
.Also, as with all things this movie and the fanfic that it's derived from would be greatly improved via the introduction of Iorek Byrinson.
Heaven Canceler
I would like to have a cool title.
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- Austria
Wonder if they will ever make an SI into a TV series.
Malbutorius
C'est le bien qui fait mal
They have, what do you thing hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is? It certainly follows the same themes as an SI story.
Heaven Canceler
I would like to have a cool title.
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- Austria
I have seen the movie Galaxy Quest and that book of R.A. Salvatore where a dude who likes to read Tolkien gets thrown into a Fantasy land by a elf and a leprechaun called Mickey McMickey. They are both not really SI to me, same with Hitchiker's Guide ot the Galaxy. Mostly because a.), they aren't not actual Self-Insert but characters that exist in the Setting (Closest Thing is the R.A. Salvatore book if the Main character was based on the author.) and b.) they weren't existing Settings but original ones.
If George Lucas Wakes up in Star Wars, well that would be a Self-Insert by my opinion.
Harry Leferts
Suave Shadow Cabal Kaiju
Well, one "Official" example of an SI would be "The Wizards Three.
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I imagine a Dark Tower Series adaption would involve SI at one point.
Anyways. WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH?!!?
Anyways. WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH?!!?
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- They/It
This is gonna be fucking trash. I can't wait to force my friends to watch it.
EtchedSteel
*mumble mumble*
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- Lima. Peru
The worst part is that my sister and cousins will watch it and think this is the best thing ever...
As for me... just... no.
As for me... just... no.
Roadie
A plate full of blins and a cat nearby.
It seems like they could have taken this basic concept and made it work about a hundred times better by, instead of having them literally be children of entirely mismatched villains, making them a group of upper-class twits who found some sort of magic thingamabobs that allow attuning to the abilities of some character out of a movie. Of course, they're all secretly Disney fans (and don't want to admit the films they've attuned to out of fear of the other three losing respect for them), which plays in a brand-affirming background way into a Clueless-style "selfish and superficial people learn to be more genuine" plot (but with more magic and stuff).
Maybe plebians like you can't appreciate Zenon, but the flame will burn forever in my heart.
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Richardson
CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
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Man, I'm going to feel so sorry for the Nostalgia Critic, in between laughing at his misery as he's forced to watch this drek. Just reading you guy's comment is making my balls shrivel up and retreat to my stomach painfully from the sheer horribleness.
Malbutorius
C'est le bien qui fait mal
Somebody should write this as a fanfic, except do it well.
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- United States of America
You know, it's funny. This movie is getting a lot of attention and crap about it but like...it's a DCOM. It looks no better or worse than any other DCOM. Cheap effects and bad writing and total tween-ness of it all? All totally DCOM. The only difference is the brand recognition with the villains. It's stupid for sure but man it's like when Sharknado got attention despite being totally typical of a SyFy original movie. I find it hilarious that it's something people get worked up over despite being nothing new. Like this won't be any landmark in terrible I'm sure, it's just Disney Channel continuing to not know what the hell children and Tweens care about. It's stupid but let's not pretend it's NEW stupid outside the premise. These people made High School Musical, they can't dig much lower really.
Vindictus
XENO
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- Texas
The thing is, Disney used to be legitimately good. I'd put the original 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' pretty far up there as far as quality goes, and it's probably 70 years old now. And heck, even now they're producing some pretty good stuff- Frozen, for example.
It just seems like their QC is shit when it comes to live action and serials, when compared to feature animations- And for some reason they don't recognise this, so they just keep on going.
It just seems like their QC is shit when it comes to live action and serials, when compared to feature animations- And for some reason they don't recognise this, so they just keep on going.