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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The other way was to refrain from doing so at all.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

The only way to get paid for it

[–] nozone@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they had gotten it out quickly this would have been kinda neat and a selling point of the film (even if it sucked). So why did they wait 4 years after the pandemic to release it?

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On Corridor Crew's latest vfx artists react they talked about this movie.

Basically it was supposed to be a different style movie and then executives got involved wanting it to appeal to a larger audience causing a bunch of re-editing. And the special effects were basically placeholders from the original version of the movie reused as final assests in the executives 'wide market' version.

They also go into how some morally questionable stock footage is used in it as well.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Drew Gooden provided some information on it also, but it was largely what you said.

[–] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

You can tell

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why? Was this shot during COVID?

[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

its funny because while watching I kept looking at the year because it would make sense if it was a covid movie.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Real Michael Kirkbride zonked out on mushrooms writing Vivec vibes

How dare you compare that act of genius to half heartedly sucking off Amazon?

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

At least Kirkbride's fever dreams were entertaining..