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Sunk Dunk posted:nirvana intensifies We all feel that way when we see the latest Disney product but please put the shotgun away.
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Endless Trash posted:I endlessly posted in this thread last year but no one gave a gently caress FTFY
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PostNouveau posted:I feel like Disney kids' movies are less of a gamble, though. Parents need something to take the kids to; they know the stories are fine for each of these.
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poisonpill posted:Michelangelo’s passion project was the Sistine Chapel This is actually a pretty common misconception. Michaelangelo (no relation) took on the Sistine chapel purely for money and job security. He found the commission artistically dubious and bridled at the constraints placed on him by the church. He then didn't even get paid properly. What I'm saying is Michaelangelo (no relation) is the pioneer who forged the template for the promising indie director who gets hired to make a marvel movie.
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Even the realtors in LA are nepo babies
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PostNouveau posted:I feel like Disney kids' movies are less of a gamble, though. Parents need something to take the kids to; they know the stories are fine for each of these. I've seen a few people talking about how bored their kids were when watching the """live action""" Lion King remake when everyone preferred to just rewatch the original version
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:I've seen a few people talking about how bored their kids were when watching the """live action""" Lion King remake when everyone preferred to just rewatch the original version Yeah, I've heard that about the Aladdin remake with Will Smith. It made over $1 billion.
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It’s the same idea behind Dreamworks; even if everyone knows the movie is bad, you also know some percent of parents will take their kids to see it so you’ll make money
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questlove's credits are co-directing two music video in the early 00's, and the documentary summer of soul, which interspersed talking head interviews with performances from a concert that took place before he was born. it's a fine documentary and the concert is good, but it feels like if a studio exec in 1978 watched gates of heaven and then tapped errol morris for empire
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Gutcruncher posted:If Disney released a movie advertised as the Aladdin remake and it was just hello.jpg for 90 minutes it would still make a billion dollars and have Twitter shills defending it for finally fixing what bothered them about the original Right. I dunno if that holds true for all their remakes, but it seems like it would be hard to lose money on one.
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Is it just a Sound of Freedom thing? Were the theatres empty but somehow sold out?
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Disney is really good at projecting this image that their entire house of cards is about to topple and they're going to file for bankruptcy any day now, while simultaneously making more money than god and continuing on their path of owning everything forever. Everything is in a talespin and I can't think of the last Disney movie that didn't look embarrassingly bad, yet they routinely make a billion dollars each. The parks are absolute garbage and every new addition has been an unmitigated failure but they're still pumping money into them and people are lining up around the block to pay hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line all day. Edit: This is about video games but probably pretty relevant; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIitYcoSiE The quick version is ABSOPM, always be spending other people's money. If it works hurray you're a talented visionary, if it bombs well someone else is out the cash, next project. counterfeitsaint fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Sounds like a plot to a Stephen King book. Emptier and emptier movie theaters just playing movies to no audience.
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it turns out that not only is a sucker born every minute but as time goes on an increasing amount of suckers are born per minute (accelerating spm rate)
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American showbiz pizza bear
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ProperCauldron posted:Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American showbiz pizza bear Live action showbiz pizza bear rich Evans birthday party movie when!
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counterfeitsaint posted:Everything is in a talespin
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Gutcruncher posted:If Disney released a movie advertised as the Aladdin remake and it was just hello.jpg for 90 minutes it would still make a billion dollars and have Twitter shills defending it for finally fixing what bothered them about the original Finally, a thin veneer of feminism and multiculturalism! That’s what always bothered me about the original Home on the Range, which was an otherwise flawless film
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kalel posted:I think I would really like to watch this skit but I'm not sure who could really do it justice. Dear god Please make me a bird So that i can fly far Far far into tower 1
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counterfeitsaint posted:Disney is really good at projecting this image that their entire house of cards is about to topple and they're going to file for bankruptcy any day now, while simultaneously making more money than god and continuing on their path of owning everything forever. Everything is in a talespin and I can't think of the last Disney movie that didn't look embarrassingly bad, yet they routinely make a billion dollars each. The parks are absolute garbage and every new addition has been an unmitigated failure but they're still pumping money into them and people are lining up around the block to pay hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line all day. gently caress Disney, but this isn't really true. Post COVID they've only had one movie crack a billion, Avatar 2, which is a project they inherited from the Fox acquisition. Spiderman 3 doesn't really count since it's not their movie. Last year was a bad year for them with GOTG being the only thing that performed well (their underperforming movies still made money though). The theme parks are a huge money maker as you said, but you're wrong in that they are garbage and additions have been unmitigated failures. I have no idea where you're getting that from. Everything they've done for the past almost decade has been a hit with the exception of the Star Wars hotel.
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mystes posted:don't give them ideas
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Jose Oquendo posted:gently caress Disney, but this isn't really true. Post COVID they've only had one movie crack a billion, Avatar 2, which is a project they inherited from the Fox acquisition. Spiderman 3 doesn't really count since it's not their movie. Last year was a bad year for them with GOTG being the only thing that performed well (their underperforming movies still made money though). *cough* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%E2%80%93_The_World_of_Avatar Murdstone posted:oh-ee-yeah oh-ee-no
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mystes posted:don't give them ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DjtpIXK40
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And? The area was a hit. Both rides are still popular several years later. The area is themed really well and looks amazing after dark. I don’t really care about Avatar but I still enjoy that area.
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Say what you will about jenny but I think she is fairly representative of the theme park enthusiast space. And she gave the avatar area a pretty glowing review
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No Mods No Masters posted:Say what you will about jenny but I think she is fairly representative of the theme park enthusiast space. And she gave the avatar area a pretty glowing review Except for the part where she paid $40 to 3D print her face onto an Naavi doll only for a staff member to tell her it didn't matter if she was wearing her hat while the computer 'scanned' her face
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Endless Trash posted:I endlessly posted about Pan & Wendy (2023) in this thread last year but no one gave a gently caress Impossible it was the theatrical (streaming) release of that particular day!
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Except for the part where she paid $40 to 3D print her face onto an Naavi doll only for a staff member to tell her it didn't matter if she was wearing her hat while the computer 'scanned' her face If anything that made it more impressive that her navi came out looking EXACTLY like her!
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Stink Billyums posted:if a studio exec in 1978 watched gates of heaven and then tapped errol morris for empire I'd watch the hell out of this.
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Arc Hammer posted:As if to prove your point I have to ask: they made a Peter Pan remake? Like a lot of these, literally the only thing I remember about it was some weak attempt at manufactured controversy about making Tinkerbell black or a Lost Boy a girl or something. I'm not gonna bother to check because it doesn't matter, we all know exactly how it went Against all odds, I do think people resisted the urge to make a fuss about them removing the "red man" stuff. Which, again, I assume they did without even checking. I think we'd all prefer to just pretend that never happened.
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Sir Lemming posted:Like a lot of these, literally the only thing I remember about it was some weak attempt at manufactured controversy about making Tinkerbell black or a Lost Boy a girl or something. I'm not gonna bother to check because it doesn't matter, we all know exactly how it went They could’ve done a full remake of “what makes the red man red” and even crank up the racism but literally nobody would mention it or care or even NOTICE because it’s the loving live action Disney plus Peter Pan remake. The only thing that gets clicked less than that is the big red button in the president’s office
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Gutcruncher posted:They could’ve done a full remake of “what makes the red man red” and even crank up the racism but literally nobody would mention it or care or even NOTICE because it’s the loving live action Disney plus Peter Pan remake. The only thing that gets clicked less than that is the big red button in the president’s office No one would mention it because no one would remember seeing it. That poo poo just slides off the eyes. I bet a big portion of the box office for theses remakes is people seeing it, forgetting about it, and seeing it again by accident.
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Baby's Day Out 2: The Day the Towers Fell
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That DICK! posted:a mystery man prequel would be sick Same exact cast, they just play younger.
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At the end of Not Another 9/11 Movie, the terrorists celebrate hijacking the planes seconds before they hit the towers by cracking open an ice cold ~Cervesa Cristal~.
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Sir Lemming posted:Like a lot of these, literally the only thing I remember about it was some weak attempt at manufactured controversy about making Tinkerbell black or a Lost Boy a girl or something. I'm not gonna bother to check because it doesn't matter, we all know exactly how it went Yeah, it's stunt diversity casting, and seems to be mandatory for all their remakes now. They know both sides will bicker and scream past each other on twitter endlessly about it to drive up engagement. And it still works reliably every loving time because the internet is dumb as poo poo.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Yeah, it's stunt diversity casting, and seems to be mandatory for all their remakes now. They know both sides will bicker and scream past each other on twitter endlessly about it to drive up engagement. And it still works reliably every loving time because the internet is dumb as poo poo. some would go as far as to say the internet makes you stupid
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