Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160725013537

I find Code Gease to be too obsessed with it's main character, it is all about personal angst and I find such pieces overblown. However that is a personal note and everyone has their own turn ons and offs. I just don't care for it, it is still technically well put together.

Being dark or not won't matter towards the finished product. Many Disney movies became instant classics, but in the 90s numerous others movies tried to steal the formula, but they were bad at them, Quest for Camelot, Anastesia, The Swan Princess. These were all animated fair tales aimed at kids. Yet they did not do well. This is because copying a formula does not garuntee you talent to go with it. The same applies to Dark movies as well. Being dark or being kid-friendly doesn't affect the outcome of your movie, those are just styles to them. The make or break factor is the effort and ablity put in. Following a chart that says what is popular and what to have in it is how we get crap like the Lorax.

And as for the Passion, keep in mind it is based no story. Not only not in the orginal Bible, so it is not only non-cannon to it's own mythology, it was also used for years to validate the murder of Jews in mass and to top that all off, most Christains think it really historicly happned due to it being woven into the cultural zietgeist by all those corrupt priests over the years. So to remake a move that basicly re-enforces all those "perfectly valid reasons why the Jews had to die" is kind of a huge deal. Because yeah, those poor Romans were totally forced into public execusions by those opressive Jews. -\_/-. It is like making a movie about how brown skin comes from having no soul which is why enslaving Africans is totally okay.