Director James Gunn, who signed a deal with Microsoft to produce original film content for Xbox Live has criticized the platform holder for rejecting his first moving and cutting "the living sh*t" out of the second, Humanzee. Claiming the company is dreadful and unfriendly to talent, he states that MS went back on its promise to provide "complete creative freedom."
"As long as it was PG-13, with no sex, they said it would be all right," explains Gunn. "Obviously they had no f*cking idea what PG-13 was, as they wanted me to cut the words "penis" and "vagina." They made me cut a piece of very fake poop and a bunch of other stuff. And then, when they were done making me cut things, they took the final cut and cut it up themselves even more before airing it.
"To sum things up, Warner Bros was a bastion of creative freedom on SCOOBY DOO 2 in comparison. I'm not exaggerating or being facetious. Microsoft/XBox was by far the most dreadful, non-talent friendly company I've ever worked for."
Gunn noted the irony that most Xbox Live customers can play Grand Theft Auto IV with worse content than his movie, before stating how Xbox Live could have been its own network if it was truly committed to providing original material with creative freedom. According to Gunn, "because of the small-mindedness of the Microsoft executives, who preemptively censored a lot of our scenes for fear of freaking out stockholders, they crushed the potential for something that would have kept them relevant for a long time to come."
Sounds like Microsoft alright.
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6:00 PM on 04.26.2009
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Good (and bad) callback. Sigh.
But whatever, resume your Microsoft hating.
yea, now you know why ain't got shit
Clearly these videos were something that Microsoft planned to be available to Live users young and old, and obviously they thought some of it might be too risque for the younger crowd. They're biggest mistake was saying they wanted it "PG-13". Obviously that resulted in Gunn making something MS though wasn't appropriate, but that doesn't mean they're trying to stifle artistic freedom. That's a fucking leap if I ever heard one.
I actually spend about 20 minutes on this place, I browse the front page and some blogs and move on, I just visit the place a few times a day.
And I don't comment on all of Sterling's blogs, just the really stupid ones, its not my fault that out of 10 things he might write, 9 of them are pure unfunny shit and shows how incredibly unprofessional he is.
But hey look, Sterling praised you for sucking up to him, I'm sure that made your day, the kids at school will think you're the coolest fucker ever tomorrow.
And my comment was more of a dig at the initial comments, it was directed at Jim at all, its not my fault he seems to have a persecution complex, course this is a man who compared himself to Jesus so who knows.
@Jim
You're calling me a hypocrite?
Oh lordy I don't even know where to start, the irony is so thick that you could choke on it, go back to writing your shitty articles and whining about not having the time to do your job because of social commitments.
I stand by my position that this site would be a million times better if you weren't here, everyone damn writer in this site is better than you by miles and people love them because of how they express themselves, all you do is act like a troll, its probably why people love you so much, you're exactly what they all wanna be, a troll with a position of power who gets to rile up the community at his leisure, I seriously can't believe you are the reviews editor nor I do understand how the writers stand you seeing how you carry yourself in the podcasts.
Plus we do have a few writers that are no longer affilitated with Destructoid who have expressed their dislike of you so I'm not just imagining things, you are an asshole, you carry yourself in the most unprofessional manner and don't have the slightest hint of what journalistic integrity is.
You are the only writer here who gets a ton of hatred and vitrol sent in his direction, whenever I see a front page article with 200 comments I just know its from you, I don't even have to look at the writer's name, you push more interesting articles with your tripe and your reviews are shit, I cannot fathom how you're still working with the site, either you are fantastic friends with Niero or there's some other shit we don't know about.
You're just a bully and a child who gets his kicks from riling up the community of one of the best gaming sites around.
Fuck you Jim Sterling.
With love and kiss, the inimitable Nanbu.
And I'm sure Nanbu is being sarcastic or something. Right?
if Jim Sterling didnt write about this stuff, who would?
and i made a short about poop. what of it.(note:ending kinda didnt make sense when we went to do the finish shot and someone was in the bath room, he was GONNA fly out the toilet.)
[url]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=253271[/url}
see if that works.
I believe the two of you should meet in person, keep an open mind during your conversation and talk about your different positions prior to making unequivocal judgments on each others character. I think you will realize that its the medium that you have been corresponding through that is awkward and not yourselves.
Otherwise, Chronic logic makes sense to me!
I disagree.
Sure, I'm not shocked at actions like this but that doesn't make them less disagreeable.
Oh lordy I don't even know where to start, the irony is so thick that you could choke on it, go back to writing your shitty articles and whining about not having the time to do your job because of social commitments.
I stand by my position that this site would be a million times better if you weren't here, everyone damn writer in this site is better than you by miles and people love them because of how they express themselves, all you do is act like a troll, its probably why people love you so much, you're exactly what they all wanna be, a troll with a position of power who gets to rile up the community at his leisure, I seriously can't believe you are the reviews editor nor I do understand how the writers stand you seeing how you carry yourself in the podcasts.
Plus we do have a few writers that are no longer affilitated with Destructoid who have expressed their dislike of you so I'm not just imagining things, you are an asshole, you carry yourself in the most unprofessional manner and don't have the slightest hint of what journalistic integrity is.
You are the only writer here who gets a ton of hatred and vitrol sent in his direction, whenever I see a front page article with 200 comments I just know its from you, I don't even have to look at the writer's name, you push more interesting articles with your tripe and your reviews are shit, I cannot fathom how you're still working with the site, either you are fantastic friends with Niero or there's some other shit we don't know about.
You're just a bully and a child who gets his kicks from riling up the community of one of the best gaming sites around.
Fuck you Jim Sterling.
With love and kiss, the inimitable Nanbu."
Yes, this is one big hypocritical statement right here. A whining troll that gets his kicks from riling up the community? I'm pretty sure you described yourself right there, Mr. "I'm so sorry to the Dtoid community for trolling them all the time." Thanks for proving my point, Nanbu.
Now go back to saying my reviews are wrong even though you haven't played the game I reviewed. Moron.
Both of you stop! Can't you see you're in love?